Linux! The responsible for my knowledge in computing and a great deal of English…Linux is the power!
I switched to Linux Mint full-time a few months ago and it’s blown me away with how good it is.
After 13 years using Linux I still can’t believe it’s free!
Firefox is the first to come to mind. Also all the KDE software (when run in KDE).
KDE’s stuff is amazing.
I wish Firefox used QT or there was a KDE browser that was better maintained
Lord, I could not agree more. Fun fact: the document preview feature in the Kate text editor still uses KHTML!
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Kdenlive, just wow. I knew absolutely nothing about video editing, and it was so user-friendly, that it only took me a day to create something with it. Such great software.
Wait, osu! is open-source??
yup! I think the main dev makes so many changes that he’s one of the top github users. No idea how to check that though I only heard it from a friend a while back haha
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I kinda have the opposite response. I’ve been a mostly open source guy for the last 20 years so when I see what kind of half baked proprietary tools people buy I’m always shocked how much money mediocre software costs.
Up until not too long ago, it seemed like if the leading proprietary tool was half baked, the open source tool was a quarter baked. Take office suites. OpenOffice was pretty consistently ten years behind MS Office. Or GIMP was constantly lagging behind Photoshop in usability, but now is a very good photo editor. The exception has always been development tools, where you get a nice confluence of motivation to volunteer and people knowing what they want.
- Freecad
- Linux
- GitLab
- Wireguard
- Firefox
- Prusaslicer
- Klipper
- Wikipedia
- Jellyfin
- Nextcloud
- Navidrome
- Home Assistant
- Syncthing
I’ve been a Nextcloud user for many years (owncloud before that). It’s an amazing application.
- Blender
- the whole *arr stack
- osu!lazer
- proton
- MultiMC (back then when it used to be “new” and everyone was using TechnikLauncher and the FTB launcher. So 2016/17)
- Element
Edit:
- Stable Diffusion
- LLaMA (kinda open source)
- Firefox
- Chromium/Node/Electron
- VSCode
- FFMPEG
Vortex
- Yunohost
- KDE Plasma
- Kdenlive
- Krita
- Inkscape
- Blender
- OBS
- Xonotic
- Beyond All Reason
- Manjaro (Despite the hate, no other distro has worked as well for me)
- Firefly III
- Grocy
- Nextcloud
- DisplayCal / Argyll CMS
- Scribus
- Natron
- MuseScore
- Jellyfin
- Navidrome
- QOwnNotes
…and so many more
OBS is the one that gets me. A lot of streamers I follow talk about how they use OBS because it’s such a reliable standard and works the way they expect. Pretty cool that an open source app is the standard for something as mainstream as livestreaming.
Manjaro (Despite the hate, no other distro has worked as well for me)
EndeavourOS. Go ahead.
I actually use EOS on my main machine. Still had a better experience on Manjaro.
Figure out what exactly is better in Manjaro. It is better to be able to switch over to other distros and make yourself a bit more portable across distros. Not being a pushover, its just foundational advice. Manjaro has had so many weird incidents that it is good to do this exercise beforehand.
I’ve used many distros over the years. Manjaro has sane defaults, and I like the driver utility and the kernel tool a lot. Overall, Manjaro just works. I’m familiar with all the drama surrounding the distro, but I’m unbothered. I like using it.
I have machines running Debian and EOS too, but when I want something hassle free, like for the retro gaming / emulation machine in my living room, I choose Manjaro.
I love the floating release model. Other OSes vastly over estimate how much time I want to spend on huge updates that break stuff.
Agreed; if you tend to tweak your system at all, 1-2 years of updates all at once will cause chaos with 1-2 years of small changes you totally meant to record in your notes. On the very rare occasion something breaks on my EOS system, updates are frequent enough that it’s usually just the one issue at a time, and I’m still able to remember what silly thing I did to cause the issue - such as compiling NeoChat from git main while using a lib from the AUR to get session verification working early.
🤯
Home Assistant. It’s amazing the amount of things you can do with it. I love being able to slowly make my smart home and I barely need to check if the device I buys works!
Definitely. It’s amazing how several people doing it in their spare time (nuba casa aside) can do a better join than multi-billion companies that are removing features as basic as lists…
OBS
Krita, Blender, VLC
EDIT: Xonotic, OBS
I’ll also add Inkscape to the other art apps.
Eh, the UI kinda sucks. I agree that it’s still incredible for a free and open source app
Definitely
I prefer SMPlayer over VLC. It’s similar to VLC, but it uses MPV as it’s main render engine. I started using it after VLC started acting funky on a video one day, and I love it.
qbittorrent
Was just gonna say this. The king of torrent software, thousands of finished github issues, and still going strong.
Krita is a perfect alternative to photoshop. Sadly, I own a mac now and it doesn’t work as well there.
Blender is also amazing.
I love Krita. You could always switch to Linux!
I like linux, but I don’t think it’s quite “there” yet as an OS. It is getting better, but I am going to wait it out.
Funny. I always think Windows and MacOS aren’t quite “there” yet, but I don’t think they ever will be.
Yes, Krita is so good! I was using Photoshop before, but the price is too much
Affinity is very affordable and very good
Jellyfin, such a great little media server.
2nd this! It’s come so far in the past 2 years!
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There’s already a ton that they support. They just rolled out to my LG as well. Unfortunately I think they’re having issues publishing with Tizen on the official store but you can sideload it if you want. https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-tizen
The Linux ecosystem as a whole
You have got to have one of the best names on this server (unless it is actually an error)
No, it’s my actual username
As a creative: Blender. It was always a good program but thank god they finally started hiring people, that actually know how to design a usable UI. I remember the times when the devs refused to change the simple default selection to the worldwide standard: left mouse button.
hot take but it seems a lot of foss developers didn’t care much about putting effort into UIs, that has slowly changed over time
Not really a hot take. I fully agree. In my experience… Many foss devs couldn’t make causal user friendly UI if their life depended on it 😉
Good lord I didn’t know about the selection thing… I might be sick.
Yeah and that’s only the tip of the iceberg.
Did you know that Blender use to unironically use Shift+Ctrl+Alt+C for a surprisingly common operation?
I don’t actually remember what for, 2.79 was years ago, but I think it placed the object origin at the center of the geometry
Rough!
