What non-FOSS software have you been unable to quit? (beehaw.org)

submitted 7 months ago by hedge@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

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For me, Google video search, Google books (Internet Archive is good, but doesn't always have the same stuff), Adobe InDesign (but in the process of learning LaTeX), and Typewise. As for the Google stuff, I liked Whoogle a lot, but almost all their instances seem to have been blocked or shut down. Also, apologies if this is repeating an earlier post.

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[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 63 points 7 months ago

Just games. And I am thankful for all the open source implementations as they are almost always vastly superior to the original releases.

Thank you John Carmack for releasing the sources to your games!

[-] furzegulo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 7 months ago

same, everything i use is foss apart from games

[-] sic_1@feddit.de 2 points 7 months ago

I wanted to fully switch to Linux and FOSS for a while now but specialised software like CAD and image editing are either non existent or completely useless for professional purposes in their FOSS versions. What angers me most is that most is them could run on wine easily if the developers did some minor changes so it seems intentional.

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