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What non-FOSS software are you using that you wish you could replace? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me its honestly a ton of my work software (digital forensics), shit is too niche to be replaced by good FOSS options. Cellebrite, Magnet Axiom, etc. Autopsy is great and free and has a linux version but it simply cannot get the same level of data without a pretty nutty level of custom code.

And the biggest side effect of this is FUCKING WINDOWS. God I would replace this nightmare OS in a heartbeat if the aforementioned work software would make linux compatible versions. We have legitimately wasted 10k hours dealing with windows bullshit that would not be a problem in linux. Though im sure linux would take a different 10k for its own problems.

What about you guys? Doesn't have to be work related, thats just the thorn in my side right now.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google Play Services

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Adobe After Effects. Despite being an unstable spaghetti code nightmare, there is no other viable option for professional motion graphics designers.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I want to jump to linux, but the prospect of starting from scratch on a new OS (or even a reinstall of windows) is just not feasible right now.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sublime text. It is just so fucking good! Much more performant than even nvim.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Onenote! I use it for school and work, and love the syncing capability and the flexibility in structuring and organizing my notes. I also like the keyboard shortcuts and the way it can dock to a side of the screen to keep the main content visible

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Would https://anytype.io/ be a replacement? It's very new so you might not have heard of it. It's designed like Notion, but it might have everything you need.

If your needs are more simple, https://notesnook.com/ could be worth looking into.

Other FOSS options are Joplin and Logseq. I'm an Obsidian user myself; not FOSS but the storage format is completely open which is the most important to me.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

firmware/drivers

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Nationwide banking.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Pretty much anything on my phone. Though I have recently found f-droid, and through that I found Phonograph. I wish open street maps could replace google maps, but I really don't know what it's trying to do.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends on your country, but where I live Open Streetmap is better than Google's map. I hear OsmAnd is a great app, but I don't use a smartphone so I haven't tested it. I just know that their very compact offline maps are impressive.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I prefer Organic Maps as an OSM Android App, I've found it to be a bit easier to use and more reliable than OsmAnd!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Intuit software, specifically TurboTax. This also may become obsolete to replace if the IRS will give out free software as rumored for next year, but I'm surprised nothing as intuitive ^pun ^heh or user-friendly has popped up. Maybe I need to do more research, not sure.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Nvidia drivers. Back in 2019, I was looking to replace my Nvidia card with an AMD one, but decided I could put that off for a few months. Then COVID happened along with the cryptocurrency boom and prices skyrocketed to unreasonable levels. Nvidia drivers are honestly the last holdout on my machine barring perhaps some firmware somewhere.

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