My list:

  • A privacy respecting Dating platform.
  • A good 2D CAD program capable of dealing with DWG files.

Please don’t post a huge list of games. That would belong in another post. since there are many good ones already.

  • @JoaoDDuarte
    14•4 years ago
    • Photoshop is certainly one - as much as I like Gimp, it is simply not as good as Photoshop, and that’s a reality. My friend does Architecture and her work would be an absolute chore on Gimp.
    • Maybe even Adobe InDesign, Scribus just is not as good
    • An actual good open source alternative to Premiere (I believe DaVinci Resolve is proprietary but correct me if I am wrong, but there is a free version that’s great)
    • More towards the low level/firmware side, there still aren’t enough bootloaders and wireless cards drivers However, this is growing really quickly and are free in terms of free but not in terms of freedom!
    • Obviously, actual competitors to Android/iOS which aren’t simply forks - I have hope for Ubuntu Touch. Again Android is technically free as far as I can tell, but I am talking about free in terms of freedom.
    • Email clients and Calendar apps for Linux - Mailspring does not work with Protonmail and everything else looks as if it’s from the 1990s or doesn’t work well. I’m sticking with Thunderbird for now
    • A good front-end wrapper or Facebook Messenger or - for example, I don’t use the Twitter or Reddit app, I use Twidere and Infinity, respectively , so something along those lines which isn’t simply the web page version in a container

    I’ll probably add more as I think of them. Maybe I a non-electron code editor that can compete with VSCode/VSCodium that doesn’t require 10 days to configure and a lifetime to get used to (…vim/nvim)

    Also, have you tried Draftsight for a dwg CAD?

    • @theafterman
      5•4 years ago

      I’m so sick of electron based software. The thing is everywhere.

      Isn’t Frost a good Facebook wrapper? It’s not exactly a Messenger-only wrapper, but it does cover the messaging functionality.

      • @AgreeableLandscape
        4•4 years ago

        Seriously, fk Electron apps. They look out of place in every system because it’s basically impossible for it to look native, which is a small complaint compared to the sheer amount of resource usage. I don’t need Chromium running just to edit some text.

        Also, pretty sure Chromium still phones home to Google. The de-googled Chromium browser project works hard AF to remove all the spyware and still are never completely sure they’ve removed everything.

        It’s not even that easy to code in (I know because I do single page web app development) compared to a mid-level compiled language like Java/Kotlin while having the final app be more resource intensive. Node.js is one of my least favorite frameworks.

        • @theafterman
          2•4 years ago

          Also, pretty sure Chromium still phones home to Google. The de-googled Chromium browser project works hard AF to remove all the spyware and still are never completely sure they’ve removed everything.

          I remind myself about this every single time I consider using an electron-based app, whether because the offer is actually attractive, or just because there’s nothing else out there.

    • Future Me
      3•4 years ago

      Email clients and Calendar apps for Linux

      Your points apply to Windows as well.

        • Future Me
          1•4 years ago

          I agree with the sentiment of the original comment:

          everything else looks as if it’s from the 1990s or doesn’t work well

          Thunderbird is certainly the best of the bunch, but I’d argue we need more/better FOSS email clients.

      • Ephera
        1•4 years ago

        Yeah, I was gonna say. That seems like a software category that people will always complain about.

      • @JoaoDDuarte
        2•4 years ago

        I find its interface really clunky and like a far cry from the Windows Vista era

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          1•7 months ago

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    • Ephera
      2•4 years ago

      Maybe a non-electron code editor that can compete with VSCode/VSCodium that doesn’t require 10 days to configure and a lifetime to get used to (…vim/nvim)

      I don’t know what you’re specifically looking for in VS Code, but Kate is a rather powerful editor.

      In more recent versions (I think since 19.12), there’s the “LSP Client” plugin, which if you activate it and have the respective LSP server installed, will give you inline linter warnings, show documentation etc. That particular feature could definitely still need some polish, but quite powerful nonetheless.

      Of course, this is the KDE editor, so if you’re not on KDE, this may potentially pull in more dependencies than you’d like.

    • adamsky
      2•4 years ago

      An actual good open source alternative to Premiere

      olive might get there in a few years

    • @Kamui
      1•4 years ago

      Have you tried Photopea? Though I suppose that is more browser based than a dedicated Photoshop replacement app on Linux.

      • @adrianmalacoda
        1•4 years ago

        Unfortunately as far as I can tell it’s non-free, so off-topic for this thread (“What software is missing in the free software world?”)

    • @Wheeljack
      1•4 years ago

      VSCodium

      Is there anything actively wrong with VSCodium aside from its Microsoft origins?