Egon Willigh☮gen 🟥Jun 11, 2024
we should have an international "switching software" day, https://switching.software/
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Show threadArmanukiJun 16, 2024

@egonw @matrix I'm currently evaluating, which commercial software I can replace.

- Krita looks good and may be sufficient for my image editing needs. Gimp is probably closer to my requirements, but Krita is the nicer software with the friendlier UI. (1/3)

Show threadArmanukiJun 16, 2024
- Darktable as a lightroom-replacement is very complicated and not user-friendly at all. Lots of "this slider is shown in the UI, but you should rather not touch it, otherwise something else breaks down the line". Looked at it for a week now and I slowly think that my edits are getting better.
- Kdenlive is just not there yet. It is slow, buggy and color effects do strange things (i.e. a simple white balance adjustment clips color channels). Staying with Resolve for now. (2/3)
Show threadArmanukiJun 16, 2024

- Found no replacement for Google Keep that is equally suitable as a shared shopping list. Joplin requires its own cloud account for sharing notes. Nextcloud Notes & Deck require far to many clicks to make this practical (functional checkboxes required).

And by the way, we recently replaced Matrix/Element with Nextcloud Talk, because at the moment Element does not work well (i.e. delays Messages). (3/3)

Show threadminecraftchest1
@armanuki
What do you mean by delays messages? I haven't had issues with it in the last few years I have used it.
Jun 17, 2024 at 12:12pmWeb