Switch to these open-source apps...on Windows, macOS or Linux!

[@drlukewhite]

I'd add: OBS (video recording and livestreaming); Syncthing (file synchronization); Zotero (citation/bibliography management); Freeplane (mind-mapping); Nextcloud (self-hosted cloud storage); Calibre (ebook mamangement and reader)

[@oliviadrinkwine1411]

And there is also a open source script for managing one drive but it’s for Linux only

[@JonathanKayne]

OBS and Calibre are amazing software. I have them on all my computers regardless of operating system

[@ChrisVogtmann]

@@oliviadrinkwine1411 can you share a link? I couldn’t find anything for OneDrive and just use the browser for my old Files not on Nextcloud

[@mikelunatiko]

I was about to comment: OBS is the program he used to record this video, how could he forget?

[@hammerheadcorvette4]

he had OBS running on screen !!! I just wondered how he missed it ! Calibre is a classic as well.

[@lawrenceallwright7041]

No KZbin video like this should be taken as Gospel or set in stone, it's one person's opinion. But this is one of the most comprehensive run downs of open source applications I've seen, packing 25 sensible suggestions into less than 24 minutes without any unnecessary padding. Kudos.

[@strawhousepig]

Audacity from the future will back this comment up.

[@Titanskull]

Couldn’t have said it better myself. If I’m being honest here most of these programs don’t fit into my work environment with the exception of VSCode. I like to think of open-source apps as an alternative if you can’t afford to use other products. For example, Maya is a much better program than blender but you can still model in both. It doesn’t hurt to try one of these apps and if you don’t like it then go back to what works for you.

[@axton9521]

25 suggestions could also fit in a list that's readable in 1 minute, with details optional.

[@XEN-ZOMBIE]

@@strawhousepig Pot Player is better. Has been for years.

[@PartyMusic775]

no he just told people to get privacy by blowing their privacy

[@julius_caesar_grzfz]

i love how he says everyone should ditch whatsapp and get signal but he actively changed the search engine to google

[@chrisdpratt]

There's a difference between using a search engine that gathers data on you and using an supposedly secure communication app that gathers information on you. I could really care less that google knows what I search for, but not really keen on Facebook mining my private communications. Besides, every other search engine besides Google sucks. I'd rather have relevant results than supposed privacy.

[@eckee]

You can set both to not track you in any way. And you’re on KZbin.

[@jomo2483]

@@eckee I don't get what Americans fuss about privacy for. If I know your name, I can search everything about you online. Your government has insane tabs on you just like China. Only difference is China doesn't pretend it doesn't spy on you

[@somedudeonyoutubefrfr]

@@chrisdpratt There are better solutions to this bullshit… Startpage, Ecosia, DuckDuckGo (my fav) and now even Brave Search (cur. Beta)

[@j3s0n]

@@chrisdpratt I'm not too sure I agree with your logic because it sounds like a cope

[@prcr]

One of the most useful Linux and OSS-related videos I've seen recently. Well done!

[@AdityaBhargava]

FYI MailSpring's sync engine was open-sourced a few weeks ago.

[@bugs181]

Ahh! That clears up the confusion for me. Everything I've been reading online has said that it's sync engine was proprietary and I saw the C++ source code on Github

[@yash1152]

thanks for info

[@spinningbacksidekick]

Why would someone downvote this video? Unless of course, they're against open source.

[@AustinSersen]

With geospatial information becoming more abundant with things like open data from cities, QGIS is a must for working with all kinds of spatial data...it's how I integrate my bike ride maps into my videos: export a .GPX from my Strava ride, import it into QGIS, export images, and then use GIMP to cut out the background of the route, then tiles in nicely to my video editing software (sorry, a FCP X holdout, but it just works so beautifully).

[@yash1152]

thanks for info

[@aiSage48]

You forgot Shotcut. It doesn't crash as much as KDEnlive and supports Hardware-based encoding without editing configs (as on KDEnlive, which may or may not work). For communication, Session could be mentioned. It's blockchain-based, doesn't need a phone number or email to signup, and it's decentralized with minimal metadata.

[@riverthames4408]

This is such an informative video, and the comments are equally so. Hope this is something that can be updated periodically. Thank you so much for this!

[@perdomot]

Hey, thanks for reminding me about Strawberry. Using a Mac right now and hate the music app so this is a blessing.

[@perdomot]

@Todd Starbuck Already a member.

