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Jean-Sébastien Guay
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This is probably pretty obvious to people in the same circle as me (so most who will see this) but being a programmer, using FOSS software is pretty awesome.

In addition to the large leaps Linux has been making in getting to a polished desktop experience lately, being able to run a program you built locally because a version with a fix you want is not yet available, or being able to debug and fix issues yourself and then contribute the fix is pretty damn cool.

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Jean-Sébastien Guay · 6w
I used to do this a lot more before going into gamedev (I contributed to FOSS as part of my job before Ubisoft), and I'm getting back into it. The sad part is a significant number of projects are unmaintained so PRs/MRs go unmerged indefinitely. But on those which are actively being used and maintai...