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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Photoshop is easier to use than gimp. I don’t pay for photoshop, but if I needed something like that I would.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Krita is closer to Photoshop than Gimp, although still not up to it. Just in case you ever need PS, try krita first.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks I’ll remember that just in case!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Krita is excellent for painting, not very good for image editing though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Consider Photoshop Elements for a similar UI and one time payment to use forever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the tip I didn’t know about that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Steam. The support they have for multiplatform almost feels open source and they have been invaluable for the adoption of desktop Linux

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Jetbrains suite of IDE's. Particularly Jetbrains Rider. The platform ~~they are all ~~ many of them are built on is open source though, and you can get free licenses for all of their products if you are using them to develop open source software!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Excel. There's just basic stuff with LibreOffice and OnlyOffice that work like crap. Like why in LibreOffice when I type =sum then hit tab does it think I'm done with the formula instead of adding the ( and letting me put in the first input. It's awful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I am a big fan of LibreOffice in general and there is not much I need that I cannot do. That said, I agree that Calc has lots of little usability paper cuts like the one you describe that make using Excel a lot more pleasant.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Obsidian for note taking, Bitwig studio for audio recording and processing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you check logseq? It's on flathub

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

logseq definitely coming along. I tried their donation only sync and it seems to mostly work.

That said nothing has beaten Standardnotes for me. Standardnotes can be found on flathub, fdroid etc. The only drawback is to get the important features you need to either selfhost or buy the plan. The free service is very barebones

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Tbh just normal YouTube + Premium is great and feels reasonable value to me.

TickTick is a better reminders app than anything FOSS ive tried

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Lightroom. There are lots of alternatives for editing some even FOSS but I haven't found any usable alternative to the library of Lightroom...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

DaVinci Resolve is much better than any open source NLE. Generally, most closed source media production software is better than their open source counterparts except Blender. Blender is incredible and it gives me hope that other open source software can be just as successful in the media industry.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

DaVinci is better, but it also provides licence for life. So it's proprietary but have a good relationship with the customers.

'Generally' is a really wide word. Better for what? For who? When? That's the all question...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whatsapp. Everyone in India uses it. Its like the imessage situation in the US. So widespread.

Schools, college, friend groups, family groups all are on whatsapp.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So you prefer it because everyone use it? This doesn't sound smart

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How am I supposed to message people when the only messaging app they use is whatsapp and facebook messenger (which I don't use)?

I guess the only easy alternative is to use SMS and email since everyone use it. But it is not safe.

I am always open to alternatives like Signal, Element,etc. But no one use them. I am not going to force people to use a messaging app.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

As a workaround, you can bridge most services to Matrix. I currently bridge Telegram, Signal and SMS to my Matrix server and only need Element on my phone and desktop.

Unfortunately Element is fairly focused on business users, would be cool if they could host bridges for individuals to make the barrier of entry easier.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

MacOS instead of some Linux distro. Mostly because of the hardware that comes with it, making a neat integrated product.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I agree, love the intervonnectivity with iOS, especially AirDrop. And it’s still more comfortable to use than Windows IMO (no forced updates that slow down the shutting down process!).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly, its gotta be the MS Office suite.

Yes if you're just writing your own simple documents libreoffice/OpenOffice will work, but if you have to do anything more complex than a single page spreadsheet, text-on-white presentations, or 3 page MLA book reports.... or, even worse, have to interact with documents and spreadsheets created by basically any other person on the planet, I've just never had a good consistent experience with any of the free options.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Disagree. Libreoffice is pretty capable for most use cases nowadays.

Compatibility is also pretty good with Microsoft formats despite Microsoftβ€˜s best efforts.

OpenOffice is dead.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Discord over Matrix. The range of features plus the style of the client. I like soundboard and emotes. its easy to setup a server and invite people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While that is true, that's also not what people mean when they say 'servers' in this context. No of course they're not actual servers, but that's what they're called and I don't think anyone is under the impression they're actually servers

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Youtube, newpipe doesnt feels good to me No playlist No comment replies
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