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by wink 490 days ago
As I see a lot of talk about people seemingly happy to pay for this, apparently because they think they will gain something out of it.

Backstory: My main machine at home is Windows (for games) and all other computers I have used since about 2010 have had Linux or FreeBSD on them (unless employer provided).

As I'm a bit of a distro and DE hopper it happened to me more than once than I couldn't remember how my current GUI file manager was called... simply because I hadn't started it for half a year or longer. (Since then I've installed thunar most of the time).

And I find this so fascinating because I use the Windows Explorer all the time. So either I am simply doing different things on Linux (while working and coding in my spare time) - or I use the shell so much that I don't even think about using a GUI file manager, if I have a proper shell available (not a fan of WSL). I plan to switch to Linux even on my gaming PC this year, we'll see if it works out...

Long story short: I am not averse to paying for good software (although I prefer it to be FLOSS and I contribute in a miniscule way by reporting bugs, sometimes fixing them) - but if I'm not on Windows I am not the target audience _at all_. And I find it kinda surprising.

Anyway, I wish the author good luck.