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00:00 Intro
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01:28 Why use Open Source Software?
02:57 Graphics, 3D work, photo editing
03:04 GIMP: Alternative to Photoshop
04:06 Krita: Alternative to Photoshop
05:09 Inkscape: Alternative to Illustrator
06:01 Blender: 3D Modeling
06:46 Darktable: Alternative to Lightroom
07:37 Media Tools
07:40 VLC: Video player
08:21 Audacity: Audio Editing
09:07 Productivity Apps
09:09 LibreOffice: Office Suite
10:05 OnlyOffice: Office Suite
10:48 Video production
10:51 Kdenlive: Video Editor
11:48 Handbrake: Video Converter
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GIMP
It's an amazing piece of software, that I personally use for all my design needs, for mockups at my freelance job, for youtube thumbnails, or for quick photo edits.
github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP
Krita
If you're more into digital painting, Krita is what you're looking for. It's super flexible, again, with panels you can move around to suit your workflow, it has tons of brushes, and you can further extend that by downloading new ones.
Inkscape
For vector graphics, the go-to open source app is Inkscape. Whether you want to mockup an application or a website, or design an icon, or just draw something, Inkscape can do it all!
Blender
For 3D modelling, your probably already know about Blender. One might argue it's THE best tool for the job, used by animators, VFX artists and modelers all around the world.
Darktable
Darktable lets you edit your photos non destructively, and your original images are preserved.
VLC
For video playback, you can't find something as versatile as VLC. It's not the prettiest, but it will play virtually anything, even badly damaged files, that it can even repair.
Audacity
Another example of an app that doesn't look good at all, but that lets you do a TON of stuff. It's a powerful audio recording and editing station. It can digitize anything, import and export virtually any format, and even combine audio files.
LibreOffice
LibreOffice: if you've ever used OpenOffice, forget all about it, because LibreOffice is where it's at. It's faster, it looks better, it's more stable, and it's extremely customizable to let you work with either a toolbar and menubar, or with a more modern ribbon.
OnlyOffice
Another solution is OnlyOffice. Its compatibility is better than LibreOffice, and I've been using it for a year or so, now, trading files back and forth with people using MS Office, without any issues whatsoever.
Kdenlive
For video editing, Kdenlive will probably be your go-to. It's a wonderful non linear video editor, with very powerful features to organize your media, edit your project, and render it in a format of your choosing.
Handbrake
For converting video into other formats, handbrake is what you need. It can rip DVDs into a single file, convert any format to any other, using any codec you might want for audio, and for video, and any container format you prefer. 
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OK but does Safing support arch linux? (I use arch btw)
@@thekarion3024 Last I looked it is not in the Arch repository.
@@thekarion3024 Yes but it is a git file. Build from source for now. Working on an AUR package.
Hi, amazing video, I just want to know how to customize my LibreOffice just like yours, it´s look fantastic!
Note that Audacity tried to add trackers and get out of open source license agreements, original devs took off with the last open source version and continued under the Tenacity name instead
Can you please tell me more about it?
@@Seacat17 Google it. It's been fairly documented on various FOSS blogs and community platforms.
@@the_arcanum asked Duck about it...
Need more awareness on this. Current Audacity owners are scum.
I was about to point that out if no one else had already. Glad some are aware of this.
For the past decade-ish I've been almost exclusively using open-source apps on Windows because they do everything I need and much more for free, and now that I've fully made the jump into Linux with Ubuntu LTS, transition has been seamless.
Wow Ubuntu LTS? Is there a reason you use it instead of other distros?
@@prettysheddy Because it works? Because he like it better than other distros? Because this particular computer works best with Ubuntu? Who knows? (I use Kubuntu myself btw.)
@@prettysheddy I needed something stable, reliable and easy to set up and use. Ubuntu LTS ticked all the boxes plus it has a huge community which comes in handy if I run into any issues. I also was already familiar with Ubuntu since it's what I used the last time I tried to switch to Linux around 2016. Oh, and I like the Gnome DE as well!
I've tried other Ubuntu-based distros over the years but ran into various issues, especially with Pop OS, so I decided to not go with one of those again.
I don't care about bleeding edge tech so Arch-based distros were out of the list, Arch itself is out because I also wanted something easy.
I used to use a Slackware-based distro many years ago, is Slackware even a thing nowadays?
Fedora was the final contender to Ubuntu as it also ticked all the boxes but in the end I decided to go with what I was most familiar with.
So far, it's been an almost headache-free transition and I'm very happy with Ubuntu, I barely even boot Windows now!
@@Jekubman I use Kubuntu as well for about the last 2.5 years (not the LTS version). But just a few little things annoy me. not auto mount of smb file shares (I know I can use SMB4K but you shouldnt have to) and when using flatpaks this is an issue because there seems to be no way to access the shares unless its mounted. GTK Flatpaks dont follow appearance theme/accent color unless do a global flatpak override or a override by application (this information took forever to fine). Lastly online accounts are simply put bad on KDE Plasma. This is one area that Plasma is miles behind on.
