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

submitted 2 years ago by John_Coomsumer@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

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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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[–] lolomgwtgbbq@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Firmware in all the consumer devices I want to hack, but don’t want to reverse engineer.

[–] Ertebolle@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

iOS

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[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Facebook messenger bc of my waterpolo teammates, discord, google maps bc im horrible at using maps and other apps are just too hard for me lol. Spotify bc i have all my liked songs and albums on it and im too lazy to migrate. On the desktop side everything i use is foss basically.

[–] Kk@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What FOSS Map apps have you tried?:)

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[–] barrybeebenson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

adobe lightroom and photoshop. no, darktable and gimp are not as good. darktable barely functions with a trackpad and gimp is like photoshop from 2010.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Affiinity Photo, Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher for me. I can't afford the Adobe stuff, and the Affinity software is pretty decent, but still not OSS.

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[–] asap@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

~~Apart from the new Beta features, I've found 90% of my Photoshop workflow is replicated in Photopea~~

edit: I am an idiot - Photopea is not open source. Although it will help remove a reliance on Windows.

[–] barrybeebenson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

photopea is not open source ☹️

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[–] RotatingParts@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Any program that communicates with USB connected hardware via a non-standard, Windows only USB driver as provided by the hardware vendor. In other words, you can't just plug a device into any OS and start programing it via a standard USB driver.

[–] lnsfw3@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

OSX. I miss Ubuntu/Gnome's configurable key bindings so much.

[–] nestEggParrot@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Karabiner elements if you haven't tried. Had so much fun, customising is with just a json file. Most common layouts and some cool ones are already available on their site for download.

Honestly had a much better experience with mac than on linux or win simply bcos of that piece of software. Its mac only sadly.

Looking now it seems to have changed a bunch with more features than when I used it back in 2021. Might not even need to work directly on json files.

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