After I wasted an entire day trying to salvage my world view on opensource, I decided to swallow my pride and admit that opensource sometimes cannot compete with actual commercial products in functionality.
>need drivers for wacom tablet
>download opentabletdriver
>easy. one shot the installation process and finish setting up pressure and other shit
>works perfectly fine except for intermittent lapses in responsiveness
>confused, check documentation
>0 results
>after an entire afternoon of searching up shit i give up and ask jeetpt
>it tells me to enable options that doesn't exist
>get mad and install wacom drivers
>works without a hitch
>tfw a driver written by osu troons is completely useless for use case outside of osu
>im on windows 10 btw
The tablet works completely fine on linux's default drivers but since nobody with a sex life cares fan about linux, it's safe to assume that the majority of normies will get buckbroken by random issues on open source software and will thus shut down any notion of experimenting with it, leading to a purity spiral of troons sucking each other off in their project's github repos. If I was smarter I would definitely try to fix this myself, which is the entire point of opensource, but I'm not.
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With commercial software, they have an incentive to make it function to an acceptable level, before sitting on their arses and counting their money. The only advantage that opensource may have in this aspect is that they will always be progressing and updating, albeit at a slower rate. The only examples of opensource software out-competing their paid counterparts that I know of would probably be Blender, but their development team may as well be an actual studio at this point.
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But I still hold firm in my belief that opensource can be better, just with the right amount of support and organization. I would rather a simple and free program that does 1 thing really well than a complex and paid program that does 100 things really bad.