Your're doing the gods' work there.
The external face of proprietary projects is trendy rich people laughing at nothing, and the reality is crapware, several discussions about licencing, and installation headaches.
The libre alternatives are often faster, safter, easier, and go so much farther in terms of a proportional budget. But the only ads they get are people like me speaking slowly into a crapy mic and talking about RAM usage, and I can see why people feel put off.