What free software do you use as an alternative to expensive software? Other than the tutorials we have listed in the description, let us know if you'd like a tutorial on another program... Thanks for watching :)
choochoo real Audacity is NOT spyware. This was erroneously reported by those who have no idea what they're talking about. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/no-open-source-audacity-audio-editor-is-not-spyware/
Using these free programs is also a good way to test the waters of trying to switch to linux. Get used to using the programs on an OS you already know, then if you decide to ditch Windows, it will make the transition so much smoother. Instead of trying to learn new programs on top of trying to learn a whole new OS, which on it's own is a BIG learning curve.
That is what I did years ago. I am a photographer and I started on a Mac. Used Gimp for 2 or three versions till I switched to Linux. So when Apple cut support for PowerPC (that is how long ago it was) the switch was pretty seamless. Would have loved something like Elementary back then though since it is very reminiscent of the "big cat" era of OS X.
i'll never switch to Linux until it starts becoming more user friendly & more for gamers. For now it only has steam & origin & some washed up emulator shit with wine :/
@@Socomhunter It is improving. It is just going to take time. It has improved leaps and bounds from a few years back. But it is the chicken or the egg paradox. Not enough people to invest in doing more. But people are not using because there isn't enough of what they need.
@@dappermuis5002 it has improved but at the same time it hasn't. There has been some ways implemented to get games going but the user friendly part has absolutely not improved. The best thing they could come up with was distro's with some of the crap pre-installed. It's still a hassle to get certain things to work at all on linux and even that requires a lot of bullshit in the terminal. Normal users don't want to use the terminal. When is linux finally gonna learn that? As long as the majority of the stuff you want requires lines of code in a terminal it won't attract the intrest of a bigger population.
@@Socomhunter Well, valve has announced the steam deck which runs on Linux and by the time it releases, it will be able to run ALL OF THE windows games including games with Anti cheat!! This also means that all the Linux distros will finally have 100% gaming support!!
@@kilvbz988, Zorin (15.3 is the latest I know about) has a free and paid option. The only difference I could see is that there are more desktop layout options in the paid version. (Plus you're helping support the developers.)
I literally was now about to say I use every single one of the software he recommends, even surprised he said Davinci Resolve since that's proprietary.
i use obs studio for screen recording, blender for 3d animating, gimp for secondary texturing, handbrake for compressing, inkscape for vector files, and even audacity for audio editing software. i use an video editing software called vegas pro which it's price is very expensive like it cost 500 to 700 dollars.
I recently started using DaVinci Resolve and can confirm it is a VERY nice program. The video preview is butter smooth at full quality, no pre-rendering necessary, you can scrub through the video (even frame-by-frame if you want) (or backwards) ..WITH sound, and when you cut a section of video it automatically moves the remaining video over to the end of the previous clip, saving you precious time. The effects presets are damn nice too, you can apply a bunch of them and it won't slow the preview down at all, and it comes with some seriously sleek title presets. All-in-all a very recommendable program. I'm honestly surprised it's free
GIMP is awesome! I love the same functionality it has as Photoshop. And of course how could I forget about Blender, LibreOffice, FreeCad, Octave GNU and I'm sure I'm forgetting others.
I would really like to see GIMP completely overhaul the text tool. Any effects you add to a text layer, or place text on a path, will take away editing. You have to make absolutely sure it is the typeface/font you want to use, is completely spelled correctly, etc., or you will have to go back and essentially start over on your text. When even online editors can get that at least partially done, you have a HUGE problem to correct.
@@voqz6667 OBS is one of the easiest open source software I've ever used. It's pretty intuitive to get it to work, And if you're not sure what a control does it's probably best just to not change it. The average person can get by without having to know how to change the bitrate, and if they do need to it's pretty easy to do
@@charlesdoesmore5488 thats probably because of all the bells and whistles that come with it if you want to use it to full potential then yea it could get complicated
Well done and good list. I have already been using nearly all of them but thank you for pointing out Darktable. Totally new to me. I personally do not mind a reasonably priced piece of software. But I REFUSE... absolutely REFUSE to use a subscription model. That goes for games as well.. I REFUSE to rent my software. To me it is like buying a book but I have to pay again if I set it down for a couple months and decides to pick it up again later. Dumbest idea ever and you are a fool if you pay for such a thing.
