SigmatankWhats your favorite free open source software that everyone should try?
canLemmy
Every other classic board game should have a game client as good as lichess.
But, speaking of games, Simon Tatham’s puzzle collection.
I recently learned that all of Lichess is FOSS and suddenly it all made sense.
I have so much respect for it
Synfig, very capable animation software.
Android
Android is hardly open source these days.
How come? Isn’t that lile saying Linux is not open source these days because RedHat keeps making their code more restrictive?
No, that’s like saying RedHat isn’t open source.
So that’s like saying Google, Samsung is not open source. Not Linux.
uhhhh… I think? Android is built from linux, so linux can still be open source even when Android mostly isn’t.
Android is also open source. Here’s the source: github.com/aosp-mirror
Ghoelian has already responded to you with what I essentially meant.
It would be like saying that if 99% of Linux users used RedHat.
AOSP is open source sure, but realistically basically everyone is using a closed source version that the OEM has messed with.
Same with Linux. I don’t know of anyone who runs Linux from Scratch. Every Linux distro adds non-open code, be it audio drivers or codecs and the like.
It would be like saying that if 99% of Linux users used RedHat.
AOSP is open source sure, but realistically basically everyone is using a closed source version that the OEM has messed with.
shrugalThere is no such thing as “hardly open source”. Either the source is open or it isn’t, and the source of Android definitely is. I think what you mean is “community driven”, which is not the same thing. But open source always enables community driven forks and derivatives, which there are plenty for Android.
GranixoKrita.
It’s literally FOSS Adobe Illustrator, why do people don’t use it??
And also FOSS Photoshop. Without the annoying subscription model and AI scraping. And way more comfortable to use than GIMP.
I would say GIMP (+ extensions) is still the FOSS version of Photoshop.
Of course, i would love to have a fully fledged program without such a steep learning curve.
But i think Krita is fine as it is.
So i wished there was another just as good program that filled that void.
www.photopea.com could be an option, depending on your needs.
kamihekuPhotopea is excellent, but FOSS it is not.
JohnnyCanuckAny extensions you would suggest for GIMP?
Unfortunately my knowledge only goes for the base program. But i’ve heard many saying that with the right time and extensions GIMP does replace Photoshop.
photogimp
λλλL4TL. Looks pretty cool. I’ll try that out. Thanks!
TIL “L4TL”
exactly the layout package I needed, thank you for suggesting that
N1cknamedI’m sorry, but Krita does not even come close to the functionality of Photoshop.
I thought Inkscape was FOSS Illustrator
Probably should add darktable in here as FOSS Photoshop Lightroom Classic.
I’m sitting here asking myself how I have not tried darktable before. Definitely checking it out, and already verified the support for my camera.
I have to admit that I only found that one myself because I was curious what “premium apps” were included in Zorin OS Pro, and eventually found this list they provide of alternatives:
help.zorin.com/…/alternatives-to-windows-apps/
Thankfully almost everything on that list is cross-platform. RawTherapee is another on the list you may want to check out.
Darktable is definitely my favorite RAW photo editor. There are a lot of great tutorials online including YouTube
Captain AggravatedYeah doesn’t Krita do raster art and Inkscape does vector art?
Yes. Illustrator is vector graphics so Inkscape is a more direct replacement, and Krita is raster so it’s closer to Gimp and Photoshop. One or both of those probably also have some vector, but not as much as with Inkscape/Illustrator. I think.
Because I prefer to just pirate the entire Adobe suite
pH3raI remember the first time I tried Krita and clearly thinking “Wait, is this a community project?!?”
Space SlothThis is what I use if I can’t use Illustrator - it’s also got some terrific conversion tools. Currently the only app i know that can open and convert old Fireworks files.
callyralYou mean a FOSS Clip Studio Paint or maybe Paint Tool SAI? IIRC Adobe Illustrator is a vector-based program
ace_garpHere is Krita usage in a timelapse of editing a webcomic by David Revoy. (My current selection for GOAT comic artist)
Coloring a webcomic page
Huh. Just noticed, there’s so much details the novice takes for granted.
HausInkscape and GIMP as alternatives to Illustrator and Photoshop.
Gimp really works for my use case. Love it.
Inkscape and LaTeX are what I used throughout my undergrad for all documents. The quality always impresses people.
Micromath plus is a graphic calculator app for android.
Libre office, a great office option. I’ve been using it for 15 years.
VLC, Plays media. It’s a tank. Also Highways use VLC to mark many winter potholes.
Linux, It’s not that hard to use anymore.
WINE, it’s great for running Windows Stuff on Linux
Also, and my personal favorite, your mom is free and open source.Mic Drop going to bed. With your mom. Wasn’t expecting that twice were you. Well, neither was your mom. Got 'em.
OtterAlso Highways use VLC to mark many winter potholes
I was searching for some kind of VLC based image / video processing algorithm to detect potholes
Was this a joke about how the logo is a traffic cone
Yes. Very much so.
VLC: Very Large Cone
mpv has superior playback quality to VLC in my opinion.
Aren’t they both based on ffmpeg? Surely any quality difference is just a configuration issue?
Yes. If I remember correctly VLC was originally configured (maybe still is) to network streams and prioritize no lag. That’s why you get weird artifacts in VLC sometimes that’s not present in mpv.
I use celluloid, because I absolutely hate the mpv interface. Seriously, how unexplorable and unintuitive can you make it?
It’s driven by keyboard shortcuts
Yes, that is deeply connected with being unexplorable.
Celluloid is also keyboard driven. But in celluloid there are clearly marked buttons for the most used functions and I can open the menu to check the keyboard shortcuts. Not so in mpv.
For what it’s worth, I think celluloid is a thin wrapper around mpv with the only purpose to provide a better UI. And I’m very thankful for and happy with that.
I really like the idea of Celluloid. However, last time I tried, it somehow felt less performant than pure mpv. Colors a bit washed out and not perfectly smooth playback. Should try it again soon.
Yeah, it does have some hickups when playing a movie from my HDD. I think it doesn’t prefetch enough data, because I didn’t have any issues after copying the movie to a tmpfs.
I used to feel the same way, but the interface is actually super customizable if you are ok with editing config files!
Here is the manual.
There is also a huge variety of third party scripts, like this one shows thumbnail previews when hovering over the seek bar.
daveI’ve also find mpv about a thousand times faster to start up.
And to seek to position!
MPC-HC instead of VLC github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc
For me VLC had issues to stream very high bitrate content on my pc. MPC-HC used less resources while being smooth too.