@@chestermc9954 Oh wow that all makes sense. It jus surprised me that someone who is not in the enterprise environment was actually using an LTS version of Ubuntu. My issue is the old packages but I guess now that is being circumvented with Snaps/Flatpaks/Appimages.
Heres some other open source work software that I use:
KiCad = Electronics circuit designer/PCB designer with built in 3d modeling and Spice simulation. (Big community / Alternative to Eagle)
LibrePCB = Another circuit/PCB designer under development
FreeCAD = Mechanical 3d design (alternative to SolidWorks)
PrusaSlicer = GTK friendly 3d print slicer software
@@triggermovies Ill try it out thanks. I've only just recently switched from solidworks to freeCAD so i haven't encountered that problem. I not a heavy user of it, I intend to just use it for simple boxy designs. Things like 3d printable enclosures for my PCBs.
How good /bad is the spice simulation?
Spice is one of the reasons I keep a Windows VM around, but if it has a good interface I will certainly switch
@@amiwatchesyt I've only started using it recently. I'm still familiarising myself with it, coming from Proteus Design Suite. I haven't really tinkered with the spice simulation yet. There's a lot of videos on youtube though that'll give you an idea.
@Kala Kauwa I've also been looking for a good simulator. I'm used to using Proteus Design Suite, but havent found anything as easy to use as it so far.
KiCAD has spice simulation but it's very different to how Proteus works so still trying to figure it out.
Alternative to Eagle? Protium/Altium? And compatibility?
Audio Engineer here: Audacity is great, but it was purchased in 2021 and they changed their privacy notice with some worryingly vague wording.
There's a really good fork of it called Tenacity which is worth looking into as an alternative
Not an audio engineer here: Audacity tried to do something shady when they got bought out but in the current state there's nothing wrong with it, and actually added some newer features.
@@MikeJorge100 Good to know, thanks for taking the time to inform me :)
Nick, thanks for putting the spotlight on the open source software. Open source community, thank you for all you do.
^^^^^^^^^ This
Krita's been my main art program for 8+ years at this point. I tried it when I was getting started with digital art, now I'm still using it for illustration & I don't see that changing anytime soon. Always nice to see it get the spotlight
Yeah! Some of my favourite illustrators use closed-source apps that are industry standards and/or are generally popular, but have made it upon myself to use FOSS alternatives where possible, and avoid Adobe software (because I can't afford them) and software exclusively available only on Apple platforms (like Procreate), so as a beginner artist who wants to draw around the realms of comic art and illustrations for children (like in picture books and illustrated novels), I've went straight to Krita and Inkscape.
I even use Krita for something people would use GIMP for. I just absolutely hate how horrible GIMP’s unintuitiveness is
Donate to them if you can 😁
@@haydenlee8332 GIMP really needs somebody that understands interfaces working on it. Just imagine if it was as polished as Blender.
One you didn't mention but is great is OBS for live streaming, it is an amazing piece of software, and basicly the standard software for live streaming. Although I guess this means it doesn't quite fit in the 'proprietary alternatives' category
There are alternatives like SLOBS (though still built on OBS) and whatever software capture card manufactures have developed for their products, but yes, OBS is the industry standard, which is good, it's the best and it's FOSS.
OBS is also ok for video editing.
OBS is far from the "industry standard" for live streaming. The words industry and standard separately imply a professional (ie. commercial) workflow and OBS isn't widely used there.
OBS and it's folks instead are more of a midway product for the enthusiast niche. At home users whom mostly want to connect to a public platform like RUclips, Facebook or Twitch, but want slightly more control of their stream than the platform specific web app gives.
It's more accurate to say OBS is popular with a niche crowd than to call it a standard.
I use OBS all the time.
@@KyleDavis328 No it isn't lol. Industry standard is hardware level devices. Nobody uses a regular PC and a software, especially not professionally. Nobody trusts things with a full OS on it to behave real time with millions of viewers. News etc will use broadcasting hardware.
Some other Open Source Programs:
- Calibre for eBook Management
- KiCad for PCB design
- MuseScore for Sheet Music work
- GNU Octave for Mathematics (Basically Matlab)
- OBS Studio for Video Recording/Streaming
I use Calibre. One part of it I struggle with is trying to use it to edit PDFs which I use while trying to teach myself bookbinding.
Does SageMath count as a maths software as well, or is it more of a maths programming language?
@@hindigente I couldn't say since I've never used it before. All I know is that gnu octave can do the mathematics that I did with Matlab when I was in engineering school
@@daveturnbull7221 is calibre available for windows ?
& Can i edit my pdf's in it, with out upgrading to paid version ? (If there's any)
@@qwertyuser8541 Yes, I use the free version of it on my Win10 laptop to edit PDFs although I do still struggle a bit with it for that. I've started exporting the PDF to Word format with Calibre and then editing in libre office before then exporting back to a PDF for printing.
For composers out there frustrated with Finale and Sibelius, I'd like to add MuseScore to this list.