[@michaeleharberms]

This is the first video I have seen from your channel, and I have to say you are a new hero of mine. I have been using Linux for a few years now and what you are doing is nothing short of amazing. I can't stress enough how great the open source community and Linux are. I truly believe that if people know what is available with the many distros and open source repositories, it could completely change the world of computing, and since computers basically run the world, we can change the world it's self. Please keep up the good work in opening the eyes of the unenlightened proprietary software prisoners.

[@starrwulfe]

This is one of the most complete listings of cross platform opensource apps that exists. Ever us Mac users are covered! Please do more like this wherever you can.

[@mobarakjama5570]

I can't emphasize enough how powerful Blender is, if you've never used it your doing your self a huge disservice by not giving it a go, I highly recommend this magnificent software

[@fawzanfawzi9993]

I love these list of Open Source program. The average users would mostly see them as free-of-charge program and it is one way to promote FOSS.

[@tonypatriota6408]

Bro would you give me some tips on an open source project I want to start?

[@igorthelight]

@@tonypatriota6408 Some advises: * Find some existing project that you really like - maybe just help them? Or just learn from it. * Think what kind of project is missing and could you make that? How many people would be interested in it? * If you are not sure about any of that - just make what you want to. Maybe some other people would be interested. Example: Snakeware - a Linux distro where almost everything is written in Python (DE mostly).

[@tonypatriota6408]

@@igorthelight I have searched projects alike but none are like this, that's why Im coming up with it

[@igorthelight]

@@tonypatriota6408 Nice!

[@anssilehtimaki3841]

Don't get Firefox. Use Brave. Also Steam programs work on linux like Asesprite for example.

[@GlenCoulthard]

Great list and good intro to opensource apps. Just wondering why OBS wasn't mentioned, given that you were using it to record .

[@mr_mean3r]

Had this exact thought. I guess because it’s already the standard app for streaming and screen recording

[@ErebosGR]

GIMP is utterly gimped without non-destructive layer adjustments. It's still nowhere close to Photoshop because of that omission. Use Krita instead. It's not just for sketching and drawing. Plus, as an alternative to Adobe Lightroom, use darktable.

[@Mikesco3]

Funny that he's running OBS and forgets to mention it 😂👍

[@teknohobi45]

Nitroshare is my favourite file sharing software on linux. It is open source and free. It allow cross-platform file sharing over a network. Wonderful software.

[@IcoKirov]

VS Code is kind of sketchy for the open source part. yes it's a open source program, but when you get it from microsoft (the official page) you also get telemetry and such, and the licensing is Microsoft's. while if you get the source code and build it yourself it's license is MIT, and there is no telemetry. you can check VSCodium for true open source, if you don't want to build it everytime yourself. i haven't used it personally.

[@ok-tr1nw]

Fun fact: Krita and Kdenlive are both made by the Kde desktop team They are most popular for making plasma desktop, plasma tv (not the tech, but a ui) and plasma mobile

[@thegardenofeatin5965]

I like most KDE applications but I don't hitch horses with the DE itself. I just like the look and feel of Cinnamon better.

[@ok-tr1nw]

@@thegardenofeatin5965 i agree kida with you im kinda of a gnome fan but looks better cinnamon than default plasma

[@kuhluhOG]

Krita has these days actually its own foundation

[@LeslieLanagan]

You touched on something that makes me cry every time I think of it…. Ubuntu Studio is a miracle. It is giving hope to creatives who can’t afford a huge startup cost. These days, you could mix a podcast on a small board computer.

[@kidando]

Awesome video. I would add OBS for screen recording and streaming. Bitwarden for password management. Godot for game development. Qbittorrent. Heidsql for database management. Git for source code management. Cmder for terminal. But again. awesome list

[@behnamsaeedi]

Immediately started using freecad instead of Solidworks ... Thank you! This video has been life changing

[@jerrydonovan7507]

Do not let Firefox save passwords and without setting a "Primary Password" (was previous called "Master Password", but changed due to woke pressure). If you do that and then your laptop is stolen, then you just gave away all your passwords you saved in Firefox (they can be shown visibly). The defaults in Firefox are very dangerous.

[@propjoe1060]

Everything that's great about this channel is covered in this video, pretty much. Great work, IG!

