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What non-FOSS software are you using that you wish you could replace? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by John_Coomsumer@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

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For me its honestly a ton of my work software (digital forensics), shit is too niche to be replaced by good FOSS options. Cellebrite, Magnet Axiom, etc. Autopsy is great and free and has a linux version but it simply cannot get the same level of data without a pretty nutty level of custom code.

And the biggest side effect of this is FUCKING WINDOWS. God I would replace this nightmare OS in a heartbeat if the aforementioned work software would make linux compatible versions. We have legitimately wasted 10k hours dealing with windows bullshit that would not be a problem in linux. Though im sure linux would take a different 10k for its own problems.

What about you guys? Doesn't have to be work related, thats just the thorn in my side right now.

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[–] mojo@lemm.ee 66 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Discord. God I hate that program, but everyone I know uses it.

[–] Penguincoder@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same as Reddit; it's network affect. There are different applications out there for various purposes that work better/nicer than Discord. But not enough people are using them so everyone goes where everyone else is at.

[–] gutter564@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

Geddit is not bad front end. No reddit account needed

[–] mamotromico@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Honestly I can’t replace discord with something that doesn’t have the streaming feature. I use that waaaay too much

[–] ono@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

I decided to be the change I want to see, so I got my gaming group a Mumbe server for audio chat. I self-host, but commercial ones are dirt cheap. Sound quality is better than Discord. We use Matrix for text, pictures, etc.

[–] YuzuDrink@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Discord on Linux is one of the biggest reasons I stopped trying to switch to Linux. Not the only, and I know web apps are a thing. But I hate setting literally a web app when there’s a “native” app, but their native app was doubling all my back/forward button inputs, and high was a massive disruption.

It was far from the only reason, more like the final straw in a growing list of frustrating shit that ALMOST worked right.

[–] Sina@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Windows Discord is also a web app.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

That's weird, I've never had that issue

[–] Hexarei@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Just gotta say, I didn't expect to see emojis in a username, and I am both appalled and impressed