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What non-FOSS software are you using that you wish you could replace? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me its honestly a ton of my work software (digital forensics), shit is too niche to be replaced by good FOSS options. Cellebrite, Magnet Axiom, etc. Autopsy is great and free and has a linux version but it simply cannot get the same level of data without a pretty nutty level of custom code.

And the biggest side effect of this is FUCKING WINDOWS. God I would replace this nightmare OS in a heartbeat if the aforementioned work software would make linux compatible versions. We have legitimately wasted 10k hours dealing with windows bullshit that would not be a problem in linux. Though im sure linux would take a different 10k for its own problems.

What about you guys? Doesn't have to be work related, thats just the thorn in my side right now.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dropbox, Google Photos, Snapseed

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Surely all those do have FOSS alternatives?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dropbox has the feature that lets me scan PDFs using the phone camera. It also doesn't need me to self-host.

Google Photos allows quick refinements to a photo and sharing all the pictures with someone's face in a gallery that they can then see, automatically.

I don't know any alternative to Snapseed on mobile, and there's barely anything as simple and polished on the desktop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

OCR for pdf scanning, open note scanner work well enough.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

OwnCloud or NextCloud

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

NextCloud is probably the best option but prepare to pay for storage. You'll need a NAS with at least two HDDs and personally I would also pay for cold storage to have offsite backups in case something happens to both disks.

I'm going down that route now and at a glance, a 18TB setup will cost me at least $700 (local currency) all in all. ~$400 for the disks and another $300 for the server.