[@felipekinoshita]

it makes me really happy to see three KDE projects on this amazing list :)

[@bugs181]

What I don't understand is why there's this war between KDE and GNOME. I'm a long-time user of Apple products (15+ years). I dabbled in Ubuntu many many years ago and just recently switched to Pop OS a few weeks back. Needless to say, everything looks absolutely stunning and the amount of "apps" has grown considerably. This is my daily driver now and I'll be switching over all of the computers in the house over once I get the data off of them. Needless to say, it hasn't been easy because of walled-gardens and finding suitable alternatives. Right now, I'm just enjoying how blazing fast Linux is. I have pretty beefy gaming rigs in the house and I had no idea that Linux could breathe new life into them and make them feel as though I just got them yesterday.

[@bugs181]

@Tusharkant Sahu thanks for clearing that up. I guess my long-winded rant was just to say, why does it matter. Isn't the objective to get more people to switch to Linux regardless of what they use? Isn't OSS and Linux ALL about just having choices?

[@sinekonata]

@@bugs181 As a recent Gnome migrant into KDE, I can say that the "war" is due to the same difference that exists between Windows and Macos. One is more streamlined idiot-proof with a walled garden and the other is much more flexible, feature rich and more prone to error. For instance where KDE applications only tend to get more feature rich, Nautilus as probably the worst example kept losing features. To the point that previous versions had to be forked to retain its lost functionality. That's the "war"... not really a war. I'm just never going back to Gnome as I feel they take the users for idiots.

[@bugs181]

@@sinekonata could you give an example of what features that Nautilus removed? Im what I consider a power user and all of the features I need are available.

[@sinekonata]

@@bugs181 Well I don't remember too well, it's been 8 years I think that I switched off nautilus into nemo. Also I didn't even try long, as soon as I realized I just couldn't do what I used to, I left the sinking ship. Maybe you never had to use those functionalities or maybe they were added back in. At any rate here's an article about the dumbing down of nautilus, it includes a link to the removed functionalities. www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/09/linux-mint-explain-nautilus-fork-call-new-version-a-catastrophe

[@rkenw996]

I like Abiword & Gnumeric for small, fast word processing and spreadsheets on Windows and Linux computers; especially older ones!

[@RedFenceAnime]

Great Video! There's a couple things about Libre Office (from experience of installing it on the PCs of 7 friends/family) Nearly all I know prefer the top bar/ribbon to be tabbed (like office) instead of the default. And because you're going to share your files with people that can't open .odt and .ods files I set it up to save to .docx and .xslx by default.

[@funnyberries4017]

I prefer Onlyoffice for these two reasons

[@greateranimal]

Joplin is AMAZING for notes. Switched over from OneNote to Joplin around a year ago and it's sooooooo good

[@ponypruhest]

I wish you would make a similar list for phones and tablets, both Android and iOS devices.

[@lordLofi7]

Diolinux, is a Brazilian youtuber/content creator that is always try to show to his audience how wonderful the open-source community is, his job is amazing, my first real experience with the linux world was due to his videos.

[@NoirpoolSea]

Brief note. MPV is now officially Celluloid which was a enhanced version of the MPV GUI client which came with the MPV media framework. I just checked here in Linux Mint where Celluloid is the default media player and typing "MPV" from the launch menu now only gives "Celluloid" instead of also returning "MPV". Celluloid has a much enlarged set of keystrokes which can be used to fine control the program as well as having added GPU accelerated playback over the original MPV client. It also makes a cracking good DVD player which VLC is increasingly becoming bad at displaying the DVD menu's correctly.

[@CptFuzzball]

As someone that does code, I'm using Notepad++ and from what I hear a ton of others too. I'd add that to the recommended list.

[@namorcaz]

Can you use this on Linux natively now?

[@riganburnwal1012]

Dude I've had used Notepad++ previously but I'd recommend Sublime Text Editor any time of the day over it.

[@elmoteroloco]

@@riganburnwal1012 right, my fav too, but "Notepad++ is a free (as in “free speech” and also as in “free beer”) source code editor"

[@ivanhoe1024]

Thanks for sharing! I also think, IIRC, that mailspring recently released everything under GPL, so now should be 100% open source

[@SianaGearz]

