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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Steam. The support they have for multiplatform almost feels open source and they have been invaluable for the adoption of desktop Linux

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Obsidian for note taking, Bitwig studio for audio recording and processing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you check logseq? It's on flathub

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

logseq definitely coming along. I tried their donation only sync and it seems to mostly work.

That said nothing has beaten Standardnotes for me. Standardnotes can be found on flathub, fdroid etc. The only drawback is to get the important features you need to either selfhost or buy the plan. The free service is very barebones

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

isn’t obsidian open source?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope it's not. It's free, but you can only look at part of the source code and can't look at the proprietary parts. Logseq is completely FOSS though

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

damn, that’s kind of a bummer since i love it so much. logseq looks exciting, how does it compare to obsidian feature-wise?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Tbh, it's a different philosophy for taking notes. There is overlap in features, but also a lot of differences.

In obsidian, everything is file based, you manage the folder system, and you primarily link files together.

In logseq, it's more based around blocks which are indented portions of the content. You can still make files and link to the file itself rather than a block, but a lot of your notes will be on your journal pages and link to other blocks/days/content/tags, etc. I prefer logseq to obsidian, but it's a very different file setup type than normal since you normally don't worry about individual files and keeping track of them, you can just link to the content later. You can still make separate files though, and they work well. The focus is just on blocks rather than files

Both have note linking and embedding (logseqs is better imo), graph view, searching, plugins, themes, etc. I'd say they're on par in terms of features, it's just whichever notes system you prefer and work better with tbh

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

Lightroom. There are lots of alternatives for editing some even FOSS but I haven't found any usable alternative to the library of Lightroom...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly, its gotta be the MS Office suite.

Yes if you're just writing your own simple documents libreoffice/OpenOffice will work, but if you have to do anything more complex than a single page spreadsheet, text-on-white presentations, or 3 page MLA book reports.... or, even worse, have to interact with documents and spreadsheets created by basically any other person on the planet, I've just never had a good consistent experience with any of the free options.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Disagree. Libreoffice is pretty capable for most use cases nowadays.

Compatibility is also pretty good with Microsoft formats despite Microsoftβ€˜s best efforts.

OpenOffice is dead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

DaVinci Resolve is much better than any open source NLE. Generally, most closed source media production software is better than their open source counterparts except Blender. Blender is incredible and it gives me hope that other open source software can be just as successful in the media industry.

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

DaVinci is better, but it also provides licence for life. So it's proprietary but have a good relationship with the customers.

'Generally' is a really wide word. Better for what? For who? When? That's the all question...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I'm glad I used Infinity for Reddit, which was always FOSS, and there is now a new fork Eternity for Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Try reiverr, its a jellyfin ui made by a lemmy user that integrates with the arr suite and tvmd so you can easily find new things to watch https://github.com/aleksilassila/reiverr

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Jetbrains suite of IDE's. Particularly Jetbrains Rider. The platform ~~they are all ~~ many of them are built on is open source though, and you can get free licenses for all of their products if you are using them to develop open source software!

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

Photoshop is easier to use than gimp. I don’t pay for photoshop, but if I needed something like that I would.