Steam. The support they have for multiplatform almost feels open source and they have been invaluable for the adoption of desktop Linux
Absolutely, making proton open source made me respect them more than any other major tech company
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The most recent one is, of course, Sync for Lemmy. It may just be muscle memory at this point, but I find the experience a step improvement in browsing.
On my home server front, I would mention Plex despite Jellyfin’s massive improvements over the past 2 years. Plexamp is just a magical piece of software.
For the most part, though, I think I’d reverse the question. Most of the time, I prefer OSS.
I agree about Plex. But I don’t get the love for Sync.
It feels kind of clunky and it lacks some features many of the other apps have. Personally, I’m liking Thunder right now, but I’m excited for Boost to come out.
Sync has ads unless you pay, it’s not open source, and I haven’t actually found anything superior about it.
That’s funny because I switched off of plex to Jellyfin because of how bad the experience on plex was.
Same here. And especially for watch parties Jellyfin has been great.
I just switched from Plex to Jellyfin. Aside from a few minor features like intro skipping, I don’t miss it.
There are no good open source CAD systems at all.
I wonder, what makes a good CAD system?
I had this idea for a while to build a Frankenstein monster of a 3D software that uses real time graphics and has a multi step build process covering CAD, wireframe manipulation and voxel workflows. If I ever actually make it, your concerns will be heard despite being probably not the best softwsre to do your work in :)
CAD system must be reliable. It is simply unacceptable to have math issues which cause unpredictable geometries.
CAD system should have a good UI. This is a big issue for open source software in general as UI and UX is usually an afterthought.
CAD system should be fast and use hardware acceleration. Running single threaded python scripts on CPU to do complex computations kills the productivity. Designing real life objects is already a mentally taxing task, the whole purpose of CAD is to remove the computational bottleneck of a human.
CAD should be object aware. If I draw two gears and put them next to each other, I should be able to rotate one and see the other moving accordingly.
This is a bare minimum, I’m not even talking about computational modelling, stress testing, etc.
Modern day, proper parametric modeling with robust and intuitive constraints.
That is a question too hard to answer in a comment and one that depends on the use case of the software. Few users need the power and features of CATIA or NX, but those who need it can’t accept anything lesser. SolidWorks is a good spot in terms of flexibility and features if it could be easier for the average person to use. You need proper accurate parametric modeling (e.g. a NURBS kernel) for solid models and surfacing. Hearing things like wireframe and voxel indicates it isn’t suitable to me.
I got a maker sub to solidworks. I couldn’t keep up with 360’s oddities and feature changes.
Maybe some day.
Once you get the basics down it’s pretty much all transferable. There are some minor workflow changes, but the functionality isn’t all too different.
Ok, good to know!
I still donate to Inkscape each month (please do the same at https://inkscape.org/support-us/donate/), but it became unusable for me on macOS, unfortunately. I now use Serif Affinity.
Inkscape is fantastic on Linux. I’d highly recommend it!
Inkscape works good on Windows too, but its UI… It’s like it was made by monkeys for dinosaurs. I’m not sure that Inkscape devs ever tried to use it themselves.
Idk about you but I thought this was the case as well, since the last time I used Inkscape was probably like 6 years ago, and at the time, the UI was super dated looking (don’t get me wrong, it was still functional).
The different is night and day now, I honestly couldn’t tell that it was the same software. UI looks super clean and modern.
I used fresh Inkscape installation to fix some SVG files last month. Its UI is still cancer from 1990-s.
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Version 1.3 has introduced a shape builder tool, always nice to have that. Overall, it seems that is has improved quite a bit in the last few years, so that’s good to see
Inkscape is my go-to for creating decals for 3D assets.
Youtube, it just has way more content than any libre platform
There why we use ReVanced YouTube and YouTube ad block extensions.
ReVanced? I used to use Vanced, but I guess it was shut down. I’ve been looking for an alternative (but clearly not very hard).
ReVanced is pretty much exactly same thing as Vanced, except it works still and is kept updated.
Photoshop, Fences, Plex, Steam, Unraid. I just highly prefer them to any alternatives I have tried. And believe me, I have tried every alternative to Photoshop and Fences that I could find. They just don’t do it. And because of those two in particular, I have to add Windows to the list.