Subscription is as ugly as unjustified taxes! I’m 100% against software rental and I’m a dev.! Good ol’ days when we used to buy a game or a program, one time!
Linux is always seen as the "cheap version" of operating systems. But it is more than that. Linux is OPEN. Everything about the OS is public, documented and editable and this makes Linux distro's potential infinite. Also unlike Microsoft or Apple their scope is not to make money, but users happy. With Linux you will never have to worry about a new OS, that yours won't be supported anymore and so you have to buy a new PC because it does not support TPM 2.0.
Preach, brother, preach! Repurpose the hardware and save our planet. Wake up and get up, people! Apple and Microsoft had their day. They did a solid. Now Let's make the necessities accessible to all. What say you? [the only problem are the cockroaches, that are everywhere and into everything today]
@@broimthuggin286, in most cases, yes. However, research the topic profusely before attempting, given there are fields of work heavily dependant on programs and drivers meant for Windows, fields such as audio and civic engineering, and architecture. Also, keep in mind Linux is not "Windows, but...", it has its own paradigm and philosophy.
Windows and MacOs is about the user and their apps, you don't need to tinker with the OS to get your work done, and your apps won't suddenly break and stop working when the OS gets patched. Linux focuses on the OS, Mac and Windows focuses on the user and that's why they are the most popular desktops.
i'm using Linux since 1998, my First distribution was Debian, before this, i had BeOS 3.1 on my PC .. but with the early Version of the Gimp, i've started to do my Desktop Wallpaper creation .
for recording games... i use medal it doesn't affect the system performance like obs... one problem i had with medal was it didn't worked on windows 8.1 for me... so i used outplayed to record...
I use Apple’s Pages, Keynote, iMovie & Garage Band which are free if you use a Mac 🖥 … in fact I prefer them to MS 360. I also use Google’s office tools.
With LibreOffice, you can edit and create PDF. That is good. The paid version of Davinci is US$299, and includes free lifetime upgrades. Blender is an awesome program, though its onboard video editor is subpar. I would use it only for testing. Tends to be a little crash-happy, so always save. If you are doing animation with it, render it one-frame-at-a-time as to avoid hassles when it crashes. People either love or hate GIMP, with little in-between. There used to be add-ons available that would improve the drawing characteristics of it, and you used to be able to do animations in it. (nothing complex, more GIF like than anything). Any good CAD software out there?
As a free video editor I miss OpenShot. I use that now and than, and it just does the job. I also have Davinci Resolve, but somehow the learning curve is higher, for people like me whom only need to do editing occasionally. O, and OBS, I really love it for live streaming. But I bet ther is more out there free stuff. But, thanks for the video!!
Would be great if you did one of these for newbies.... I dont even know what exactly each would do, and why they are not doing many of the same things.... just a thought
Yuu don't even need to use any software to edit or convert audio or video with GUI in Linux.FFMPEG has many futures and in can be run in command line :).
7:25 be careful with Audacity, the owners recently changed the privacy policy to allow them to collect any and all data they can. Run an old version or the new one in a Firejail until there is a viable fork.
@@bobwolf1811 It's a piece of software that is based on another piece of software. Tenacity is "forked off" of Audacity, meaning it takes Audacity's code and makes changes to it. Other examples of forks include Windows being forked off of DOS, LibreOffice being a fork of OpenOffice, and Android being derived from Linux.
LibreOffice Draw or Inkscape are good options if you want to edit PDFs. Both programs allow you to do alot more than just edit PDFs too so there is no need to have a separate application just for PDF edits.
any good Adobe Acrobat alternative? I mean you can use your browser to load pdf files fairly quickly but I don't know a good free alternative for Adobe Acrobat to edit pdf files
the only thing that keep me of getting full on linux is the lack of support for videogames...(I know about ALL the projects for emulation and native running games on it but still very far off what "wintendo" can do)
It’s pretty much getting corporate takeovered right now. Some company bought it and the literal first thing they did was implement telemetry and then removed it and added a privacy policy which I could be wrong but is against the rules of the license the software is licensed under. Their are some forks out right now that you could use as a version before they implemented the telemetry but who knows how long those would work.
