It seems like the FOSS community is continuing to grow, and FOSS apps keep getting better (Immich reallh blew my mind recently), which is a big win 😎 but there are still many apps I use that I would kill for an open source alternative. I am curious what you guys think? Are there any apps you'd love alternatives for?

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[–] MudMan@fedia.io 1 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Photoshop.

And yeah, no, please, don't come over and mention Gimp and Kryta and all the others. I get it, they're cool for the stuff they do. They just aren't the all in one package that Photoshop is or have as powerful tools specifically for photo editing. Photoshop would require a Blender-style major effort to replicate and Gimp just isn't up to it. I wish it were. Photoshop is at the perfect intersection of being uniquely capable and walled off behind the single crappiest ecosystem in software.

Nobody likes Adobe, nobody wants to work with Adobe. Nobody can avoid Photoshop. That's just the world we live in and I don't like it.

[–] vsis@feddit.cl 1 points 6 months ago

Nobody likes Adobe, nobody wants to work with Adobe. Nobody can avoid Photoshop. That’s just the world we live in and I don’t like it.

This sounds like Stockholm syndrome. You are just too familiar with Photoshop, so using anything else is hard and less efficient.

In photography there is this mantra about "the most important part is right behind the camera". A good photographer is not a good Nikon user, or good Canon user. A good photographer can deliver decent pictures with a potato camera if needed.

Sure, a potato camera is less efficient for any work that an actual good one. So it's good to invest in a good brand. But the point is: if you are not capable to make average results with a potato software, the problem is not in the software.

[–] halm@leminal.space 1 points 6 months ago

Well, counterpoint: Photoshop tries to be an "everything for everybody" app, and GIMP/Krita don't need to compare to that, as little as any user needs all the features of Photoshop.

Nobody can avoid Photoshop

Call me nobody, then. I worked with the Adobe suite professionally for 15+ years, haven't touched it for the past six. You won't find a single 1:1 replacement. It's just a matter of quitting and accepting the individual limits of different alternatives.

[–] sibachian@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Photopea. Not foss, but a free clone of photoshop.

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Just like MS Office.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Exactly... easily replaceable but you have an endless whining of users that imagine they might somehow in the future need this one feature that office has but alternatives don't.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 1 points 6 months ago

That's an increasingly small number, if only because now Google is in that market, too.

However, there is a second reason you need Office, and that's compatibility. I don't use Office for work normally, but I still have an Office account (which, annoyingly, is how you pay for Office now), because I have clients who want to work on their formats and it doesn't make sense for me to work around compatibility and have an argument about it instead of just paying for the damn thing and working with whatever software other people want to work.

But if I was by myself and didn't need to work with anyone else ever? Yeah, I would not miss much from Office, honestly.