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

Warp terminal. I like it

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

Master pdf editor

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Not sure how decent yet, but got recommended Beyond Compare at work, which is a trial software and recently discovered it runs on linux.

It's basically a file compare tool, but can also compare images and looks really nice.

It also features, like on Windows, really handy entries for the right click menu of pretty much all popular Linux File managers.

I just bought a standard license for version 5, because it seems awesome and I wanna use it more.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I plan to pay for Immich

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Bitwig studio

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

MakeMKV. It's better than anything else.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

L Vue scan pro is a must if you're into analog photography. The software that usually comes with scanners and printers generally doesn't work on Linux and if it does it's terrible.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Lightburn for controlling laser engravers.

It's pretty much the only choice on Linux (though it is cross platform). Free 30 day trial, then ~$80 lifetime licence.

The other choice is LaserGRBL, which is open source, but doesn't seem to have a Linux port for some reason. And it has a lot fewer features, with a more complex workflow.

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

I'm sure there are some closed softwares left worth paying for but personally I would stop paying for all of it.

The only software left that I pay for is phpstorm and it's buggy as hell and for every bug report I get a "well, nobody really cares". Then what the hell am I paying for?

Well I'm paying for features not found in other systems but seriously, it soeerds my work up by 300% and slows it down by 200% due to the extreme amount of bugs.. it's not acceptable for a paid product but unfortunately there is no good alternative open source product yet.

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

What is it in PHPStorm that isn't available in any other editors or IDEs?

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

I don't know other IDE's very well, haven't used others in years.

Amongst things... PHPstorm allows me to rename a method and it will automatically rename that method in any extended class, interface, etc, and any call to they method too. It usually, mostly, does a reasonable job at it, but sometimes it forks up big time.

I guess I am willing to try eclipse again, see how well that goes.

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