@@Vhlathanosh Yep because legally companies can’t collect data for people under the age of 13. Unfortunately how would they stop someone from just lying about their age? I also know schools of all ages used audacity so that will make schools stop using it. It’s really just a huge shitshow and really sucks for what used to be an amazing piece of software.
I heard some where the original gnu version was taken over and renamed to something by the programmers and is still available, not sure about the name though
BandiCam and BandiCut are nice FOC software that I use a lot ... ITs very easy to use. PhotoScape is the other software that is very easy to use and is FOC as well
Hyper V(windows) and KVM (Linux) are much much better than VirtualBox. They are both type 1 VM with passthrough capacity which gives them near native speed.
Right. And you have UTM which is free, built on Qemu and a great option for Mac especially with Apple silicon. But I switched to Proxmox as a Type 1 Hypervisor built on KVM and LXC, and the best alternative to VMware ESXi but very light and with passthrough, etc.
Vmware workstation is also free as they screwed up that fact in thr video. It has a free version that average users would be fine with. It's type 2, but I find many novices starting out may like it's UI the most and it makes it pretty easy with modes like Unity and great documentation.
Would you make any In depth analysis on the Linux distributions now in 2021, like how user friendly are for new users, advantages and disadvantages, etc etc?
There are some really nice user friendly Linux distros out there. Linux isn’t as hard to learn as people believe. I recommend trying out something like Ubuntu in a VM and see if you like it before you install it on your own computer.
As a linux user I can definitely say they are extremely user friendly. So many to choose from. The ones that are not for Newbies but definitely for extremely advanced users are Gentoo, Kali, Arch. So stick to the other ones
Don't overthink it. The biggest mistake beginners make is overthinking it. Like in the vid I 'd recommend Ubuntu, Zorin OS, Mint, or Elementary OS. Doesn't matter which. You're probably going to tweak them all a bit so it's not going to matter. It's best to just run them in a VM and try for yourself for a month or so. It's personal preference and you can do a lot of the same shit in each and every one. They're the same kernel with just slightly different starting points if you will. I'd try it. Best way to learn about software is honestly to just jump in and try it (in a VM if you're nervous).
As a teacher I've been looking for a free alternative to notability. What am I calling where's my I don't have a Mac and I don't have that much money. Since I also teach a film class sometimes I've been looking for alternatives to final draft.
If you just want to join and spit pages, I use PDF Arranger. It was the one feature Adobe didn't allow you to have for free that one needed, from time to time, but used once in a blue moon, so not worth paying for. I love NAPS2, not another pdf scanner, but the 2 draw backs, was 1stly, it could only join PDF's it scanned in (PDF arranger doesn't have that issue, but doesn't scan). The other is it doesn't work on linux, even if it claims to do so, unless you use something like Wine I guess, as the files for the linux download are the same EXE. files for windows. Sadly had to give up that one. As I don't use Windows as my daily driver. If they got that to work on Linux without having to jump through hoops, it would make scanning so much easier in Linux. It is a darn good tool. Also found that sometime you may need more than one program to do the same thing that was done by one. But is that a bad thing? If it does the job, so does it matter? As someone from a 3rd world country, when your currancy hovers between 15 -20 times the USD on average. It becomes so expensive, that just one of adobe's products, it could cost almost the same price as an entry level laptop, by the time the end of the year comes! Er.... I can't even afford to buy a new laptop every year!
VirtubalBox has one biggest flaw - it doesn't support being run on Hyper-V platform (which is a virtual machine itself), that is enabled by default in Windows, and keeps getting re-enabled every time an update occurs. In future updates, that feature might not be able to be disabled. VMware does support running on Hyper-V platform since the version 16. Until VirtualBox implements the support for Hyper-V platform, I'll stick with VMware.
