Switch to these open-source apps...on Windows, macOS or Linux!
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- čas přidán 18. 06. 2024
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We all love free software (especially when it's open-source); so here are some of my top recommendations of 25+ open source apps that are amazing in their own right!
#open-source #free #productivity
Chapters:
0:00 Why open-source?
2:38 Web & Email
5:15 Gaming
6:29 Communication
7:06 Media
8:23 Audio (DAWs)
10:04 Image Manipulation & Design
12:40 Vector Graphics
14:30 Code editing
14:58 Video production
17:02 Productivity
18:37 Photography
19:55 Music Management
20:43 Office suite
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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)
And there is also a open source script for managing one drive but it’s for Linux only
OBS and Calibre are amazing software. I have them on all my computers regardless of operating system
@@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
I was about to comment: OBS is the program he used to record this video, how could he forget?
he had OBS running on screen !!! I just wondered how he missed it ! Calibre is a classic as well.
No CZcams 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.
Audacity from the future will back this comment up.
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.
25 suggestions could also fit in a list that's readable in 1 minute, with details optional.
@@strawhousepig Pot Player is better. Has been for years.
no he just told people to get privacy by blowing their privacy
i love how he says everyone should ditch whatsapp and get signal but he actively changed the search engine to google
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.
You can set both to not track you in any way.
And you’re on CZcams.
@@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
@@chrisdpratt There are better solutions to this bullshit… Startpage, Ecosia, DuckDuckGo (my fav) and now even Brave Search (cur. Beta)
@@chrisdpratt I'm not too sure I agree with your logic because it sounds like a cope
One of the most useful Linux and OSS-related videos I've seen recently. Well done!
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!
FYI MailSpring's sync engine was open-sourced a few weeks ago.
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
thanks for info
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.
Funny that he's running OBS and forgets to mention it 😂👍
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.
Why would someone downvote this video? Unless of course, they're against open source.
Everything that's great about this channel is covered in this video, pretty much. Great work, IG!
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.
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...
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.
Bro would you give me some tips on an open source project I want to start?
@@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).
@@igorthelight
I have searched projects alike but none are like this, that's why Im coming up with it
@@tonypatriota6408 Nice!
10Years... WOW. Thanks, its been a great ride! Cheers Mate.
The video is great !!! I saw interesting programs that I didn't even know about! Thank you! 👍👌
Hey, thanks for reminding me about Strawberry. Using a Mac right now and hate the music app so this is a blessing.
@Todd Starbuck Already a member.
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.
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.
Great collection of apps. Good to see you're still making videos
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).
thanks for info
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
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.
Been following your channel for a while, and I've always been a huge fan of your videos regardless of content. This is one of the first videos I think will be accessible to the average user, whether or not they use Linux. Mad props!
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
Thank god your video came out! I almost deleted my G-account due to crappy YT recommendations.
Thank you for your hard work and promoting alternatives. keep on doing good around you.
Very Useful, Thank You So Much!
Thanks for sharing! I also think, IIRC, that mailspring recently released everything under GPL, so now should be 100% open source
Don't get Firefox. Use Brave.
Also Steam programs work on linux like Asesprite for example.
Some of these suggestions I've found from other sources but I appreciate your comparisons and updates to mentioned apps as well as some that I had not heard of that I now want to try. Subbed with anticipations for more comparisons and updates.😃👌👍
Great this is what I am been looking for an alternative From not just facebook but google as well, looking forward to series 2 . keep up great work!
Great list and good intro to opensource apps. Just wondering why OBS wasn't mentioned, given that you were using it to record .
Had this exact thought. I guess because it’s already the standard app for streaming and screen recording
For coding, Atom Text Editor is also a great choice. Thanks for this list!
Atom and Sublime are the two other contenders I've used. VSCode / VSCodium IMO blows the competition out of the water but it's always good to have alternatives.
The Kate Editor is also very good.
Very enjoyable run through .. I learnt a couple of things on the way too. Thanks :) I generally like to mention TOR for those with high levels of paranoia.
Very nice and useful video, thank you ! I have to work on Windows at my practice (we use Office M365 in our network of practices) BUT I recycled an old Microsoft laptop last year and installed Linux Mint 20.3 on it. It runs perfectly and I now know that I can work on Linux at my practice using the apps you mentioned !
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.
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
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.
@@thegardenofeatin5965 i agree kida with you im kinda of a gnome fan but looks better cinnamon than default plasma
Krita has these days actually its own foundation
Thanks a lot for all the very informative and practical videos for years!
Bro would you give me some tips on an open source project I want to start?