FreeCAD is so far insanely painful to use but it's getting better. If you're interested in FreeCAD at all, please check out the realthunder's LinkStage3 branch, it's so much more robust. The problem with FreeCAD isn't the lack of features, it has just about everything under the sun, the problem is that it's painful to use, convoluted, grown organically rather than designed, fragile, projects tend to fall apart and can be insanely difficult to fix. It's got dozens of "workbenches" which are developed by separate people with their own ideas each, with different UI conventions too, like somewhere right click selects, elsewhere it cancels, sometimes you have to left-click select before you run an action, elsewhere you need to select after you run the action, and they don't interoperate seamlessly, passing data from one workbench to another is generally tough, and every fundamental function like say bevel or extrude is replicated over several workbenches and each version of that works in a different manner and aren't compatible with each other, it's proper hell. Community is unhelpful, you can't report bugs, you can't get a clear answer out of them whether an issue you're seeing is by design or a bug. When it comes to it, i prefer designing just about anything i can with OpenSCAD, which is not exactly good either, but at least it won't break on you, and i can still import it to FreeCAD to refine the model. When you reach substantial complexity, either of these tends to slow down to a crawl. Everything about FreeCAD makes me think that it's not salvageable, that it needs to be re-done from scratch, though apparently realthunder begs to differ, and i wish him lots of luck with that. Fusion360 is so much nicer and smoother, it's not even a competition, like you get a small handful of buttons rather than 3 dozen but they do everything, it's how the serious hobbyists and small business CAD should be designed. But that doesn't really run on Linux... there's web version, but i tried that a while back and i wasn't insanely happy, it was mostly there though, maybe it's fine now. It's not very expensive either, it's not thousands, and hobbyist version is freeware. There's also Onshape, that's another commercial web CAD software that runs on anything, and that's pretty good i've been told, but their terms of service and how they arbitrarily change them has left me not wanting to touch it. I've been told that RS Components DesignSpark Mechanical can run in WINE, which is freeware and fine for 3D printed designs, but i don't have experience with it myself. As to Inkscape alternatives, what about Xara LX? Xara is a commercial software, but they GPLed an old version of it for Linux, with the caveat that the renderer is developed in x86 assembly and is present as such. I remember it being insanely smooth and fast. I think someone picked up the project to polish it up and port to newer Qt, but it may have been abandoned again, got to look around for forks. As to Inkscape itself, it's fine on Linux, but something about how they build it makes it extremely sluggish on Windows, it's barely usable at all. They should do something about it. When you make a release build yourself, it's not nearly as slow. Also it's so crashy on Windows, what the heck. When people first evaluate the library of software they have on Windows before contemplating to move to Linux, Inkscape makes a terrible impression. As to programming, i got the most mileage out of Qt Creator. For C++ projects written with CMake, it makes great sense of them and is extremely streamlined, but it can't really deal with anything else. I have been using VSCode too, it can be lots of fun, especially for scripted languages and for PlatformIO to use with Arduino compatible electronics. Apropos engineering, Kicad could almost be the benchmark among open source apps, something other software can look up to. It's an electronics CAD or EDA. Compared to commercial offerings, it's capable, robust, and not insanely convoluted, with maybe minor drawbacks at most. Just like Blender is the giant killer at most of the things it offers.

[@stucorbishley]

This is such a great list! Great work! PhotoGIMP and Lutris made me say, "how have I not seen these!"

[@sbutler860]

For me: DAW - Reaper (does charge but you can program a great deal of it yourself) Media player - MusicBee (very programmable) Video production - OBS Studio Office - Libre Office x

[@FishLeFish]

Reaper is by far the best open source DAW. However, it is a low bar, and does not stand a chance against Ableton or Logic. However, it and Cubase are the best options on linux.

[@sbutler860]

@@FishLeFish Why does it not stand a chance against Ableton or Logic? What can they do that Reaper can't? x

[@i_jetlag]

​@@sbutler860in Terms of workflow and stock plugins Ableton and Logic are way better than Reaper. And S1 is never talked about. But imo, S1 is incredible. Yes, I am an S1 user. I also use Cubase and Ableton. Ableton is the best for music production though. Cubase for film/orchestral mockups. (Never used Logic, But it's the best looking DAW imo and it's much cheaper compared to other DAWs if you already have a Mac device.)

[@glynnetolar4423]

Not to mention Reaper is neither open source nor free. However it is reasonably priced and good.

[@bolt8129]

Thank god your video came out! I almost deleted my G-account due to crappy YT recommendations.

[@adziak]

Instead of Signal or Telegram, I recommend using decentralized apps build on blockchain like Status and Session for private messaging with e2ee encryption built in. Signal requires your phone number at the registration process so it is not so ''private'' and Telegram had problems with data leaks.

[@longlost8424]

Gr8 list, although I'd have liked to see added, your take on antivirus for the winders folks....... if there's some "open source" app out there that could provide a decent level of protection.....