I appreciate your perspective but could not disagree more. I understand that free software sending back your data is the price of the software but if you pay for that software and they still send back telemetry I think you're getting screwed no matter how convenient it is. Microsoft charges you for their product and then steals your data. Apple charges you half again the price for comparable hardware then steals your data. It's not like the 90s. Linux has a GUI and you can find stable distros. you do what makes you comfortable but convenience should not out weigh privacy
Evolution - which to the best of my knowledge is Linux-only - has Exchange plug-ins for both older releases of Exchange (pre-2007 I think?) and the newer ones based on EWS. It works well with Exchange although Evolution itself is kinda lacking compared to Thunderbird or even other mail/groupware clients.
What free software do you use as an alternative to expensive software? Other than the tutorials we have listed in the description, let us know if you'd like a tutorial on another program... Thanks for watching :)
Hey just a question is there an alternative to audacity since there is a rumor i heard about spywares on audacity 3.0 and onwards
choochoo real Audacity is NOT spyware. This was erroneously reported by those who have no idea what they're talking about. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/no-open-source-audacity-audio-editor-is-not-spyware/
I knew 6 of the software on this list for the last five years, used them for my Bachelor's Thesis. Also, an avid Linux user, on Manjaro Linux.
Hey Man you missed Pixalr A free versoin of Photoshop
Have you mentioned in a previous video about an alternative to Plex?
Using these free programs is also a good way to test the waters of trying to switch to linux. Get used to using the programs on an OS you already know, then if you decide to ditch Windows, it will make the transition so much smoother. Instead of trying to learn new programs on top of trying to learn a whole new OS, which on it's own is a BIG learning curve.
That is what I did years ago. I am a photographer and I started on a Mac. Used Gimp for 2 or three versions till I switched to Linux. So when Apple cut support for PowerPC (that is how long ago it was) the switch was pretty seamless. Would have loved something like Elementary back then though since it is very reminiscent of the "big cat" era of OS X.
i'll never switch to Linux until it starts becoming more user friendly & more for gamers. For now it only has steam & origin & some washed up emulator shit with wine :/
@@Socomhunter It is improving. It is just going to take time. It has improved leaps and bounds from a few years back. But it is the chicken or the egg paradox. Not enough people to invest in doing more. But people are not using because there isn't enough of what they need.
@@dappermuis5002 it has improved but at the same time it hasn't. There has been some ways implemented to get games going but the user friendly part has absolutely not improved. The best thing they could come up with was distro's with some of the crap pre-installed. It's still a hassle to get certain things to work at all on linux and even that requires a lot of bullshit in the terminal. Normal users don't want to use the terminal. When is linux finally gonna learn that? As long as the majority of the stuff you want requires lines of code in a terminal it won't attract the intrest of a bigger population.
@@Socomhunter Well, valve has announced the steam deck which runs on Linux and by the time it releases, it will be able to run ALL OF THE windows games including games with Anti cheat!! This also means that all the Linux distros will finally have 100% gaming support!!
That face you make when you realize you use all the free alternatives mentioned.
Zorin is free ?
@@kilvbz988, Zorin (15.3 is the latest I know about) has a free and paid option. The only difference I could see is that there are more desktop layout options in the paid version. (Plus you're helping support the developers.)
That face you make when you realise you use most of the paid programs mentioned but its pirated lol
I literally was now about to say I use every single one of the software he recommends, even surprised he said Davinci Resolve since that's proprietary.
@@RondellKBll
i use obs studio for screen recording, blender for 3d animating, gimp for secondary texturing, handbrake for compressing, inkscape for vector files, and even audacity for audio editing software. i use an video editing software called vegas pro which it's price is very expensive like it cost 500 to 700 dollars.
@@ChichaGad Piracy? But I don't even have a boat.
You wouldn't download a car..... a boat however. RRRRRR Matey!
I read newer versions of audacity spy for google.
I recently started using DaVinci Resolve and can confirm it is a VERY nice program. The video preview is butter smooth at full quality, no pre-rendering necessary, you can scrub through the video (even frame-by-frame if you want) (or backwards) ..WITH sound, and when you cut a section of video it automatically moves the remaining video over to the end of the previous clip, saving you precious time. The effects presets are damn nice too, you can apply a bunch of them and it won't slow the preview down at all, and it comes with some seriously sleek title presets. All-in-all a very recommendable program. I'm honestly surprised it's free
"you can apply a bunch of them and it won't slow the preview down at all, " I just remembered who you are. Hope you are feeling better.