Oh, and I guess Sync for Lemmy. The only reason I even know what Lemmy is, is the fact that the Sync for Reddit app stopped working and basically said, “Yeah, move to Lemmy, idiot.”
Same. I know sync isn’t foss but the features and how it’s presented got me into the lemmyverse. I use it more than jerboa or infinity. Both great but the sync guy has a good smooth app. I support that.
I used RIF for many years until the Spezzening. Jerboa is pretty good, but felt just a little shy of something. Sync felt great as soon as I tried it.
Check out Affinity Photo. Doesn’t do everything Photoshop does, but it’s a hell of a lot cheaper and lighter.
Fair, but I don’t agree with the choices personally speaking.
Photoshop, sure. I’ve been in groups where you need it to open PSDs to collaborate.
Plex is up for debate. Jellyfin is not there yet, but it’s already a viable alternative.
Steam is proprietary because it’s a distribution platform for pay-to-play software, not sure why you’d want an open-source alternative.
Unraid, will never use it. Heck, can’t see the need to use any NAS-specific operating systems over plain Linux. Yes, it takes a whole lot more to set it up, but it’s just as worth as paying $130, or more if you live in a developing country.
Fences, just no. I’ve used them a long time before, sure they’re really useful, but the best alternative is to just not depend on it. I’m faster at typing the name of the application or the folder I want to access, so I use KRunner. Sometimes the best organisation tool is to NOT use a particular organisation tool. If you really need one when dealing with large amounts of data, you can definitely use methods like Zettelkasten, think of extended attributes or metadata.
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Decent list though I actually prefer Jellyfin to Plex.
I don’t get Steam really. I guess it could be Open Source but the whole concept is essentially commercial by definition. It is an App Store for games.
Totally valid to add Windows if it is the only things that runs the other programs you need. Photoshop is one of the few mainstream apps that has no true competitor on Linux.
It’s just plain better than any other alternative. Better UI, better UX, better features, better customization, support for Monet… I could go on all day.
Better spying, better ads, much more obnoxious community as well.
I suppose the cool thing about lemmy is that if you want your instance to be insular you could always defederate.
Too much insularity is also harmful for society and yourself. Viewing different opinions, unless they teeter on the nazipedogore stuff, is not particularly that harmful. Trolls can be annoying, though, but people should not be categorised as trolls if they are simply arguing civilly and in good faith.
Jetbrains suite
Though IntelliJ and Pycharm are both open source. But if you use the rest of the suite then yeah
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Waze for maps and navigation. I like being able to report things on the road and update fuel prices etc
We really need something like that. We already have OSM which can do this for more static things but I’m not aware of anything which can do that for “live” data.
There may be some hope of better FOSS map and Navigation Apps due to Overture Maps.
Spotify. I’ve wanted to use Funkwhale since it’s self-hosted and federated but I couldn’t give up all that Spotify offers.
I’ve never even looked for an alternative, what started as mild intrigue a decade ago turned into my only window into music, as much as the interface can sometimes drive me mad (and their sometimes cavalier attitude to changing it) I just can’t deny that the recommendation engines have introduced me to whole new worlds of music which I love and wouldn’t even know exists otherwise
Took me a while but I’m happy with navidrome/symfonium/slskd/tailscale in place of spotify.
Spotify doesn’t have highfi use apple music instead even though Spotify has a superior interface
Youtube, newpipe doesnt feels good to me No playlist No comment replies
So no🙁Try youtube revanced
I use revanced can i count it as open source?
No playlist? Wdym? There’s a fork called PipePipe which has comment replies.
Visual studio code. There’s nothing else that’s anywhere near as good that doesn’t cost money. Those annoying terminal text editors just don’t do it for me. I need code autocomplete and do not understand how there exist people who have the patience to get by without it. I do not have the time to be switching tabs 20 times a second because I can’t remember function parameter overloads. That intellisense autocomplete is just too good.
What are you talking about? Neovim LSP autocompletion is way faster and smoother than VSCode’s, and one of the reasons I personally have trouble working in the latter nowadays.
