The Jetbrains suite of IDE’s. Particularly Jetbrains Rider. The platform ~~they are all ~~ many of them are built on is open source though, and you can get free licenses for all of their products if you are using them to develop open source software!
Why do you find jetbrains better than VS Code?
Not OP, but everything? It’s a far more complete solution with far more capabilities. It can be compared to full VS, not Code, IMO.
are there any good open source alternatives for VSCode for people that don’t want to learn emacs/vim? I’ve been looking for a good code editor to replace it but I haven’t been impressed elsewhere
There is always Eclipse IDE. It’s not as polished as Jetbrain’s apps for sure but it’s still very capable. It’s published under the Eclipse Public License. I think the language server code that’s used in VSCode is from Eclipse, it can be used for developing many languages and there are lots of plugins and other add-ons to enhance the experience.
I think VSCode(ium) is the OSS alternative? If you want OSS, it’s the way to go.
It’s fucking open source??? Does that me we can build from source to have it for free?
I have the last version you can use free forever (and I’m the reason they fixed it, by the way)
The underlying intelliJ platform is, not the entire IDE. I did edit the post though, as I realized not all of them are built on that platform.
If you are working on open source, you can still grab free licenses. You just have to renew them each year (completely free, just requires proof of FOSS contribution)
Excel. There’s just basic stuff with LibreOffice and OnlyOffice that work like crap. Like why in LibreOffice when I type =sum then hit tab does it think I’m done with the formula instead of adding the ( and letting me put in the first input. It’s awful.
I am a big fan of LibreOffice in general and there is not much I need that I cannot do. That said, I agree that Calc has lots of little usability paper cuts like the one you describe that make using Excel a lot more pleasant.
Honestly anything I can’t do easily in Google docs probably means I should just do it in Python anyway.
Minecraft, but only because of the bigger playerbase and a better train mod (the train mod, however, is FOSS)
Whatsapp. Everyone in India uses it. Its like the imessage situation in the US. So widespread.
Schools, college, friend groups, family groups all are on whatsapp.
Same in the Czech Republic. My whole family communicates only through whatsapp.
So you prefer it because everyone use it? This doesn’t sound smart
How am I supposed to message people when the only messaging app they use is whatsapp and facebook messenger (which I don’t use)?
I guess the only easy alternative is to use SMS and email since everyone use it. But it is not safe.
I am always open to alternatives like Signal, Element,etc. But no one use them. I am not going to force people to use a messaging app.
As a workaround, you can bridge most services to Matrix. I currently bridge Telegram, Signal and SMS to my Matrix server and only need Element on my phone and desktop.
Unfortunately Element is fairly focused on business users, would be cool if they could host bridges for individuals to make the barrier of entry easier.
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.
DaVinci is better, but it also provides licence for life. So it’s proprietary but have a good relationship with the customers.
‘Generally’ is a really wide word. Better for what? For who? When? That’s the all question…
Huh. DaVinci is OSS isn’t it?
No. It’s free to use for the standard version with most features available for free. There’s a paid “studio” license which unlocks all the features. Neither have their source code available for the public.
Don’t get fooled by what’s popular, open source it’s better by design and it’s there to stay. You can do color correction on Blender too
I know a lot of effort has been put into usability for blender, but it’s still just so weird compared to any other desktop app.
Photoshop is easier to use than gimp. I don’t pay for photoshop, but if I needed something like that I would.
Krita is closer to Photoshop than Gimp, although still not up to it. Just in case you ever need PS, try krita first.
Thanks I’ll remember that just in case!
Krita is excellent for painting, not very good for image editing though.
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.
I hate Office365 with passion. It’s extremely unproductive and alternatives like Quip are much better.
If you have to interact with documents created by others it would be better to use open formats not proprietary shit designed to be not cross compatible
Active directory
I’ve seen entire corporate networks run through a samba machine, though admittedly not often; it can be done
It’s also probably a bad idea (the only upside would be security mind you)
Plex’s Plexamp over any of the Jellyfin FOSS music apps. Bought Plex pass just for the amp.
I’ve been incredibly happy with Jellyfin on my NAS. What does Plex offer that it doesn’t, out of curiosity ?
I use jellyfin for video so I can’t compare it to Plex there.
In terms of music, Plex/Plexamp have several “features” that make the listening experience awesome. You can make smart playlists based on track ratings, artists, genres etc. I don’t believe smart playlists are available for jellyfin music.
Sonic analysis is another feature that jellyfin doesn’t have. Plex scans your music and matches tracks that are sonically similar and you can generate mixes/playlists from that data. I think you can also use AI if you have tidal.
In general Plexamp makes the listening experience more enjoyable. I can’t count how many times I’ve discovered songs in my library that I hadn’t appreciated before.
Ah, makes sense, thanks; I use Jellyfin exclusively for video as well
- XNViewMP (cross platform) - no alternative, ImageMagick is shit
- R-Studio (cross platform) - no, Testdisk is not even a fraction as good
- MS Office Word/Excel/PowerPoint - obvious compatibility reasons, I use 2007 in Windows XP VM with no internet
- Filelist Creator (cross platform) - no alternative
- 1DM+ on Android over Aria2App, former can video grab from webpages like how IDM/XDM work on desktop, no other app can
- Snapseed - no alternative that is as quick and simple
I made a recent post of closed source Android apps I like, with explanations. https://lemmy.ml/post/2768094
ImageMagick is shit
I love ImageMagick despite its quirks; but then again I do not use it for professional use (well I do as a dev but I’m not a photograph or anything). What does XNViewMP does that ImageMagick doesn’t ?
Because at first glance it seems much worse - it has a graphical UI for one thing which seems inappropriate for the usecases I see ImageMagick being used for.
Also that Filelist Creator thing has existed on unix since the 70s; it’s called “find”, “ls”, and “awk”.
Try XNViewMP for yourself. You will know quickly about its feature set. Read their website and documentation. ImageMagick is pretty meh in comparison. I once tried converting WebP images with trying to preserve metadata, but could not.
Also try Filelist Creator, the ease of use with GUI is incredibly painless, and it allows a lot of options and export file formats.
For the Filelist thing I prefer CLI tools generally (and all the export formats I’ve seen in the features seem perfectly doable through them); but your answer about XNViewMP definitely has merits, thanks ! I’ll take a look at it