Very nice of you to list free and useful softwares, alternatives to giants. Thank you
Thanks for putting this video up, I just cant justify renting software every month or pay a huge premium just to be a hobbyist.
GIMP is awesome! I love the same functionality it has as Photoshop. And of course how could I forget about Blender, LibreOffice, FreeCad, Octave GNU and I'm sure I'm forgetting others.
I would really like to see GIMP completely overhaul the text tool. Any effects you add to a text layer, or place text on a path, will take away editing. You have to make absolutely sure it is the typeface/font you want to use, is completely spelled correctly, etc., or you will have to go back and essentially start over on your text. When even online editors can get that at least partially done, you have a HUGE problem to correct.
Why would you ever pay for screen recording software when OBS is so good
User friendliness. Something like action is awesome considering steam version being dirt cheap
@@voqz6667 OBS is one of the easiest open source software I've ever used. It's pretty intuitive to get it to work, And if you're not sure what a control does it's probably best just to not change it. The average person can get by without having to know how to change the bitrate, and if they do need to it's pretty easy to do
@@charlesdoesmore5488 thats probably because of all the bells and whistles that come with it if you want to use it to full potential then yea it could get complicated
or nvidia experience
Whatever anyone says, the best feature of OBS is not its screen recording but it's virtual camera.
*Cheating in online exams go brrrr*
When it comes to screen shooting Greenshot is ace and it can edits shots and drop them straight into MS Office apps it’s brilliant
As always, a great, useful video with no verbiage.
Thank you. A great deal of time must have been spent reviewing all these application and putting this together.
This is very helpful video.
Thanks for the research you did on behalf of us. Must watch for students. Lots of utility tools are covered. Good job👍
Well done and good list.
I have already been using nearly all of them but thank you for pointing out Darktable. Totally new to me.
I personally do not mind a reasonably priced piece of software. But I REFUSE... absolutely REFUSE to use a subscription model.
That goes for games as well.. I REFUSE to rent my software. To me it is like buying a book but I have to pay again if I set it down for a couple months and decides to pick it up again later. Dumbest idea ever and you are a fool if you pay for such a thing.
Subscription is as ugly as unjustified taxes! I’m 100% against software rental and I’m a dev.!
Good ol’ days when we used to buy a game or a program, one time!
Hey TechGumbo!
For years I have been using what you suggest and never have I had an issue, many thx! ;)
I've been using OBS studio since 2 months, It very good 🔥
Many thanks, always worth dropping in....
Linux is always seen as the "cheap version" of operating systems. But it is more than that. Linux is OPEN. Everything about the OS is public, documented and editable and this makes Linux distro's potential infinite. Also unlike Microsoft or Apple their scope is not to make money, but users happy.
With Linux you will never have to worry about a new OS, that yours won't be supported anymore and so you have to buy a new PC because it does not support TPM 2.0.
Preach, brother, preach!
Repurpose the hardware and save our planet. Wake up and get up, people! Apple and Microsoft had their day. They did a solid. Now Let's make the necessities accessible to all. What say you? [the only problem are the cockroaches, that are everywhere and into everything today]
so is it advisable to switch from Windows to Linux?
@@broimthuggin286, in most cases, yes. However, research the topic profusely before attempting, given there are fields of work heavily dependant on programs and drivers meant for Windows, fields such as audio and civic engineering, and architecture.
Also, keep in mind Linux is not "Windows, but...", it has its own paradigm and philosophy.
@@broimthuggin286 I'd try it in a VM first.
Windows and MacOs is about the user and their apps, you don't need to tinker with the OS to get your work done, and your apps won't suddenly break and stop working when the OS gets patched. Linux focuses on the OS, Mac and Windows focuses on the user and that's why they are the most popular desktops.
This is a very well-put-together information video in 9 minutes thanks for uploading.
i'm using Linux since 1998, my First distribution was Debian, before this, i had BeOS 3.1 on my PC .. but with the early Version of the Gimp, i've started to do my Desktop Wallpaper creation .
