It’s a fork of Gnome but its well maintined, very familliar to windows users, and very reliable.

I personally pefer KDE but Cinnamon is likely a better choice for new users.

Not to mention, Mint itself is a super reliable distro. I use Fedora but keep my partner on Mint and she has maybe 10% of the issues I do.

Most open source devs make good money as software engineers and devlop FOSS in their free time.

You are conflating having basic needs met with needing compensation. People dont need to be compensated finacially if their needs are already met.

So I think you really might mean “People with unmet needs can’t work for free”

You are literally typing on Lemmy. How much did you pay to use this? See any ads around?

Open souce devs would strongly disagree with this.

It’s so “weird” how the same kind of person who would be openly anti-LGBTQ would also make a such a sketchy product.

Do people using RSS readers contribute to these stats at all?

Yes, I am.