Lemmy seems like the right place to ask this. Personally I've really enjoyed Gurgle, which is a FOSS Wordle clone app.
Libre office, a great office option. I've been using it for 15 years. Foreshadowing
VLC, Plays media. It's a tank. Also Highways use VLC to mark many winter potholes.
Linux, It's not that hard to use anymore.( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
WINE, not just for one night stands! it's great for running Windows Stuff on Linux.
Also, and my personal favorite, your mom is free and open source. Mic Drop going to bed. With your mom. Wasn't expecting that twice were you? Well, neither was your mom. Got 'em.
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is an open-source (open data) project. OpenStreetMap is a collaborative mapping platform that allows users from around the world to contribute, edit, and use geographical data. The data and software behind OSM are open-source, which means they are freely available for anyone to view, use, modify, and distribute under open licenses.
The data contributed to OpenStreetMap islicensed under the Open Database License (ODbL). This license allows for the free use of the data as long as proper attribution is given and any derivative works are also made available under the same open license.
I got addicted to using and contributing on OSM daily and enjoy spending my time improving the map. In fact a lot of closed source maps such as Google Maps and Apple Maps pull from some of the OSM data, so everyone gets to benefit from contributions.
In case you're looking into this out of curiosity, check out the Beginner's Guide and try to verify that the data around your neighborhood is correct and maybe add a point of interest (PoI) or a street name or two. Beware, it gets addictive quite fast.
OSM is also used for humanitarian use thanks to the HOT tasking platform. For example the majority of relief effort in Turkey's February earthquake, Sri Lanka flooding, and the recent Marocco earthquake. Mapping can literally help save lives. It's fun and easy too!
Also OSM usually beats Apple and Google by a mile when it comes to route planning for bicycles. I think it's one part techbros being eternally car brained and one part if you're a cyclist the chance you're the kind of crank to contribute to things like OSM is exponentially increased.
There is a (somewhat) active community here too: !openstreetmap@lemmy.ml
I love OSM, I try to put notes to fix things when I see them (for example, one-way streets that aren't properly set up, or left turns that aren't allowed). One day I'll hopefully have the confidence to fix things myself.
I use Osmand mostly, as it allows me to easily have everything offline. (Plus I can sideload/back up the maps on android)
There is a fun app called StreetComplete than makes it easy to complete missing info and I suppose fix it too.
I've been using this as my main map app for years. Ive never contributed though, and will do that next!
You can start light, just by verifying that the data is up to date or adding some information eg. wheelchairs facilities or payment methods accepted. I use a tool called Every Door (Android) and it makes this surveying really simple and quick.
Is there a decent option for using OSM with Android Auto? I want to move away from Google as much as possible, but Mapfactor's routing is... well, terrible.
Give OsmAnd a try. Organic Maps are also working on the integration, but its not yet there and fully refined, though it is my preferred map for navigation while driving.
Hmmm, I'm using osmand from Fdroid and it does not support it. It looks like you need to use the subscription version which is a bit much but I'll take a look.
Not necessarily subscription, it looks like the $30 osmand+ app supports it. Also, you can just steal it. :D
Jellyfin, it's pretty simple and if you have a spare computer, a decent connection (and by decent I don't mean even a decent one by 21th century standards, I still have a 100/10mbps ADSL) and a 2/4tb Hdd, you can host your own FOSS Netflix/Hulu with all the shows you want, if you're in a county where "sailing the seven seas" is a huge deal, the only subscription would be a cheap VPN or even better something like real debrid.
I love how Jellyfin is like "nah we don't want any donations. If you wanna donate, just volunteer and contribute"
Lmao didn't even know that. I guess my contribution will be spreading the word, since I can't code to save my life
Never heard of real debris, why is it better?
Edit: looks like it's a seed box?
