And why do you use them?
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Although I don’t use them, the Jetbrains products should be near the top of the list.
Was going to say this. Pycharm is probably the only paid software I use. With that being said, students don’t need to pay for it, so I don’t have to worry about that.
Steam probably.
I won’t say it’s “best”, as I just want to run a game without friendlists and other bloat, so I really hate the fact Steam is nessesary for so many games.
Yup, as time went on, I simply felt less need to have proprietary software on my system. Steam remains as an exception; simply by virtue of having no F(L)OSS alternative (AFAIK).
Steam itself isn’t that special and things like Heroic exist but where Steam wins is the ecosystem. Also Valve sponsor developments of Linux desktop technologies, so even if Steam itself is proprietary, some of the money ends up advancing open source.
Valve has put a lot of work into helping WINE & Linux. Even if it was a selfish play to break free from Microsoft & other app stores to lock those into their marketplace fee, I can’t help but be grateful for the better ecosystem & uptick in users. Since they are privately held too, they aren’t in the same business of chasing quartely profits or making the experience worse & worse by selling your data & slapping ads everywhere.
DaVinci Resolve is THE video editor on Linux. Unfortunately the libre apps for it don’t get even close, to the point that even with all the limitations in the free and paid versions, it still is the best option.
Also shout out to Bitwig Studio, although I don’t use it.
KDEndlive is pretty solid, imho
I see it has two different products for two different use cases. Kdenlive is for those who missed Windows Movie maker or iMovie. Something to stitch together videos, or split apart videos.
DaVinci Resolve is for those who need stable professional software like adobe.
Not saying that kdenlive can’t be used professionally but I found its stability lacking, its tools unpolished and its functionality limited. The only benefit is that it can handle aac audio, and export it too thanks to ffmpeg.
KDEnLive is a good “editor” for simpler projects, but not a good video editing “suite”. It comes nowhere near Resolve’s color grading ability, or even audio editing ability these days. And it has no compositing ability at all. In fact, except Natron on Linux (that gets updated once every 2-3 years with just bug fixes and not many features), there’s nothing about compositing. Blender’s compositing is unusable btw.
Is it really too hard to import audio tracks after editing in audacity? I’m glad kdenlive doesn’t waste time trying to be an audio editor.
You misunderstand the word “editing” in this case. It’s not a matter of adding a few plugins and cutting audio. It’s a matter of having the tools to normalize human voice in a way that it’s expected in a movie, or to have automation about it, or envelopes that tracks the volume and fixes it for you. That’s the stuff that neither audacity nor kdenlive has, because they’re very specific to the movie industry. They have more generic plugins instead.
Where can I learn more about how human voice is normalized for movies? I’ve noticed a big difference in the audio of old movies and some shows, and modern high-budget movies. But I can never pinpoint the difference
Solid? I’m a casual user for occasionally editing video and it crashes all the time. It’s easily the least stable Linux application I ever use.
Honestly IMO it’s not even a comparison whatsoever. Kdenlive cannot be used professionally for any real work, it will just crash on you before you even find out it can’t even do what you want. I’ve tried it off and on for many years and it’s always a massive disappointment compared to pro solutions.
Save often.
In the past 5 years stability has improved significantly, like I haven’t had a crash in the past year of casual use. ymmv but I would recommend it to new users at this point.
I had to switch from kdenlive to DaVinci Resolve recently and it breaks my heart. I’m by no means a professional, but I am a heavy user who is frequently sifting throughout footage. Unfortunately, crashes are still very common for a power user. After encountering a memory corruption bug for the second time that resulted in lost project work (despite saving to disk!!!), I had to switch to something better.
it will just crash on you before you even find out
Older versions may have has issues with that, but I haven’t encountered any crashing in over 2 years.
It is, but when it comes to more complex needs, it falls short. It is really good for simpler editing needs and it is getting better fast.
If you haven’t done it yet, please consider contributing by writing down what you believe is currently missing, either as your own blogpost or via https://community.kde.org/Kdenlive#Contact
Can you run it on anything besides cent yet? I tried it a few years ago and it fell flat on its face
it totally does, it’s pretty easy to install and run on regular distros and just a bit more work to do in immutable ones, but with davincibox it’s bound to get better
I personally use Shotcut but i only do basic editing.
Half-life: Alyx, Baldur’s Gate 3, Elden Ring, … you get the idea. It’s not so much those apps per se, and I’d prefer them to be FLOSS too, rather it’s the amazing content and in such rare cases, I’m happy to financially support the creators.
What aren’t you happy to financially support creators of open source software you like?
Does it count as paid if I donated what I think is a reasonable price?
Cause then it’s KDE, Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice and Gimp. I’d prefer those programs even if their proprietary counterparts were free.Came here to say this too… I contribute a few €/£/$ per month to various projects…
I won’t get all righteous here, but just because you don’t have to pay, doesn’t mean you to say you can’t support the developer(s)…
Reaper. Great usability and decent Linux support out of the box (looking at you, davinci resolve). Generous free trial and a cheap one-time payment for a license. LMMS has served me well and is fine for basic stuff, but reaper is a whole other level, both in features and usability. I’ve heard good things about ardour too but have yet to give it a try.
Would you mind linking it?
Reaper is awesome.
I like Sublime Text and Sublime Merge and use both daily.
moneydance for household finance tracking
Step 1: reduce your household spending by avoiding useless paid software.
Fair, but last time I tried them, the foss apps were awful. But that was several years ago so might be worth looking again
I’ve heard good things about actual. Doesn’t sync with banks automatically, though. SimpleFIN support is in early stages, so it’ll come soon™.
Lightburn for controlling laser engravers.
It’s pretty much the only choice on Linux (though it is cross platform). Free 39 day trial, then ~$80 lifetime licence.
The other choice is LagerGRBL, which is open source, but doesn’t seem to have a Linux port for some reason. And it has a lot fewer features, with a more complex workflow.
Warp terminal. I like it
MakeMKV. It’s better than anything else.
Dungeondraft, Wonderdraft, FoundryVTT. Battle map making, world map making, and virtual table top respectively
I know you can’t make battle maps with it but have you hear of azgaar ? It’s an awesome open source world map maping web app !
Not sure how decent yet, but got recommended Beyond Compare at work, which is a trial software and recently discovered it runs on linux.
It’s basically a file compare tool, but can also compare images and looks really nice.
It also features, like on Windows, really handy entries for the right click menu of pretty much all popular Linux File managers.
I just bought a standard license for version 5, because it seems awesome and I wanna use it more.
Bitwig studio
OpenAudible - because Audible cycles books in and out of the membership too fast and sometimes their phone app sucks.
