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What details/tools have you found help people transition to similar, open software from closed software, or think could help?

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What details/tools have you found help people transition to similar, open software from closed software, or think could help?

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I’m thinking of ways to help people move from established software to more open, flexible forms that don’t lock them to another organization.

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Points that can help them change to FOSS:

Cool new features not available in proprietary alternatives

Awareness of privacy risks & issues

Battery life improvements

Storage size reduction

Security improvements

Sites that can help them find FOSS alternatives:

https://www.opensourcealternative.to/

https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/

In my experience it’s extremely hard to make someone not interested in software to try out new FOSS apps though…