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I find it quite hard to find open source software for windows. In time i might switch to linux, but for now i am stuck with windows 10.

Is there some reliable place where you can search for open source software?

Or is it that devs usually just don't bother with windows?

EDIT: everyone, thank you so much for your input! I will check it all out. Yes, of course windows is evil, and i hope/expect to switch to linux before windows 11 comes around, but i still need it for a few programs, unfortunately. Once these come with a linux version - which is in the works - i can make the switch. Degoogling/demicrosofting is a process and i'm working on it.

Have a great weekend and thank you for the time to answer my question.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

F-Droid does a lot of vetting to help users avoid anti-features and other abuse.

Windows has anti-features built right into the OS, so on that platform such vetting is kinda pointless.

So, no, not really.

[–] fbmac@lemmy.fbmac.net 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

android has anti-features too, not ppintless

[–] aes@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Android with play services*. Degoogled phones are dumb as rocks and some people like em that way

[–] Knusper@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

If by dumb as rocks, you mean not wasting obscene amounts of battery to tell Google all the details of my existence, yes, I do like that.