[@markusroth8770]

Addition to E-Mail Clients (unfortunately Linux only): Evolution. It packs pretty much every feature you might want. Everything from E-Mailing to CalDAV and CardDAV to gpg encryption. Thunderbird has these features too but not out of the box.

[@channalbert]

I would add probably LaTeX, I know it's not a program on itself, but there's several open-source programs that work as an IDE with preview features. The fact that it is open-source is incredible.

[@crhu319]

I wrote a whole book in it. In 1987. It has worked perfectly for 40 years and is still the best tool for math papers.

[@amj.composer]

@@crhu319 I agree, it is absolutely incredible and I did almost all my math homework in it while in college.

[@sahilgarg1924]

The best app that can rule all the competitors is kde connect which you sadly missed.

[@aseemkullu7932]

For anyone watching this video, you must take a serious look at the awesome recommendations made in the comments

[@tealc6218]

I love these app discussions that you do, it's a niche that linux/open source youtubers don't cover enough...keep up the good work.

[@akka3109]

Okular, Calibre, Fluent Reader, great video btw

[@bennihtm]

I want to note, if you are using Mailspring your email never touches the Mailspring server. Some Pro-Features send some of your emails to Mailspring, but generally your email doesn't go through Mailspring.

[@DannyMexen9]

Really? Now I'm intrigued.

[@Flowxp]

still, you cannot use it without creating an account, which doesn't give me a sense of security so I still prefer Thundebird.

[@udese730]

@@Flowxp account requirement will be removed soon

[@srinivasanm.k6107]

Music Player : K L Codec ( Media Player Classic ) Audio Player : AIMP Picture Viewer : HoneyView

[@joaopedrobattistellanadas5113]

For coding, investing time into learning vim or emacs will get you a long way. Most importantly, it gives you street credit.

[@thegardenofeatin5965]

I strongly recommend that anyone who spends any time in the UNIX shell gain basic proficiency in vim, for one reason: I practically guarantee it's already on any UNIX machine you encounter, and it might be the only text editor available. Beyond the fact that it's installed by default on lots of Linux distributions and in every copy of MacOS, vi is also built into Busybox and Toybox, and I haven't encountered a machine with the Linux kernel but not one of those two. I've found Busybox on an IoT wall socket. By contrast, I don't think I've ever seen a distro with emacs installed by default.

[@joaopedrobattistellanadas5113]

@@thegardenofeatin5965 hey, you are preaching to the choir man. I use vim as my daily driver... it's fantastic.

[@sinekonata]

Yup. But if we're talking normal IDE, I hear the KDE one is amazing. KDevelop I think.

[@muhammadarsh5523]

Please make a video on APPLE ECOSYSTEM alternative in Linux. How to connect phone, computer, tablet and other accessories together.

[@muhammadarsh5523]

@S V Thanks but it is just a part of the experience. I want apps and other stuff to sync together seamlessly.

[@sinekonata]

@@muhammadarsh5523 What is the seamless stuff about? With syncthing or Nexcloud, what could possibly be different from the apple sync stuff? Every time it is mentioned as if it's magic. So what is so magic about it? Like you edit a text on your laptop and it updates on your phone? Probably not, because that's boring not magic stuff. So please impress me with the magic of apple syncing.

[@muhammadarsh5523]

@@sinekonata @sinekonata I recently discovered this video and it answers nearly all of my questions. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXi8oaOui5KefKc I was asking IG to make a video like this, showing the alternatives we can use.

[@jupiter1914]

This is a great video to encourage people to move to Linux. Thanks a lot for this! We need more of these videos. Perhaps detailing your workflow for each category of apps. Like audio production/video editing/coding/email and productivity etc...

[@cenewton3221]

I've been using a combo of Firefox & LibreWolf for web... LibreWolf is FF with enhanced privacy protection and (for now at least) also allows for viewing of YT vids commercial/advert-free as it disables DRM out of the box. You have to run a few videos through it and will get brief playback errors (this is just for the ads, not the content) but eventually it just skips right over the ads. Evidently YT ads are DRM protected, uploaded creator videos are not - I suspect to minimize digital overhead. LW does not allow for saving uids & passwords however so I only use it for YT, and I use regular FF for everything else. Not having to put up with ads is fantastic!

[@meliodas.1108]

Geary is an amazing but simple email client that i use a lot . Nautilus ,Nemo ,Dolphin 😂😂😂. Amazing file managers which you might miss so much if u go back to windows (never used mac) Lollypop is good . Komikku to read manga . Shortwave for radio . Flameshot for screenshot . Evince,okular pdf reader. Artha dictionary . Btw ,Evernote beta official client is released as deb package .

