The problem with most alternatives is that for a lot of people it will almost reset them back to starting from scratch when the little details of difference come through. And that's if it even works fully, and a lot of open source variants have little bugs in them that always seem to catch up or just don't want to install properly on whatever machine you are using.
It's not just the learning curve reset, a bunch of open source projects are made by insane people with their brains installed upside down. Blender was completely unusable for decades because the upside-down brain crew insisted that left click could not be used to select things. KiCad has similar problems where none of the standard mouse interactions work, the delete key does not delete things, etc.
That's also true. A lot of open source things seem to be made to gatekeep as hard as possible, to the point where you need an advanced degree in the program itself to make it function and its made to be as obtuse as possible.
I know most of the guys who use that stuff are super proud of themselves for managing to tard wrangle the most tarded of programs, but that sometimes it feels like they do it just so they can jerk off about how difficult it is.
The problem with most alternatives is that for a lot of people it will almost reset them back to starting from scratch when the little details of difference come through. And that's if it even works fully, and a lot of open source variants have little bugs in them that always seem to catch up or just don't want to install properly on whatever machine you are using.
It's not just the learning curve reset, a bunch of open source projects are made by insane people with their brains installed upside down. Blender was completely unusable for decades because the upside-down brain crew insisted that left click could not be used to select things. KiCad has similar problems where none of the standard mouse interactions work, the delete key does not delete things, etc.
That's also true. A lot of open source things seem to be made to gatekeep as hard as possible, to the point where you need an advanced degree in the program itself to make it function and its made to be as obtuse as possible.
I know most of the guys who use that stuff are super proud of themselves for managing to tard wrangle the most tarded of programs, but that sometimes it feels like they do it just so they can jerk off about how difficult it is.