It's a pretty robust musical notation editor, that's intuitive to use, customizable, and it has improved significantly over the last few years in terms of design.
tantacrul has done so much work to make it better i literally cried because of last release
love musescore ❤
MuseScore is pretty great. Still pretty frustrating to use sometimes, but far less so than Sibelius.
i use vlc, mpv as backup and tenacity(fork of audacity).
yt-dlp is a great and simple command line tool for downloading audio/video from pretty mutch anywhere.
if you feel limited by handbrake, ffmpeg is also a great command line tool for cutting, joining, converting and encoding of almost any audio/video file. i recommend looking up examples for using it cause the documentation can get overwhelming with the amount of options.
i use ffmpeg for most of my simple editing/convertion (cut video/audio, offset audio, extract audio or video from combined video, combine videos/audio etc), mostly because i can be sure *all* it will do is do exactly what i ask it to, without having to re-export in tenacity or whatever which might risk it affecting some other parts i don't want touched
yup, ffmpeg was my goto during the DVD days. I had a Divx player and it really helped me do a lot of stuff to get internet downloaded formats to DVD compatibility
Great video, as always. You did a very good job covering open source options for so many different purposes. Also, I like the pace of your videos, it does not get boring after minutes watch to it.
Thanks about these! I already knew (and used!) most of them, but was still at loss at video editing. Great to know open source got me covered for that too, now all that's left is to see if it's any good.
Thanks for helping me switch to Linux Nick. Your videos Have been a godsend for my easy switch to Linux and it’s easy for me to use now and it hasn’t crashed yet! Thanks an bunch.
Love this! I'm early in the journey of switching from Windows to Linux, but am finding the apps very capable and completely adequate.
Brilliant video. I hope you make more like this one and show people all the options that we have in the Open Source Community!
Darktable is actually pretty good and is more than good enough for hobbyist raw photographers. It's amazing, intuitive and resembles Lightroom. The only thing I didn't like was images getting very pixelated upon zooming, something which never happens in Lightroom
Rawtherapee might be better for that ?
@@rishirajsaikia1323 I tried rawtherapee too. But ended up sticking with darktable as it better matched Lightroom, the software I'm accustomed to
The Catalog system in Lightroom is still the best solution for organizing your photos. And the only reason to have both Linux and Windows in my computer...
I just tried Darktable and fount so damn tricky to regulate RAW files of my Fujifilm. Lightroom/CaptureOne are definitely easier to use.. it's a shame because this lack of "easy to use out of the box" software in Linux is what brakes me to do the change. from MacOS/Windows
I use RawTherapee!!
Don't use Audacity, it's been getting a bit shady ever since Muse Group bought it. Use a fork instead, like Tenacity.
Also, there's no shortage of good video players. My preferred one is SMPlayer, which I switched to after VLC broke on me.
Nah mpv is just headache free simple
@@VinnyUnion For you, maybe. For me, mpv also threw up issues (though not nearly as bad) and I only have it on my system because after an apt autoclean SMPlayer lost one of its dependencies and the easiest way to fix it was to install mpv. It's a matter of personal choice, and my personal choice is to use SMPlayer instead of mpv.
@@skywz i use it also on a samsung phone and works flawlessly there as well. Don't know if it's the original mpv maintained by the actual dev though
@@VinnyUnion I didn't know it was on Android too. That's going to be worth checking out.
Great video. Love your honesty about being too lazy or not interested in learning certain things. No one has to be interested in everything. But you point the way to the tools for things that I am interested in. Bravo.
Hi Nick, love your channel! Your videos made me switch to Linux! Currently on Ubuntu coming from ElementaryOS :)
You always have something new in these that I've never heard of. Definitely replacing my Evernote with Joplin.
I just heard of jitsi as a replacement for Zoom. Unfortunately, like social media, that's not what everyone else is on so I can't use that.
If you take maths related notes, you might also find Xournal++ TeX integration very handy.
Or else, try Obsidian for notes. It's fantastic. And there are ways of syncing for free.
Evernote was hacked, and so much data is leaked.
I’d like to add Ardour on this list. Ardour is probably one of the greatest DAW for audio mixing (their audio routing is very powerful), only to be held back by mediocre included plugin, but they also support VST (Win, Mac, Linux) and AU (Mac) so it probably doesn’t matter for a lot of people that use external plugin anyway. The only complaint from me is that their MIDI handling isn’t as good as Logic, Cubase, Ableton, or even LMMS for that matter.
yep ardour is pretty good ... and i can't wait for them to make a change in the MIDI handling
It says it goes silent after 10 minutes if you have not paid. NOT OPEN SOURCE!
@@markdm5415 It is Open Source but it isn’t zero dollars, you can build it from the source yourself, and remove the silence-every-10-min limitation
@mmm bbb my dude i can’t wait to see it! good luck and tell me if you need help … im more of an newbie py dev but worked in design and ux alot
@mmm bbb You’re right, I mainly use Logic Pro, but sometimes I do use Ardour for mixing. I love the VCAs and the routing, remind me of analog mixer but with few click away.
Great list of all the exceptionally capable and popular daily drivers from the FLOSS world. Thanks for continuing to people to the possibilities.
