Best in class open source programs that I use daily:
Firefox/chromium
Ublock origin
Linux
Curl (is there even a proprietary alternative)
Ssh / mosh / bastion
gcc/clang (over Microsoft’s) / most other language toolinh and compilers (often with no proprietary competitors)
Android, marginally
Package managers (e.g. apt)
I3 (or your tiling window manager of choice, non tiling window managers typically aren’t better than proprietary ones)
I think that’s a reasonable complete list of the things I use regularly. There are lots of other open source programs of course, but there is typically an equal (or better) proprietary alternative (that might only run on a different os)
Best in class open source programs that I use daily:
Firefox/chromium
Ublock origin
Linux
Curl (is there even a proprietary alternative)
Ssh / mosh / bastion
gcc/clang (over Microsoft’s) / most other language toolinh and compilers (often with no proprietary competitors)
Android, marginally
Package managers (e.g. apt)
I3 (or your tiling window manager of choice, non tiling window managers typically aren’t better than proprietary ones)
I think that’s a reasonable complete list of the things I use regularly. There are lots of other open source programs of course, but there is typically an equal (or better) proprietary alternative (that might only run on a different os)