• YouWalkOffCliffSoDoI
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    4 years ago

    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)