by now i’m almost fully switched off of directly using google products other than an android phone (pinephone was unfortunately not usable when I tried it) and google maps (when i’m delivery driving i just need it to work smoothly, don’t have time to troubleshoot like i would with other software)
it’s been a few years since i did a foss deep dive so i imagine pinephone and/or osm have made progress.
edit: also invidious instances kept breaking so i finally just went back to regular youtube in browser. newpipe on mobile
Try piped.video, it is the web frontend to NewPipe’s backend. Like a better Invidious.
Oh that looks promising! I’ll turn my redirect script back on and try it for a while
osmand is pretty good
And don’t forgot to contribute to openstreetmap with StreetComplete to make osmand info even better!
Check out Organic Maps, it’s a frontend for OpenStreetMap with a gorgeous UI/UX.
macOS over Ubuntu (don’t get me started on Windows). I use macOS on my MacBook Air and it’s just so well thought out. Ubuntu is decent but I wouldn’t want to use it for my daily work.
I love Obsidian and use it to manage my Markdown files and I’m in awe. Checked out Logseq as well but it didn’t work for me.
VS Code. As much as I hate Microsoft, this is great. I’ll likely look for a community-supported version without the creepy telemetry shit though.
Vs Codium is the open source version. Vs Code is based on Vs Codium but with the addition of closed source telemetry and the extensions marketplace.
You got that one wrong.
vscode is open source and released under a MIT license. Then the binaries they build have telemetry and such and is released under another license that is less FOSS friendly.
VS Codium is based on that vscode source code from Microsoft, and i pretty much the same thing, but without the telemetry and such.
You are looking for vscodium which is vs code without telemetry
Although macOS has some great features I sorely miss in Linux (working tag system for example), I could not disagree more. For my workflow, use cases etc. Linux wins hands down.
OTOH IMHO that is the key: Use what works for your use cases/workflow, be it macOS, Windows, Ubuntu or whatever.
Definitely, I wouldn’t recommend macOS to anyone who already enjoys Ubuntu or other Linux distros.
scrivener and affinity’s products are much nicer. i don’t even know if there’s a foss version of scrivener to be fair, but i basically haven’t used any other word processor since purchasing it.
Steam and Spotify
Affinity is the best non Adobe image editing suite. The Foss stuff just doesn’t compare, imo. Even if feature parity, the UI of Foss image editing softwares is hotshit.
FL studio is beating out LMMS. However, I pirate FL, so it’s still free to me.
FL sucks on Linux. I’d recommend Bigwig studio.
Absolutely, Affinity Photo is really good. Publisher is okay (buggy and slow, though, at least in 1.2 it was, haven’t tried 2.0), but Designer is miles behind Inkscape in my experience. It has just so little functionality. I’m not exactly a heavy vector user so I could be wrong too.
The only real problem with affinity is lack of Linux support. Otherwise I love it.
I’ve tried with open source DAWs but audio software is still decades behind in the open source world. I’m on Reaper and Ableton but I would love to ditch them. Toontrack products on linux is a pipe dream too. I’ve had nothing but issues over the years so still need to dual boot.
I’ve been using https://photopea.com and it does 99% of everything I would’ve done in Photoshop, in your browser. The only thing I’ve found that’s not up to par with Adobe is the content aware fill… it technically works, but it’s just not very good at it. And it of course doesn’t have any AI assisted features. It’s also free and ad supported, or you can pay $5/month to remove ads.
WinSCP, for the transfer-then-delete function. It’s the only thing I run under WINE.also open sourceCalibre, for doing everything I need with ebooksedit: Calibre still does everything I need but is open source
Edit: thank you to everyone who pointed out my incorrect info
But WinSCP is opensource too: https://github.com/winscp/winscp
I’m 0/2!
Calibre is free software
free != open source, but apparently Calibre is open-source and I didn’t realize it. I will edit my post. THank you for making me check my facts. :-)
Open source is a subset of free software. Free software is always open source.
Hmmm no free software can be closed source. Neither is the subset of the other but they intersect
Free software, as defined by the fsf, preserves the users freedom to study, change and distribute the software. The right to study entails that the source code be made available: Wikipedia article. Calibre is licensed as GPL3, thus it is free software as defined by the fsf.
You’re absolutely correct. Not to be confused with freeware which is more ambiguous and most often proprietary (though not always).
Pixelmator for macOS blows GIMP out of the water and is a one-time purchase of $50. I’ve used Photoshop a lot at school and Pixelmator does 99% the same.
Google Maps, there is not even 1 good alternative for maps osm is there but it will take a lot more users and volunteers to perform as well as google maps and i dont think thats gonna happen Google maps don’t have any foss frontend too and i dont know if its possible to make one
Depending on location probably, my experience is that OSM is much better in Europe than gmaps.
