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Which proprietary software do you prefer over their open-source alternatives, and why?

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bentropy@feddit.de
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Lightroom. There are lots of alternatives for editing some even FOSS but I haven’t found any usable alternative to the library of Lightroom…

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odbol@lemmy.world
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Yep. I refuse to update my OS because I’m still hanging on to my non-cloud version of Lightroom 5. No way I’d pay Adobe for like the 5 times I use it per year

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bentropy@feddit.de
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I don’t know if you really need Lightroom, if you only need it like five times a year?

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samc@feddit.uk
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Games.

Other than basic things like Tetris (Quadrapassel) and minesweeper, I’ve not yet found an open source game I’ve enjoyed nearly as much as the countless proprietary games I own and play.

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verdigris@lemmy.ml
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OpenTTD is the best in its genre if you like that sort of thing… Though it is a reimplementation of originally proprietary software.

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alxhu@feddit.de
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OpenTTD is definitely one of the games I played most in my life.

Warzone 2100 is a great open source game, too.

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smellythief@beehaw.org
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MacOSf or the trackpad gesture support.

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akulium@feddit.de
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The touchpad gestures in Gnome are by now the same as on MacOS. Gnome is the default desktop on many popular Linux distros.

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hitagi@ani.social
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DaVinci Resolve is much better than any open source NLE. Generally, most closed source media production software is better than their open source counterparts except Blender. Blender is incredible and it gives me hope that other open source software can be just as successful in the media industry.

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TheLemming@feddit.de
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Huh. DaVinci is OSS isn’t it?

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Pantherina@feddit.de
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Lol you will find out its not when trying to install it on Linux. They only support CentOS, which actually doesnt exist anymore, and there is nearly no info about needed things. A Flatpak? No way. Appimage? Dream on.

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Fizz@lemmy.nz
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Discord over Matrix. The range of features plus the style of the client. I like soundboard and emotes. its easy to setup a server and invite people.

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JetpackJackson@feddit.de
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Yeah I feel the same way. I just can’t get any matrix client to give me the same experience I get with discord. I know they’re two different programs, and that if I started with matrix, discord would be weird, but still. It’s annoying

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