Extremely dated. It looks like the list of software someone might have recommended back before I started using Reddit a decade ago.
Extremely dated. It looks like the list of software someone might have recommended back before I started using Reddit a decade ago.
I love it. It's surprisingly powerful for a completely free software. Takes bit of time to learn, but well worth it. Unless you just want to stitch clips together, then it might be a bit overkill.
Davinci isn't free as in FOSS, just free as in beer. Just FYI.
Better than premiere, I dare say
A bit steeper of a learning curve than other video editors though, imo
I don't understand why people say Davinci is a steeper learning curve... I've used Premiere on and off over the years, and always felt that doing simple things required a lot of messing about and even googling. I used Davinci and within an hour it felt like a better workflow than Premiere ever did.
It seemed much easier to me... maybe the learning curve steepens a lot as projects become more complex - but for general video editing it's great.
Davinci is very much recognized in the professional sector , it's been the standard color grading software the past 7-8 years and I'm seeing more and more editors switching to it to do more than just conforming.
Changes are your favourite tv show or film was exported from davinci.
Also, I'd add Bitwarden to password managers
Edit: And AFAIK Eraser should not be used on modern SSDs
And Visio and OneNote aren't free. Draw.io and Xournalpp would be potential alternatives.
OneNote is absolutely free. I use it for a lot of things, at home and work.
Edit: I guess, I should say that it doesn't cost money. It certainly isn't "free" as in "freedom", but it's incredibly handy.
Bitwarden for passwords!
I just downloaded audacity the other day to tweak some sound effects, and frankly it wasn't what I remembered
How is tenacity as far as the learning curve?
Tenacity is a fork of an older version of Audacity. I'm not exactly sure which version it's based on, but using it was a seamless transition for me. This wiki page goes a bit into the history of the project and what prompted the fork.
Interesting, I'll give it a try next time I'm about to open audacity. It doesn't sound very different, but it sounds like the design goals of the new owners are better
What's up with MuseScore?
I don't have much experience with the software itself, but the associated musescore.com website is notably extremely monetized, putting downloads of all of its user-generated content (sheet music, MIDI files) behind a paywall. Supposedly, the software has similar concerns as newer versions of audacity related to the company that maintains the project (and Audacity) adding telemetry but I'm not familiar with the details.
adds telemetry, but still open source under GPL (v2 or oater for audacity, v3 for musescore since version 4).
Musescore is a good software regardless, it has become a bit more "centralized" with MuseHub, but still can be used independently and the whole "family" of software are open source, although they are more closely integrated. musescore.com doesn't need to be used, Musescore has functions to upload scores directly there, but that can be avoided and you can do anything locally.
I understand if someone doesn't like this kind of integration, but I honestly don't have much problems with it, the teams aims to make it easily usable for everyone, the telemetry is there mainly bug tracking (which is reasonable and can be turned off) and having it semi-tied to a monetized platform makes sense to ensure upkeep.
If they can make it work well, keep it FLOSS and with the resources able to provide support for users, I'd say it's a fair compromise, especially if they can make it a real competitor to proprietary alternatives.
I'm not affiliated in any way with either software btw, I just like them and know how to use them; there aren't many alternatives that sadly that could easily replaced them without a significant re-learning period.
Not to mention Keepass has had numerous breaches (and LastPass), whereas Bitwarden not so much.
AIMP for all your music needs.
There's even a mobile version.
Not exactly production ready (alpha software) yet but Olive looks like it could turn out well if the devs are as competent as their website appears
Never heard of OpenOffice, but googled it now and it looks really impressive!
As I've said above, it's not OpenOffice you want, it's LibreOffice, please don't download OpenOffice. https://blog.documentfoundation.org/...
LibreOffice is the true successor to OpenOffice. All the people involved in OpenOffice left OpenOffice to fork it and release LibreOffice, because back then Oracle owned OpenOffice and wanted to close access and monetize it. As they failed because almost everyone left, they kicked OpenOffice to the Apache Foundation and it has not evolved much since then.
Apache OpenOffice hasn't had a major release since 2014 whereas LibreOffice, its de facto successor, is actively developed and modern.
Unfortunately OpenOffice still has name recognition which leads casual users to still download it as a replacement to commercial office suites, despite being very out of date. It's kind of become a bit of an embarrassment to open source software and really should be discontinued, but a small handful of developers insist on keeping it on life support.
See this open letter https://blog.documentfoundation.org/...
I was sleeping on this one, so thank you for the heads up
Story of OpenOffice in a pinch and why LibreOffice is the true successor of OpenOffice:
20 or more years ago a small German company called StarLabs launched an office suite called StarOffice which had a free version. Then Sun bought StarLabs and released the office suite for free as OpenOffice. Then Oracle bought Sun and as the greedy bastards they are, tried to monetize OpenOffice. The managers and devs of OpenOffice all left and founded the Document Foundation, forked OpenOffice and launched LibreOffice. Since almost nobody was left to develop OpenOffice, Oracle kicked it to the Apache Foundation, where it is dying a slow agonizing death.
Yo where's Krita under digital image tools? This list is missing some basic stuff :P
This list is mostly not software. It's free as in free beer but free software mostly describes free as in freedom. That means open source and free to copy, redistribute and modify. Which a lot of these are not
It really bugs me after all these years that we haven't simply started calling Open Source software just OSS or Open Software to get rid of the ambiguity.
