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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 hours ago (5 children)

Sometimes slightly worse. Like LibreOffice.

Sometimes actually better, like VLC.

Sometimes about the same, like the latest version of MuseScore (older versions were, in fact, quite a bit worse).

But sometimes, like with older versions of GIMP (I'll admit, I've not tried its latest major version release candidate) it's significantly worse.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 hour ago

Libreoffice is slightly worse because all the proprietary office suites keep lowering the bar for everyone to follow them. It's not a quality issue, it's a never ending contest to figure out how to complicate writing a simple letter so that everyone has to buy only your software.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

If you like professional photography, you can try darktables. It's a replacement for Lightroom and it's great in my opinion.

Gimp is still useful for quick and simple edits. It's a bit weird to use though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Gimp is still useful for quick and simple edits

See, the problem with that is that that's precisely not how I use Photoshop. I don't use it often (certainly not often enough to actually pay for it), but when I do, I tend to go fairly deep.

I should try out Darktable though. I used to use Aperture until it was discontinued, and these days I frequently use Lightroom, though I don't really love it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I genuinely doesn't know there's paid media player out there, VLC came preinstall on all my prebuild PC purchase since forever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

There definitely exist paid players out there (or at least used to...dunno if they still exist), but there are also "free" (as in beer) non-free (as in speech) options, like the ones included out of the box in a Windows or macOS installation.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

LibreOffice is more than slightly worse, but FOSS projects cover the gamut. The thing about them is that the best ones are usually laser focused on exactly what the user needs, rather than what makes the most money.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

Calc was actually quite comparable for 90% of Excel features I have ever actually used.

Writer is petty good on its own, but the fact that .docx documents don't quite matchup vs. When making and opening with Word makes it difficult for me to use officially.

Impress is just plain disappointing compared to PowerPoint.

Base might be okay, better than nothing I guess.

The rest of the suite I don't know.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

I wonder how many paid apps were utterly decimated after they released VLC