• Alperto@lemmy.ml
    4·
    1 year ago

    Blender by a huge mile. Yes, there’s tons of other software like Linux, of course, but Blender is such a powerful, well managed, economically viable and healthy (community) project that it should be shown as an example of how Open Source should be.

    My biggest hurdle with other projects is the fanboys, because many times they’re quite toxic, insulting everybody who doesn’t adore the project and don’t accept constructive criticism.

  • zabadoh@lemmy.ml
    3·
    1 year ago

    LibreOffice is equal to any office software out there, and has been much more stable than OpenOffice, and works without an internet connection unlike Google Docs.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
      2·
      1 year ago

      Everyone should use LibreOffice … unless you work in a very specific office or school environment that specifically requires it, go install Microsoft Office, and even then, get your school or business to pay for it

      Otherwise, for day to day document writing, letter writing or anything you have to do for yourself at home … LibreOffice is more than enough.

      About five or six years ago, I was buying a new laptop at Bestbuy and I found myself a great deal and specifically asked for a system that didn’t have an OS with it or any software … they got an old returned unit, wiped the drive and sold it to me for about $200 at the time. While I waited, I listened as a salesman sold a new laptop to a clueless mother buying a unit for her son in high school … they got her to buy a $600 laptop, all sots of extras and MS Office and topped her off at about $1000 for a shitty laptop that was no more powerful than what I was getting

  • Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    2·
    1 year ago

    Ill throw in some obscure ones I use daily.

    • StemRoller. It’s an AI-powered toolthat takes an mp3 and separates each instrument into its own file. Im a musician, and having access to stems like this is a game changer.

    • Carla is a tool for hosting VST plugins without the need for a full DAW. I primarily use Amp Simulators, and this has become a mandatory tool on any computer I use. It’s also maintained by the creator of KXStudio.

  • zkfcfbzr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Gonna go with Firefox as both my most-used piece of open-source software, and the software I see as most important to its ecosystem. If Firefox fails then we’ve just got Chromium-based browsers and, I guess, Safari.

  • gballantine@lemmy.bitgoblin.tech
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’d go with either Firefox or Thunderbird. Both are immensely useful pieces of software that I use on a daily basis, and have evolved (mostly) nicely over time.

    Not to give Mozilla too much credit, Nextcloud is also pretty slick!

  • gandalftheBlack@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    Proxmox, opnsense, fdroid, and many more on r/selfhosted (now on lemmy also) .

    sunshine, moonlight ( play my games anywhere in the world, games run on my pc at home)

    Firefox (the best browser against google monopoly), thunderbird (best mail client)

    LineageOS, microG, Mozilla Location services, Magisk, aurora store (let me use Android without any of google tracking)

    Bitwarden, Proton mail/vpn, Nextcloud (finally no gmail tracking)

    Jellyfin, kodi (lets me create my own Netflix)

    GNU/Linux, GNOME, KDE and host of other Linux projects. No more windows tracking. Also if you want to really know how the OS works, you should start tinkering with Linux. I expanded my knowledge base by just using Linux as daily driver.

    The list just goes on and on. I am so grateful for all the open source devs that put their time in developing these tools.

    For those wanting to go further, checkout https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

  • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    Not by importance. Obviously that would be the Linux kernel, GCC and GNU coreutils, and the Firefox web browser, among some other foundational things (code to run my desktop GUI, for example).

    So, I’ll say my favorite is PCSX2. Ever since they got rid of the ancient plugin architecture this emulator has been getting sooooooo much better, and it was already great! I would add other top tier emulators like Dolphin, DuckStation, SNES9X, SameBoy, and so on. I just love emulators :)

  • dan@upvote.au
    1·
    1 year ago

    SQLite. Probably the most widely used open-source library in the world. Pretty much every computer, phone, tablet, and a lot of embedded systems, all use it.