It’s Lemmy you fools. It’s always been Lemmy.
Gonna go with Firefox as both my most-used piece of open-source software, and the software I see as most important to its ecosystem. If Firefox fails then we’ve just got Chromium-based browsers and, I guess, Safari.
LibreOffice is equal to any office software out there, and has been much more stable than OpenOffice, and works without an internet connection unlike Google Docs.
I recently read an article about how the “Open XML” M$ format was artificially made super cumbersome and complex so that it makes open source software support it almost impossible.
The article was written by one of the Libre office collaborator who was saying that they are intentionally introduced bugs so that we never see a better adoption of it in open source tools.
The whole standardisation process was a sham: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open_XML
Everyone should use LibreOffice … unless you work in a very specific office or school environment that specifically requires it, go install Microsoft Office, and even then, get your school or business to pay for it
Otherwise, for day to day document writing, letter writing or anything you have to do for yourself at home … LibreOffice is more than enough.
About five or six years ago, I was buying a new laptop at Bestbuy and I found myself a great deal and specifically asked for a system that didn’t have an OS with it or any software … they got an old returned unit, wiped the drive and sold it to me for about $200 at the time. While I waited, I listened as a salesman sold a new laptop to a clueless mother buying a unit for her son in high school … they got her to buy a $600 laptop, all sots of extras and MS Office and topped her off at about $1000 for a shitty laptop that was no more powerful than what I was getting
Blender by a huge mile. Yes, there’s tons of other software like Linux, of course, but Blender is such a powerful, well managed, economically viable and healthy (community) project that it should be shown as an example of how Open Source should be.
My biggest hurdle with other projects is the fanboys, because many times they’re quite toxic, insulting everybody who doesn’t adore the project and don’t accept constructive criticism.
Krita for me!
Honestly, Blender was the first software that really “proved” open source software to me, and I’ve been an open source exclusive user to this day
Blender is the model open source project :P
By a huuuge mile indeed. Blender devs are great at listening and communicating with the community.
The standardization of hotkeys and features across the software is fantastic. The UI is snappy and filled to the brim with intuitive QoL features I wish were standard for my OS.
I have irreconcilable grievances with a lot of open source software, VLC, VSCode, etc, and find development slow and heading non optimal for others like Sharex and Firefox… but Blender, that’s green on all fronts.
Firefox currently firing on all cylinders, it’s a real beauty
Freecad is pretty powerful, and fully functional now that they figured out their topological naming problem.
They finally did it?? I was using the thunder-something fork for a while because of that, but I always prefer sticking with the base project if I can.
God. I hatelove FreeCAD so much. As someone coming from the Autodesk/Fusion360 world it is so incredibly clunky and unrounded.
And on the other side so incredibly powerful and flexible.
Argh. Argh.
I really have to figure it out better.
How does it compare to OpenSCad?
Openscad is all text based. Freecad is more like conventional cad software like fusion 360. Honestly I don’t even know how people can use Openscad lol.
Firefox and Bitwarden
Firefox, VLC, LibreOffice
use librewolf!
Thunderbird. Hasn’t bugged on me once.
uBlock Origin, it’s not even close!
Blender
MapTool! It’s my virtual table top of choice. :)
LZMA SDK. I feel nobody speaks about it, considering it is the basis of 7Z and XZ compression formats, and is practically the strongest one with good speed outside of BSC and PAQ family (lolz is too niche for game repacking).
I will add FFmpeg too, for video and audio encoding and compression.
I am a file compression lunatic.
bitcoin, ferdium, openwrt
Git itself.
Which allowed this monstosity I contributed heavily to, to leave a hellscape of svn patches: https://github.com/LandSandBoat/server
So git earns the “favorite” designation hands down.
Honestly probably neko my friends and I used to love rabbit but it went to shit
Is this a more private way of browsing the internet than something like a hardened Firefox or Librewolf?
Nah, I mean it can be and you can set it up like so. It’s mainly just to watch stuff together
