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

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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

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

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

My central and autonomic nervous systems. Mine are shite and have been since I was wee. Even a clean reinstall of the original operating system would likely help a ton, but if the open source community could go through the files and find the all the bugs, who knows what I could make of my life. At the very least I'd be able to work again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

OH FUCK

Brain is running proprietary shitware

Theres no hope for us, but for our kids...

Lets flash something worthy into their heads moment they are getting birth

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

You jest but with the upcoming brain chips that might actually be a thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

We are trying, but the bootloader seems to be unlockabe, and that's pushing us back.