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Whats your favorite free open source software that everyone should try? (midwest.social)

submitted 1 year ago by Sigmatank@midwest.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Lemmy seems like the right place to ask this. Personally I've really enjoyed Gurgle, which is a FOSS Wordle clone app.

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[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I thought Inkscape was FOSS Illustrator

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Probably should add darktable in here as FOSS Photoshop Lightroom Classic.

edit: and Scribus as FOSS Adobe InDesign

[–] Zink@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m sitting here asking myself how I have not tried darktable before. Definitely checking it out, and already verified the support for my camera.

[–] Salix@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Darktable is definitely my favorite RAW photo editor. There are a lot of great tutorials online including YouTube

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

I have to admit that I only found that one myself because I was curious what "premium apps" were included in Zorin OS Pro, and eventually found this list they provide of alternatives:

https://help.zorin.com/docs/apps-games/alternatives-to-windows-apps/

Thankfully almost everything on that list is cross-platform. RawTherapee is another on the list you may want to check out.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah doesn't Krita do raster art and Inkscape does vector art?

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Yes. Illustrator is vector graphics so Inkscape is a more direct replacement, and Krita is raster so it’s closer to Gimp and Photoshop. One or both of those probably also have some vector, but not as much as with Inkscape/Illustrator. I think.