• @[email protected]
    15•2 years ago

    I prefer paint.net for asbuilts in underground construction. I use GIMP when I’m on Linux / MacOS but paint.net is a nice simple in between from basic paint-> photoshop.

    GIMP is a lot closer to photoshop. Don’t get me wrong - it’s a great software but paint.net fills that role a little better for what I need to do.

    I paid for and use parallels on my apple silicon laptop just for oaint.net

  • @[email protected]English
    15•2 years ago

    My really obvious one, and a huge source of problems for me, is Discord. But the biggest one was a wild one:

    Irfanview

    It is a super-fast image viewer and simple image editor. Supports every format I’ve ever thrown at it. Bulk conversion and resize works like a charm. Hell, it’s half the reason I haven’t moved to Linux for my daily use.

  • nickEnglish
    17•2 years ago

    Sync for Lemmy, JetBrains IDEs, and Sublime Text to name a few.

  • @[email protected]English
    13•2 years ago

    Word and Excel, tried LibreOffice it lags and has some weird graphical glitches and OnlyOffice has bad Arabic support

  • @[email protected]
    7•2 years ago
    • 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

  • Lettuce eat lettuce
    27•2 years ago

    Steam and Discord, but mainly Steam.

    If you told me I had to go 100% FOSS tomorrow, I could do it pretty easily, except for those two apps.

    95% of my games are through Steam, and 95% of all my friends, family, and online community are in Discord. I could probably even dump Discord and convince some of my closest friends and FAM to switch to a Matrix client or something. But giving up Steam would mean I would basically be giving up nearly all gaming in my life.

    And contrary to many other FOSS enthusiasts, I actually think Steam and Discord are great apps. I’ve rarely had issues with them, especially Steam. The UI is decent, the features are great, (Steam game join, Workshop mods, etc.) And Discord works really well on Linux for me, and GrapheneOS on my phone.

    Of those two, I’d rather dump Discord. Valve is generally a very FOSS friendly company and pretty consumer friendly compared to most multi-billion dollar corpos. And what they’ve done recently for Linux gaming over the last few years with Proton, the Steam Deck, etc has has made gaming on Linux a wonderful experience for me.

    Recently I have been trying to get into more FOSS games and GoG DRM-free games as an insurance policy for what I know is coming down the line one day. Gabe will either retire, pass away, or be bought out by a corpo/capital investment firm and Valve will become victim to the enshitification effect like all other proprietary software.

    There is a small hope I have, idk if this is even possible, but what if Gabe chooses to open source some or all of the Steam code instead of letting it get bought out or taken over by somebody else? That would allow for the FOSS community to fork it and build a FOSS Steam.

    Like I said though, a pipe dream for now. Long live FOSS!

  • Cyborganism
    2•2 years ago

    P4merge for code diffs and merge. Their 3way merge tool is the best.