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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] 6 points 11 months ago

The best example that comes to mind is mouse acceleration. Fedora has a setting in the GUI for it but it didn't work. So I literally had to set it in my bashrc to get it to work.

Another issue I saw was os theme being multiple settings depending on gtk or qt apps.

Another issue is video card driver. I've had Ubuntu auto update and brick my install, dropping me down to grub because grub was set to use my Nvidia proprietary drivers but the kernel module wasn't installed despite me setting it in the GUI to use the Nvidia drivers.

Multiple issues with peripherals and having to install a random GitHub Python script for watcom drivers or Xbox controllers.

Oh, also vpn settings on the os level didn't work on debian recently. I had to configure it via command line.