OK who changed the wojak into a beautiful woman?
Repost, but the post is good enough so I don't care
It's not, though. It's a big reason why I'm here, in fact. Boost for Android is awesome!
"Slightly worse". I got a job and was not allowed to use a linux laptop, so I went with mac. I was almost worried that I would like the "just works" aspects everyone have been so exited about. Wow. What a piece of shit it is. Settings items takes forever to load after boot, mouse feels like it is stuck in mud (even if I remove accelleration and increase speed), it cannot wake many monitors up from sleep, it completely disables the keyboard momentarily when activating the screen (and if it fails to wake it, it becomes a flashing, keyboard grabbing nightmare). The window management? I can set up a workspace on this and that keybind, "oh, you disconnected the monitor, well we permuted the keybinds for you" wtf? When I get home and switch to linux, it is such a relief.
And it's actually not slightly worse but better in every way.
If we're talking Lemmy and Lemmy clients, I'd argue it's a helluva lot better. For one, I can rotate my fucking screen
Hell, the thing that got my to switch was when they got rid of third party apps, because of how absolutely abysmally shitty the official app is
And then you have Blender, Krita, OBS, VLC, bitwarden & Let's Encrypt.
But tons of corporate contribution to big open source projects so it is sometimes grey.
Sometimes slightly worse. Like LibreOffice.
Sometimes actually better, like VLC.
Sometimes about the same, like the latest version of MuseScore (older versions were, in fact, quite a bit worse).
But sometimes, like with older versions of GIMP (I'll admit, I've not tried its latest major version release candidate) it's significantly worse.
PSA: Inkscape is good now!
Libreoffice is slightly worse because all the proprietary office suites keep lowering the bar for everyone to follow them. It's not a quality issue, it's a never ending contest to figure out how to complicate writing a simple letter so that everyone has to buy only your software.
For LibreOffice, I'd go with, worse and better at the same time.
- I have just noticed, overtime, that it has some problems in some cases, where MS Office does better, while there are certain cases where it does better.
There are 2 major pain points though:
- Calc UI stutters when using the scrollbar with mouse click and drag.
- Adding images to files makes the whole thing way slower than acceptable.
I haven't used it for a few months though, so something might have changed. But the second issue specifically is a long time one.
On the other hand, the formula usages are much better in Calc. Also, the documents don't get wonky between versions as much as MS Office
365 is far worse IMO. New web only apps (replacing all the desktop apps) are a big step backwards. LibreOffice does everything needed natively and a lot more.
LibreOffice is more than slightly worse, but FOSS projects cover the gamut. The thing about them is that the best ones are usually laser focused on exactly what the user needs, rather than what makes the most money.
Calc was actually quite comparable for 90% of Excel features I have ever actually used.
Writer is petty good on its own, but the fact that .docx documents don't quite matchup vs. When making and opening with Word makes it difficult for me to use officially.
Impress is just plain disappointing compared to PowerPoint.
Base might be okay, better than nothing I guess.
The rest of the suite I don't know.
I genuinely doesn't know there's paid media player out there, VLC came preinstall on all my prebuild PC purchase since forever.
There definitely exist paid players out there (or at least used to...dunno if they still exist), but there are also "free" (as in beer) non-free (as in speech) options, like the ones included out of the box in a Windows or macOS installation.
If you like professional photography, you can try darktables. It's a replacement for Lightroom and it's great in my opinion.
Gimp is still useful for quick and simple edits. It's a bit weird to use though.
IMO Krita is better than GIMP for the quick simple edits.
Gimp is still useful for quick and simple edits
See, the problem with that is that that's precisely not how I use Photoshop. I don't use it often (certainly not often enough to actually pay for it), but when I do, I tend to go fairly deep.
I should try out Darktable though. I used to use Aperture until it was discontinued, and these days I frequently use Lightroom, though I don't really love it.
I wonder how many paid apps were utterly decimated after they released VLC
Well, for one Lemmy has zero respect for privacy. You can't even delete a comment. A comment is eternal. At least you can do that on reddit.
- You can delete and edit comments on lemmy. But that doesn't mean all severs or users will honour that request. Same is true for reddit, hence why it is possible to see deleted reddit comments on 3rd party websites. (And deleted tweets, etc. on other sites.)
- People post on lemmy for the purpose of sharing thoughts and ideas with the world. If your stuff is private: don't post it! This is true for all social media. Also note, lemmy doesn't ask for your phone number or other unrelated personal information.
I made an account here without an email address (I done that on reddit too but you can't anymore)
I can use various websites to view deleted reddit comments
I would never consider anything that I have let leave my device as "deleted" anyway
If you expect privacy on social media you should take an iq test
Interesting. I didn't know that about deleting comments. The web client on my instance has a delete button, but is there some kind of issue with that change not necessarily propagating to other instances?
