And why do you use them?
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I like Sublime Text and Sublime Merge and use both daily.
I plan to pay for Immich
Never using proprietary software again. Maybe the only who can one be used be me and other foss’ person could be steam…
Reaper. Great usability and decent Linux support out of the box (looking at you, davinci resolve). Generous free trial and a cheap one-time payment for a license. LMMS has served me well and is fine for basic stuff, but reaper is a whole other level, both in features and usability. I’ve heard good things about ardour too but have yet to give it a try.
Would you mind linking it?
Reaper is awesome.
Bitwig studio
R-Studio, the single most powerful forensics and disk diagnostics and recovery software for all OSes.
The one you know is called RStudio.
No. What I am saying is different. The hyphen is the difference.
I know, that message was for the people who was about to comment about how R-Studio is an IDE for R.
The IDE is called RStudio, not R-Studio. IDE is for R, and there is nothing inherently unique to that IDE. R-Studio on the other hand is a tool with absolutely no competition for over a decade, and is thus worth as a paid tool for all OSes.
So did you pay like $800 for that?
When I used it on Windows, I pirated it. But there exists no way to pirate it on Linux, and when I have enough funds, I will ensure to buy something as useful and irreplaceable as R-Studio, since I get the liberty to use it on any OS.
Also only the Network Technician license costs $800. Regular single user lifetime license costs around $70 and works offline.
That’s cool. I’ve been confused by their pricing. The cheaper licenses seem to be temporary ($1/day).
Maya, the 3d software.
Also Modo
Not sure how decent yet, but got recommended Beyond Compare at work, which is a trial software and recently discovered it runs on linux.
It’s basically a file compare tool, but can also compare images and looks really nice.
It also features, like on Windows, really handy entries for the right click menu of pretty much all popular Linux File managers.
I just bought a standard license for version 5, because it seems awesome and I wanna use it more.
Does Unraid count as paid Linux itself, not just a Linux utility?
MakeMKV. It’s better than anything else.
Dungeondraft, Wonderdraft, FoundryVTT. Battle map making, world map making, and virtual table top respectively
I know you can’t make battle maps with it but have you hear of azgaar ? It’s an awesome open source world map maping web app !
I’ll check it out, thanks!
I would never willingly use proprietary software. I don’t mind paying if I also have access to source code that is licensed foss.
I while I understand the sentiment, I have found that paid software is more polished than foss software… most of the time. And when I need to get work done, I want to ensure that my software is stable and I will pay to do so.
That said, I feel software is like a bell curve, and the older the type of software is, the more it should be FOSS. Like word processors, 3D modelling, or image manipulation should be foss, while video editing and 3D scanning software is OK to be paid.
What I feel everyone should agree with is not being forced to use a subscription service to use the software. I will boycott software if it forces that upon their customers, looking at you Adobe, Autodesk and Microsoft.
I wish that was possible, but it’s not feasible to get a lot done on a 15 year old ThinkPad or whatever, that doesn’t have any proprietary firmware.
You can at least use foss apps and keep the binaries to a minimum
Agree, I just wouldn’t call that “never willingly using proprietary software”.
That’s nice. Some of us have work to get done though.
Use work machines for work. Compartmentalized when you can.
And use Linux for work, what’s your point? You seem to imply Linux is only for personal.
My point is that you should not be spending time trying to use Linux on a work device.
Am Linux Sysadmin, so I actually spend ALL of my work time trying to use Linux on work devices.
Yes, and what does it change for the purpose of this post? The question wasn’t what’s the best software you use in your leisure time for non-work purposes.
I’d love to see a complete CAD package that feels more in line with Inventor. Ondsel is definitely getting there, but it’s PDM (like git, but for parametric CAD) is still closed source and not self-hostable. Their git repo is also a bit confusing. Apparently part of their patchset on the “flavor” branch they ship isn’t open to the public? Still, nice to see a (partially) FOSS solution.
have you checked out freecad?
for the pricetag ($0) i’m pretty impressed
Reaper DAW, for (attempting) making music
I paid for Vuescan. There are a ton of Linux scanning apps, but pretty much all of them require editing all pictures to some extent after the scan. Vuescan applies a useful set of defaults that work for most pictures, speeding up the work flow. I had over 4,000 pictures to scan so anything to simplify that was worth it.
Vuescan is great, and near as I can tell it’s one guy. Totally worth it.
Yeah, I think you’re right. I forgot to add that there’s no mucking about with drivers and all of that, it really just works. Older scanners usually aren’t a problem with Linux, but Vuescan almost certainly supports them as well.
