Linux

Google docs are free (as in beer) and collaborative and just about as good, and Minihard’s web interface also works. This still doesn’t account for all use cases, bur that should be about 80% of people who think they can’t live with LibreOffice.

For what's worth I think LibreOffice is way superior to Google Docs and in Calc documents can even be shared. Maybe we'll see more of that in the future?

KeepassXC is cute, but not modern because of it’s lack of cross-device sync.

This is right and wrong at the same time. KeepassXC does allow for cross-device sync, the keychain file is saved and created in a way to handle real time syncing across devices. Most people use Synching or some even public clouds for it. There are also multiple features to share items across users https://keepassxc.org/docs/KeePassXC_UserGuide#_database_sharing_with_keeshare.

KeepassXC is simple, secure, audited and reliable and unlike Bitwarden it doesn't require a service running and wasting resources in order to get the job done. It is all filesystem based very portable and bullshit less. Also unlike Bitwarden it doesn't require 4GB of ram and 25GB of storage to host a simple sync service. I'm aware there's an alterative implementation of the Bitwarden written in Rust that is way more reasonable but still what kind of garbage software requires that amount of resources just to sync passwords?

All of the aforementioned “benefits” of windows cost money

Yes, so what? All of the aforementioned “benefits” of Linux cost time that is guess what, money.

windows freeware sucks just as hard in the UX sense while also being proprietary and spying on you/designed only to upsell you to paid

Unless that freeware is WinSCP that is effectively better from a UX and performance standpoint than any similar client for Linux as described ahah

trying to convince me to throw 2 months worth of that away every year on software that doesn’t do the job better, just more conveniently.

As you said, you're one of the lucky ones, maybe your workflow can be 100% productive under Linux + alternatives as it is, but it doesn't change the fact that for everyone else that works with other people who use the proprietary solutions can go that route. There are a ton of cases listed on the article.

The point of the article is to consider ROI above all instead of being a blind follower that worships Linux desktop as religion and a solution that will fit all and everything.

Not to mention the spying! What is this? Stockholm syndrome? Battered user syndrome? Blink 3 times if Windows hits you!

There's group policy to fix that and W10Privacy if don't want to spend the entire afternoon... Not perfect yes, but guess what Ubuntu also snitches on you, Firefox includes unique identifiers on each installation and contacts Mozilla's servers frequently and at least a 3rd party analytics company - even after manually disabling everything known and suspicious under settings and config editor.

that’s not the point of FOSS. In fact that misses the point entirely.

What's the point of FOSS if it can't properly and actually replace proprietary stuff in the job in order to free our "2 months worth" of work? You yourself use it like that.