Inkscape is great tool but Inkscape 1.2 is on a whole another level, I mean look at this 😃:
Release Notes
Highlights of this preview and testing version are:
Inkscape documents can now hold multiple pages, which are managed by the new Page tool
Editable markers and dash patterns
Layers and objects dialog merged
New Tiling Live Path Effect
On-canvas alignment snapping
Selectable object origin for numerical scaling and moving
All alignment options in a single dialog
Gradient editing in the Fill and Stroke dialog
Redesigned Export dialog with preview and ability to select objects/layers/pages and even multiple file formats to export to
Snap settings refactored
Configurable Tool bar, continuous icon scaling and many more new customization options
Performance improvements for many parts of the interface and many different functions
Many crash & bug fixes
Is it out? Last time I checked I think 0.x was still a thing.
@@FlorinArjocu Beginnig of May is full release. Beta is currently available.
@@lukajeliciclux3074 Is the beta stable? Thanks.
@@FlorinArjocu I'm not using it instead I'm waiting for full release. But, according to news it is pretty stable.
@@FlorinArjocu Version 1.1 is the current version, according to their own website.
This is how I pretty much transitioned to Linux - I'd been using open source software on Windows for ages (VLC, Firefox, Openoffice/Libreoffice, Thunderbird etc). Made the transition very easy this time (except I broke the Linux install so back with Windows for now). Never heard of Joplin before - most of the free note takers were garbage so I'll have to give this one a whirl!
It would be a good start for windows / mac users to switch to some foss. But the sad reality is that most people don't care that they are being exploited, spied on and stolen from.
Still another great video from Nick. Your style of video making is just excellent.
Nothing like pure, unadulterated condescension to make you feel appreciated...
@@Caseytify Say what you really think.
This is a good point. In part, this is how I was lured into Linux computing. I kept noticing all these great apps that originated from the Linux world of apps.
I was looking for this type of video. Thank you very much, sir.
I love Blender for video editing, but I think that's probably just my prior experience in 3D with Blender, which streamlined the workflow with all the hotkeys I already knew like the back of my hand. Compared to Premiere Pro it is definitely a bit more esoteric and bare bones, but it still works great as a video editor. I use it for all my video editing needs and I am steadily refining my workflow in the process.
In my case, it's the opposite: I've been using Linux since 2017 and found many great open source alternatives to what I'm used to. Slowly, this is affecting my apps choice on Windows. And now, these apps are inseparable from my daily life as a dual booter.
Really enjoying the increase of humor in your videos. Great content!
Did EXACTLY what you did said, and then realized that... I don't use any software that wasn't released on Linux anymore!
Now I'm using Ubuntu 20 with MATE on it.
KDE connect seems to work great even on that old NT based OS
As a Windows user, I would also recommend Zettlr and pandoc for fancy/academic/novel writing using markdown to export in almost every format. Both are open source and Zettlr integrates great with Joplin (which I also use). Great video as always!
@Zaydan Naufal Zettlr uses Pandoc for exporting markdown files trough LaTeX. As I know, It doesen't highlight LaTeX syntax, but it does supports LaTeX math and I've used some syntax for getting some results that can't be done with markdown. Maybe the Zettlr FAQ could answer this better. As for Joplin, it olny supports markdown, I olny use it for note taking.
@@nabo1871 Joplin supports LATEX via Khan Academy's KATEX API. Pretty much every Markdown editor on earth supports LATEX because of the flexibility of the LATEX syntax and partly because KATEX doesn't require a full-blown MikTex (LATEX base) Installation, even on Android. I use MarkText for Markdown on Windows, and neutriNote on Android. For SVG/PNG export from raw LATEX (with TEX extension) files, I run BAT scripts containing LATEX commands. To do that I need CMD.exe and MikTex in the background. MiKTeX should be added to the system path before that.
@@PinakiGupta82Appu That's great to know, thanks!
@@nabo1871 👍
Some of these I already use, but others you mentioned I want to learn more about. Thank you.
A collection of open-source software, I didn't know I needed. Thanks!
These are all good suggestions, and I've used all of them to various degrees. However, as a designer, I find the biggest gap is decent page layout software. Adobe InDesign is my workplace regular, but Affinity Publisher is my personal favourite. Scribus is capable for the most part (bar some basic shortcomings like bulleted text [which requires an additional script]), but its interface is cumbersome and performance lackluster. Sounds like Affinity applications are close to unofficially working on Linux. Once that is reliable, I'm all for switching to Linux.
I already started using Blender when the UI was objectively kinda terrible. (by now it improved greatly!) but even then, since that UI was pretty much the first complex software UI I ever got familiar with, there is no single software I can operate as smoothly as Blender. If there was an OS that was made to have everything control like you are in Blender, I'd be all in
Most of the recommended software here I've used back on Windows for years (GIMP, Krita, Blender from time to time, VLC, Audacity, LibreOffice). All of these programs are good and very solid for their intended use.
THANK YOU for this!!! NATRON was briefly mentioned but turned out to be a real gem! Been looking at it and it looks more like NUKE though and even use the same node terminology. I've been missing that since my school days & finally get to utilize node my skills again.
BRL CAD is also a great tip since I do design work sometimes. Awesome video!!
Yea, NATRON isn't after effects competitor at all. AE does layer based trash and nobody even wants to touch that other than adobe.
