🪟: absolutely atrocious. let’s do for-profit low quality software instead 😡
I wouldn’t call a lot if those “high quality”
Ngl if those are “bad quality” I don’t know what my personal projects are.
Even accounting for how self-critical I am with my old code.Like which ones?
Reminds me a local youtuber saying something similar about non-profit companies.
They said it’s human nature to be driven by profit, so non-profits are profiting in some other way. Hence he prefers to give business to for profit companies as you know their intentions.
IDK, but I’d rather be the beta tester for some open source project, or even contribute code to it (I fixed a language server this way), than to pay premium for a software, which I won’t “own”, has a bunch of microtransactions, and becomes lower and lower in quality.
I’d doing something that makes you happy is a kind of profiting then he is right. But he is probably not that wholesome.
People at the heads of nonprofits are often highly compensated, and it’s rare that any of them solve the underlying problem or even make meaningful headway. It’s why there is so much “awareness” and short term band aids involved. A nonprofit that solves the problem it’s supposedly trying to solve has no reason to exist and will cost people well paying jobs managing it.
Well unfortunately he’s right. Most non-profit companies are profiting off of things like your donations and such like that. You look at the Susan g Komen foundation for breast cancer awareness. Something like 5% maybe 10% of all donated funds actually go to breast cancer research. The rest of the funds are used to fund the staff including those that are in charge of the board. And they have massive paydays.
Oh the irony
OpenTTD is the pinnacle of open source software. They should have stopped there
As someone who recently started getting into digital art, I’m genuinely shocked at how good Krita is.
This is a raster graphics editor that could could potentially rival the likes of Photoshop, Affinity Photo and Paint Shop Pro in terms of features. GIMP by comparison is dogshit.
Why is Firefox there?
I love that OpenTTD made the list
I stand by blender being the absolute best piece of software I have ever used.
Blender is abso-freaking-great, I just wish they would have been less pokey pokey with the UI over the years.
Search: how do i do X in blender
Answer: Ctrl-Alt-Shift-_
Me: Doesn’t work
Answer: bobbit menu, right pane, third box down
Me: Not there
Answer: Rightclick from x mode and press Y
Me: Not there
so you live in an insane asylum? Powerful, but the least intuitive UI ever.
Came a long way since pre 2.8
firefox? no profit incentive? we wish
Same can be said about the Linux Kernel.
Why on earth is OpenOffice here??
LibreOffice is the maintained fork.
It has been that way for 16 years now.
16 years.
There are people working full time jobs who were born the same year that LibreOffice started.
Stop promoting OpenOffice. People will have problems with it that have been long fixed it LibreOffice.
Because I can understand “Open” while “Libre” sounds strange. — most people, probably
What is only office then?
OnlyOffice was an office suite developed by Sun Microsystems. Oracle stopped development whel they bought Sun. eventually the developers got fed up and founded the Open Document Foundation. oracle threw kind of a hissy fit, then eventually gave up and donated Open Office to the Apache foundation. Apache alleges Open Office is an active project, but they’re just shuffling deck chairs. Open Office is dead, and Oracle killed it. Libre Office is what Open Office used to be, and more
Its only office.
Only Office is an open source free suite that is developed by Ascension System SIA. It is open source but has a paid option for corporate support. It offers cloud storage servers or local server storage.
When I retired, I wanted to ditch LibreOffice because I just don’t need a full office suite anymore. So I tried Only Office for a bit. It’s kind of like the office suite we have at home. It’s fine for most people. But I always had issues with it dying on me under Fedora and Mint.
After a while, I realized I didn’t even need that much office anymore. So I’m back to where it all began on Linux-- AbiWord and Gnumeric. That’s all I need anymore. It’s refreshing how a mere 125Gigs of storage on a cheap mini desktop can show what you really only need.
Thank you
Openoffice-> LibreOfficeSeriously, don’t use OpenOffice, it’s abandoned for over 10 years.
So many people let perfect be the enemy of good. Firefox is great. It’s the pillar of non-Chromium of browsers. Servo and Ladybird are not there yet and will take many years to surpass Firefox if ever. A Firefox fork has a better shot than those 2
GIMP is great software. Is it just Photoshop and Affinity better than it. Not seeing as much hate on Inkscape when it’s just Adobe and Affinity as better.
