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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 (1 children)

OSX. I miss Ubuntu/Gnome's configurable key bindings so much.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Karabiner elements if you haven't tried. Had so much fun, customising is with just a json file. Most common layouts and some cool ones are already available on their site for download.

Honestly had a much better experience with mac than on linux or win simply bcos of that piece of software. Its mac only sadly.

Looking now it seems to have changed a bunch with more features than when I used it back in 2021. Might not even need to work directly on json files.