NUKE and FUSION (included in davinci resolve, which he uses..) are where NATRON completes with, and it is doing pretty well imo
BRL CAD does not even remotely replace AutoCAD. AutoCAD is mainly intended for architectural applications and some comparatively lightweight, non history-based 3D CAD modelling. The closest equivalent to AutoCAD in the open source world is Inkscape and LibreCAD, but you'd be sacrificing a lot with that workflow and you don't get 3D capability.
Frankly BRL is arcane, clunky, and painfully limited. It filled a need early on in the days of computer aided engineering, but was left in the dust decades ago by commercial software. It's not even worth a glance.
If you're looking for a more modern alternative to CAD suitable for engineering and industrial design, FreeCAD is worth a look. It exists in the same sort of space as Solidworks and Inventor, but it has tried to cram in architectural tools as well (although they are not clean and easy to use). Don't go in expecting the same sort of power and flexibility as a CAD tool like Solidworks, though.
And if you need something like Rhino or Alias, frickin' forget about it. The open source world has no equivalent.
CAD is a space where you can't readily switch, especially when you factor in PLM.
this is very true.
FreeCAD, last time I’ve tried it, also had the same problem as GIMP: painfully unintuitive UI and controls
I was considering trying BRL CAD, but thanks so much for the warning/ head’s up!
Regarding Audacity, I'd recommend either using a fork (Tenacity) or an outdated version (2.4.2). Sure, you'll miss out on a lot of new features, but that is if you're extremely privacy conscious.
From memory didn't they just collect optional anonymous data about hardware and software platforms so that they could keep tabs on the platforms they needed to test more on? That doesn't seem like a huge privacy issue all things considered.
@@miguelguthridge and it was an opt in choice. Internet warriors don't need much to shit themselves.
Seems Tenacity is now dead.
@@miguelguthridge yea and it was OPT IN as well, people are crazy. tenacity is also dead for good reason, people realized those articles were total hoax crap
Love this, these are all programs I use or have used for years. I love being independent from windows or mac.
really nice video, thanks for this quick overview
I really like Synfig Studio, it's an amazing vector animation software.
It's really good, yeah! I used it to make my old end video screen!
I use cross platform software like VLC and Thunderbird to help my transition to Linux. If I did photo editing, I would give PhotoPea a try.
Awesome Video
This is good to know
illl keep this in mind for when i do switch over to linux
Very helpful video, Nick! I really enjoyed it :)
There is also Scribus to replace Adobe Indesign :) I remember in the 90's we didn't have other choice than using shareware and/or cracked proprietary software :( Now (I would say since 2010's), we have so many open-source equivalents, that would be a pity to not use them :)
You could also have been talked about game engines, such as Godot Engine, for example (which is my favorite btw)
I absolutely love these FOSS production software. Thanks to them, I can make anything I want, without worrying about money and stuff. Especially because I'm just a teenager, and I don't have any way of gathering money for softwares, because I already paid too much on my computer and setup, why paying even more for things that even aren't physical?
And the larger (and longer term) benefit to "diving into this as a teenager".. is all the knowledge and experience you're accumulating now is going to pay off in the future when you have a better understanding of how computers work.
@@jasonnugent963 yes, of course. i love computers and technology, it's my passion since ever. and i haven't even finished school yet.
To be fair, even proprietary game engines are free for 95% of all developers. As far as I remember, you've had to earn more than a million USD on your project before making a single payment for usage of Unity or Unreal
Why? Try researching the concept of Intellectual Property. Millions of people have worked several decades to get you to this point. I can remember CP/M and edlin. I can remember when the IBM BASIC Compiler cost $300, that's probably close to $1200 in today's money. Ditto for their Assembler. Wordstar ran around $500. The software back then was buggy & expensive. Unix was available, but you normally needed a computer costing $5000+ to run it, and it was nowhere near as powerful as *nix is today.
When Borland release Turbo Pascal for $50 it was revolutionary. Suddenly you had a fast compiled language that wasn't insanely expensive. Things started to snowball after that.
Point being that these "things that even aren't physical" are the result of decades of hard work and investment before we had tools that would allow free systems to flourish.
@@Caseytify yes, i totally understand that they're not easy to develop, and that they need the money to keep it up. the real problem comes when not everyone has the accessibility to these paid softwares, especially teenagers like me, so i'm forced to search for free alternatives, or even piracy. and not to mention when you live in a country where affording eletronics is hard. for example, i use the same computer since 2013, and i just made some upgrades to it. i never could buy a new computer. making an entire setup can take literal years to be done, and then having to worry about software?
i know this entire situation would be solved if i dedicate myself into getting a job or something, so its like 50/60.
Shutter encoder is a great alternative to handbrake, especially if you are a video editor. It's also open source and supports formats not available in handbrake such as DNxHR
the open source stuff just makes life easier when you go between operating systems as well. I find myself using Windows, mac, and Linux machines and having the same software across them gives a sense of uniformity that otherwise wouldn't be there.
Nice video. I agree with most of it, yet I won't recommend dark table, nor gimp, to photographers. Dark table has so many bugs, and generally generates bad quality images, raw therapy is better, but it lacks basic editing tools like local editing. On the other hand, gimp is great for many things, like creating RUclips thumbnails, but for a photographer, it can't even compete with photoshop or affinity photo, it just lacks so many tools. Photography is one of the reasons why I am not using Linux exclusively.
