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  • Well I think one of the ideas of the functionality of FOSS is that users who don’t like that software they use doesn’t have some feature, someone will add it and the new software will become the new normal. Not much would have to change beyond FOSS software being more commonly used for this to work really well. It already works with proprietary software if you squint hard enough. People hate a LOT of things in Windows, and so they make scripts and things to change Windows, and they freely distribute these scripts that are what makes Windows useable for a lot of people. This is similar to the idea of people just making changes to a hypothetical FOSS Windows, and is decent evidence for the viability of FOSS with very few changes to how end users actually use software.