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Totally agree with you — “vote with your wallet” is the ideal world. But in India, many of us don’t even have a wallet to vote with.

I love open-source and recommend it to my students. But here's the ground reality:

Most Indian educators, especially older ones, are still on Windows

Switching to Linux isn’t just a tech decision — it’s a mental and cultural migration

And when you’re balancing 4 tuition sessions a day just to earn ₹1,000, you don’t have the bandwidth to learn GIMP when Canva just works

That said, I’m starting to move toward open source slowly (LibreOffice, Notion alternatives, Obsidian). If there’s a solid open-source PDF editor you recommend that works well in low-end systems, I’d love to try and promote it.

Appreciate your reply — this is exactly the kind of discussion I hoped to spark




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