It doesn't bother me much personally since you never really can be sure that you deleted something from the internet. Even if reddit deletes a comment, you can possibly find it on an archive somewhere. Anything you toss onto the web should be something you're comfortable with the world knowing.
Cause one was created to make money, while the other was created to actually be used...
Sometimes not mutually exclusive. Its not common but it does happen. Iphone rocked the industry. Photoshop dare I say it, was the standard. At least at first.
It might not be as polished and pretty but I prefer the simplicity and focus on just doing the thing it was made to do. Medilog is perfect example for this I'd say, it basically just storing text nothing fancy just regular inputs and calculates BMI. But best is I don't have to deal with internet connection and having an account cuz it's all just stored locally and that's why I love lots of Foss stuff it's just simple and doesn't need account and internet access depending what app it is. Still discovering Foss bus so far am very pleased.
Slightly worse? I can actually sort and the video player actually works, instead of whatever the FUCK was going on with the other place, for literally ever.
Honestly, I have more free and open source apps and programs on my PC and phone than not because the exact opposite of this meme has been my experience.
I've been thinking about this often lately as well. These fucking corporations with multiple billions at their disposal, and all they can produce is shit like Windows or macOS? AND it also costs money to use? AND it has ads in it?
Meanwhile a bunch of nerds working for free on a passion project are giving away software that is faster and easier to use and often more beautiful to look at.
I guess I've simply reiterated what the post image said, so ignore me maybe, but fuck this is depressing and disappointing. All these corporate resources and all they can do is barely achieve what other people do for free in their spare time? What a fucking waste of human life and energy is capitalism.
Honestly, it's such a compelling point to made for why capitalism is a shit economic system. Regardless of if someone is compelled by communist/anarchist economics, at the very least it should be obvious that capitalism produces only the most profitable products, not the best products.
For real open source projects, it's a lot of the time not nerds working for free.
All your favorite frameworks and libraries are often developed in house at big companies (angular, react, vue, tensorflow, Kafka, pytorch, k8s, Jenkins, and many many more).
And even then, much of the development on them is done by people who are getting paid to use the frameworks at smaller companies.
There are tons of examples the other way too of course, but even the Linux kernel is mostly corporate commits, Google, Huawei, Oracle, and others.
This isn't inherently bad, but it's not as cut and dry as people make it out to be.
I want to add, that language development is also often done by companies. Today for example is a Mozilla thing, and while a non profit, the devs aren't working for free.
Voyager for Lemmy is some seriously gourmet shit.
But seriously the answer is usually that the big company is trying to apply to ALL USERS and usually only pleases a subset or none of those users.
Voyager isn't for you? That's fine, Lemmy has a nice API and you can build whatever you like. Lemmy is also open so if that API isn't nice you can provide suggestions and fixes.
I'm not saying it's perfect, but it's a pretty good place to be.
Look at early Twitter or formerly Reddit. A nice API. Tons of fantastic clients. Open source is the best, but even just "open" is a fantastic first step.
Slightly worse in design, far better in consumer-friendliness!
Lemmy is Reddit with more furries and communists
I'm not a god damn communist Fred! How many times do I have to tell you, I'm an anarchist!
Slightly?
Also, let's say it's truly just slightly, how long was it way worse before it became slightly worse?
the problem is that in the vast majority of cases, designers aren't involved. it's just code monkeys trying their best to implement functionality but without UI/UX design they are barely usable by the average person. I guess just by its nature open source is less of a concept in design so you don't get many volunteers. also designers are probably more averse to doing work for free since every goddamn costumer tries to get them to work for free.
Sometimes the open source equivalent is better. SmartTube is a much better app than the official YouTube app for Google TV / Android TV even though there's just one developer working on it.
Similarly, pirate TV/movie apps often have a much better user experience than the legit ones. Compare Weyd, Syncler, or Stremio+Torrentio to the Amazon Prime video app for example.
In both cases, the people who work on them usually care about the user experience and use the app day-to-day themselves, rather than being told to do whatever makes the most money for the company.
Do you have any idea how many jira states our development workflow has?
I wonder how much appetite there is for project managers and scrum masters in the open source world.
Closed sauce app isn't always better, and big corp don't have 'all stars' teams (but do have marketing teams) - the question is why the fossy app doesn't change UI design every few months (mostly in stupid ways) :D.
Hah! Like a corporation will improve a product when they're milking it out for a decade.
Open source is the free bicycle that will get you to the coffee shop. Priority software is the SUV you lease to do the same.
Enjoy being poor.
So open source is superior then, as it promotes fitness and climate friendlyness?
So this is why FOSS software is often faster, no traffic jams.