I'll skip the common ones that are frequently mentioned to give Zim some love! Zim is a desktop wiki app which, as implied, allows you to make your own private wiki which is invaluable for my writing and worldbuilding hobby.
i had switched after losing a D&D campaign in onenote, then not long after switched from windows to linux (Zim being compatible with both helped with that a lot too). I have a memory problem (in my carbon, not my silicon) and I use Zim for to do lists, a journal, note taking of course and several other things. i had some issues a few times but overall it's what just works for me. i use it for worldbuilding D&D campaigns and i've started building/recording my actual real life world with it too. love it!
Coming from some video editing as a hobby from Windows Movie Maker over pirated Sony Vegas, OpenShot and Shotcut to Kdenlive it's an incredible piece of kit. It has fucking working motion tracking! For free! And it works very well! Insane to me!
Big fan of Krita as a painting program. You've gotta learn some different hotkeys and all that, but it's better laid out and easier to learn than like, GIMP or Blender ime. Lots of good tutorials, plenty of free brushes, quite customizable. I really like its alpha-locking and groups as an alternative system to clipping masks.
I actually use Krita for all my image editing because I just find it more intuitive than GIMP
- Xonotic is an open source FPS with an active community. If you liked Quake 3 and Unreal, then I can highly recommend checking it out. It's got lots of active servers, and perfectly captures old school FPS vibes.
- Calibre is a great way to manage ebooks
- Logseq is a great way to organize notes and ideas
recordscreen.io is also great, if you want to record directly from the browser.
A little different from many of the things mentioned, but...
- Tales of Maj'Eyal - an open source Roguelike with a ton of content. There are paid expansions but the engine and base game are FOSS.
- 0 A.D. - AOE-like
- Battle for Wesnoth - a really fun TBS
- gzdoom + freedoom - while the assets aren't quite on par with the commercial Doom assets, this will allow you to play through any Doom mod/TC
blender's beginner friendly enough for me to universally recommend it at this point - you might bounce off, or you might, like me, be a half-decent visual artist 3 years later!
it's ridiculous how easy it is to use now once you get the basics down. im a bad artist in general, so i mostly use it for editing existing models, but i can also whip up a simple prototyping model pretty quick too. awesome stuff
I was a big fan of blender, but the support for rendering on AMD GPUs is completely abismal. Nowadays you have to get an expensive Nvidia card to get good results.
aw, thought they'd finally sorted that recently - did get an Nvidia one for that reason a while back, which has been slightly annoying now I've finally switched to linux
Actually they have. They now have HIP for AMD and it works great. I needed to install a package with the HIP driver to get it working in arch tho.
Obtainium - - app with which you can download & update apps (apk's) directly from github/gitlab/etc. (and even f-droid).
Absolutely awesome 👍
Firefox+uBlock (web browser)
MEncoder (video encoder)
OBS (screen recording and streaming software)
Inkscape (vector illustration software)
Mumble (VoIP chat room server/client/protocol)
Julia (programming language great for scripting and mathematics)For Unix systems:
Wezterm (terminal multiplexor)
i3 (window manager)From the top of my head, I would name Okular. No other FOSS pdf reader is as complete and easy to use.
I use both Okular and Calibre and as far as my usage goes, both of them fall into different niches. I find Okular excellent for reading/examining PDF's from the file manager. Calibre, on the other hand, is what I use to organize my e-books. I even tried using it to synchronize my collection from my desktop to my phone (though that didn't go well, and I ended up just using Syncthing for that).
- Hugo has been a phenomenal tool for building light-weight, static websites as I've been working to drop WordPress
- KMyMoney is a life altering personal finance manager that has made budgeting and saving so much more achievable
- KeepassXC is what I use for all of my passwords and important information relative to accounts
- Aegis is also a tool I've been using for 2FA after seeing the benefits of that kind of model
MPV player. Super lightweight, minimalist, literally runs anything you throw at it, keyboard focused, hyper customizable, loads of plugins for anything you can think of, supports all the meme filters and best of all, multiple frontends available.
