Note that these are not all FOSS.
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Photo Editing:
- GIMP
- Krita
- Paint.NET
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Video Editing:
- DaVinci Resolve
- CapCut
- Shotcut
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Audio Editing:
- Audacity
- Cakewalk
- GarageBand
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3D Graphics:
- Blender
- Spline
- Rumba
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Office Software:
- LibreOffice
- Microsoft 365 Free Apps
- WPS Office
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Antivirus Software:
- Windows Security
- Avast Free Antivirus
- Malwarebytes
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Productivity Tools:
- Bitwarden
- VSCodium
- PDF-XChange Editor
- 7-Zip
- OBS Studio
- LanguageTool
I’d like to add KdenLive to the Video Editing point.
I successfully edited a video with it having never done so before, which I think speaks to how well it’s designed. There’s definitely a tiny learning curve, but it’s a kiddy coaster.
KDEnlive is way easier then divinci
Avast is virus itself
you forgot linux as an alternative to windows and mac;)
I know it’s not a category in this post, but I just want to mention Audacious as a the best open source music player and also to confuse people with Audacity and Tenacity.
OnlyOffice for office software.
What would one use for something like editing photos into gifs. I would edit a lot of still images in photoshop using the puppet warp and the animation but haven’t really found anything to do that
Krita & gimp both can handle that
I love Gimp. I was even using it as a sort of workaround free pdf editor for image/graphics h3avy pdf edits.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://m.piped.video/watch?v=2Vgzdj1xGw8
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
*Tenacity, not Audacity
Doesn’t that apply to every project hosted in America, too, though? Every project is subject to the jurisdiction in which it is hosted. And I know they’re not the only project that accepts error reports and in-app updates. Unless there is more telemetry involved or tracking of out-of-app activity, I’m not seeing cause for alarm here. Though I’m open to evidence that there is.
From what I’ve seen on their site since is that they’re saying they are now GDPR compliant. And I suppose, since they are still open source, that anyone finding anything seriously malicious would have pointed it out by now. Just a bit of bad press and people jumping to conclusions because “Russia bad.”
I do still plan to check out Tenacity though and see if it’s a better project.
As someone who contributes to FOSS projects, I think you put too much trust in the ability of the community to police such things. There simply aren’t enough people reviewing project code to ensure it’s safety and compliance if a maintainer or team decide to follow bad local laws or act explicitly in a malicious way. Some things get caught but I’m sure there are things thst slip through.
Audio editing is still shit. GarageBsnd is on Mac, Audacity has a stupid interface, Cakewalk is the first time I hear that name. On Linux, video editing tools are probably the only way to edit audio, and it’s obviously lacking.
Cakewalk has been around for decades. It was a popular paid daw in the late 90s and 2000s. It became free a few years ago. Haven’t used it lately. But, used it a lot many years ago. It was a top daw back in its day. I hear it’s still pretty good.
About the only problem I have with Paint.NET is that it doesn’t keep text as editable sprites, but immediately rasterizes them the moment focus is removed off of them. This sets text in stone, preventing any further modification (font changes, etc.) and forcing you to completely delete the text and start over from scratch for even the tiniest alteration after the fact.
In every other respect this is a brilliant program, but for the text issue which is a complete retard sniffing glue and chewing on crayons.
I’ve never been super happy with Ardour. Using the in-distro build used to crash some years back, and more recently wasn’t able to get it using some audio interface. And I’m not in love with the interface. But my impression from what I’ve read is that it’s more on-par with other DAWs than Audacity is.
Blender is hardly an alternative, it’s the clear #1
These are alternatives? This is essentially a list of software that I use.
Some of us use FOSS because of access to the source and the benefits of an all FOSS system. Not because it’s zero cost. This list is just zero cost and some happen to be FOSS.
Some of us like free stuff though and the post never said that it was supposed to be a list of FOSS projects.
I guess this is Technology not Linux or FOSS, but feels like the difference is often mixed up and it’s not all about cost. Anyway, looks like there is now a added note they aren’t all FOSS.
looks like there is now a added note they aren’t all FOSS.
The post hasn’t been edited.
Well then I missed that the first time.
I’d have put in bracket with each list item if it was FOSS, shareware, free trial, free for non corp use, etc.
Yeah that would have been nice but it would be time consuming for the poster.
Gratis rather than libre.
WARNING Windows, Avast, Malwarebytes, anti-libre software bans us from removing malicous source code. Don’t let this malware infect you.
No WinRAR?
It is not free (which is the main goal of this list) or open source.
Oh yeah. I forget it’s not free after using it for almost 3 decades without paying for it…
I know, it looses on a technicality.
I know, it looses on a technicality.
Aside from the comma splice, did you mean ‘loses’ or ‘loosens’?
