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?

edit: woah that’s a whole load of cool FOSS software I have to try out! So far my experiences have been great (ShareX in particular is AWESOME as a screenshot tool, it’s what snip and sketch wishes it could be and mostly replaces OBS for my use case and a whole lot more)

  • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    20·
    9 days ago

    REALLY simple, but “Open Sodoku”. It’s just a Sodoku app without ads. I’m very bad but it’s pretty fun

    • jacksilver@lemmy.world
      6·
      9 days ago

      While I’m all for glfree sudoku “Studio Goya” and their series of sudoku apps are more than worth the cost, especially Miracle Sudoku

      I know this is a thread about Foss, but they really put some crazy thought into these puzzles.

        • jacksilver@lemmy.world
          2·
          9 days ago

          I appreciate the trust!

          Honestly it’s kinda ruined other sudoku puzzles for me. Some of the harder ones could take me an hourish to complete.

          • Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            2·
            11 hours ago

            Coming back after a week to share what I thought of it:

            • I loved the app itself and all the different ways to input values

            • the different game modes are quite creative

            • all the extra restrictions added by the different game modes make the puzzles a bit too easy for my taste

            • miracle mode is fun until you get a few numbers in, but then it becomes quite straight forward again.

            • all of the puzzles (at least as far as I played) follow the same pattern and when you notice it you can skip the whole sudoku part and answer it just by pattern recognition.