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I’m having trouble thinking of any open source product that both targets consumers and has a high degree of polish.

Any ideas?

I think the best case scenario for open source user owned ai is something similar SQLite: runs everywhere, easy for developers to use, and packs a punch. If that existed for models I could see this working.

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Blender is very popular, Godot is on the right track (though no feature - parity to Closed source)

and I think gnome has a better UX than Windows and MacOS (though Apple at least cares about UX).

Android?

Many important parts of android auch as the keyboard, camera App and even call/SMS have been der facto replaced with closed source alternatives by Google or your smartphone manufacturer.

I'm unimpressed by whataboutism. This doesn't change that I can a very fine LineageOS experience on my phone.

I'm also impressed by Inkscape, logseq, kicad, vscode. Gnome isn't exactly my cup of tea but it is pretty polished & my parents use it fine. Psi messenger works nice. Matrix/Element is fine.

I personally think there's an unbelievably huge amount of very good nicely polished open source apps out there. Ther would be even more apps and more polish if more folks would try venturing off the Windows & MacOS paths too.

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