It’s hard to see examples of FOSS being used widely between people. This could be the 2nd time after Mastodon that a FOSS project receives massive attention.
I can’t recall other software that the public might have used without knowing it’s open source. The ones I can get off the top of my head may be Firefox or Inkscape.
animist ( @animist@lemmy.one ) 11•1 year agoThe Linux kernel in just about every Internet device. Most people don’t realize that.
taj ( @taj@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 year agoYup. Nearly everyone runs Linux. They just don’t know it.
there is a trend now : big $ don’t want 3rd party apps any more. May be the next is youtube : block individious, block newpipe…
Daeraxa ( @Daeraxa@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year agoObviously this is referencing apps rather than libraries etc.
GIMP is used a lot by people looking for a “free Photoshop” as is Libreoffice for people looking for a “free MS Office”. VLC is used by a huge number of people. OBS, Audacity, various Chromium based browsers like Brave.