[j1elo]

With proprietary software:

- You might be forced into an "upgrade" which breaks something you rely on

GNOME devs are laughing at this very hard right now while they look at your maximize icon. As of today, half baked decisions are still being made and forced to users all around.

Like Gnome Terminal, where if you Select All, then Copy, it only copies the currently visible text, not the "All" you just selected. A conscious decision that was first made to work around some memory issue, and was later left as permanent behavior with no resort for users to revert back and absolutely no way to select and copy all text of a terminal. And it shipped for everybody to enjoy on the latest Ubuntu LTS. Nice.

EDIT to mention that indeed it's nice that Ubuntu themselves would be in a position where the change could be reverted for their users, if they wanted. So that's indeed a very positive property of Open Source. Albeit assuming everybody has the means, the time, or even the ability to make such changes is kind of naive. But the possibility, yeah, it is there after all, and that's a good thing.