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It seems like the FOSS community is continuing to grow, and FOSS apps keep getting better (Immich reallh blew my mind recently), which is a big win 😎 but there are still many apps I use that I would kill for an open source alternative. I am curious what you guys think? Are there any apps you'd love alternatives for?

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[-] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago
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[-] Damage@feddit.it 5 points 10 months ago

SOLIDWORKS. FreeCAD is hostile.

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[-] Nobody@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Suicide booth

[-] guttermonk@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago
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[-] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 5 points 10 months ago

TransMac. It's a tool to create MacOS install discs and USBs. It works off of a limited time free trial then you are supposed to pay.

It works great but I'd prefer something FOSS.

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[-] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

Two categories, broadly: any professional software, with deep features and professional quality.

I know theres audacity, but that's really not an acceptable saw.

I know theres a few cad apps, but no professional I've ever met finds the good enough.

I know gimp, and I use it, but no artist I know does; they all pirate Photoshop. Literally every one.

I like having audacity to record audio. I like having gimp to fuck with shit. I like having various cad apps to bang out organizational tools to print. These things do generally fit my use case. But I still have to help people pirate everything else and god the DRM is do fucking annoying.

Abd here's the more esoteric ask:

Not so much programs as features; Why aren't we really going all in on shit we can do that they can't? Features capitalists would never add, never support? Instead I find open source software always playing catch-up, and theres no reason it has to.

[-] Snoopy@jlai.lu 5 points 10 months ago

Dating app. An app that help people metting each other based on their interest and purpose local activity. :)

[-] cumberboi@slrpnk.net 5 points 10 months ago

found this the other day, not sure if its what you're looking for https://github.com/Alovoa/alovoa-expo :P

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[-] 10_0@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

OSMAND, since they started tracking users a while ago on the f-droid version.

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 4 points 10 months ago

As far as I understand the app menue, tracking is an opt in.

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[-] Wooki@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Exchange and Outlook for business use.

No nothing else comes close.

It’s the last app in MS Office that does not have competition. LibreOffice fills ever other app well enough but nothing comes close to exchange and Outlook. Considering they are trying to kill it off with an always online website (OWA) we need foss competition asap.

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[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Vectric Aspire for my CNC work.

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[-] Nithanim@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago

I sometimes needed something like powerquery from microsoft excel. To like quickly get specific data from a structured file.

[-] TheThunderWolf@thelemmy.club 4 points 10 months ago

Something actually good to replace Google Docs, the current alternatives are either paid or not feature complete (or both).

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