[@ErebosGR]

Evernote reads your notes... Use Joplin or Nextcloud Notes.

[@meliodas.1108]

@@ErebosGR actually i only put my study notes for that. So its not much if a big deal in that regard. But ill try joplin anyways . Thanks 😁

[@СергейКлеймёнычев-о6е]

16:30 It's actually a clone of The Foundry's Nuke, the de facto standard in compositing world. So Natron basically has same advantages (easy to organize compositing flow, easily reusable components) and disadvantages (close to none font and vector graphics manipulation) along with some open-source specific differences (supports a ton of open source plugins, lacks decent 3d manipulation, has some bugs in screen updating routine which leads to some parts of image not updating). Overall a really great project (IMO easily tops blender's native composer).

[@Blueeeeeee]

Could you add the links in the description ? Thanks !

[@ClifffSVK]

Lol just type the name of the software you want into your search engine

[@kevinjones5001]

Or even just a list of mentioned software, please.

[@GiuseppeNespolino]

In the Audio section it's worth mentioning "hydrogen", a farily cool and easy to use drum machine

[@tonypatriota6408]

Bro would you give me some tips on an open source project I want to start?

[@PinakiGupta82Appu]

1. SoftMaker FreeOffice, 2. Calibre EBook Manager, 3. Cinelerra-GG video editor, 4. Marktext Markdown Editor, 5. GVim Text Editor, 6. Eclipse Studio IDE for C/C++, 7. Embed IO, 8. Arduino, 9. Embeded IDE, 10. FreeFileSync... ... The list will keep growing. Please add some of the applications used by the majority of casual users as well in future videos.

[@simewn]

wxmaxima for mathematica open-source alternative and octave for matlab alternative

[@sivispacem]

Excellent review of free software that could save tons of money ...if only people were not so handcuffed to their old habits.

[@bennypr0fane]

- Telegram encryption is not open source - Neither is its backend. Its encryption is not the same as Signal. Read up on that subject under Signal protocol

[@PaulGariepy]

No mention of ShotCut? Best video editing software I have found for open source.

[@Lanzetsu]

For Media I would suggest to go for SMPlayer since it uses the MVP engine, I has been using it for ages on Linux and even Windows, I will simply install SMPlayer and set it as MVP engine by default, never a problem with it. Also about Signal I sill like Telegram the most and already moved friends to it over the last 2 years I ditched WhatsApp Trying Mailspring now as you said instead Thunderbird but I have some doubts... Thunderbird always stayed with me lol

[@kon_radar]

Audacity (+ plugins for real time playback), Foobar2000 (organize music playlists, internet radio, batch conversion), Gimp, Inkscape, Krita (these 3 for graphical stuff), JPEGview (minimalistic photo viewer with basic tools), irfanView (for batch conversion like lowering resolution of thousands photos from your smartphone which reduces file size up to 8 times), Handbrake (batch conversion of videos to reduce video size. 4K (or FullHD) videos from smartphones are somehow fake 4K (or FullHD), a bit blurry. I change them all to 1080p or 720p. Saves a lot storage). SumatraPDF (as PDF, MOBi, EPUB reader) Etc.

[@joecool2162]

10Years... WOW. Thanks, its been a great ride! Cheers Mate.

[@Flowxp]

I would say you missed on File Explorers category(Double Commander, and also for Media(movies) there is nothing like SMPlayer.

[@nidhalbaccouri1799]

great video, but I would probably add the most important thing: password managers It is very important to use an open-source one. I use bitwarden, but there are a lot of open-source password managers out there

[@blckthrn2k8]

I'm more of a Vivaldi (even if it's just partially open-source) guy rather than Firefox since it has more integrated features that _I_ actually need (as a power user) and the company values privacy very strongly. The only downside of the browser is it's Chromium-based but the browser is more de-googled than ever before.

[@dafyddr8678]

Just found your chanel and have to say wow...the money you save your viewers is brilliant and I have always prefered Opensource software to paid.. Thanks mate.

[@turtleb01]

Excellent video, guides just like this are needed to spread Linux. I would still like to complain a bit about the strong "Windows mindset" in some of these programs. For example, the syncing support in Joplin is just absolutely stupid. Supporting a cloud file service should never be integrated to an application. Instead you should mount the remote file system to your own file tree using tools like Rclone, so you can browse those files with your native file manager and use them in any program. Mounting Dropbox, Google Drive etc. is something you can't do on Windows due to its legacy file system design, and therefore these poor developers have to support integrate them to their apps. It's always better to have a small tool that is damn good at doing one thing, and then have that communicate with your other software.

