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!
Definitely Blender. I’d consider myself a medium grade expert at using it for CAD, solid modelling, 3D printing, yet there are vast sections of it I have never touched, and appear to be so rich that you could build a career around them without overlapping with my skill set.
Blender used to be so difficult to use. It has come a long way and I genuinely like using now, not just forced to because of budget limits.
And like having full Python interface is insane for how powerful it can be even to begginers - but the crazy bastard made it easier with geometry nodes
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!
Blender and KDE
Was going to say Blender as well. It’s mind blowing really. What sets Blender apart from most others though is not the feature set (which is massive) but the UI/UX, which is usually something open source apps are lacking in.
- 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.
- 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.
🤯
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.
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
Jellyfin, such a great little media server.
Yeah, the reddit community is great to… Need a way to bring them here. 😭
@CCatMan @div, easy, show them tis analyse of Reddit, made with bLacklight. (the TowerData which appears is known to use even keylogger to profile the user).
https://themarkup.org/blacklight
That’s an amazing tool you’ve found! No clue that existed until now.
@Choco1ateCh1p, this and some others must be in any bookmark
https://themarkup.org/blacklight
https://webbkoll.dataskydd.net/en
https://sucuri.net/malware-detection-scanning/
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/url
https://privacyscore.org
https://www.urlvoid.com
https://browserleaks.com
https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com
https://linkunshorten.comTo check Android apps
https://exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/
2nd this! It’s come so far in the past 2 years!
Krita, Blender, VLC
EDIT: Xonotic, OBS
I’ll also add Inkscape to the other art apps.
Definitely
Eh, the UI kinda sucks. I agree that it’s still incredible for a free and open source app
OBS
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…
qbittorrent
Was just gonna say this. The king of torrent software, thousands of finished github issues, and still going strong.
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!
@dl007 kde and vlc
Yeah kde is doing great
KDE is the reason I stayed on Linux way back then
