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List Open Source Alternatives to Proprietary Software
(www.opensourcealternative.to)
try this alternateto.
Pretty rough around the edges, just did a quick scroll down and noticed several odd choices. Looks like this is mostly built via scraping or by someone who doesn't really know what some of these projects are.
- Home Assistant is just called 'core' because that's the name of the main repo on github.
- Mastadon is listed primarily as a facebook alternative.
Agreed, but for me it was still quite helpful to find some alternatives. Do you know of a better portal?
GIMP
Open Source Alternative to Photoshop
oh god no
In a professional setting, GIMP is shit compared to Photoshop. For 95% of normal users, it's more powerful and full featured than you'll ever need.
I'm one of those 95%, and I can tell you that the problem isn't its lack of features as much as its overly complicated UI. Last time I gave it a try, basic tasks that take me a few clicks to do in Photoshop becomes weirdly difficult in GIMP.
You want to draw a circle? Use the ellipse select tool and 7 more steps I don't remember. You want to adjust your stroked text a little bit? You need to do the path thing from the start again.
People also love to defend it saying that I'm just "too used to Photoshop" but no, when I started using Photoshop, it wasn't anywhere as complicated as GIMP. It's a good thing we have Krita and Photopea (although the latter is not FOSS, only free as in free beer).
If you like using GIMP, then good for you. For me though, it just isn't a viable alternative if I want to get things done, even if all the features are there. :)
I've been using GIMP for around twenty years and I agree that it's still hard to use, but I will say, they've improved a ton in the last few years. It's important to know that it's not for drawing, it's for image manipulation. I have no idea why they've never just added a suite of drawing tools though.
Pretty neat. I just don't see how OBS is an alternative to Adobe Premiere
Good thing it wasn't just me who saw that mistake.
Not specifically an open source list, but most of the alternatives listed here are open source: https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy
Great list, thanks!
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2023
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