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Xodo pdf annotator
It seems all pdf annotators are allergic to letting me have
- The ability to change the text I've highlighted without deleting the entire highlight
- Several different highlighter colours and opacities
They seem like really silly requirements, but they make a huge difference to how long it takes me to get through my readings for class.
Libreoffice and other FOSS alternatives just simply don’t come close
I really only use Word and Excel, and I find the FOSS alternatives just fine. I can understand if power-users might find the newer features worthwhile, but for basic word processing and spreadsheets the FOSS options are good enough.
It's not. Writer will start crashing at 50 pages, it become a pretty much unusable as you add more text.
Microsoft Access. I have one database that I need that's written in Access, and although I suppose I could convert it to some other system it would be a chore and I'm not that driven to make the change.
I've moved almost everything else onto Linux.
One of the most frustrating programs for me is digiKam. On paper, it's the perfect DAM/photo manager. But it's kinda slow for day-to-day use. The user interface is janky in a lot of ways. It doesn't see constant refinement either. It doesn't even speak to me as a metadata nerd because I don't want to turn my metadata into a janky mess. Yeah, you have a powerful metadata editor. It's like a welding torch without any eye protection.
I'm using ACDSee on Windows, because it's operating on pretty much the same principle (image file metadata is canonical, app database is just for indexing), but it's faster and smoother to use. Not perfect, it has its mild limitations (like why the hell doesn't it support OpenStreetMap - Google Maps kinda sucks for nature trails, you'd think photographers would have pointed this out), but it's just so much more efficient. If digiKam ever gets a huge UI overhaul, switching over will probably be fairly easy though.
Also about a decade ago, I would have said that as far as novel writing software/large structured document word processors go, nothing beats Scrivener. Scrivener is still probably the best software in its niche, but it looks like a bunch of open source word processors in this niche have come a long way. Currently looking at novelWriter, which seems really rad.
I guess it depends a lot on what you think of as "an alternative". I'm really happy using FOSS because I generally try to find a different angle on things, and it allows me to do that.
Luckily I'm not dependent on using common office software, the few spreadsheet tasks that I need can be done with online tools, either open or proprietary. For documents I usually use markdown and pandoc. For music making, I use my own software or Ardour for mastering, etc. For modeling and 3D printing I started using OpenSCAD.
There's also many things that proprietary software just can't do. Like, my day-to-day workflow is based on a minimalist approach to computing, with the most common operations being very easy to perform (browser, editor, terminal) ... MacOS is always hailed for their great UI but honestly, it seems slow and clunky to me even though I used it daily for a long time ...
Writer in Libre Office is fine if you install the correct fonts on Linux. Calc needs some work people that know how to use power pivot in excel use it all the time. So not having that makes the switch hard.
I wish there was a good FOSS (or just works on Linux) alternative to adobe lightroom so I could stop fixing broken windows shit on my wife's computer.
She's a photographer and does a lot of heavy editing stuff. I know there's some alternatives but she says nothing comes close for what she needs to do, and from the few examples she showed me I agree.
I don't know what the fuck Microsoft is doing but almost everytime there's an update something breaks on her laptop. The only thing she does is use lightroom, occasionally Photoshop and Firefox.
I recently had to use her laptop to make a windows installer USB for someone and Rufus was cool. When installing windows though it just didn't see any of the drives in the laptop? Apparently I had to load storage drivers specific to that laptop, which weren't available anywhere online I could find. I managed to get it working by loading a bunch of unrelated drivers for a different HP model laptop, none of them related to storage. I think it was the Bluetooth driver that got it working, after it installed nothing was working, no mouse, speakers, USB ports. I had to install all of those same drivers again for some reason. Before that just to make sure the drive wasn't bad I installed Debian on there and what do you know, it just did it, because of course it did, and everything worked.
I got way off topic, but again what the fuck is microsoft doing?
Project scheduling programs. Primavera, Microsoft Project, Asta Powerproject. All of them are uniquely awful in their own way, and yet I still have to pay for them in order to work in my field.
Ticktick and obsidian. Ticktick is an awesome to do, habit, and calendar app with nothing like it. Obsidian is the best note taking app.