The only issue is missing traffic but that can not happen without tracking anyway.
Indeed. Nothing comes close. Organic Maps on f-droid uses OSM, which is decent enough for most things, but struggles more with changes like road work or traffic congestion.
For driving, Waze easily beats Gmaps.
For travel details, Gmaps wins.
Waze is again proprietory i like waze anyways
Wasn’t Waze bought by Google or am I misremembering?
You are correct. Luckily they have not destroyed it - yet.
Keep fighting the good fight.
Games, Steam, firmware, fopnu, darkmx, “Skype” (relatives), WhatsApp (relatives), Telegram (relatives and work, I don’t care if the client is open), Opera Presto (sometimes for nostalgy).
Youtube, newpipe doesnt feels good to me No playlist No comment replies
So no🙁I use revanced can i count it as open source?
You actually use the comment section on YouTube?
It’s one of the worst and least informative in my opinion.
No playlist? Wdym? There’s a fork called PipePipe which has comment replies.
You might like LibreTube!
I’m waiting for future release of freetube i like it Its also on linux
I really liked libretube, thanks and now i uninstalled youtube i use pipepipe too
newpipe definitely has playlists
I’m talking about playlist made by youtube channels
if you know the url of the playlist you can bookmark it. you can also search for playlists.
Then I guess you need to go to YouTube website, go to the channel, look for what playlists they have, then go on NewPipe and look for it.
See how much of an inconvenience it is compared to just being able to pull up all channel playlists in the app?
Sure, you can type “(channel name) playlist” in the search bar, but then all those playlists are all mixed in with regular video results as well. Noticed that not all of the playlists shows up doing that too.
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P4merge for code diffs and merge. Their 3way merge tool is the best.
Try Beyond Compare.
Beyond Compare.
That’s what I came here to post. People always think that other software are actual options. If you are using drools rules then other software can’t even follow the xlsx standard properly enough to even allow drools to compile correctly. It sucks because I’d rather not have to get licenses for my whole team to use excel when there’s plenty of free options and we don’t even use it that much, but it’s just so far into another league it isn’t even close.
Weren’t the MSFT X standards intentionally poorly defined with the goal of smothering OpenDocument in the crib?
I mean, maybe, but that doesn’t really change anything. Excel is better for a lot of use cases and whether that’s due to terrible antitrust violations or not doesn’t really change the fact of the matter. I honestly would love to use Libre or Open office, and it’s literally the first thing I tried, it just doesn’t work for most of the things I would need it for.
What are drools rules? All the pages I’m reading are very high level “bueiness rules” what does that even mean?
Hah, with no attempt to explain because it’s very self explanatory.
Libre calc is a great replacement imo. It has support for excel vba macros, but you can also make macros in Python, JavaScript, and their own macro language. For the most part it’s cross compatible with excel, but doesn’t support their xlsm file type as far as I know.
It’s fine if you never leave Calc. If you’re trying to use Calc at home and Excel at work, it’s absolutely awful. Key bindings aren’t the same. Basic things like auto completing formulas is different. It’s terrible to flip between the two.
I mean, I tried.
Problem is, I have only limited power in an enterprise led decision. I argued to have Notepad++ enabled on my login for my purposes and they accepted it - but excel is so engrained in everyone’s offices I simply cannot change.
Excel just works…there’s no fuss or stress or drama with admins. It just fucking works. I’m getting too old for hassle, so office it is.
Why excel? For most things I wouldnt say Libreoffice is worse. Impress though is something to learn.
But now I can use Impress and Writer, Calc too but the graphs are shit. Thats fair to say, graphs in Calc are horrible. The rest should be pretty much the same… I guess, havent used Excel in years
Steam and Spotify, I just can’t get rid of them. I tried to download some music from YouTube, but the way to discover new songs is just way easier on Spotify than doing it yourself. Steam seems obvious, to play games, you should buy it, to thank the dev’s.
Use Spotify to discover new music and
spotdlto download it from YouTube
FL Studio, Ableton, and many VST. Yes, a know about Ardour, many LV2 plugins, and I tried it, and in somewhere moment, me liked it more, then proprietary analog. Some plugins is awesome, DrumGizmo is very well, Vitalium and helm too have good sound, and many another software is good, but for easy, fast, and really quality sound it easier make in proprietary analogs. It ones cause, why I have windows in dualboot (and yes, in Wine I haved large latency and another problems).
P.S But sometimes I still working on my music projects in GNU/Linux.
I recommend Waveform if you haven’t tried it yet (works with linux).
how’s waveform’s vst support? I don’t really need a daw for much more than processing samples so I’ve just been using the free Ableton version that came with my sequencer but I might need to upgrade
Works great! I’m not an advanced user, mainly been using synth-VSTs. Since waveform 11 it is really stable and performant, before that there were some issues (they reworked the audio engine).