Glad I came across your video today. I've been on the rocks about making a permanent switch to Linux for a while now. I used to play with SUSE Linux back in 1999 before graduating high school, but never seriously launched into Linux. I'm also a gamer, and have been nervous about making the switch because I was worried many of my games wouldn't work even with Wine. Thanks for the video, and live long and prosper. 🖖
This is such a great list! Great work!
PhotoGIMP and Lutris made me say, "how have I not seen these!"
Okular, Calibre, Fluent Reader,
great video btw
This was really helpful. I'm planning to switch to Linux so this was just in time.
Keep up the good work. Loved the video. Very informative with helpful tips. ❤
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.
I wish you would make a similar list for phones and tablets, both Android and iOS devices.
Great list! Thanks so much for this.
This video is very well put together!
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.....
For anyone watching this video, you must take a serious look at the awesome recommendations made in the comments
NIce video. It's just what I was looking for about sw alternatives! Thank you.
Thanks infiniteg there were a couple i didn't know here!!
it makes me really happy to see three KDE projects on this amazing list :)
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.
@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?
@@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.
@@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.
@@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
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.
I prefer Onlyoffice for these two reasons
You made some great choices! Well done.
Thx for this wonderful interesting video! I didn't know that many open source programs before..
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.
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.
@@crhu319 I agree, it is absolutely incredible and I did almost all my math homework in it while in college.
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.
Superb and very helpful research, kudos!
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.
Excellent review of free software that could save tons of money ...if only people were not so handcuffed to their old habits.
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.
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.
Great video. Just recently started learning LMMS, very nice program.
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
It’s Gnome.
@@eckee I know, that's the point; what extensions did he use to customize his GNOME like this ?
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.
Immediately started using freecad instead of Solidworks ... Thank you! This video has been life changing
Great, Informative video. Personally been meaning to do this myself. You did solid and got my sub for this.
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.
Can you use this on Linux natively now?
Dude I've had used Notepad++ previously but I'd recommend Sublime Text Editor any time of the day over it.
@@riganburnwal1012 right, my fav too, but "Notepad++ is a free (as in “free speech” and also as in “free beer”) source code editor"
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.
agree
Thanks mate, you've earnt a sub. Been looking for some alternatives to Adobe design suite.
a really great list of tools wich I use most of the time in my daily doings. Thanks a lot for this video.
For coding, investing time into learning vim or emacs will get you a long way. Most importantly, it gives you street credit.
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.
@@thegardenofeatin5965 hey, you are preaching to the choir man. I use vim as my daily driver... it's fantastic.
Yup. But if we're talking normal IDE, I hear the KDE one is amazing. KDevelop I think.
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
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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.
@@FishLeFish Why does it not stand a chance against Ableton or Logic? What can they do that Reaper can't? x
@@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.)
Not to mention Reaper is neither open source nor free. However it is reasonably priced and good.
Bell has ben rung. Thanks! Comments in vid are also awesome.
great content as always, thank you!! ps. opened my eyes about Draw
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.
Really? Now I'm intrigued.
still, you cannot use it without creating an account, which doesn't give me a sense of security
so I still prefer Thundebird.
@@Flowxp account requirement will be removed soon
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 .
Evernote reads your notes...
Use Joplin or Nextcloud Notes.
@@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 😁
Great video! easily one of your best.
Nice to see a fellow Australian doing this stuff!
Great, but short description of open-source app. I would LOVE to switch to linux, but I've been held back because most of the progamming working I involve creating extensions for VS itself. I am using VS Code for other things as well.
Once thing, on top of it being open source, is I would have loved to know if it had docker support (ie docker container available) as I like to self-host as much as I can. Thanks for the video! did discover a number of software that I wasn't away of, so that's good too.
Could you add the links in the description ? Thanks !
Lol just type the name of the software you want into your search engine
Or even just a list of mentioned software, please.
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.
This is arguably the best information for starters and advanced users alike. Very important info....
very useful video, keep up the good work!
I would say you missed on File Explorers category(Double Commander, and also for Media(movies) there is nothing like SMPlayer.
Now, I've got Signal, just no one's there. My friends still on WhatsApp shii
@VAASTAB lol
You can buy a car but it has no friends in it. You have to invite them over :)
Fantastic video, fist time in your channel, got subscribed after this video, keep the good work!
Thank you so mutch for this Video. You are an enrichment for the whole Linux Community!
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.
No mention of ShotCut? Best video editing software I have found for open source.
Great job. Keep up the good work!
Very good video, I will watch it later on computer, bravo.
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.
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.
God bless you, man. Very nice list.
Full marks for this video.
I used to think that I knew FOSS. Learnt about many softwares for the first time despite going FOSS for 4 years now. Kudos amigo! (y)
BLENDER !
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.
Super great video 😊👌
Thanks a lot