[@nikolaisafronov3452]

agree

[@World_Theory]

I'm glad you included the music production apps in this list. I've been wondering what open source options there were for that kind of thing. I just didn't know the correct terminology to use in a search engine.

[@cd92606]

I was in a bad mood when I clicked on this and really didn't want to like it, but you did a great job and won me over. Great collection; thanks for putting this together.

[@craigw4644]

Good job going over the open software. Personally, no problems using Linux full time, work and play., made the Linux full-time switch about 3-years ago. The only thing I find lacking in Linux, is Linux has nothing that can compare to Excel. If you're a Excel power user, you'll need to build a Windows VM to run MS Office. Libre Calc is good for basic spreadsheets, but I you're deep into functions, code, SQL, etc and still need to work with other Excel users, Calc has 1/4 the power of Excel.

[@pmmeurcatpics]

I've heard a saying that goes along the lines of "Everything that can't be done with [Excel competitor] shouldn't be done with Excel anyway". Code or SQL, as you mention yourself, are better handled with proper programming languages or with a database management system, respectively. While Excel tries to emulate a lot of these things, it often fails miserably to do so. Too many companies tend to rely on it for all the management, and end up losing a lot of money when the overcomplicated system inevitably fails.

[@real_alkebulan]

Now, I've got Signal, just no one's there. My friends still on WhatsApp shii

[@real_alkebulan]

@VAASTAB lol

[@superviewer]

You can buy a car but it has no friends in it. You have to invite them over :)

[@avinashthakur5074]

+ virtualbox + bitwarden + syncthing + nextcloud + remmina + fluent reader + OBS + codium

[@robmcd]

I can’t get off Brave. It blocks everything so well

[@ediodimacaroni]

I have found brave to be slow so i use firefox. My macbook doesn't like brave i guess. Running ubuntu budgie 20.10

[@robmcd]

@@ediodimacaroni I run Brave in Catalina and now big Sur but I spec’d my MacBook with 16GB ram.

[@ErebosGR]

Brave is the true advocate for privacy. Mozilla is hypocritical because they have telemetry enabled by default and 90% of their revenue comes from their deal with Google for having Google search as the default engine. Without Google, Mozilla is dead. Plus, Mozilla's CEO, Mitchell Baker, was paid in 2018 $2.5 million. That was 400% up from what she got in 2008, while Firefox lost 85% of its market share in the same time period. By last year, her pay has gone over $3 million, while she fired 250 employees (1/4 of their workforce).

[@ediodimacaroni]

@@robmcd I plan on giving my macbook 16gb of ram but right now im a bit broke. But I do brave on mac os

[@gururu1286]

Game design : Godot : open source game engine like unity but easier to learn and friendly user interface Unreal : not fully open source but have source access so you can modify the engine your self

[@praveennair9501]

Unfortunately my work requires me to use whatsapp as everyone is already on there. Sometimes the more privacy focussed we become the more of an inconvenience it is. Great informative video, appreciate it!

[@berndwarnders9251]

i just announced that I will be switching since I prefer to keep my online behavior (which is stored since 2010ish) to myself. most people think it is just about advertisements.

[@nikolaisafronov3452]

people need to drop whatsapp.. it's just sh!t.

[@agilariefrachman6239]

QGIS is also open-source GIS software. Even though QGIS is open-source, QGIS in my opinion is more superior to ArcGIS because of not resource-hungry even on windows, and there are many algorithms built-in from SAGA, GDAL, and GRASS which is also open source.

[@metamosanunciosnovossocagu9540]

Diolinux is a portuguese speaking youtuber; not portuguese though. He is brazilian. They also speak portuguese. Think of this relatioship as England and the USA. Portugal is where the language originates from and the adopted it and modified it as their needs demanded them to.

[@Martin-delta]

Calibre for ebook library and reading. Been using it on macOS it works great.

[@Blueeeeeee]

Thank you for these amazing recommendations, I really needed some of them ! Edit: I'm a bit sad you didn't expand a tad more on Signal's privacy benefits. Btw, what did you use to customize your desktop like this ? Thanks ! :D

[@eckee]

It’s Gnome.

[@Blueeeeeee]

@@eckee I know, that's the point; what extensions did he use to customize his GNOME like this ?

