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I still can’t get used to calling programs apps
It is a little strange. But even way back in the day we called PC software meant for user interaction “software applications”.
Yeah I think people started calling software applications “programs” because that’s easier to say.
And then Steve Jobs’ made his biggest contribution to civilization and popularized the term app, which is even easier to say.
KiCad. GNU Linux. Blender. Gqrx. Rclone. Syncthing
Signal. Highly secure communication. No ads. Easy to use.
7 zip, VLC, Paint.net, proxmox, home assistant
A bit more niche, is Weasis - Dicom Browser for medical images. Alternative is also ImageJ which is used a lot in for scans too.
Kodi
NAPS2. I go paperless as much as possible, but still have to scan stuff sometimes. It’s the GOAT for scanning.
systemdVLC is a big one for me.
some new weird video format opens windows stock media player because it’s not yet associated with vlc
“Hey… it looks like your going to have to buy a codec…”
manually open in vlc where it runs seemlessly
I’ll take “things that haven’t happened to me in years for a dollar Alex”.
People buy codecs?
default behaviour of Windows Media Player…
Oof
Literally never heard of the end user being billed for the codecs.
[Edit]: I think I should rephrase. Could I please be informed about how are codecs priced?
I wonder what are the ToS, is this $0.79 all that you have to pay to use it for commercial purposes?
+1 VLC will dutifully try to play even corrupted to hell files that any other media player would just fail with some form of “can’t play, file is corrupt”
Wasn’t there some big thing where they tried to buy it and the person that made it was just like “nah”
VLC just managed to get some newer video files to play for me on a 10 year old tablet that wouldn’t play them with it’s included video player. It was also one of the only apps on the play store that would still work on that old tablet as well. It’s been my go-to video player for years now, terrific software 🥂
Wikipedia. Not an app but still deserves a mention.
I’d say the same about archive.org too.
Wikipedia is free because it’s wrong a lot.
People pay for facts, not opinion. When it comes to “news.”
Well… that’s not true exactly…
Besides… innit like 1 guy runnin’ all o’ Wikipedia?
Wikipedia is as accurate as printed encyclopedias, in at least one study.
The Wikimedia Foundation only has one CEO, but many members, and Wikipedia has tens of thousands of contributiors that are not foundation members.
Wikipedia
Don’t forget to donate!
But then it’s not free anymore /s
That reminds me, I should donate
Wikipedia
app
Reee
To be fair, they have an app
uBlock Origin leading the pack by at least a furlong.
Krita. I had a uni licence for Photoshop for years, even took a Photoshop course but still kept using Krita. It has an intuitive UI and all the tools I’ll ever need.
RStudio+R is way better than any of its proprietary alternatives.
Blender. I’m no 3D modling expert but it does everything I as a hobbyist want to do with it and so much more. Nowadays, the UI is pretty decent, too.
Finally, the Lagrange browser is really good. The gemini protocol is kinda niche though, but if you’re interested it’s unreasonably pretty, well optimized and has a great UX. The guy who maintains it really puts his heart and soul into it.
The fact that you put those examples together with this Lagrange browser made me curious enough to check it, I had never heard of Gemini protocol before. So, simply put, thank you for sharing about this, I’m going to be installing Lagrange and start checking out geminispace.
It’s a lot of fun. It only took me a couple of hours to figure out how to make a “site”.
gemini://motion.chrisco.me
Our local community is getting into it.
OBS, and Blender. Two industry shaping software solutions that ere fully open source and free.
Blender is incredible. I am no master by any means, but I use it all the time for 3d printing. And I’m blown away by what actually-talented people can do with it.
Home Assistant, not only an App but it changed the way i look at IoT/Smarthome and in that way it brings me a lot of comfort.
