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by snakeanus 3428 days ago
Reality disagrees with you. It so happens that most non-free software is total crap while their free counterparts are truly superior.

Want some examples? Firefox/Chromium vs IE, GNU/Linux and the *BSDs vs windows, youtubedl vs every single nonfree video downloader, gcc/clang vs the ms compiler, emacs vs notepad/VS, etc.
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ec109685 3428 days ago
I think most might be stretching it. Things like games and Photoshop generally are considered better than their open source counterparts.
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snakeanus 3428 days ago
I am not an artist myself however every artist that I know who has made use of Krita, Inkscape and Blender say that they are superior to their non-free counterparts.

As for games I would say that it depends. Wolf:ET/ETLegacy for example is superior to most modern FPS games. I believe that the main problem is the lack of free games and artists instead of the quality of the free games.

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