Thanks for the usefull and free info :)
TY :-) you keep it simple and to the point, whilst saving people lots of money to spend on other more important things!
This is very much needed. Thank you so much!!
I have subscribed you now and your new video come.
That's Great
thank you from a computer user with a strict budget!!!!!
And just to to blow everyone's mind, I use Photo Editor 3.0 (from Windows 98) to help make transparent backgrounds.
for recording games... i use medal
it doesn't affect the system performance like obs...
one problem i had with medal was it didn't worked on windows 8.1 for me... so i used outplayed to record...
THANK YOU for all of this!! It is much appreciated!!
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Its great and I like witu every content to my idea thanks so much
Thanks for that. Certainly one or two new ones to check out
This was a great video. Thanks. keep it up.
Thanks for providing very Informative video.
At 1:30 - Ever try of Photopea site? At 5:40 - Both Nvidia and AMD GPU drivers can record (and even stream).
Superb video 👏🙏💐
GREAT video.
I use Apple’s Pages, Keynote, iMovie & Garage Band which are free if you use a Mac 🖥 … in fact I prefer them to MS 360.
I also use Google’s office tools.
I appreciate your work! :)
Thank you very much. Great information.
you didn't mention WPS as an alternative of office , its one of the best and WPS sheets has more functions than only office
@Mo Refaat i'm using WPS and it's fully free
With LibreOffice, you can edit and create PDF. That is good.
The paid version of Davinci is US$299, and includes free lifetime upgrades.
Blender is an awesome program, though its onboard video editor is subpar. I would use it only for testing. Tends to be a little crash-happy, so always save. If you are doing animation with it, render it one-frame-at-a-time as to avoid hassles when it crashes.
People either love or hate GIMP, with little in-between. There used to be add-ons available that would improve the drawing characteristics of it, and you used to be able to do animations in it. (nothing complex, more GIF like than anything).
Any good CAD software out there?
Hmm I think there is only AutoCAD which is paid. I'll let you know if any free ones are good.
As a free video editor I miss OpenShot. I use that now and than, and it just does the job. I also have Davinci Resolve, but somehow the learning curve is higher, for people like me whom only need to do editing occasionally. O, and OBS, I really love it for live streaming.
But I bet ther is more out there free stuff. But, thanks for the video!!
Would be great if you did one of these for newbies.... I dont even know what exactly each would do, and why they are not doing many of the same things.... just a thought
👍🏼 Always helpful! Your audio sounds more "lively" on this -- new mic or bigger room or....? 🤔
I agree about Ubuntu but Audacity is great?
great info! Thank You MUCH!
Thanks for the info
Thanks for your effort
Open Office is another good alternative. I used to open Excel files with it.
LibreOffice now has better compatibility with MSOffice files. Anotther free alternative is WPS
Libre office was known as open office previously...
the best audio recording and editing software, although not technically free (it costs 60 bucks, or you can "evaluate" forever) is Reaper
🌼 Well appreciated! Gracias!
Very good list
Gimp is half decent but it gets the job done. Still taking me time to get used to it
Yuu don't even need to use any software to edit or convert audio or video with GUI in Linux.FFMPEG has many futures and in can be run in command line :).
7:25 be careful with Audacity, the owners recently changed the privacy policy to allow them to collect any and all data they can. Run an old version or the new one in a Firejail until there is a viable fork.
Thanks for the heads up!
@@bobwolf1811 Actually, this is outdated. You can use the fork Tenacity now.
@@skywz By the way, what is a "fork?"
@@bobwolf1811 It's a piece of software that is based on another piece of software. Tenacity is "forked off" of Audacity, meaning it takes Audacity's code and makes changes to it. Other examples of forks include Windows being forked off of DOS, LibreOffice being a fork of OpenOffice, and Android being derived from Linux.
@@skywz Thank you for your help. This makes good sense.
do you have any alternative for video scribe or whiteboard animation software
Any good Adobe acrobat alternative where we can edit pdf the same way???
LibreOffice Draw or Inkscape are good options if you want to edit PDFs. Both programs allow you to do alot more than just edit PDFs too so there is no need to have a separate application just for PDF edits.
any good Adobe Acrobat alternative? I mean you can use your browser to load pdf files fairly quickly but I don't know a good free alternative for Adobe Acrobat to edit pdf files
Foxit is pretty good
Xodo is pretty good.
