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)

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    1 day ago

    I get the joke, but does it really make sense to even begin comparing Emacs to Vi(m) anymore? It’s almost like comparing a full Linux distro to nano.

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        17 hours ago

        Lol. All I’m trying to say is that Vi at least tries to adhere to the Unix philosophy, and knows it’s a text editor. Emacs is more of an Eldritch creature.

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          13 hours ago

          Eldritch Monstrous Amalgamated Common Software

          On a real note, though, it had a great Haskell mode I much miss now doing Julia in Vim. Being able to write code snippets in the editor then shunt them into the interpreter in the other pane is so good. Every now and again I tell myself I’ll learn EViL and check out Emacs again. And it still starts faster than some electron-based ide.