Another mobile OS. Something that isn't built entirely to exploit me.
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I hear you. With Android turning into a closed OS like iOS later this year things are not looking very bright for people like me that uses alternative stores a lot.
Tell me about it. Like Linux Phone hurry up!
I miss the FirefoxOS concept. Ahead of its time. Basically ran PWAs for everything.
Honestly, I would really fuck with a comprehensive Linux mobile experience. I know some things exist, but they aren't yet fully rounded off. I say this now, but know damn well I'd tinker with something I shouldn't and wind up needing to reinstall the OS like five times.
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Theres always e/os, iodeos, grapheneos and other forks
that is still android though
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Excel. There are other options, sure, but excel is really hard to beat.
Email. Gmail really does it well. However, I have switched mostly to Proton, so maybe that'll stick.
Pandas/Polars is all I need in a Jupyter notebook to replace Excel. Its not even a contest if you know some python for doing any real work.
I concede Excel has a lower bearer to entry for teams composed of mixed technical abilities.
So much this. If you find yourself writing nested formulas e.g.
=IF(A1>=90, "A", IF(A1>=80, "B", IF(A1>=70, "C", "F")))
Do yourself a favour and switch to Python and Pandas. You can do so much more, so much faster, and so much simpler. And at the end of an your code, you can pd.to_excel() to spit out your dataframe as an xlsx.
Also duckdb. Realizing I could do SELECT ... FROM 'arbitrary-file.xlsx' was a wondrous occasion
Yeah, excel really is hard to beat. Good one.
Literally anything that you have to pay monthly for. I do not care what it is.
I have an old version of Sony Movie Studio Platinum that, legally, they still have to provide me a download for. But, holy absolute hell if they didn't make it nearly impossible to just download the version I paid for. Of course, the new one is subscription only. Costs so much I'd have paid more in 3 months than the single one time payment I did for the old version a decade ago.
Operating systems.
Windows is a collection of legacy code with trash strewn over top, but it is ubiquitous.
Apple’s offerings are typically decent and reliable, but the executives spent a lot of time lately kissing the ring.
Linux is simply not something I’m interested in supporting for my family.
I’d just like something that’s easy to use, common enough I don’t need to teach people to use it, secure by design, and not owned by an evil megacorp.
I’d just like something that’s easy to use, common enough I don’t need to teach people to use it, secure by design, and not owned by an evil megacorp.
Hey I don't want to preach but if many people were able to learn how to use Chrome OS over the last decade they will be able to learn how to use the latest Ubuntu (or whatever flavor of Linux is now considered the most intuitive and fully featured for new users).
I believe Mint is the current "beginner edition" of Linux. Ubuntu has been getting a lot of hate lately from what I've seen.
My latest build is running Bazzite on an HTPC, but it's still a project and not fully up and running quite yet.
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Yeah that ring kissing rubs me.
You could always use HaikuOS (kidding) there’s ZERO evil behind that one!
RCS messaging. The important bits are closed source so you have to use google services.
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PDF or really just an alternative to Adobe that isn't even PDF but a completely different format that is open source by default so that nobody really needs a specific app to make edits. Maybd that's just ODT?
Also, maybe not an alt per say but just want games to work on Gnu/Linux. Like all the AAA titles should be able to run on, for example, Linux Mint natively without Wine. A pipe dream sadly since capitalism dictates what works where but I digress.
Going back to Adobe though, would love something other than Photoshop that isn't GIMP. Once upon a time, there was an open source project called Glimpse which basically did what Linux Mint does for Gnome and gave GIMP a much better interface. Sadly, they shut down their project. Lame.
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Paint.net. I so wish for something simple with a competent UI on Linux.
Pinta is the closest, but it's too far behind modern paint.net.
GIMP lacks a competent UI, and Krita is too advanced for basic photo editing.
Tried affinity.studio?
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To flip the CAD thing on its head, if I want a Python API for AutoCAD, Creo, or SolidWorks, their response is "fuck you, use our GUI cuz that's easier for us to implement license verification with. And oh yeah, it's all Window only." The only CAD software I find remotely useful is FreeCAD. Sure, it's not perfect, but it's the baseline that all other CAD softwares somehow fail to match.
When's the last time you tried FreeCAD? I also used to think it's trash, but version 1.0 really changed that and now 1.1 is freaking amazing.
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Honestly, notes apps. All of the big tech options are fine, but they’re big tech, so fuck them. All of the open source options suck. The best I’ve found is just Nextcloud Notes, but it’s still shit. Basic Markdown syntax, no linking notes, adding attachments is… well idk, I haven’t figured out how to do that yet.
Obsidian, Joplin or Logseq. Have you tried any of these?
I’ve tried Joplin and Logseq. They both are not good for me. Joplin’s mobile experience was terrible.
I switched from OneNote to obsidian when I de-windowsed and haven't looked back
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I’ve found Obsidian to work well for me. Its plugin ecosystem is pretty robust, so there’s a lot of room to bolt on features.
And if you really need an open source option with every possible tool and a full customization language… emacs
Yep. Obsidian plugins is like installing Skyrim then thinking, "I'll just go get the essentials from Nexus Mods..."
Three hours later you have an absolute beast that also does note taking too.
I keep seeing people say this, but I've never seen a plug-in that seemed to do much of anything that the base engine wasn't already.
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This might be controversial, but I want yet another code editor.
Hear me out, I write very little code, but when I do, they are usually in widely different programming languages, and many of them have a comparatively small user base, like Haskell, Ocaml, Lean, Agda, and Rocq. Most of the time I write LaTeX and/or Typst all day, so I need:
- an editor that sandbox really well, there is no way I am trusting all my coding environment with my entire user space.
- an editor that don't require much tinkering: if it can get to 80% there, I am willing to learn the rest, but I don't want an editor that get 20% there and force me to pull 80 different package just to do things.
- preview LaTeX and Typst within the sandbox, ideally just in editor, so I don't need to configure synctex.
- reasonable support for comparatively obscure languages
- not controlled by a big tech like Microsoft.
So far, I am only able to find vscodium in flatpak that is close to my desire, but it is still mostly controlled by Microsoft.
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[…] FreeCAD is trash […]
What issues have you had? What features do you wish it had?
I wish the UI/UX wasn’t made by people who still live in 1995, as a major start.
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Not OP, but FreeCAD auto-constraints in sketches are all over the place, and figuring out which constraint is a problem and selecting the right element in the UI is terrible.
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A really different approach to CAD is OpenSCAD. I was not happy with FreeCAD either.
Adobe suite Ms office
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