Definitely Blender. I’d consider myself a medium grade expert at using it for CAD, solid modelling, 3D printing, yet there are vast sections of it I have never touched, and appear to be so rich that you could build a career around them without overlapping with my skill set.
Blender used to be so difficult to use. It has come a long way and I genuinely like using now, not just forced to because of budget limits.
And like having full Python interface is insane for how powerful it can be even to begginers - but the crazy bastard made it easier with geometry nodes
The Linux ecosystem as a whole
You have got to have one of the best names on this server (unless it is actually an error)
No, it’s my actual username
Jellyfin, such a great little media server.
Yeah, the reddit community is great to… Need a way to bring them here. 😭
@CCatMan @div, easy, show them tis analyse of Reddit, made with bLacklight. (the TowerData which appears is known to use even keylogger to profile the user).
https://themarkup.org/blacklightThat’s an amazing tool you’ve found! No clue that existed until now.
@Choco1ateCh1p, this and some others must be in any bookmark
https://themarkup.org/blacklight
https://webbkoll.dataskydd.net/en
https://sucuri.net/malware-detection-scanning/
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/url
https://privacyscore.org
https://www.urlvoid.com
https://browserleaks.com
https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com
https://linkunshorten.comTo check Android apps
https://exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/
2nd this! It’s come so far in the past 2 years!
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There’s already a ton that they support. They just rolled out to my LG as well. Unfortunately I think they’re having issues publishing with Tizen on the official store but you can sideload it if you want. https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-tizen
[Edit] they have a pretty good list of supported clients here (press the ‘all’ filter) https://jellyfin.org/downloads/clients/all
Omnivore! It’s just a “read it later” app, but so nice to use. I enjoy newsletters again, because they all go there instead of in my emails, and they all have a uniform look to them now. Sorting by labels and syncing highlights to my Obsidian inbox page are great features. And they said bulk editing is coming soon.
Also bitwarden, lichess, and qbitorrent.
Oh cool basically a fleshed-out open-source Pocket alternative. Don’t mind if I do.
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Kdenlive, just wow. I knew absolutely nothing about video editing, and it was so user-friendly, that it only took me a day to create something with it. Such great software.
Wait, osu! is open-source??
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yup! I think the main dev makes so many changes that he’s one of the top github users. No idea how to check that though I only heard it from a friend a while back haha
Firefox is the first to come to mind. Also all the KDE software (when run in KDE).
I wish Firefox used QT or there was a KDE browser that was better maintained
KDE’s stuff is amazing.
Linux! The responsible for my knowledge in computing and a great deal of English…Linux is the power!
I switched to Linux Mint full-time a few months ago and it’s blown me away with how good it is.
After 13 years using Linux I still can’t believe it’s free!
I kinda have the opposite response. I’ve been a mostly open source guy for the last 20 years so when I see what kind of half baked proprietary tools people buy I’m always shocked how much money mediocre software costs.
Up until not too long ago, it seemed like if the leading proprietary tool was half baked, the open source tool was a quarter baked. Take office suites. OpenOffice was pretty consistently ten years behind MS Office. Or GIMP was constantly lagging behind Photoshop in usability, but now is a very good photo editor. The exception has always been development tools, where you get a nice confluence of motivation to volunteer and people knowing what they want.
- Yunohost
- KDE Plasma
- Kdenlive
- Krita
- Inkscape
- Blender
- OBS
- Xonotic
- Beyond All Reason
- Manjaro (Despite the hate, no other distro has worked as well for me)
- Firefly III
- Grocy
- Nextcloud
- DisplayCal / Argyll CMS
- Scribus
- Natron
- MuseScore
- Jellyfin
- Navidrome
- QOwnNotes
…and so many more
OBS is the one that gets me. A lot of streamers I follow talk about how they use OBS because it’s such a reliable standard and works the way they expect. Pretty cool that an open source app is the standard for something as mainstream as livestreaming.
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I actually use EOS on my main machine. Still had a better experience on Manjaro.
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I’ve used many distros over the years. Manjaro has sane defaults, and I like the driver utility and the kernel tool a lot. Overall, Manjaro just works. I’m familiar with all the drama surrounding the distro, but I’m unbothered. I like using it.
I have machines running Debian and EOS too, but when I want something hassle free, like for the retro gaming / emulation machine in my living room, I choose Manjaro.
VSCode. I know its owned by Microsoft but its such a good editor. Having a strong tool is so important since nobody wants to be concerned about the app, they just want to code and do their work!
Check out VSCodium. It’s VSCode compiled without all the Microsoft bits.
Love me some VSCodium. I honestly can’t even tell a difference between the two.
Honestly, Lively Wallpaper. You can set anything as your wallpaper and it’ll work wonderfully: a video streaming directly from YouTube, a Unity game, a shader, a browser tab, a gif… You name it!
And the API supports sound input so anyone can make their sound visualizers now. I always wanted to do that as a kid after being an og WMP fanboy and finally got that knocked off my bucket list
This sounds cool but the amount of time that I actually see my desktop is probably less than 1% of the time I’m on my computer.
For me it is KDE Plasma desktop. By far the most powerful, customizable, flexible and innovative of the computer desktops today. And despite all these features and power it is still one of the more lightweight ones.
Also there are other great KDE apps and GNU/Linux operating system in general. Just love how they respect my digital rights and freedoms and my privacy and I do not need to use proprietary alternatives which are just getting more bloated and include more and more spyware. Not to mention their constant dumbing down of the interface and closing it up.
As a creative: Blender. It was always a good program but thank god they finally started hiring people, that actually know how to design a usable UI. I remember the times when the devs refused to change the simple default selection to the worldwide standard: left mouse button.
Good lord I didn’t know about the selection thing… I might be sick.
Yeah and that’s only the tip of the iceberg.
Did you know that Blender use to unironically use Shift+Ctrl+Alt+C for a surprisingly common operation?
I don’t actually remember what for, 2.79 was years ago, but I think it placed the object origin at the center of the geometry
Rough!
hot take but it seems a lot of foss developers didn’t care much about putting effort into UIs, that has slowly changed over time
Not really a hot take. I fully agree. In my experience… Many foss devs couldn’t make causal user friendly UI if their life depended on it 😉
GIMP, Blender, Krita, Inkskape…
I always felt like gimp is hot garbage and Inkscape is clunky and in desperate need of an overhaul. Totally second blender and krita though
Fedora OS. I mean, its a fully viable, up to date, no tracking operating system. After trying it im seriously thinking people buy windows only because they’re used to it. Now it’s my daily driver “even” for gaming (Praise our Lord Gaben and Proton).
As someone in IT I have mixed feeling about this. Linux machines make great servers, ok workstations, and God awful corporate endpoints. Say what you will about Microsoft and windows, when you need to manage policies impacting large number of endpoints, active directory (when configured correctly) is a beast of a solution.
Now if we are talking about someone at home browsing the web? Use whatever gui/os you like. I do agree, more people should try Linux just to be exposed to something different.
