Yeah, a lot of lemmy users were already into free software as a whole and liked lemmy because it's libre and federated. So it's only natural you see the focus on software freedom everywhere.

I just think that we should strive to use libre alternatives, especially when they are as useful/better than closed source ones.

The philosophical side of free software is much more important to me than anything else. For me, it's not just about using open source software for the sake of it. It's about software freedom.

But I don't go around telling everyone to use open source or die. If you just don't like the libre alternative and prefer using closed source software, whatever. If there isn't a general reason to use a closed source software, I'll just point out the libre alternative (or try to convince that a somewhat inferior libre alternative may not be that bad) :)

A lot of people came to lemmy because it is open source and will NEVER have the monetization issues reddit has (because hosting and development becomes free if you are open source, I guess?).

So we basically have a LOT of people who are the equivalent of a comp sci 101 kid learning that linux exists and insisting that is the answer to all problems and wanting to show off how much cooler they are.

Personally? I prefer FOSS when it is viable. But I am also not going to go too crazy over using a closed source app or driver to... better play my closed source games that I installed via my closed source Steam client.

But also: Honestly, a few rsync scripts running as part of a cron job handles most of this. Because most games I play are through Steam so they already have save file sync. Which mostly leaves my emulator saves and what not.