Stupid question: what about Photoshop & Wine under Linux? Doesn't work?
@@Caseytify I haven’t tried, but I know wine used to support an older version of PS, have no idea about the current situation
Exactly the same issue here. I use Affinity, DXO and Skylum so I'm stuck with Windows. One possibility is VirtualBox to use Linux with Windows VM. Agree about Gimp and Darktable
I can really recommend Evolution (By Gnome) as a mail client. Mailspring always creates one dumb mailspring folder that you can't delete and is overall way too close to the macos look and feel for my liking. Evolution is like thunderbird, but less bloated and actually fully integrates with any themes thrown at it
I don't get much the need for email app for pc, in cellphone they're usefull cause if I see a notification from email app I know is a email, while browser notification can be anything from Japan to Germany, but for pc why do people use them?
@@shooterdefronvrps2 I don't use them either, I had to when I used a company issued PC but now I just use the browser. If people find a use for it then it's a nice tool, I guess
@@shooterdefronvrps2 I use one because the webinterface of my hosting provider is hella ugly and hard to use.
The only problem with Evolution vs Mailspring is that Evolution had bad performance with Gmail on large mailboxes
@@shooterdefronvrps2 Back when I used my relative's decade-old netbook and only had a hotspot with 3G for a connection, a mail client allowed me to get to my e-mails faster than the browser, and view them offline.
I'll throw this in if you're already on Linux; Trojita is a very lightweight e-mail client. I wish this were available on Windows.
I have to be honest, after a long time I did Linux another go thank to your videos. I am happy with my new fedora I even successfully install howdy for face recognition
Just switched yesterday and needed a list of software to use. Thanks for the list.
What Linux choice did you make ?.. How's it going so far !?
@@jasonnugent963 Fedora. So far I'm liking it.
I actually make use of macOS for my laptops because to me, the MBA M1 is the ultimate portable laptop and has been since it came out in Nov 2020. I then use Ubuntu on the desktop and so all the apps I use are cross platform and quite a few of them are open source.
Better put Asahi Linux on that MacBook eventually. It’s gonna be the ultimate operating system for it when it matures.
I've used blender for video editing before, and it's alright. It can do what it needs to, but it's not very practical, and it's very clear that it's not the main focus. I wouldn't really recommend it because there are so good alternatives
Alternatives? Could you give some examples, please? It'd be real helpful! Thanks.
Inkscape coming from adobe illustrator has been my go to every time because the tools are just great to use. Handbrake is an excellent tool I was basically able to take dvds from my library and move them over to a file format for my iPad so we have movies offline definite recommendation
Blender's Video Editor is amazing. Been using it as my main editor since 2018. It's a joy to use for those of us who were already used to Blender's hotkeys and conventions.
I expected to see mpv or something related to it after VLC. As MPC-HC user, VLC was a downgrade.
This HandBrake thing seems... handy.
n what could yu recomend like mpc-hc on linux?
@@prostaknaivnyj5976 Most likely Smplayer.
As an academic researcher in STEM, I am all for open source tools. I keep a FOSS alternative for every software I use on every computer I use. Unfortunately, my experience is I end up not really using them because they are typically not on par with the proprietary counterparts. The biggest one being Libreoffice - until 2016 Libreoffice was actually almost caught up to MS Office. As of 2023, it is just hopelessly behind on performance and features - especially Impress.
Its a similar story all along - Inkscape is great but Illustrator/InDesign/Publisher/Designer are better.
Thunderbird is great, eMClient is better. SciDavis/Qtiplot is great but Origin Pro is better.
The only case where FOSS takes the cake is coding - Python is unbeatable. Ironically the best IDE for me is VS Code which comes from Microsoft.
Thanks for reminding me, I should definitely try Krita again after my next big PC rework. Used it to great effect in the past until it started to really glitch out on me and started to hang when drawing almostly minutely. Hopefully that's fixed for me by now.
Also, blender is effin awesome. It's not as powerful as a specific or hyper specialised tool for a specific job, but blender can do almost everything in the 3D-world at least decently if not on-par with the specialised tools.
ooh thanks for introducing some stuff I didn’t know about, such as BRL-CAD and PhotoGIMP!
I was always disappointed by how difficult and unintuitive FreeCAD and GIMP were (ugh why can’t all open source softwares be as awesome as Blender?😢)
Thanks for suggesting other stuff, can’t wait to try them out!
What about MPV? You only mentioned VLC
One thing I was really hoping to see in here was an alternative to Adobe for creating/editing PDFs. I already use Thunderbird for my mail, LibreOffice for spreadsheets/text docs, VLC for video player, Calibre for ebooks and Inkscape for vector graphics. PDF creation/editing is the only thing I haven't found an open source free program for. I use PDFs for the ease with which I can set up the printing when I need to make multi section documents for bookbinding. I tried the Adobe stuff but apart from the really high cost (for me at least) on my ancient laptop it was constantly hogging all my bandwidth (4Mb download) and kept crashing the laptop. I've tried doing it in Calibre but really struggle to get anything done in it. Any suggestions very gratefully recieved.
