Linux is so much better than Windows.
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I have said this since discovering it years ago: 7zip is superior to WinRar.
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NAPS2. PDF scanning. Supports every platform. Dead simple for scanning and aggregsting multiple pages into a single pdf with ocr. Also can save as images.
Apache?
I think it's still the leader and I certainly prefer it to other alternatives.
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Any FOSS Linux/Unix shell, bash, zsh, fish, tcsh, whatever, is a million times better than cmd or the early versions of PowerShell. Yeah, I know, PowerShell Core exists now, and it's even open source and cross platform, but it still sucks.
And by extension, terminal emulators. Pretty much any open source one is miles better than the closed source ones.
Microsoft recognized this and has dramatically improved theirs as Microsoft terminal, an open source replacement. But it still isn't as good as a lot of other terminals.
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FFmpeg, OBS and VLC. I promise I use my computer for more than video.
ffmpeg is a GODSEND. saves me going to those "convert to file type" websites when I can do it locally and so much faster 😩🙏
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all are great :D
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vi (incl. vim etc.) and it's only counterpart emacs are both open source.
apache and nginx are the undisputed top webservers.
samba is better than Windows server.
Why is samba better?
Ultra reliable. Secure. Easy to maintain.
It's more reliable than SMB or CIFS and considerably harder to attack.
because you don't have to use 💸money 💸 and you can see all its code
I mean it's in the title of this thread
I agree with most of the programs that others have posted. I'll just mention two that I absolutely love but no one has mentioned yet, rsync and mpv.
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Linux. For desktops I like it as well, but I can understand some arguments against it. However, for all other cases there is hardly any match. The internet basically runs on it.
A more relevant question: What proprietary software is better than its FOSS counterpart?
Because I can't come up with any.
Unfortunately proprietary professional software suites are still usually better than their FOSS counterparts. For instance Altium Designer vs KiCAD for ECAD, and Solidworks vs FreeCAD. That's not to say the open source tools are bad. I use them myself all the time. But the proprietary tools usually are more robust (for instance, it is fairly easy to break models in FreeCAD if you aren't careful) and have better workflows for creating really complex designs.
I'll also add that Lightroom is still better than Darktable and RawTherapee for me. Both of the open source options are still good, but Lightroom has better denoising in my experience. It also is better at supporting new cameras and lenses compared to the open source options.
With time I'm sure the open source solutions will improve and catch up to the proprietary ones. KiCAD and FreeCAD are already good enough for my needs, but that may not have been true if I were working on very complex projects.
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some proprietary apps have more functionality, are more stable, are easier to use, etc. because it’s very hard for a community of hobbyists to compete with the likes of multibillion corporations. Honestly, I really respect the FOSS projects that ARE really good, competing with these huge companies with pretty much only donations and their determination.
Some good examples of proprietary software I think that are functionally better include a bunch of apps used in professional workflows (though there are many FOSS apps used professionally like Blender!) and Unity/Unreal Engine (Godot is amazing for what 90% of most people need and is a lot lighter too, and is catching up in terms of 3D graphics/lighting. Unreal/Unity and Godot both have pros and cons)
If everything was FOSS and received the kind of funding proprietary apps get, the world would be very different indeed.
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IntelliJ IDEA comes to my mind.
yeah, there’s not really any alternatives for Jetbrainsls IDEs. As a non-professional I use VSCodium (VSCode minus MS) but I get why IDEs are preferred in professional environments
I use vscode for everything these days, but I work mostly in go. I always preferred intellij to eclipse and the like for java and never used vscode for it.
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VSCodium works for web development and is okay for Python, but stuff like C/C++ and IDE is super helpful
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