Happy I love free software day! It snuck up on me while I was doing other projects, but here's a silly drawing I made today in Krita!
There are so many incredible projects out there which help countless people be empowered in their computing. Many thanks to all of the developers and web hosts, which allow folks like myself to stay away from proprietary and predatory corporations.
I don't have nearly enough characters, but here's several projects I've been using often. Thanks to everyone on the Fediverse (particularly Lemmy, Mastodon, and Peertube for me, as well as apps such as Voyager and Fedilab), KDE (especially Krita and Kdenlive), the mountain of people responsible for several GNU/Linux distros, GrapheneOS, F-Droid, Freesound, Matrix, LibreOffice, instruments using the SFZ standard (especially VCSL keys), and DAWs (LMMS, and Zrythm).
Yes that’s what I was thinking of. I think that’s the case for many FOSS tools out there, but especially in music making where there’s a huge gap in open source plugins, I assume largely because the industry leaders are already established and musical software doesn’t harvest your data the same way that major search engines or email providers do, so there’s not really much of a risk using proprietary. I do wish there were a lot more though, I’m sure theres a niche market for them, only issue is most developers aren’t gonna put a ton of work into something which they won’t be able to make money on.
I guess I can get that, it does seem quite hard and complicated building from source though. I’ve checked out Ardour and it seems the best out of the FOSS DAWs, it has the most features and support. You should really give it a shot.