• Ross of Ottawa@lemmy.one
    17·
    2 years ago

    Definitely Blender. I’d consider myself a medium grade expert at using it for CAD, solid modelling, 3D printing, yet there are vast sections of it I have never touched, and appear to be so rich that you could build a career around them without overlapping with my skill set.

    • Sethayy@lemmy.ml
      3·
      2 years ago

      And like having full Python interface is insane for how powerful it can be even to begginers - but the crazy bastard made it easier with geometry nodes

    • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml
      3·
      2 years ago

      Blender used to be so difficult to use. It has come a long way and I genuinely like using now, not just forced to because of budget limits.

  • backpackn@lemmy.ml
    12·
    2 years ago

    Omnivore! It’s just a “read it later” app, but so nice to use. I enjoy newsletters again, because they all go there instead of in my emails, and they all have a uniform look to them now. Sorting by labels and syncing highlights to my Obsidian inbox page are great features. And they said bulk editing is coming soon.

    Also bitwarden, lichess, and qbitorrent.

  • fernandu00@lemmy.ml
    11·
    2 years ago

    Linux! The responsible for my knowledge in computing and a great deal of English…Linux is the power!

  • art@lemmy.ml
    11·
    2 years ago

    I kinda have the opposite response. I’ve been a mostly open source guy for the last 20 years so when I see what kind of half baked proprietary tools people buy I’m always shocked how much money mediocre software costs.

    • pingveno@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      Up until not too long ago, it seemed like if the leading proprietary tool was half baked, the open source tool was a quarter baked. Take office suites. OpenOffice was pretty consistently ten years behind MS Office. Or GIMP was constantly lagging behind Photoshop in usability, but now is a very good photo editor. The exception has always been development tools, where you get a nice confluence of motivation to volunteer and people knowing what they want.

  • anonion@lemmy.one
    111·
    2 years ago

    VSCode. I know its owned by Microsoft but its such a good editor. Having a strong tool is so important since nobody wants to be concerned about the app, they just want to code and do their work!

  • Tyler Wolf@lemmy.ml
    91·
    2 years ago

    Firefox is the first to come to mind. Also all the KDE software (when run in KDE).

    • MyNameIsIgglePiggle@lemmy.ml
      21·
      2 years ago

      I always felt like gimp is hot garbage and Inkscape is clunky and in desperate need of an overhaul. Totally second blender and krita though

      • Catweazle@social.vivaldi.net
        1·
        2 years ago

        @MyNameIsIgglePiggle @yaniv, Gimp isn’t so bad, Krita is greatbut mostly dedicated for paintings, not so for photos. Yes Inkskape is a sluggish headache, for vector graphics you can try Libre Office Draw, OpenToonz or Graphite (online), al also OpenSource.
        Blender is for 3D modelling and animation, maybe better the improved version (compatible with Blender formats and plugins) Bforartists

  • Lemminary@lemmy.ml
    8·
    2 years ago

    Honestly, Lively Wallpaper. You can set anything as your wallpaper and it’ll work wonderfully: a video streaming directly from YouTube, a Unity game, a shader, a browser tab, a gif… You name it!

    And the API supports sound input so anyone can make their sound visualizers now. I always wanted to do that as a kid after being an og WMP fanboy and finally got that knocked off my bucket list

    • maxprime@lemmy.ml
      4·
      2 years ago

      This sounds cool but the amount of time that I actually see my desktop is probably less than 1% of the time I’m on my computer.

  • NathanUp@lemmy.ml
    7·
    2 years ago
    • Yunohost
    • KDE Plasma
    • Kdenlive
    • Krita
    • Inkscape
    • Blender
    • OBS
    • Xonotic
    • Beyond All Reason
    • Manjaro (Despite the hate, no other distro has worked as well for me)
    • Firefly III
    • Grocy
    • Nextcloud
    • DisplayCal / Argyll CMS
    • Scribus
    • Natron
    • MuseScore
    • Jellyfin
    • Navidrome
    • QOwnNotes

    …and so many more

        • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
          03·
          2 years ago

          Figure out what exactly is better in Manjaro. It is better to be able to switch over to other distros and make yourself a bit more portable across distros. Not being a pushover, its just foundational advice. Manjaro has had so many weird incidents that it is good to do this exercise beforehand.

          • NathanUp@lemmy.ml
            2·
            2 years ago

            I’ve used many distros over the years. Manjaro has sane defaults, and I like the driver utility and the kernel tool a lot. Overall, Manjaro just works. I’m familiar with all the drama surrounding the distro, but I’m unbothered. I like using it.

            I have machines running Debian and EOS too, but when I want something hassle free, like for the retro gaming / emulation machine in my living room, I choose Manjaro.

            • explodicle@lemmy.ml
              0·
              2 years ago

              I love the floating release model. Other OSes vastly over estimate how much time I want to spend on huge updates that break stuff.

              • NathanUp@lemmy.ml
                1·
                2 years ago

                Agreed; if you tend to tweak your system at all, 1-2 years of updates all at once will cause chaos with 1-2 years of small changes you totally meant to record in your notes. On the very rare occasion something breaks on my EOS system, updates are frequent enough that it’s usually just the one issue at a time, and I’m still able to remember what silly thing I did to cause the issue - such as compiling NeoChat from git main while using a lib from the AUR to get session verification working early.

    • mildpepper 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@lemmy.ml
      4·
      2 years ago

      OBS is the one that gets me. A lot of streamers I follow talk about how they use OBS because it’s such a reliable standard and works the way they expect. Pretty cool that an open source app is the standard for something as mainstream as livestreaming.

  • Rhabuko@feddit.de
    6·
    2 years ago

    As a creative: Blender. It was always a good program but thank god they finally started hiring people, that actually know how to design a usable UI. I remember the times when the devs refused to change the simple default selection to the worldwide standard: left mouse button.

    • UnelectedReimu@lemmy.ml
      2·
      2 years ago

      hot take but it seems a lot of foss developers didn’t care much about putting effort into UIs, that has slowly changed over time

      • Rhabuko@feddit.de
        3·
        2 years ago

        Not really a hot take. I fully agree. In my experience… Many foss devs couldn’t make causal user friendly UI if their life depended on it 😉

      • XPost3000@lemmy.ml
        2·
        2 years ago

        Yeah and that’s only the tip of the iceberg.

        Did you know that Blender use to unironically use Shift+Ctrl+Alt+C for a surprisingly common operation?

        I don’t actually remember what for, 2.79 was years ago, but I think it placed the object origin at the center of the geometry

  • jaamulberry@lemmy.ml
    5·
    2 years ago

    Home Assistant. It’s amazing the amount of things you can do with it. I love being able to slowly make my smart home and I barely need to check if the device I buys works!

    • Midnitte@lemmy.ml
      3·
      2 years ago

      Definitely. It’s amazing how several people doing it in their spare time (nuba casa aside) can do a better join than multi-billion companies that are removing features as basic as lists…