OpenOffice is outdated but was good for like ~2010
A bunch of y’all would have been ragging on Blender 10 years ago. Ragging on Krita. In 2012 acting like gaming in Linux was doomed. In 2015 acting like Kdenlive would never reduce crashes and improve functionality. Acted like Darktable would never be competitive with Lightroom. Godot would be no good for anything more than 2d sidescrollers and never compete with Unity 5. A bunch of do nothing fence sitters. Firefox and GIMP developers contribute more to the good of humanity than anyone crying about them in this thread
I use Firefox because Google killed Manifest v2 support and (with it) uBlock Origin. Unfortunately they seem to be heading towards the AI slop route.
Yes, Edge and Brave exist but one is maintained by Microslop and will likely also follow in Google’s footsteps, and the other I don’t particularly trust because they have a homophobe as CEO and did some crypto token shit with their ad system.
A bunch of y’all would have been ragging on Blender 10 years ago. Ragging on Krita. In 2012 acting like gaming in Linux was doomed. In 2015 acting like Kdenlive would never reduce crashes and improve functionality. Acted like Darktable would never be competitive with Lightroom. Godot would be no good for anything more than 2d sidescrollers and never compete with Unity 5. A bunch of do nothing fence sitters. Firefox and GIMP developers contribute more to the good of humanity than anyone crying about them in this thread
The last time I used Linux as a desktop OS was around 2008. Back then the state of FOSS was absolutely dire.
I used to have a shitty Packard Bell PC at home which was weirdly partitioned, 20GB dedicated to the C:\ partition and 100GB dedicated to D:. An asshole “friend” at school goaded me into pirating Norton PartitionMagic and using it to merge the two partitions and pretty much totalled my Windows installation. As I didn’t have a backup CD I had to use Ubuntu for a few months.
The only game I genuinely got working on Linux was World of Warcraft and even installing that was a pain. WC3 was supposedly “Platinum” on Wine’s AppDB but would often freeze and didn’t support using the mouse to move the camera. Some versions also couldn’t connect online.
Fastfoward to today and gaming on Linux has evolved by leaps and bounds, in large part thanks to Valve. The only games you genuinely can’t get running are those with kernel level anticheat software.
A Firefox fork has a better shot than those 2
Yes.
For example, LibreWolf skipped the AI forced-down-the-throat drama.
I think maybe LibreWolf only ships with Debian, by default; but it is also in the repositories for Mint, and so I assume also Ubuntu.
I swear, the biggest obstacle standing in the way of wider open source software adoption is “open source fans” who seem to reflexively hate every open source project out there. Nothing is ever good enough for them
So many people suck up for the better of two bad options. You can use it and still give it deserved criticism, you won’t hurt it’s (or the wealthy Firefox exec team’s) feelings.
Sure it’s great, but man Mozilla won’t get my money, same for Wikimedia
I’ve been learning FreeCAD recently and it’s pretty incredible too!
Is FreeCAD good for 3D printing stuff? I started learning fusion but I’m kinda digusted by being tied to autodesk
I just started making some headway into using it and I’ve found it way less intuitive than Fusion. It also seems to be more finnicky about constraints and such. Like I wasn’t able to extrude something because I had lines intersecting each other. Just have to be more methodical and use more sketches I guess. Im still on my first project with it though and haven’t gotten to the point of printing anything yet though so take that with a grain of salt.
It’s so ugly and unintuitive in the beginning, but when it clicks and you finally get it, it is pretty awesome (and surprisingly lightweight)
"Every machine has had the same history — a long record of sleepless nights and of poverty, of disillusions and of joys, of partial improvements discovered by several generations of nameless workers, who have added to the original invention these little nothings, without which the most fertile idea would remain fruitless. More than that: every new invention is a synthesis, the resultant of innumerable inventions which have preceded it in the vast field of mechanics and industry.
Science and industry, knowledge and application, discovery and practical realization leading to new discoveries, cunning of brain and of hand, toil of mind and muscle — all work together. Each discovery, each advance, each increase in the sum of human riches, owes its being to the physical and mental travail of the past and the present.
By what right then can any one whatever appropriate the least morsel of this immense whole and say — This is mine, not yours?"
-Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread
The Problem with open source is, it relies on self exploitation. Most OS Dev don’t get paid, so they’ve got to work another jib full time. This leads to a lot of burned out devs from their project and that is a real problem.
Before a project becomes self sufficient on donationa, it needs to become really big. Most projects simply never reach that scale.
