• MrMamiya@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Photoshop is easier to use than gimp. I don’t pay for photoshop, but if I needed something like that I would.

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    DaVinci Resolve is much better than any open source NLE. Generally, most closed source media production software is better than their open source counterparts except Blender. Blender is incredible and it gives me hope that other open source software can be just as successful in the media industry.

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      1 year ago

      DaVinci is better, but it also provides licence for life. So it’s proprietary but have a good relationship with the customers.

      ‘Generally’ is a really wide word. Better for what? For who? When? That’s the all question…

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    1 year ago

    Steam. The support they have for multiplatform almost feels open source and they have been invaluable for the adoption of desktop Linux

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    1 year ago

    The Jetbrains suite of IDE’s. Particularly Jetbrains Rider. The platform ~~they are all ~~ many of them are built on is open source though, and you can get free licenses for all of their products if you are using them to develop open source software!

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    1 year ago

    Honestly, its gotta be the MS Office suite.

    Yes if you’re just writing your own simple documents libreoffice/OpenOffice will work, but if you have to do anything more complex than a single page spreadsheet, text-on-white presentations, or 3 page MLA book reports… or, even worse, have to interact with documents and spreadsheets created by basically any other person on the planet, I’ve just never had a good consistent experience with any of the free options.

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      1 year ago

      Disagree. Libreoffice is pretty capable for most use cases nowadays.

      Compatibility is also pretty good with Microsoft formats despite Microsoft‘s best efforts.

      OpenOffice is dead.