Programming Humor

It's just like for Windows , but we're so used to the software that we've learned to work around.

When you switch, you are met with productivity loss and learning new quirks, which makes the experience less than stellar.

In today's context, for the vast majority of people, if it isn't easy to use, they won't use it because pretty much every app and software has become plug and play (except niche software that looks like windows 3.1)

A company I worked for has had such a bad experience with the Microsoft business suite that they actively avoid using any MS products at all costs. They started offboarding a year ago and they STILL haven't managed to get rid of everything

Ublock

Scrum master: alarm goes off oh.. well, guys, this stand up's been going so long our next one started so let's just slide on into it..

Senior Dev: dies

seriously, really helps learn troubleshooting too, not just throw and error number at you and close.

GIMP can't draw 2d shapes. What's that all about? It almost motivated my inexperienced ass to work out how to add it myself..

Gimp is great for when you need photoshop, but aren't doing it as your job, and don't want to sail the seven seas.

Also, Fwiw when I want to outline text in gimp i select a text path, make a new layer, select from path, expand the selected area 2px, then fill (oh and move the layer behind the text layer). Unike in photoshop where theres like... one step, iirc.

GIMP needs a total overhaul by designers.

Isn't that what GIMP 3.0 is going for? It's not out yet, but it is a big overhaul.

Krita is also fantastic and better than most closed source drawing software

KiCAD is also getting almost as good as some of the closed source ECAD software and is definitely good enough for small companies not doing flex designs. It is by far the best hobbyist-targeted ECAD

Libre office is perfect now for small companies. It is only missing a couple of small office features. Maybe PowerPoint power users would have a hard time making morph animations

Bitwarden is pretty much the best-in-class password manager for companies too

OBS is the gold standard for streaming

VLC is also the gold standard for media players

Bitwarden is the only one that has SaaS backing and the rest is volunteer driven, but with different funding models.

I hope by 2030 KiCAD and FreeCAD will be much more prolific in the professional space for small companies.

There’s just so much more opportunity for feedback, use case stories, and a variety of perspectives in open source development.

Good enterprise development does all those things as well, but there is always a bigger barrier to the user when you have to design behind a curtain.

By respecting my ownership and not making me jump through flaming hoops for compatibility with everything else, it's already a billion times better!

I can't even tell you how absurdly mad I get when I run into an 'anti-feature' that's literally only preventing me from doing something the company wants to keep as their own special power.

Open source CAD software is basically useless. As someone who has tried every few years to use open source alternatives for personal projects, I always end up paying for an AutoCAD or Fusion 360 license.

My professional background has always been higher end software like Siemens NX, Solidworks, Inventor, & AutoCAD.

LibreCAD is the closest I ever got to something that seemed useful for 2D. I hate FreeCAD, QCAD, BRL-CAD, etc. Many open source projects waste so much time to do simple tasks and buck standard methodologies for their own spin on how they think you should design.