[@EuropaMan]

Exceptional rundown of open source apps. I appreciate the delivery of the information. Well done. I didn't realize the amount of excellent program that are available for free. Great tutorial that I thoroughly enjoyed. Keep up the good work.

[@JustMe-uv1go]

Wasn'tt firefox recently, the main character in a scandal related with deflowering your privacy and selling the video of the act to goagal?

[@FloydBunsen]

Libre fox is looking pretty nice

[@propertisyariahsemarang8142]

Because of YOU. I switch from dreamweaver to vscode. Thanks sooo much!

[@tell1998]

I wouldn’t use VSCode. Yes it’s open source but you get telemetry issue. What I recommend is VSCodium, it’s based off of VSCode but without MS bull crap installed

[@Steve-Richter]

What is Microsoft tracking thru vscode?

[@Steve-Richter]

Any gratitude to Microsoft for creating the outstanding editor which is vscode?

[@ok-tr1nw]

@@Steve-Richter the editor is actually called code OSS Vscode is just a modified version of it

[@Ratteler]

If you are allowing software that is not open source, Fade In is essential for screenwriters. The DEMO version allows full functionality with only a NAG screen. I eventually bought a licence andI've had no regrets. Most important is the Import and Export to Final Draft's FDX format. Final Draft FDX is like the screenwriting version of a .doc format

[@HoHoPlays]

Not a fan of Firefox after the support of censorship on the internet. I Switched to Brave and it's been great.

[@sinekonata]

Are you less censored on Brave? ^^

[@satyajitbanerjee7953]

I use MPC HC, using it for 4 years probably the best media player out there.

[@jjsdk661]

BLENDER !

[@dt1926]

I prefer WPS Office to the other alternatives, although it carries the same bugs as Libre, so i guess it's just that with a much better UI.

[@Blueeeeeee]

I don't really trust WPS office. Have someone read the TOS ?

[@Blueeeeeee]

@S V Well, I'm pretty sure OnlyOffice has a better compatibility, and it's actually open-source. Is that incorrect ?

[@gogista]

WPS Office has a terrible language support for word corrections

[@UmmarFarooqMahroof]

I like your channel but i have problem with this kind of video. Most of the apps are known and even if someone is moving over to Linux will know. The issue is recommending and then leaving the user to it. As linux users these videos need to go in depth of each app and give a clear simple tutorial on transferring a user work settings to the Linux apps. Eg. Getting email setup. Setting up LibreOffice to save in docx format because it's just practical. Install a fully working pdf viewer. (this is vital for filling in official government forms). How to import and export files for video in Linux. I would like to see more in depth videos to complement these lists.

[@memphisartguy2]

I personally would have started off with a package manager choclately for windows, and then make sure ever thing was "choco/apt search " compatible. Just me ...

[@keithmarcus8638]

6:29 I hope I can ditch. My clients are all on WhatsApp, still need it for work

[@eac-ox2ly]

This. I never will get why normies don't switch to Telegram. It's so clearly supperior.

[@Itschotsch]

AnyType should definitely be on the list now!

[@roo79x]

Libreoffice inherited the same problems of OpenOffice. Poor compatibility with Ms office formats. It should never be recommended as an alternative office suite. The mindset of the dev team is of how the code looks to the computer and devs. Not how it works for the end user. The only people who could use libreoffice are people who only use the open document formats. Libreoffice is incompatible, slow, bloated and impractical for the majority of users. Softmaker freeoffice is better (it's not open source) but it is far superior to libreoffice. If the libreoffice devs pulled their heads out of the sand and made libreoffice lighter and more compatible with MS Office formats then it would be great. But until then it is nothing more than a nice idea that is a waste of time. Libreoffice also has the ugliest and most conveluted UI ever.

[@phillipassmann9959]

Whatever you do, NEVER use Kdenlive. It is just buggy and unintuitive. Use Flowblade or Olive. Apart from that, great video!

[@night_fiend6]

I wouldn't recommend Firefox, they have come to manipulate search results for political reasons.

[@night_fiend6]

@@trtrhr they outright said they were teaming up with George Soros in a war against "fake news", which is just Newspeak for "manipulate search results and hide inconvenient information".

[@sinekonata]

How can a browser manipulate search results? Can you show the line of code where this happens?

[@glynnetolar4423]

Besides that, don't use the selected default search engine.

[@zopenzop2225]

Great video. Just one addition, Anytype is a new open source alternative to notion which is both open source and encrypted, a strong contender for note taking. It's lacking in some areas but is majorly usable.