LibreOffice Draw can help you edit PDF files, I personally use it
PDF XChange Editor
Kdenlive is also a pretty good video editor!
Realy I like this video so much
bro where have u been, it is so cool
You may try the Shutter encoder.
Thank you Techgumbo this helped me
Kdenlive for video editing is also good.
Thank you for gimp software
KRITA IS AWESOME!!
the only thing that keep me of getting full on linux is the lack of support for videogames...(I know about ALL the projects for emulation and native running games on it but still very far off what "wintendo" can do)
Audacity now collects telemetry and shares it with "law enforcement" and who knows where else it goes.
It’s pretty much getting corporate takeovered right now. Some company bought it and the literal first thing they did was implement telemetry and then removed it and added a privacy policy which I could be wrong but is against the rules of the license the software is licensed under. Their are some forks out right now that you could use as a version before they implemented the telemetry but who knows how long those would work.
@@warhawk_yt no, you're actually right about privacy policy. 13 yr olds and below aren't allowed to use it.
@@Vhlathanosh Yep because legally companies can’t collect data for people under the age of 13. Unfortunately how would they stop someone from just lying about their age? I also know schools of all ages used audacity so that will make schools stop using it. It’s really just a huge shitshow and really sucks for what used to be an amazing piece of software.
Try ocenaudio
I heard some where the original gnu version was taken over and renamed to something by the programmers and is still available, not sure about the name though
VMware Virtualization Alternative. How about Hyper-V and Ubuntu, Kali, Microsoft Windows.
@TechGumbo , you also missed screen recorder FlashBack Express Recorder (free version).
I use FlashBack too, and quite a lot. The 15 fps max may be a drawback though.
@@comasmusica7548 They have 30FPS on the Windows/PC version.
BandiCam and BandiCut are nice FOC software that I use a lot ... ITs very easy to use. PhotoScape is the other software that is very easy to use and is FOC as well
What is the best autocad alternative?
Hyper V(windows) and KVM (Linux) are much much better than VirtualBox. They are both type 1 VM with passthrough capacity which gives them near native speed.
Right. And you have UTM which is free, built on Qemu and a great option for Mac especially with Apple silicon.
But I switched to Proxmox as a Type 1 Hypervisor built on KVM and LXC, and the best alternative to VMware ESXi but very light and with passthrough, etc.
Vmware workstation is also free as they screwed up that fact in thr video. It has a free version that average users would be fine with. It's type 2, but I find many novices starting out may like it's UI the most and it makes it pretty easy with modes like Unity and great documentation.
Top suggestions
But, what I need is an alternative to Autocad.
Don't even mind paying a bit..
Cheers
Would you make any In depth analysis on the Linux distributions now in 2021, like how user friendly are for new users, advantages and disadvantages, etc etc?
There are some really nice user friendly Linux distros out there. Linux isn’t as hard to learn as people believe. I recommend trying out something like Ubuntu in a VM and see if you like it before you install it on your own computer.
As a linux user I can definitely say they are extremely user friendly. So many to choose from. The ones that are not for Newbies but definitely for extremely advanced users are Gentoo, Kali, Arch. So stick to the other ones
Try ZORIN, FEREN, or GARUDA, I've all of them and I like them all. Right now using Feren OS on my laptop
Don't overthink it. The biggest mistake beginners make is overthinking it. Like in the vid I 'd recommend Ubuntu, Zorin OS, Mint, or Elementary OS. Doesn't matter which. You're probably going to tweak them all a bit so it's not going to matter. It's best to just run them in a VM and try for yourself for a month or so. It's personal preference and you can do a lot of the same shit in each and every one.
They're the same kernel with just slightly different starting points if you will. I'd try it. Best way to learn about software is honestly to just jump in and try it (in a VM if you're nervous).
Can you help me find an alternative software for AutoCAD civil
As a teacher I've been looking for a free alternative to notability. What am I calling where's my I don't have a Mac and I don't have that much money. Since I also teach a film class sometimes I've been looking for alternatives to final draft.
