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> You're financially supporting the wrong people.

I support Blizzard because they make good games which are fun to play. Who is this other person I should be supporting instead?

What graphics tablet maker that provides first party Linux drivers should I support?

As good as Gimp and Blender are, they still can't compete with the Photoshops, Illustrators, Mayas, and Fusions of the world.

The "right people" don't exist; not yet. And I can't afford to support someone on the off chance they sill someday produce an equivalent product.

Outside of random crowdfunding events with specific targets or tiny details that I could bug-bounty myself there is no way to give money to "the right people" while being reasonably sure to actually get what I want, so the argument seems pointless. Donating to open-source is great, but not a replacement for buying tools that do what's needed now.

The problem there is that it really restricts your hardware choices if you want to not support Microsoft. And installing Linux doesn't financially support anything.