You can also self-host bitwarden.

Yeah but that means not everyone is switching to EVs, which is the point of the person you’re replying to.

The review copies had no microtransactions. They were added at release.

Same for me. I don’t understand why, I should love it but I don’t.

There will be an improvement of course. That kind of thinking is why the USA still uses imperial after 200 years of the metric system.

You have to do that anyway.

a tinier backlog

What is this mystical object? A backlog that grows smaller? Gasp!

I just make do with running both. Of course would prefer to have everything on Linux, though.

That’s the case for me, too.

And do you seriously think that someone with minimal modding knowledge can “fix” texture compression

Yes, better textures are consistently one of the first mods to come out for every game they have released since Fallout 3.

The church of Satan and the Satanic temple are two very different organisations.

What exactly is the utility of the above quote of yours then?

To show that the correlation is spurious at best.

Has it become even more successful after he’s mellowed out?

Yes, it has. Usage of Linux has been growing over the years.

My point is exactly that. It’s not obvious, and as such you can’t attribute the success of Linux to his behaviour. Like the OP said, there’s no logic in looking at something successful and picking a singular thing to be responsible.

How is that obvious? Especially because it’s become even more successful after he’s mellowed out?

But did it work because of the style or in spite of it? No reason to believe it wouldn’t be even more successful if he had been less abrasive like he is now.

So, do we agree that saying that “if a service is free, you are the product” doesn’t apply to FOSS services?

Sure, but that’s exactly what people mean when they say FOSS service.

Regardless, that’s not the discussion we’re having. The point is that those services are free of charge, and you’re not the product. And that a big reason for that is that they are FOSS services.

No, they’re not mutually exclusive. These services are software.

The free in FOSS doesn’t mean free of charge. All those paid services are still FOSS.

Ok, so what do you call Bitwarden, matrix, openstreetmaps, Mastodon, or Lemmy?