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

Maybe a word about accounting software like gnucash?

Firefox has been my go-to browser since almost the beginning of my internet online activity, and remained so even when Google Chrome came out and became the seemingly only existing browser (with all the others being considered worse than horse p0op)....and the same goes for Libre Office, ever since Microsoft made Office a subscription software L.O. has become my go-to office suite. :)

As for programs, I'd add: XnView MP, a free image editor for Windows, macOS and Linux born as a replacement for Microsoft Paint but that while not as advanced as Gimp it has all the features you need to edit your photos and images...and a bit more; PeaZip, a free archiver utility for Windows, macOS and Linux and an excellent alternative to WinZip, WinRar, 7zip, etc.; Just Color Picker, a free color picker and editor for Windows and macOS that allows you to pick and edit any color as well as save those colors in a list (something very few other pickers do).

Inkscape still doesn't support the CMYK colour space so will never be useful for professional editors.

Also, MediaMonkey (might not be OS) for music - and mobile apps of your music.

I'd use Obsidian for note taking

FreeCAD?
Don't you mean Blender?

Signal?
Don't you mean Telegram?

Firefox?
Don't you mean Brave browser?

LIGHTZONE photo editor

Unimpressed with Mailspring so far. Seems geared to IMAP with no support for POP mail. Filtering looks decent though. Overall I'd rather keep running Eudora 6 in a virtual machine.

Two years ago, when you posted this video, you presented a lot of useful data. For instance, it was wonderful to be reminded that LibreOffice Draw doubles as a PDF editor. Thirty years from now, when you blunder into watching this again, you won't care so much about your software choices as the creeping ageism of your descriptions. Take a look at 1960s advertising proclaiming how modern the products are; isn't it hysterical? How much better is the "unsafe at any speed" 1960s Corvair over its 1950s predecessors? When software is a product of the 1990s, it's no offense to say it looks like a product of the 1990s. To say it doesn't look modern, a slightly less offensive slur than it looks "old and tired", is a needlessly clumsy way to say it still looks like a product of the 1990s. It's a period piece that happens to still work, much like the TCP/IP stack that transported your video and this comment, warts and all. The other day, I happily got the results I wanted from long legacy Audacity, with no constraints to my effectiveness by its user interface look. What about the look and feel of 2020s software makes it better for you than that of the 1990s? Is that cultural bias, or a real productivity difference? Does a "hamburger" symbol really work better than a text box that says menu, when all the menu's contents are in English and the casual user may not know what the hamburger symbol is supposed to represent? Thirty years from now, will that look like progress or a dubious fad? Is that "modern" interface look really going to make a difference when people are looking for a particular capability in some software? How much more attention do you want software developers to give to look and feel over actual capability gains and software reliability? Should we focus on software as fashion or software as tools? I urge you to discuss exactly what in the software makes your experience using it better, and not fall back on vague and embarrassing terms like "modern". Welcome to the "post-post-modern" era.

but can mpv play everything like everything everything like vlc can?

firefox: high performance tax

Thank you so mutch for this Video. You are an enrichment for the whole Linux Community!

Amazing

Ont le sait ont attend les quantique français mais c’est en développement ils l’auront dans le cul

Excellent run down... thank you

Oh YAY your encryption is open source, meaning anyone not even CIA but joe blow can see the encryption method used on your message. Jesus fvcking chryst has it come to this

I noticed two apps you didnt mention. 1 rclone to sync cloud storages. 2 openscad. These are great as well

I add vscodium instead vs studio code

Can you get an email address from Mailspring or Thunderbird?

I use Audacity, but LMMS is overwhelming

Thunderbird is is not the "backup" for email client. Thunderbird is superior

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

what os you are using ?

Notepadd ++
Swiftsearch
OBS

Thank you for the video,
1st: telegram is not using the signal protocol, it has it's own not open source encryption protocol, and it's not e2e encryption by default, whatsapp on the other hand is using the Signal protocol for e2e encryption.
2nd: some more apps to mention: OBS, Logseq

LMMS nor Audacity won't cut it bruv. Even Pro tools is old news in the DAWs scene.

Media: Pot Player
Audio: Pot Player
Windows: Power Toys

Pot Player destroys every player I have seen in this vid and suggested. Expandable with plugins, streaming whatever.
Not to mention the best plugin for rendering Anime in existence.

Signal is not a open source!
Please no more misinformation!

you might need those apps, but I don't. . LOL

Okay, it's a great video. I do have one issue with it though. 'Signal'. Yes, it's open source. Yes, it's end0to-end encrypted. No, you probably shouldn't use it. Why? Because even though it's been around forever at this point, almost everyone you know, be they work colleagues, family members or even just your pub mates, they're not using it. The only people who will, are people who care about open0source projects just as much as you and sadly, there aren't enough of us around for an app like Signal to be ready for widespread use yet.

vscode isn't 100% opensource, i would recommend neovim

To add on to the code editor recommendation: VSCodium is a popular community fork of VSCode that rips out some of Microsofts proprietary nonsense, and I highly recommend using it instead. You may have to break Microsofts TOS in changing your extensions gallery to them, simply because the open store they have doesn't have everything you might want.
Another project to keep an eye on is Lapce, a VSCode-style editor written in Rust, with a WASI-based plugin system. It's got some jank and is missing a lot of features and extensions, but I definitely prefer it for small edits even now, simply because VSCodium takes like 10 seconds to load.

Recommending kgb's telegram as a secure option was a bold move. gud djob, comrade!

I really like videos about open-source alternatives, yet people should show how to use it, rather than just saying -- OH HERE IT IS. More explanatory vids would help.

Can't just ditch all other messaging services to switch to Signal if no-one else uses Signal

I used to use Firefox. I dumped it because it generated thousands of duplicate bookmarks every time it synced.

Most of the softwares I was using already, so unfortunately this video wasn't of much help

Firefox only after tweaking it.

Why Signal, not Session or Element? Signal requires a phone number, it always seemed a little sus for me

Obsidian for productivity. Joplin is too simple.

this is no trout firefox grab data

Freecad seems abandoned. There isn't a real alternative to BIM suits in open source yet.

VSCodium might be a better choice for a code editor rather than vscode

Libre office is goat