He thinks that the ‘annoying’ command line editors can’t do autocomplete…
Obviously not well informed lol.
Exactly
VSCode is open source though? Although I guess maybe not the plugins?
I use the proprietary version for the remote tools and settings sync.
I can work from home on my windows PC with no loss of productivity compared to my Linux workstation.
And the ability to open any GitHub repo in the browser based Code just by pressing . is a game changer.
both GNU emacs and vim can have autocompletion powered by the same language servers that vscode uses. They support the same features (jump to definition, rename symbol under cursor etc etc) as well.
I suspect the op doesn’t realize that you need to setup plugins in order to achieve this functionality. But yes, the functionality on VS Code that provides auto complete is from Language Servers and Neovim and other editors do support the Language Server Protocol via plugins.
Fair enough. I get that it takes to much time to setup. But it definetly is possible to get autocompletion and syntax higlighting etc. In a terminal based editor like vim.
I don’t mind spending a copule of hours setting up my development environment, since I spend so much time coding anyway. So its a trade off. But if VS code works for you, theb definetly stick with that. I used VS code alot myself but tried exploring other tools and switched to vim. But it nerver hurts to try other things out.
Affinity is the best non Adobe image editing suite. The Foss stuff just doesn’t compare, imo. Even if feature parity, the UI of Foss image editing softwares is hotshit.
FL studio is beating out LMMS. However, I pirate FL, so it’s still free to me.
I’ve been using https://photopea.com and it does 99% of everything I would’ve done in Photoshop, in your browser. The only thing I’ve found that’s not up to par with Adobe is the content aware fill… it technically works, but it’s just not very good at it. And it of course doesn’t have any AI assisted features. It’s also free and ad supported, or you can pay $5/month to remove ads.
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Tbh just normal YouTube + Premium is great and feels reasonable value to me.
TickTick is a better reminders app than anything FOSS ive tried
I never understood this, the only benefit you’d get is getting access to higher quality audio from Youtube Music.
Newpipe, Piped, Invidious, yt-dlp + mpv + rss feed reader are all libre.
Unless you use youtube for its recommendations algorithim, which in that case yeah, nothing to say there.
I regularly watch a lot of specific creators and I like that my views support them
I also watch YT on stuff like Apple TV where adblocking would be annoying anyway
Steam and Discord, but mainly Steam.
If you told me I had to go 100% FOSS tomorrow, I could do it pretty easily, except for those two apps.
95% of my games are through Steam, and 95% of all my friends, family, and online community are in Discord. I could probably even dump Discord and convince some of my closest friends and FAM to switch to a Matrix client or something. But giving up Steam would mean I would basically be giving up nearly all gaming in my life.
And contrary to many other FOSS enthusiasts, I actually think Steam and Discord are great apps. I’ve rarely had issues with them, especially Steam. The UI is decent, the features are great, (Steam game join, Workshop mods, etc.) And Discord works really well on Linux for me, and GrapheneOS on my phone.
Of those two, I’d rather dump Discord. Valve is generally a very FOSS friendly company and pretty consumer friendly compared to most multi-billion dollar corpos. And what they’ve done recently for Linux gaming over the last few years with Proton, the Steam Deck, etc has has made gaming on Linux a wonderful experience for me.
Recently I have been trying to get into more FOSS games and GoG DRM-free games as an insurance policy for what I know is coming down the line one day. Gabe will either retire, pass away, or be bought out by a corpo/capital investment firm and Valve will become victim to the enshitification effect like all other proprietary software.
There is a small hope I have, idk if this is even possible, but what if Gabe chooses to open source some or all of the Steam code instead of letting it get bought out or taken over by somebody else? That would allow for the FOSS community to fork it and build a FOSS Steam.
Like I said though, a pipe dream for now. Long live FOSS!
I could probably dump discord, but there’s just no alternative to Steam. It succeeded, where literally every other publisher failed, to unify game distribution on the PC. Even if valve made steam itself FOSS and let anyone clone it, there’s no chance in hell they’ll get anyone but the most indi of studios to launch anything on it, let alone exclusively.
Of all the proprietary codebases and their companies, Steam and Valve are the only ones I respect.
(Also Slack, but I’m forced to use that for work)
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