• fernandu00@lemmy.ml
    44·
    1 year ago

    Linux! The responsible for my knowledge in computing and a great deal of English…Linux is the power!

  • Ross of Ottawa@lemmy.one
    40·
    1 year ago

    Definitely Blender. I’d consider myself a medium grade expert at using it for CAD, solid modelling, 3D printing, yet there are vast sections of it I have never touched, and appear to be so rich that you could build a career around them without overlapping with my skill set.

    • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml
      6·
      1 year ago

      Blender used to be so difficult to use. It has come a long way and I genuinely like using now, not just forced to because of budget limits.

    • Sethayy@lemmy.ml
      4·
      1 year ago

      And like having full Python interface is insane for how powerful it can be even to begginers - but the crazy bastard made it easier with geometry nodes

  • Tyler Wolf@lemmy.ml
    341·
    1 year ago

    Firefox is the first to come to mind. Also all the KDE software (when run in KDE).

  • art@lemmy.ml
    29·
    1 year ago

    I kinda have the opposite response. I’ve been a mostly open source guy for the last 20 years so when I see what kind of half baked proprietary tools people buy I’m always shocked how much money mediocre software costs.

    • pingveno@lemmy.mlEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Up until not too long ago, it seemed like if the leading proprietary tool was half baked, the open source tool was a quarter baked. Take office suites. OpenOffice was pretty consistently ten years behind MS Office. Or GIMP was constantly lagging behind Photoshop in usability, but now is a very good photo editor. The exception has always been development tools, where you get a nice confluence of motivation to volunteer and people knowing what they want.

  • NathanUp@lemmy.ml
    28·
    1 year ago
    • Yunohost
    • KDE Plasma
    • Kdenlive
    • Krita
    • Inkscape
    • Blender
    • OBS
    • Xonotic
    • Beyond All Reason
    • Manjaro (Despite the hate, no other distro has worked as well for me)
    • Firefly III
    • Grocy
    • Nextcloud
    • DisplayCal / Argyll CMS
    • Scribus
    • Natron
    • MuseScore
    • Jellyfin
    • Navidrome
    • QOwnNotes

    …and so many more

    • mildpepper 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@lemmy.ml
      14·
      1 year ago

      OBS is the one that gets me. A lot of streamers I follow talk about how they use OBS because it’s such a reliable standard and works the way they expect. Pretty cool that an open source app is the standard for something as mainstream as livestreaming.

          • NathanUp@lemmy.ml
            5·
            1 year ago

            I’ve used many distros over the years. Manjaro has sane defaults, and I like the driver utility and the kernel tool a lot. Overall, Manjaro just works. I’m familiar with all the drama surrounding the distro, but I’m unbothered. I like using it.

            I have machines running Debian and EOS too, but when I want something hassle free, like for the retro gaming / emulation machine in my living room, I choose Manjaro.

            • explodicle@lemmy.ml
              2·
              1 year ago

              I love the floating release model. Other OSes vastly over estimate how much time I want to spend on huge updates that break stuff.

              • NathanUp@lemmy.ml
                2·
                1 year ago

                Agreed; if you tend to tweak your system at all, 1-2 years of updates all at once will cause chaos with 1-2 years of small changes you totally meant to record in your notes. On the very rare occasion something breaks on my EOS system, updates are frequent enough that it’s usually just the one issue at a time, and I’m still able to remember what silly thing I did to cause the issue - such as compiling NeoChat from git main while using a lib from the AUR to get session verification working early.

        • uzay@beehaw.org
          10·
          1 year ago

          Funny. I always think Windows and MacOS aren’t quite “there” yet, but I don’t think they ever will be.

        • Jay Stevens@sunny.garden
          8·
          1 year ago

          Honestly - I used to think the same way. I’ve tried Linux multiple times and it never “stuck”.

          When I got my Steam Deck, though, I realized that the desktop mode was actually quite good. I had tried KDE before and it was always meh at best - slow and usually janky. When I heard that the Deck used KDE Plasma I was worried.

          But I had such a great time with my Deck that I realized, “Hey, Linux actually seems usable now.” I tried Linux Mint on a Live USB and noticed it got like 90% of the way there, but it had issues with multiple monitors.

          Then I tried KDE Neon. And it was great! Multiple monitors worked fine, I have all the tools I need for work, and honestly it’s such a step up from Windows glitching out or nagging me with a notification to get Xbox Game Pass or whatever or putting ads in the Start menu.

          I’ve had KDE Neon as my daily driver for about a month now, without a single problem. I recommend giving it another look if you’re like me and haven’t tried Linux in a while.

  • Rhabuko@feddit.de
    23·
    1 year ago

    As a creative: Blender. It was always a good program but thank god they finally started hiring people, that actually know how to design a usable UI. I remember the times when the devs refused to change the simple default selection to the worldwide standard: left mouse button.

    • UnelectedReimu@lemmy.ml
      6·
      1 year ago

      hot take but it seems a lot of foss developers didn’t care much about putting effort into UIs, that has slowly changed over time

      • Rhabuko@feddit.de
        7·
        1 year ago

        Not really a hot take. I fully agree. In my experience… Many foss devs couldn’t make causal user friendly UI if their life depended on it 😉

      • XPost3000@lemmy.ml
        6·
        1 year ago

        Yeah and that’s only the tip of the iceberg.

        Did you know that Blender use to unironically use Shift+Ctrl+Alt+C for a surprisingly common operation?

        I don’t actually remember what for, 2.79 was years ago, but I think it placed the object origin at the center of the geometry

  • jaamulberry@lemmy.ml
    23·
    1 year ago

    Home Assistant. It’s amazing the amount of things you can do with it. I love being able to slowly make my smart home and I barely need to check if the device I buys works!

    • Midnitte@lemmy.ml
      7·
      1 year ago

      Definitely. It’s amazing how several people doing it in their spare time (nuba casa aside) can do a better join than multi-billion companies that are removing features as basic as lists…

  • zekiz@lemmy.ml
    20·
    1 year ago
    • Blender
    • the whole *arr stack
    • osu!lazer
    • proton
    • MultiMC (back then when it used to be “new” and everyone was using TechnikLauncher and the FTB launcher. So 2016/17)
    • Element

    Edit:

    • Stable Diffusion
    • LLaMA (kinda open source)
    • Firefox
    • Chromium/Node/Electron
    • VSCode
    • FFMPEG
    • veroxii@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Both of those are amazing, but you gotta admit their UIs are vintage open source, and not in a good way. But once you figure out how it works, it’s great.

  • Kata1yst@lemmy.ml
    18·
    1 year ago
    • Freecad
    • Linux
    • GitLab
    • Wireguard
    • Firefox
    • Prusaslicer
    • Klipper
    • Wikipedia
    • Jellyfin
    • Nextcloud
    • Navidrome
    • Home Assistant
    • Syncthing
    • negativenull@lemmy.ml
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’ve been a Nextcloud user for many years (owncloud before that). It’s an amazing application.