Thank you for your efforts and good heart
There's also WPS office for office 365 alternative.
Please a video about Free alternatives to Acrobat DC
Shutter Encoder is a video converter I just started using
cool video on free applications! Thanks for the tips. Any good alternatives to Acrobat (i.e., a good free pdf editor)?
DeftPDF
LibreOffice
Inkscape
Scribus
Photopea etc,.
PDF-XChange Editor: Is very good
Everyone check and make sure you are getting the videos. RUclips is being dumb and never got emails saying new videos.
Very interesting, is there a program to replace publisher
nice video.
OBS Studio / Open Office / Blender / Photoshop CS4 / Wondershare Filmora 9
Do you know of any software that is a Quicken alternative? Perhaps one that opens Quicken files?
Cant believe i nearly use all the free alternatives listed in this video lol!
Greenshot is a great alternative to Snagit and it's free!
It is if you are not capturing video. I use it for screen shots but thats pretty much all it does.
ShareX is better.
So what is the cheapest route to CAD/CAM? I'm about to get busy.
try LibreCAD
What is an alternative for PDF editing software?
If you just want to join and spit pages, I use PDF Arranger. It was the one feature Adobe didn't allow you to have for free that one needed, from time to time, but used once in a blue moon, so not worth paying for.
I love NAPS2, not another pdf scanner, but the 2 draw backs, was 1stly, it could only join PDF's it scanned in (PDF arranger doesn't have that issue, but doesn't scan). The other is it doesn't work on linux, even if it claims to do so, unless you use something like Wine I guess, as the files for the linux download are the same EXE. files for windows. Sadly had to give up that one. As I don't use Windows as my daily driver. If they got that to work on Linux without having to jump through hoops, it would make scanning so much easier in Linux. It is a darn good tool.
Also found that sometime you may need more than one program to do the same thing that was done by one. But is that a bad thing? If it does the job, so does it matter?
As someone from a 3rd world country, when your currancy hovers between 15 -20 times the USD on average. It becomes so expensive, that just one of adobe's products, it could cost almost the same price as an entry level laptop, by the time the end of the year comes! Er.... I can't even afford to buy a new laptop every year!
Libreoffice and WPS can edit PDF files
any best open source backup with centralized management for windows workstations.
VirtubalBox has one biggest flaw - it doesn't support being run on Hyper-V platform (which is a virtual machine itself), that is enabled by default in Windows, and keeps getting re-enabled every time an update occurs. In future updates, that feature might not be able to be disabled. VMware does support running on Hyper-V platform since the version 16. Until VirtualBox implements the support for Hyper-V platform, I'll stick with VMware.
I appreciate your perspective but could not disagree more.
I understand that free software sending back your data is the price of the software but if you pay for that software and they still send back telemetry I think you're getting screwed no matter how convenient it is.
Microsoft charges you for their product and then steals your data. Apple charges you half again the price for comparable hardware then steals your data.
It's not like the 90s. Linux has a GUI and you can find stable distros.
you do what makes you comfortable but convenience should not out weigh privacy
A good video Idea is Free modern programs for Low-end systems.
I have a Dual Core i5 laptop with 6 gb of ram and only intel HD 3000 for graphics.
that's not a low-end system and all the apps mentioned will be able to run in it and fast
How does GIMP compare with Photopea? Has anyone used both?
Can you suggest some free or cheaper alternatives to software used for students studying architecture.
Try LibreCAD
Sketchup Free
any open source tool to replace "Outlook " with an Exchange mail connection?
Thunderbird or Evolution
Evolution - which to the best of my knowledge is Linux-only - has Exchange plug-ins for both older releases of Exchange (pre-2007 I think?) and the newer ones based on EWS. It works well with Exchange although Evolution itself is kinda lacking compared to Thunderbird or even other mail/groupware clients.
What about web design? I currently have a copy of DreamWeaver 8 that I got free so really old.
I think the closest to dreamweaver would be brackets io.
Although not "free', Affinity's software cost is ~ as *3 months* of Adobe's software...
Yea, other than creating a virtual box how would i switch out OS s. I currently have windows 11 on one and 10 on the other