L JamesJul 29, 2018

Some other recommendations:

https://krita.org/en/ digital painting
https://www.gimp.org/ image editing
https://www.scribus.net/ documents
https://www.blender.org/ 3D
https://calibre-ebook.com/ ebook management
https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html media player
https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html + https://www.geany.org/ + https://filezilla-project.org/ - website makin'
https://www.7-zip.org/ zip extraction
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/ email

if anyone knows of more great FOSS software, let me know! I'm always on the lookout!

Digital Painting. Creative Freedom.

Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.

Krita
Show threadDion MoultJul 29, 2018

@ljames I wouldn't recommend any of those tools for website making :)

You seem to be missing out on the command line ecosystem. Might be worth investigation.

Show threadL JamesAug 17, 2018
@thinkMoult this post is based on personal experience and those tools work perfectly for me in creating websites :) thank you for your input, though! can you please recommend some links or places get started with your suggestion?
Show threadDion MoultAug 17, 2018

@ljames you recommend 3 things: xampp, geany, and filezilla.

I would recommend natively installing the server and friends separately (Apache, php, mysql, or whatever) than xampp. This teaches you how to set up a production environment properly.

Geany is a very limited text editor. But nothing inherently bad. Personally I prefer vim.

Filezilla suggests ftp (insecure protocol) and lack of version control, and encourages bad deploy practices. I'd recommend SSH, and a CI tool like Jenkins.

Show threadL JamesAug 17, 2018
@thinkMoult thank you for the info, sounds like an interesting approach depending on one's needs 😄 I'll look into all that more when I have a good amount of time to learn new stuff, but for now I still appreciate the simplicity and ease of use of the tools I use. interesting to see another perspective!
Show threadDion Moult
@ljames disclaimer: I have worked as and managed teams of developers building webapps for many years.
Aug 17, 2018 at 11:02pmTusky
Show threadL JamesAug 18, 2018
@thinkMoult pretty cool, man! sounds like we're working at different scales 😄