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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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[–] barrybeebenson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year 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.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year 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.

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[–] lolomgwtgbbq@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Ertebolle@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

iOS

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[–] redw0rm@kerala.party 2 points 1 year 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 ).

[–] RotatingParts@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Any program that communicates with USB connected hardware via a non-standard, Windows only USB driver as provided by the hardware vendor. In other words, you can't just plug a device into any OS and start programing it via a standard USB driver.

[–] sounddrill@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Winapps moment?

[–] _TK@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Photo editing software. My wife didn't want to pay for Lightroom anymore, so we switched to a software with a one time payment, Luminar. There are some FOSS alternatives, but none of them have been a hit with her. All of them are missing something or are intended to compete with a different line of product like Photoshop, Illustrator, or ProCreate.

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