What free software is still legit smokin?

[Natasha Tori Maru]

...that you cannot believe is still free?

For me its VLC, Blender. ffMPEG, OBS and Linux (to name what I use currently)

 

[UnbornTao]

Calibre comes to mind. Inkscape, Krita. Obsidian is free and closed-source (as a sidenote). OpenMW.

The Affinity suite is free now, I reckon. Not sure how long that's going to last. They might release a Linux version at some point but there's no word on that yet.

The biggest one in this sense is probably Wine.

Edited 4 hours ago by UnbornTao

[Leo Gura]

Notepad++

Audacity

FireFox

[Stick]

Godot game engine.
Its the next blender. trust

[UnbornTao]

Audacity's getting an overhaul that seems promising.

I'd add GIMP and LibreOffice but I don't think they're that pretty or mature functionality-wise - compared to the equivalent proprietary, paid alternatives.

Edited 32 minutes ago by UnbornTao

[Natasha Tori Maru]

@UnbornTao GIMP yep, I forgot to add this.

Also Everything.

 

[Leo Gura]

7zip is a must.

Microsoft Visual Studio is good for coding.

Edited 3 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Natasha Tori Maru]

Checking out some of these I haven't heard of - cheers!! Keep em coming 

[UnbornTao]

21 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

7zip is a must.

Microsoft Visual Studio is good for coding.

Switched to Zed. Rust-based.

WinRar   (though I prefer and use 7zip).

Edited 2 hours ago by UnbornTao

[Leo Gura]

Electrum Wallet is good for moving Bitcoin.

[UnbornTao]

23 minutes ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

@UnbornTao GIMP yep, I forgot to add this.

Also Everything.

Everything?

Thunderbird is a good email client, too.

Da Vinci Resolve has a free version. On Linux you have to remove some libraries from its directory if it won't open. It's likely better than Kdenlive.

Edited 2 hours ago by UnbornTao

[Natasha Tori Maru]

3 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

Everything?

Snappy file search engine for windows. Shits on the inbuilt windows search 🤢🤮

Edited 2 hours ago by Natasha Tori Maru

[UnbornTao]

1 minute ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

Snappy file search engine for windows. Shits on the inbuilt windows search 🤢🤮

Oh, right. I thought it was some sort of riddle or something.

"Everything is free, comrade."  

[Leo Gura]

8 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

Thunderbird

Yes!

[Leo Gura]

gVim is essential for opening massive text files, like SQL database files that will break any other text editor.

[Leo Gura]

ShareX screenshot software.

[UnbornTao]

KDE Plasma

Powertoys (if you use Windows)

Bitwarden

Heroic and Lutris

Tor Browser

Proton VPN

Local Send

Ollama

I'm looking into KeePassXC and Syncthing.

People like Nextcloud.

[Natasha Tori Maru]

20 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

gVim is essential for opening massive text files, like SQL database files that will break any other text editor.

I wonder if this will work for all the genome text files I have. I've got a catalogue of most of my family members (and my own) stored.

[Leo Gura]

3 minutes ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

I wonder if this will work for all the genome text files I have. I've got a catalogue of most of my family members (and my own) stored.

I don't see why it wouldn't work. But what sense can a human make of such a text file? It's like reading binary.

There are websites that can read genome files and most importantly parse them into useful information.

Edited 2 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Natasha Tori Maru]

26 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

I don't see why it wouldn't work. But what sense can a human make of such a text file? It's like reading binary.

There are websites that can read genome files and most importantly parse them into useful information.

I want to upload them to parse into some info yep, but some of my family are paranoid about their privacy.

It was more just checking to see if the file wasnt totally corrupt as 2 of them crash on opening

Edited 1 hour ago by Natasha Tori Maru