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

submitted 1 year ago by John_Coomsumer@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

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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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[–] bartlbee@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Autocad. This is the main (only?) reason I continue to use Windows. Professional 2d cad for architectural drafting has been lacking in Linux for a long time. There are a few commercial alternatives, Bricscad being the big one, but due to (cheap) grandfathered licensing cost for Autocad, I"ve been unable to push for a purchase. Qcad (professional) was another option I looked at but, despite being a good program at an amazing cost, had enough differences in work flow that I couldn't find a good way to integrate it into a shared workflow.

Every once in a while I switch to Linux and either run a W10 vm or RDP just to work around the issue but, inevitably, get frustrated with performance. Freecad and Blender both seem to be working on the problem -but- from a BIM perspective, not detailed drafting . . .

[–] sic_1@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So much this! And with the connectivity between Rhino/Archivad, Revit and TwinMotion I fear a solution is far away. Which surprises me because all of our professional software works fine natively on Mac, which is also Unix based. Isn't there an easy way to emulate from that direction?

[–] itchy_lizard@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago

What's wrong with the Arch workbench in FreeCAD?

[–] MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tried a bit of bricscad, have to say it's wonderful just not using autodesk evil ooze. Maybe you can try emailing them so they can give you a discount?

Anyway, here with inventor, a horrible choice I'm stuck with

[–] polymachine@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hant heard of this before ... It has Ubuntu and opensuse as supported plattform, and a one-time buy option?! This sounds amazing!

[–] MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's the first alternative I like. It's not foss but we really really suck at foss anyway

[–] polymachine@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Im always rooting for FOSS alternatives (like inkscape just got a shape builer tool in 1.3, and now i can finally abandon Illustrator for good!)

I wish freeCAD was usable professinally, but for now it's too convoluted and prone to crashing; and so ill take anything for a testrun that just supports linux natively.

Mechanical CAD is very niche and simultaneously complex to execute... Its just not ideal for hobby development

[–] MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I was hoping freecad would get a bigger push after Autodesk screwed people over with fusion. Still it's going, slow but going