Unfortunately, people often resist change and prefer to stick with what they know. Maybe a small percentage of people will look for alternatives but it'd be a drop in the ocean.

Brave Search has an independept index (https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/28/brave-search-doesnt-use-bi...) and Qwant and Ecosia recently announced that they would be working on an independent European search index too (https://blog.ecosia.org/eusp/)

This comment can be easily read in Slavoj Žižek’s voice

If your software can look and work pretty similar to what Microsoft Office does but be cheaper or even free at the same time - there’s a market for this type of stuff

I agree. If you follow people that are really interesting to you and if you don’t just connect with anyone who tries to connect with you, your feed can be pretty good. Sometimes LinkedIn reminds me of the good old days when everyone had a Twitter account and people could discuss there their work and other related stuff without too much politics involved

Zorin OS developers already announced a huge spike of new downloads: https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/this-linux-os-ha...

I believe many similar beginner-friendly projects like Mint or Fedora see the same trends on their end

With SteamOS and other related projects like Wine and Proton getting more support and attention, I hope more and more developers will start caring about making their apps support Linux out of the box

It’s hard to count how many ffmpeg wrappers are there

Microsoft has been pushing AI features into both VS Code and GitHub for quite some time

On the contrary, I am glad that the Sublime team did not fall for the trends and avoided adding AI slop into the editor

I would bet in time they are vindicated. Then Google et al will release something with much advertising hype about "returning to basics" or something in a couple of years.