It’s hard to see examples of FOSS being used widely between people. This could be the 2nd time after Mastodon that a FOSS project receives massive attention.
I can’t recall other software that the public might have used without knowing it’s open source. The ones I can get off the top of my head may be Firefox or Inkscape.
The Linux kernel in just about every Internet device. Most people don’t realize that.
Yup. Nearly everyone runs Linux. They just don’t know it.
there is a trend now : big $ don’t want 3rd party apps any more. May be the next is youtube : block individious, block newpipe…
Obviously this is referencing apps rather than libraries etc.
GIMP is used a lot by people looking for a “free Photoshop” as is Libreoffice for people looking for a “free MS Office”. VLC is used by a huge number of people. OBS, Audacity, various Chromium based browsers like Brave.
There’s plenty of open source software that gets a lot of usage, like Audacity, OBS, VSCode, Python, etc.