LibreOffice offers a way, but it's indirect. You can open a pdf and edit it, but you can't use Save As to save it. Instead use Microsoft's Print to PDF. Probably doesn't help for pure Linux, but you can't have everything. Yet, anyway.
And you'll never find any open source alternative for creating/editing PDFs. Mainly because PDF is owned by Adobe and since 2008, when the format was standardized by the ISO, they allow any software to implement viewing PDFs freely, but for any creating/editing, Adobe demands royalties. That's why you need paid software to create or edit a PDF.
@@brunoshure Adobe being Adobe, I guess..😢
Some variation on print to PDF
Thank you so much for your great video.👏🏻
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macOS' Core Audio is phenomenal, for any real time audio applications or music production, it's hard to beat that with anything else, even windows. the latency is under 10 ms even when you use a third party USB audio interface/ USB Microphone. on the other hand linux audio is so painful to set up properly. Pulseaudio latency is so high that it throws you off while recording. you need to install JACK to get usable latency and even getting that configured is a hassle.
I really want to move to linux. I hope they enhance the audio performance in the future.
You should try using your DAW of choice with Pipewire. It's a drop-in replacement for JACK (it provides some sort of interface so the app talks through the JACK interface of Pipewire, Pulse interface for apps that use Pulse etc..), and it allows you to run those apps with other apps that use Pulse (no more painful switching)
Have you tried the Linux Studio distribution that’s specifically designed for music and video production? Peace.
@@Rivanni, it’s called Ubuntu Studio, which I installed on a bootable external drive to use with a 2015 MacBook Pro just so I could fuck around with it and see what it does, but I’m having a ton of trouble connecting to the Internet with it in order to get updates and can’t seem fix to the problem no matter what I do! Peace.
I've been using open source apps for my project for a while now. The only 2 pieces of software that I use that are not open source are Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer... Maybe UE5 fall into the category as well since it is not really open source but it's not closed source so it's something inbetween.
The reason I don't use Gimp and Inkscape is their UI especially Inkscape UI is thorn in my side because some functionalities like print and save and such are on the sidebar on the right but functionalities that actually work with objects are hidden in toolbars on the top and you have to search for them and there is no way to customize that and don't get me started on the abomination that is the color palette on the bottom.
Gimp just lacks basic logic in some actions so I don't like using it.
But I like use Blender, Kdenlive, LMMS, Krita, Audacity and few others.
Edit: Ok 2 more software that I use that are not open source are MS ToDo and OneNote because of the sync with my devices so I can manage tasks and writing on the go with auto sync.
Maybe Standard Notes can work similarly to OneNote for you
I agree wholeheartedly with GIMP. I tried Krita and then I never even peek at GIMP anymore.
Yeah, I think this is the best angle TBH. It's a hurdle that someone we convince to adopt a Linux Distro will likely have to jump through anyway, and being able to support them while they're still on their proprietary OS certainly makes our job as concerned acquaintances significantly smoother.
Great video of you. I subscribed!
You mentioned that you use the paid version of DaVinci Resolve... But is the free version good enough for video editing?... Thanks...
It is, but you're going to have to use handbrake to convert so some formats that it can support
Inkscape's UI and controls feel amazingly unintuitive and frustrating despite how inherently intuitive the concept of vector graphics seems like it should be.
To be fair, I don't have much experience with its paid alternatives, but if it's more or less in line with what the industry standards are in terms of controls, I feel like there's an enormous amount of opportunity here for a better system.
agreed. Even though I’m not too fond of the idea of “industry standard”, there at least should be some common ground so that jumping/switching to an alternative is easier.
GIMP is also guilty of this terribly UI and controls
Part 2 video for this is a must. List more opersource/freeware softwares for each category.
So useful 👌 thanks and keep going 👍🏻
Gimp's handling of saving files is annoying, though - is there a setting or a plugin to change that?
@BlackWorm I just want to save files back to the original format as the default.
@BlackWorm Also allow me to "save as" any file format I want. Is there a way to enable that?
@BlackWorm can I have a plugin that removes the save options and renames the export options to save?
@BlackWorm oh I just thought it was flexible. Guess not.
Irrc, Audacity is no longer open-source after it had telemetry added into it. I'd reccomend you use one of its forks - Audacium or Tenacity instead of it .
Great video otherwise, Nick! Helping people move to Linux by suggesting them privacy respecting software is a tactic we all need to use more to bring more people into our ecosystem.
Audacity was and still is opensource, it has to be since it's licensed under gpl which means all versions and modifications of the software have to be opensource.
damn, krita has painting process recording now? awesome to see almost all painting softwares adopting this
Man ... Your Videos Give Me A Life
subscribed 💙💙
I've had hard time having davinci in linux... the files never get imported
It only supports a few file formats on the free version, licensing issues on Linux :/
@@TheLinuxEXP ohhh Now I get it... I've always thought I had some bug from my side. Unfortunately, license issues really decrease the quality of the product itself :( I was trying hard to fix something which cannot be fixed. Thank you so much :) Love the video :)
Yeah, H.264 (and 265 too I think) is a no-go on the free version on Linux; it should work with the paid version though.
