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What non-FOSS software are you using that you wish you could replace? (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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[–] barrybeebenson 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

adobe lightroom and photoshop. no, darktable and gimp are not as good. darktable barely functions with a trackpad and gimp is like photoshop from 2010.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

~~Apart from the new Beta features, I've found 90% of my Photoshop workflow is replicated in Photopea~~

edit: I am an idiot - Photopea is not open source. Although it will help remove a reliance on Windows.

[–] barrybeebenson 2 points 2 years ago

photopea is not open source ☹️

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Affiinity Photo, Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher for me. I can't afford the Adobe stuff, and the Affinity software is pretty decent, but still not OSS.

[–] barrybeebenson 2 points 2 years ago

if affinity had a lightroom competitor i would use that instead. i have affinity photo and its basically on par with photoshop except for edge cases. but yeah as you mentioned not FOSS either.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

iOS

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Firmware in all the consumer devices I want to hack, but don’t want to reverse engineer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

On android, i wish Xplore file manager had an alternative. Didn't find anything to replace it. Dualpane file managers are the best. (btw, its one of the app where donating to dev really feels like he deserves it ).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

OSX. I miss Ubuntu/Gnome's configurable key bindings so much.

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