I'm always surprised that, for as widely used as PDFs are, there doesn't seem to be any real alternative to Acrobat for editing existing PDFs.
this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2025
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i've had good success doing small edits with libreoffice (design? draw? idk what its called).
that or Inkscape are the only real answers I'd have if you forced me to name one, but I'd have a hard time recommending a vector graphics editor to a regular person who just wants to edit text formatting in a PDF without messing it up.
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The EU managed to get Meta on their knees with GDPR. They could force unlocked bootloader and easy install of any OS on phones just like on laptop/pc. I believe then we would really get the Linux phone movement going. Imagine: iPhone with UBports.
DNS management. Think something like InfoBlox where I can have GUI driven control from simple adding a new zone record all the way up to full anycast configuration.
I love the terminal and CLIs to death but zone files suck and setting up bind or unbound/nsd is more painful than it should be.
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Most anything related to healthcare:
- System for medics and nurses to input all the data of a patient, which can be accessed by said patient if need be
- System for keeping track of vaccines applied and pinging people who need to take more shots (second dose, reinforcement dose, etc)
- drivers and programs to interact with medical equipment
there’s actually a bunch of these, but healthcare tends to fall prey to “too much money, too many consultants, fancy brochures”
Healthcare normally have tight varying legal requirements that software must adhere to, so I would say there couldn't be a single solution for multiple countries.
At the minute, a true open source and free browser/web engine, though I know this is nigh impossible to maintain without thousands of people. Some part of me is hopeful though given recent events.
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A Wayland reimplementation of XMonad.
There's work being done on it, but from my understanding, it's slow going...
I would love to see a non-proprietary desktop music player. Just something simple that I can listen to my MP3s with. Audacity is great, but it’s a PITA when it comes to casual listening.
/s. As sbv Said in another comment, I think it’s best to join an existing project. Loops has potential to rival TikTok but it’s still not in a state I would use.
Edit: I could have placed the /s a bit better to flag my surreal sense of humour. I was joking about FOSS lacking a desktop music player, because there seem to be hundreds of them. I use Audacity for editing, not listening to mp3s :)
You got Fooyin as a viable, and even really good, open alternative to Foobar2k.
Audacity is not a music player, but a music editor. Aren't there countless desktop music players you can use?
There are more than I ever wanted to know:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_audio_player_software
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Just something simple that I can listen to my MP3s with.
You mean like foobar2000? I don't know much about fully FOSS players, but foobar is free
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