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Needs more CAD
I see this is free as in price, definitely not free as in freedom. Should delete the anti virus section and replace it with Linux lol.
You forgot vector-graphics stuff.
I believe Inkscape is the current leader of the open-source pack in that department.
Reminder than Tenacity is an open-source fork of Audacity.
Audacity isn't open source? I thought I installed it from the Debian free repo...
Audacity is open source, but they had a few controversies recently.
It is open source, but had some controversy. Most prominently the addition of telemetry a few years ago, which was never included in the builds managed by Debian or most other distro maintainers. They also added a Contributor License Agreement which lets the Audacity project change its own license (even to a non-foss one, though they promise they won't) without needing to have the change approved by any individual developers.
Ah, monkey business...
Just to know, how do you disable telemetry, if it isn't off by default?
I'm not completely sure but I think they removed it at some point after the public backlash (which was 3 years ago now). For the Windows version at least, there apparently used to be an option during the installation wizard for setting whether telemetry is enabled or not. Most Linux distros never had the telemetry at all. I don't know about Mac.
your paint-dot-net link is... shouldn't be a link lol
paint.NET
escape the dot
Lol it's not a link in the markdown so it's just the Lemmy web UI making assumptions. Also it's funny that they don't own that domain.
Take CapCut off because it's more like TikTok editing than video editing.
Divinci has a learning curve but any curve is better than learning solely on a ByteDance owned product.
also, davinci is industry standard and highly respected
Throw in KDEnlive for video editors.
I would add FreeCAD to 3d editing software.
Dafuq is freecad? It sounds waaaaaay too good to be true. Maybe above hot singles in your area want to fuck lol. I had a software I was using that let you use it free x amount of times but all you had to do was clear your cache/data each time it was triggered to expire and you had a fresh set of uses. Can't remember the name I'll jave to look it up.
It's not as intuitive as other comparable software, and has a fairly steep learning curve especially for beginners, but it is free. No subscription models that's plaguing the 3d modeling software field.
Check it out! https://www.freecad.org/ https://wiki.freecad.org/
No WinRAR?
It is not free (which is the main goal of this list) or open source.
Oh yeah. I forget it's not free after using it for almost 3 decades without paying for it...
I know, it loses on a technicality.
I know, it looses on a technicality.
Aside from the comma splice, did you mean 'loses' or 'loosens'?
My bad. It's lose, as in "not win". In this case, "it does not earn a place on the list due to a technicality". The technicality, being an infinite free trial does not truly count in the spirit of being free.
Although not technically free, I would add Reaper to the list for audio editing. It gives you a pop-up asking if you want to buy the program, but it's not required. I know people who have been using it for years without actually purchasing it. (I have since purchased a license because I use it professionally). No features are locked behind the paid license.