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.
Yeah I feel the same way. I just can’t get any matrix client to give me the same experience I get with discord. I know they’re two different programs, and that if I started with matrix, discord would be weird, but still. It’s annoying
MacOSf or the trackpad gesture support.
The touchpad gestures in Gnome are by now the same as on MacOS. Gnome is the default desktop on many popular Linux distros.
Windows over Linux based OSes. The support (albeit via mass adoption) is much better. I can run almost any old software, including games. Plug in anything that’s plug and play and not worry about driver compatibility. Things tend to just work and I’m not one accidental sudo away from wrecking the whole OS.
I just disable ads, put a custom start menu in place, and I’m golden.
I’m not saying Windows doesn’t have issues, but for me personally it’s likely far less than a Linux OS.
You specifically mention old software, but for older software Wine on Linux seemed very reliable to me, probably because older interfaces are better tested already. Some very old games (i.e. Win 95-XP era) worked better for me on Wine than on modern Windows out of the box.
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.
Disagree. Libreoffice is pretty capable for most use cases nowadays.
Compatibility is also pretty good with Microsoft formats despite Microsoft‘s best efforts.
OpenOffice is dead.
Disagree but collaboration is horrible. Online Office sucks too though, they dont even try. They want people to use Windows.
Oh yeah 365 online simultaneous “collaboration” is absolutely useless. If I really need multiple people inside the same document I’ll use Google docs and then export it to finish off the formatting.
Yeah wow thats not better. Never used that, but finishing off formatting on a complex Paper is not really possible
Steam and Spotify, I just can’t get rid of them. I tried to download some music from YouTube, but the way to discover new songs is just way easier on Spotify than doing it yourself. Steam seems obvious, to play games, you should buy it, to thank the dev’s.
MacOS instead of some Linux distro. Mostly because of the hardware that comes with it, making a neat integrated product.
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!).
Visual studio code. There’s nothing else that’s anywhere near as good that doesn’t cost money. Those annoying terminal text editors just don’t do it for me. I need code autocomplete and do not understand how there exist people who have the patience to get by without it. I do not have the time to be switching tabs 20 times a second because I can’t remember function parameter overloads. That intellisense autocomplete is just too good.
VSCodium exists. Not sure whether it has intellisense by default but might be worth a try. It is open source and without all the Microsoft telemetry
Microsoft Excel - I tried a lot of the FOSS office suites but I always come back mainly due to familiarity but also compatibility (which I know is not much of an issue lately).
Google Photos - I have Immich setup and use it but my wife and people around me use Photos and so I have to conform.
“Pixel OS” - I can’t move to Graphene or similar due to banking apps.
Skype - Like Photos, due to relatives
Banking apps dont work on GrapheneOS?? I have one that needs Google services, but I guess sandboxed it would work
I still donate to Inkscape each month (please do the same at https://inkscape.org/support-us/donate/), but it became unusable for me on macOS, unfortunately. I now use Serif Affinity.
Inkscape is fantastic on Linux. I’d highly recommend it!
Yeah they are full GTK now, on Windows it looked weird too
This will get me loads of downvotes, but Windows 10 Mail and Calendar (not Outlook) is simple yet works flawlessly and is miles ahead of Thunderbird by usability, stability and user-friendliness. On the other hand though, Ubuntu Evolution is even better and is open-source.
I feel like Win 10 default apps just waste so much screen real estate. I’ve been using Thunderbird for years and while 5 years ago I would agree the user interface is obtuse the refresh that happened a few years back really improved things. I’ve also never had stability problems and I have thunderbird tracking 7 email accounts with hundreds of thousands of emails total (I’m a data hoarder)
Evolution on the other hand, hoo boy, I have to use it at work and despise it lol. That program gives me stability problems and frequently fails to interact with Exchange. Gives me a great excuse for missing meetings haha
All said, Outlook desktop I think is superior to both Thunderbird and Evolution, I just don’t wanna pay for it
Guys try out Thunderbird 115! You need to create all your stuff new I guess, because they changed so much a lot of things broke for me, but once set up, its pretty great
Affinity is the best non Adobe image editing suite. The Foss stuff just doesn’t compare, imo. Even if feature parity, the UI of Foss image editing softwares is hotshit.
FL studio is beating out LMMS. However, I pirate FL, so it’s still free to me.
FL sucks on Linux. I’d recommend Bigwig studio.
Obsidian for note taking, Bitwig studio for audio recording and processing.
isn’t obsidian open source?
It is closed source. I haven seen any partial source code anywhere either. Licensing is very generous: free forever for personal use, you only need to get a license at 50$ per year if you are a commercial user. There is also a 2 week trial for commercial users.
Of course, besides legality, there is nothing stopping you from using obsidian for commercial things, they don’t do any checking for that stuff.
I love Bitwig. Linux support too!
!bitwig@lemmy.studio is dead but I’m hoping to change that soon!
I’m checking the community out. Bitwig has a great look and feel, and they support native Linux with many audio systems. It’s something worth my bucks.
The rule no tux no bux applies in reverse.
Bitwig is outstanding. I so wish there was an open source DAW that came close in stability and workflow. Zrythm crashes constantly, and the workflow in Ardour is obtuse. I can’t quite figure out how to do anything in LMMS and the other options just look so dated I’m not even tempted to try them.
I’ve heard that many swear by reaper. I once started it and couldn’t figure out the UI at all, and the UI design just felt ancient. Didn’t give it another chance after that.
Did you check logseq? It’s on flathub
I am using logseq at work, as I don’t have a license there. I prefer Obsidian over all alternatives I’ve tried so far. Major points are:
- Plugins, which obsidian offers a lot
- File structure, obsidian stores all notes in a directory tree of markdown files. You can sync this with any service you like: GIT, Syncthing, manually, whatever you like.
- I don’t really get the journaling format of logseq, why does every note have to be a point in a hierarchy?
Cisco IOS, although I suppose that’s mostly because of the hardware. If there was actually an option, I’d probably run bsd or linux on my routers.
I would stay away from Cisco hardware… like completely. Its crazy how much control they have. I heard a backdoor in every router for the NSA to snoop
Snowden’s document dump proved that was not the case. He showed the techniques the NSA used to hack Cisco’s, and it involved intercepting the physical machines being shipped. They did NOT have back doors in the machines as Cisco shipped them. (Plus some specific models with bugs that the NSA took advantage of.)
Crazy didnt know that! Sounds good
Affinity suite over any of their open-source competitors. I love Krita for painting, but for image editing, Affinity Photo is just so much better-suited and unlike Gimp, it’s modern, actively maintained and has a much more thought-out workflow. I heard that Inkscape was fine, but I personally didn’t like it either (but then, I also didn’t really like Illustrator all that much, it’s really a fully subjective opinion). But even if you did like Inkscape, you don’t have the seemless integration between the products as Affinity does. You can create pixel graphics in Photo, import them in your vector graphics in Designer, and can seemlessly embed any of the two into your documents in Publisher. And each program has a special mode (“persona”) that gives you the basic functionality of the others, and the UIs and workflows generally feel very similar and unified between them. For the hobbyist who doesn’t want to pay for an Adobe subscription, it’s truly unbeatable and the only reason I still need Windows every now and then.
this sound like an ad. lmao
Fair ^^" In my defense, I can be at least as preachy about Linux, but I think we’ve all heard this one before.
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.
Huh. DaVinci is OSS isn’t it?
Lol you will find out its not when trying to install it on Linux. They only support CentOS, which actually doesnt exist anymore, and there is nearly no info about needed things. A Flatpak? No way. Appimage? Dream on.
