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Signal. Highly secure communication. No ads. Easy to use.
Wikipedia. Not an app but still deserves a mention.
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
Godot
I cant believe it has a better user experience than unity, an app that has a 412 USD/month paid plan
KiCad. GNU Linux. Blender. Gqrx. Rclone. Syncthing
7 zip, VLC, Paint.net, proxmox, home assistant
VLC 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
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?
firefox
considering the big monopoly of chrome based is not really free, it’s paid by google or microsoft mining user data
Firefox gets like 90% of its funding from Google for making Google the default search.
Vim. Every computer I’ve owned since the early 1990s has had some version of Vi on it.
Organic Maps. After switching to graphene, I quickly found plenty of apps replacing the “defaults” I had on stock android, however, a good app for maps was impossible to find until I stumbled over that one. Great UI, local maps, even has a navigation feature. Completely replaces google maps for me.
uBlock Origin leading the pack by at least a furlong.
Linux, Firefox, virtualization, Blender, KDE Plasma, ffmpeg, Krita, Inkscape, yt-dlp, Godot, programming language toolchains
add Graphite to the list
woah, ive never heard of this one. it looks awesome. thanks for sharing!!
blender for sure, its amazing, especially when every comparable software is an expensive subscription
Organic Maps
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 Dialer.
- Comes with every phone
- 10+ digit number instantly connects you with millions of people, services, and institutions
- 3 digits connects you with life-saving emergency support
- Very low-latency voice support
- High quality audio (most of the time)
- No ads
- No obnoxious UI
All kidding aside, I’m routinely astounded at how we have yet to top the ease and utility of old-fashioned phone service.
