Some FOSS programs, due to being mantained by hobbyists vs a massive megacorporation with millions in funding, don’t have as many features and aren’t as polished as their proprietary counterparts. However, there are some FOSS programs that simply have more functionality and QoL features compared to proprietary offerings.

What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their non-FOSS alternatives? Maybe we can discover useful new programs together :D

I’ll start, I think Joplin is a great note-taking app that works offline + can sync between desktop and mobile really well. Also, working with Markdown is really nice compared with rich text editors that only work with the specific program that supports it. Joplin even has a bunch of plugins to extend functionality!

Notion, Evernote, Google Keep, etc. either don’t have desktop apps, doesn’t work offline, does not support Markdown, or a combination of those three.

What are some other really nice FOSS programs?

  • @[email protected]
    8•9 days ago

    Have you not tried gaming since proton matured into what it is today? If you’re using wine for gaming then you are doing it wrong.

    Pretty much every Windows game that doesn’t have anti-cheat works on Linux now.

    • @[email protected]English
      0•9 days ago

      Proton doesn’t always work, and what’s worse is it’s not consistent.

      What works on one person’s machine, may not work on a different one. But in windows, the game works fine on both.

      I’m looking at you, Distant Worlds and Distant Worlds 2.

      I’ve never gotten DW to work, and DW2 worked for a while, but hasn’t worked for me in over a year.