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What are your favorite non-foss apps? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by AHYN018@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

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I know some of you have gone complies FOSS, but I believe if the developer wants to make money from their apps, there's noting wrong with it, as long as they are ethical. So what are your favorite non-foss apps?

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[–] murtaza64@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

I really love PowerPoint. I feel like the automatic snapping features and general polish allow me to make very pretty slides and diagrams with a high level of control, and it feels way better to use than e.g. web-based alternatives. Admittedly, I haven't tried a foss alternative in years.

[–] hellfire103@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I have an iPhone. While VLC is good, foobar2000 Mobile is really the only free music player that works the way I want.

iTunes no-longer runs under Wine, so the official Music app is not an option.

EDIT: Clarified that I meant the Apple Music app, not the streaming service.

[–] miracleorange@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you can get past how questionable the developers are, Cider is an option for using Apple Music on Linux.

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

Topaz photo software and Mendeley Desktop

[–] admin@monero.town 1 points 1 year ago

At least topaz fulfills one of the aspects of foss by being very easy to pirate /s

[–] chimeras@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Lightroom

[–] kelvinjps@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

elsa speak.

[–] warboyziri@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@AHYN018 Letterboxd and TheStoryGraph that I maintain as diaries of what i am watching and reading.

[–] flora_explora@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Are they ethical though? (Serious question as I'm uninformed)

Both are directly tracking what you watch/read so I would worry that they might sell this data to others.

[–] thingsiplay@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

@AHYN018 Steam

[–] jman6495@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Sleep as Android and Duolingo

[–] baggins@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Listonic for shopping lists etc. KDE Connect Proton - Mail, Calendar, VPN, Pass, Drive AdGuard Songs Wavelet Pulsar+ NHS app Radio Paradise

[–] Rhabuko@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Affinity Designer 2 and maybe DAZ Studio. I would pay got money if those could get ported to Linux. A Man can dream 🤷‍♂️

[–] plactagonic@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Czech maps from Seznam, I talked with marketing boss (don't know his exact position but it is high) and he told me that they don't make money from it.

If any one is interested mapy.cz it is must have app for travel in Czech.

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