Some FOSS programs, due to being mantained by hobbyists vs a massive megacorporation with millions in funding, don’t have as many features and aren’t as polished as their proprietary counterparts. However, there are some FOSS programs that simply have more functionality and QoL features compared to proprietary offerings.

What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their non-FOSS alternatives? Maybe we can discover useful new programs together :D

I’ll start, I think Joplin is a great note-taking app that works offline + can sync between desktop and mobile really well. Also, working with Markdown is really nice compared with rich text editors that only work with the specific program that supports it. Joplin even has a bunch of plugins to extend functionality!

Notion, Evernote, Google Keep, etc. either don’t have desktop apps, doesn’t work offline, does not support Markdown, or a combination of those three.

What are some other really nice FOSS programs?

edit: woah that’s a whole load of cool FOSS software I have to try out! So far my experiences have been great (ShareX in particular is AWESOME as a screenshot tool, it’s what snip and sketch wishes it could be and mostly replaces OBS for my use case and a whole lot more)

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    17·
    1 day ago

    Have you not tried gaming since proton matured into what it is today? If you’re using wine for gaming then you are doing it wrong.

    Pretty much every Windows game that doesn’t have anti-cheat works on Linux now.

      • Crozekiel@lemmy.zip
        7·
        1 day ago

        I think you’ll be waiting forever for that one. Not even sure why you would want that; I seriously doubt it would even work as a shortcut to reactos becoming a viable and mature OS.

        • VirusMaster3073@lemmy.world
          11·
          23 hours ago

          I prefer an operating system that can run the back catalog of Windows NT software out of the box without having to adjust settings or type terminal commands to do so. I also want Linux and Windows programs running in a shared environment and to interact with each other better

    • HiTekRedNek@lemm.eeEnglish
      45·
      1 day ago

      Proton doesn’t always work, and what’s worse is it’s not consistent.

      What works on one person’s machine, may not work on a different one. But in windows, the game works fine on both.

      I’m looking at you, Distant Worlds and Distant Worlds 2.

      I’ve never gotten DW to work, and DW2 worked for a while, but hasn’t worked for me in over a year.