Well, Davinci resolve might not be open source but it is free to use for small creators and it puts Microsoft's Clipchamp video editor to shame.
Clipchamp wants you to pay money to export 720p! and even more to export 1080p...
Meanwhile Davinci resolve can do 4K 60 fps for free...
I use GIMP, Inkscape, and Blender a lot. I'm still figuring out Darktable, as it doesn't work great with the RAW files from newer cameras, at least not mine, but there are at least some converters to DNG files. I've been using VLC for so many years I kind of forget that it's an open source project and not just some free app. It's practically the first thing I install on any new computer, on any operating system.
Thanks for aan intresting presentation!
Warning for new users: LibreOffice isn't 100% compatible! Math formulas doesn't work in Microsoft Office even if you save the document in .docx, citations work differently, even some formatting breaks. Headers sometimes doesn't work, or tables of content. If you need to cooperate with somebody who uses Microsoft Office, don't use LibreOffice. Calc is even worse, I think it is mostly incompatible with Excel, apart from some basic formulas, no macros, no complex math functions. I honestly never used Impress or Base, so I left it to others to comment on them, Base has native support for dBase which could be useful for some people. Draw is fine but kinda a niche tool.
I've used photoshop for illustration for about 30 years, both personally and as professional tool. So i'll be honest: gimp is too alien and I feel like it's less suited for the job... krita on the other hand, is the best illustration tool I've come across (I used paint tool sai, clip studio paint, corel painter)... If you draw/paint, krita beats photoshop hands down and I'm not even trying to advocate for FOSS tools here. Note to nick: c'est cool de te voir faire la promo de krita parce qu'a mon sens c'est le futur "blender" de la 2d illustrative: l'outsider en train de bouffer l'industrie.
I feel you. I absolutely hate GIMP, but love Krita.
GIMP can work if you’re starting off with GIMP, but because of how alien it is, it seems terrible for someone who wants to jump to different softwares
@@haydenlee8332what exactly do you mean by alien?
Cool...thanks for the information on open-source applications. Do you suggest the best open source for replacing MS Project on Mac...??
Thanks! One area not mentioned - math/statistics software. Mathematica is excellent - and expensive. AS are the other proprietary apps I've heard of. I could really use some help and guidance on this! Master some new apps and then migrate to Linux to use there - great idea! Thanks again.
Uh, wasn't audacity bought by a company that added telemetry and made it closed-source? Great video though!
That's for Windows and Mac maybe. Linux froze the packages at the last version before any of that happened.
@cas curse Well, I know there are a ton of forks, I am just saying because the video talks about open source software and some people might not know audacity isn't one of them anymore.
Audacity is still open source but it has telemetry now.
Great video... I am surprised that you are still using Audacity after it's purchase by the Muse Group and the privacy policy / Contributor licencing agreement changes (given your concerns about Brave and other chromium-based browsers). I now use Ardour (ardour.org/)
My Favorite Tutorial Channels:
Darktable -- Understanding Darktable: ruclips.net/user/audio2u
Inkscape -- Logos by Nick: ruclips.net/user/LogosByNick
GIMP -- Davies Media Design: ruclips.net/user/DaViesMediaDesign
I have the feeling ardour isnt maintained very much is that true? Or is it just their repo that is outdated on, i think it was gitlab?.
Krita is awesome software, especialy with new 5.0 features. And its performance in my hardware compared to Photoshop is huge.
Excelent explanation! Thanks for your help. Gracias!
One thing people who recommend open source don’t understand is that the price means nothing to professionals. Make the app good or people won’t use it. Blender is a great example. People switched to it because it’s actually great in addition of it’s being free. Gimp and Inkscape, not so much. I tried to use them but they are actually horrible.
Video editing, I think davinci resolve is just too good.
And no, Autocad is going nowhere. I have tried many other cad software but none of them can do it like autocad.
This was the path that led me to being a full time Linux user. I wanted to find an alternative to Word, & found StarOffice. Continued using more & more open source, to reduce costs, malware, etc.
Absolutely love it great stuff
Linux introduces you to alot of great opensource software
Yay im early
Open-source software has become really good that some are even better then there paid proprietary counter parts like blender which has now became an industry standard in its space... If blender never existed I would have never seen my self going down a art career so I have to thank blender for my (future) career (if i get a job lol)
kdenlive still sucks tho :( A bit too slow and clunky
thats why he use davinci resolve
video editor is too advanced right now for open source to catch up
Hey Nick, have you thought about doing a video on hardware encoding/decoding setting up?
Like VA-API/VDPAU for browser hardware acceleration?
You are pretty interestingly funny in your honesty! People should be encouraged to contribute and donate to the Open Source community as well👍👍👍👍👍👍
Just downgrading from Adobe to Affinity is hard. Trying to downgrade to Inkscape or GIMP is really hard
I transferred from adobe to gimp and inkscape about 2 years ago and the change was pretty smooth. I knew there was going to be some learning that had to be done in order to get up to the speed I was at with Adobe but this is so much better than Adobe in my opinion. How was your experience different then?