My experience with open-source software is somewhat a love/hate relationship. Most of the tools I use (vim, nginx, go, etc...) are amazingly high quality but others are seemingly poor - i.e GIMP vs Photoshop, Pages/Word vs LibreOffice Writer. They look pretty awful, they have unintuitive UIs and generally I have a bad time using them. As such, my attitude towards open-source software is it's "shit" because it looks terrible. The code may be solid but the UX hasn't been refined. This is the main reason why I run OS X; I get to use vim and Photoshop.
In some small way, I feel like I'm forced to use software I genuinely do not enjoy using. I like using Windows and I like using OS X. So far, every Linux distro has forced me back to either OS within a few weeks. Even Elementary OS; practically a clone of OS X ships with sub-par software.
Almost all software I run is closed-source/proprietary. I'm making an effort to adopt better software but it's difficult to find high-quality open-source software. I'm currently looking into contributing so I am actively working on the issue rather than sitting here complaining.
A common love/hate relationship I think; don't beat yourself up too much.
I think it's okay and even important to insist on open-source for a system like Plug even if you're not interested in using FOSS for all your computing. For many of the proprietary software examples you cited the "loss of freedom" is kind of nebulous (apart from the price tag!). The odds of a backdoor appearing in a product like Photoshop are relatively slim I think.
By comparison Plug is a perfect target - it is hosting documents and other data belonging to users who have likely made a conscious decision not to store it on the cloud. I don't think it's hypocritical to own a Mac and say that closed-source is not the right model for this application.
My experience with open-source software is somewhat a love/hate relationship. Most of the tools I use (vim, nginx, go, etc...) are amazingly high quality but others are seemingly poor - i.e GIMP vs Photoshop, Pages/Word vs LibreOffice Writer. They look pretty awful, they have unintuitive UIs and generally I have a bad time using them. As such, my attitude towards open-source software is it's "shit" because it looks terrible. The code may be solid but the UX hasn't been refined. This is the main reason why I run OS X; I get to use vim and Photoshop.
In some small way, I feel like I'm forced to use software I genuinely do not enjoy using. I like using Windows and I like using OS X. So far, every Linux distro has forced me back to either OS within a few weeks. Even Elementary OS; practically a clone of OS X ships with sub-par software.
Almost all software I run is closed-source/proprietary. I'm making an effort to adopt better software but it's difficult to find high-quality open-source software. I'm currently looking into contributing so I am actively working on the issue rather than sitting here complaining.