The whole, that's "free" software, not "FREE" software thing is older than sin and I think it might be Richard Stallman's fault we even have this discussion.
But Open Source Software isnt neccesarily free software. For example Chromium is Open Source but not Free Software. That's why the distinction is needed
I'm sympathetic to your idea of calling it OSS or Open Software. But Richard Stallman and people who agree with his arguments really stress the "freedom" of what they call free software. They lost that battle ages ago, but they aren't going to give it up since it's more than just pedantry, it's a value statement.
Open source does not make clear that the software is free as in freedom, just that the source code is available. If anything we would need to call it libre software to make it unambiguous.
If love to see Python under "Data and Statistics".
The whole list seems old though, are all of those programs still available? I suspect there are other great new programs that could go on a list like this.
Note taking software has changed a lot over the years since this image was made. Obsidian, Logseq, and Trillium Notes being some of the more preferred note taking apps around.
There are a few others but I can't remember them off the top of my head.
Most students have probably used Google drive by now, but it's still worth adding. Additionally, I personally find Overleaf to be great for LaTeX documents.
Edit: Also worth mentioning Notion for note-taking/studying/planning, and if slack is on the list for study groups, discord might as well be also. This might be because I'm a CS major, but nearly every class I've taken has had students make a discord server for studying/working on homework
I am in love with Notion. I'm using it as a to-do list and a wiki for fantasy world-building right now and it's incredible for both.
@Angry_Maple As someone who uses Keepass, I highly recommend KeepassXC over the regular release. There is an open security vulnerability that the original devs aren't really addressing: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/… the XC release team has mitigated this and has generally been better about improving the UX.
If you're on windows then ShareX is a free open source tool for screenshots and screen recording. I've used it for years and it's my favorite one.
Thanks for sharing this looks fantastic (still need to try it). Using Xbox game hub on PC to record the screen is so clumsy and terrible for no tech people. Plush the snipping tool is okay but it's nice to have one tool to do both. Thanks again for the share.
I would add Obsidian for note taking!
Unless my definition for media player is wrong, I wouldn't call OBS a media player, it better fits into screen recording than anything else, heck even video editing works better than media player.
What about setting up a virtual cam scene and selecting a video you want to watch though? OBS best media player
^/s :D^
Edit: seems like formatting doesn't work the way I want it to, unless that's just on my end
For meetings, https://meet.jit.si/ is like Zoom or MS Teams but open source and free. You don't even need to create an account.
Shout out to ninite.com
Also winstall.app
This list seems very strange.. And old. Microsoft Office products are not free and the icon for OneNote is for 2016 version. Also Draw.io not mentioned in diagramming (but visio is hah). Oh and Adobe Acrobat is not free
Really? The built in Defender seems to be all most people need. Everything that used to be good is now scamware. The only time it’s useful is if you need to lock down your grandma’s pc so she doesn’t give your inheritance to a scammer with a nice Facebook ad.
That is an antivirus/anti-malware application, but yes it works fine.
You definitely don't have to install third party antivirus
Depends what you do with it. If you're just browsing social media, reading news and watching youtube videos then you don't need one. Viruses generally need to be downloaded and installed by the user.
No, it's malware itself.
I think Postman is a superior alternative to SoapUI these days for API testing, haven't used SoapUI in a while though.
I wish autodesk products were free... 😭😭😭
They don't advertise it but you can get a personal Fusion 360 licence for free.
Not sure what the limitations are but it is more than enough for my occasional 3d printing needs
If your into modeling blender is a lot easier these last few version to get used to. I was a for former Maya and 3dmax user until blender 2.9 came out and changed everything.
Yeah, had to install Blender after my autodesk licences expired. I was actually thinking about buying them but they are prohibitively expensive :/
By any chance do you know good alternatives to Substance (designer / painter)?
Unfortunately no, since Adobe purchased that software I've also been looking but nothing has popped up yet that I know of.
I would not really recommend LaTeX or any of those other programs just for writing student papers. LaTeX is for academic papers and it's pretty cumbersome and technical to learn, it would be very very extra to use it for writing just like your random freshman comp paper. I'm not sure why that list doesn't have LibreOffice or OpenOffice or whatever.
You forgot Davinci Resolve as a free Video Editor
QOwnNote for notes, quite well integrated with NextCloud. Might not be everyone's liking though, but I started using it after KeepNote not working properly on never Linux distros (Python 2.x...) and I like the features.
I’d add Zoho Notes to note taking. Over all of those softwares I feel like Zoho Notes is King. The User interface is just so much neater and better organized.
Also, for Storage, Dropbox makes no sense at 2gbs. IDrive offers 10gbs for free account and so does IceDrive. Also I think Mega offers like 25gbs free
why isnt bitwarden listed here?
Anyone knows of any good mpd player that can read lyrics stored in a ".lrc" file? I tried ncmpcpp but it connects to the internet to get the lyrics and there's the problem of not having the album art
I'll try it out then!
thanks for using Leebra!
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This list feel a little dated. On the top of my head I'd add "Visual Studio Code" for programming, Cakewalk for music composition, and Davinci Resolve for video editing.
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