Using an abandoned free software project is rarely going to be much fun, either. In fact, using actively maintained free software projects is rarely much fun, since many of them tend to often abandon old features and introduce new incompatible ones, and you either have to keep using old versions of everything or update everything at once, breaking a ton of things. (Of course at times you&#x27;re way better off with a free program than you&#x27;d be with a proprietary alternative, but the reverse can be true just as much in other cases.)