don’t you want copilot in your notepad?
Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?
kurcatovium@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Just from top of my head and from what I have to use at work:
- Dolphin vs. Explorer - Dolphin is sooo much better and useful it’s not evwn funny
- Notepad++ vs. Notepad - day and night, even though Notepad got an overhaul in W11 it’s still piece of shit compared to Notepad++
- literally any foss player vs. what MS offers - be it VLC, SMPlayer, MPV, anything is better than windows built in crap
- ImageGlass, Nomacs, Gwenview, etc. vs. MS Photos - same as above, windows picture viewer is now worse than ever while open source alternatives get better and better
- and plenty others, like Linux vs. Windows, lol
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
kurcatovium@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Fuck no. Luckily it’s not even enabled in my cou try.
Harvey656@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Imageglass is FOSS? oh heck yeah I love it even more!
anachrohack@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think Linux lacks a good Foss alternative to visual studio, unless you count vscode.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I agree, there are very few really good IDEs and the majority of them are closed source. The only open source one I can think of off the top of my head is Kdevelop, and last time I tried it it was not great.
That being said, I think the reason for that is that most FOSS projects are stuff someone started and maintained because they wanted an alternative with XYZ, and for IDEs a good chunk of people who could build excellent IDEs don’t even use one, so they don’t even start to work on it. The reason is that vim/emacs are so great it’s very hard to beat them, I think a good configured vim/emacs can beat anything the best IDEs can do, and while configuring vim/emacs to get to that level is difficult, it’s stile much more easy than building an IDE from scratch. So you’re left with a gap where beginners don’t have any tools because experts don’t need them.
Enkimaru@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There is Eclipse … and I guess if you google around you will find quite a few IDEs … but VSCode, IntelliJ and Eclipse are the standards.
anachrohack@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I was a vim user for years and I disagree. At a certain point, vim with plugins cannot compare to visual studio or clion
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Why? What can Visual studio or Clion do that vim can’t? Lots of what those two can do are easy to setup, but I can’t think of anything that vim can’t do (and can think quite a bunch that those two can’t)
aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Are the jetbrains ides open source?
swelter_spark@reddthat.com 11 months ago
They have open source versions that run on Linux. I’d say they’re better than VSCode.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I absolutely support dolphin over explorer. Whenever I have to deal with Windows, having to use this crappy excuse for a file tool feels like pain incarnated.
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
- literally any foss player vs. what MS offers - be it VLC, SMPlayer, MPV, anything is better than windows built in crap
FFMPEG is an open source command line tool and software library for audio and video encoding. You’ll find it mentioned in the credits of just about any video playing software ever, but you can also just go use it for free.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Wondering why you use notepad++ instead of Kate
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I’m using Kate now, but from my experience NPP has a lot more features built in for which I actually have to write some scripts to use with Kate. NPP has really strong encoding encoding and schema manipulation features and a robust plugin system.
If NPP had a native linux build, I’d go back to it in a heartbeat.
kurcatovium@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I have to live with Windows at work so that’s where I use Notpad++. I’m fine with Kate at home.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Why not use something like Nvim on both?
kurcatovium@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I’m too old to learn vim escape game. I’m glad I can do
:q:-D
BigPotato@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Because I’ve been using it for over 20 years?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Fair enough. You were just listing some KDE default apps but not others, and my experience with Kate has been great so was just curious.
eddy@feddit.org 11 months ago
I like Kate, although it’s not far away from VSCodium, so might as well just use that for everything.
VirusMaster3073@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I wish linux had more game/software support. I know there’s wine but still
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I wish more game/software had Linux support. I know there’s wine but still
There, FTFY
gigachad@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I can play 90% of my games without efforts. 5% are to old, the other 5% are EA Games, need uplay or whatever shitty launcher, have Anti-Cheat - stuff you usually wouldn’t want to have on your PC anyway
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Have you not tried gaming since proton matured into what it is today? If you’re using wine for gaming then you are doing it wrong.
Pretty much every Windows game that doesn’t have anti-cheat works on Linux now.
VirusMaster3073@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’d prefer to wait until someone releases an OS with a hybrid Linux and ReactOS kernel
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
I think you’ll be waiting forever for that one. Not even sure why you would want that; I seriously doubt it would even work as a shortcut to reactos becoming a viable and mature OS.
HiTekRedNek@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Proton doesn’t always work, and what’s worse is it’s not consistent.
What works on one person’s machine, may not work on a different one. But in windows, the game works fine on both.
I’m looking at you, Distant Worlds and Distant Worlds 2.
I’ve never gotten DW to work, and DW2 worked for a while, but hasn’t worked for me in over a year.
VirusMaster3073@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, I’m not sure why we’re being shit on for just wanting software to work properly out of the box
Seasm0ke@lemmy.world 11 months ago
With steamOS their investment in proton your wish has largely been granted. Native support would be better sure but ill take it
scheep@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Notepad++ really is just a better notepad. I will definitely look at Dolphin, it has a Windows version which I might need to try out. I currently use OneCommander. Yeah Windows Media Player isn’t very good. I use PotPlayer, but others like VLC, mpv, etc. all seem great too. Nomacs is awesome.
Yeah, Linux is probably superior to Windows considering the fact the latter literally spams you with ads and promotions to make a MS account and to buy Office 365. Insane that everyone just puts up with this. I currently use a Windows machine, only reason I’m not installing Linux is because a. it’s one of those 2-in-1 touchscreen foldables, which Linux doesn’t really like too much, and b. I’m not bothered to reinstall all my apps and change all the settings and preferences again. Next computer I get, it’ll be Linux (either Fedora or Mint probably, those two seem good)
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
If the 2-in-1 is holding you back, it worked for me with Linux Mint, touch and gyro rotation included. Touch works out of the box.
It did require me setting up iio-sensor-proxy with xrandr for the gyro sensor so it adjusts the screen when spinning the laptop around in tablet mode though. But the guide was pretty straight forward.
scheep@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nice to know that linux support the strange 360 degree laptops. I probably still won’t bother backing up all my data and reinstalling everything though. Will definitely try linux if I ever get a new computer, since I would have to install and set up a bunch of things if that happens anyways. I agree that I am a lazy boy but I also have exams coming up soon, so I need to prepare for that vs installing linux
Venator@lemmy.nz 11 months ago
I thought dolphin was for playing gamecube games?
buffysummers@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
It also plays Wii games. 😉