What apps would you love to have open-source alternatives for?

ClearCutCoconut@lemmy.world to Open Source@lemmy.ml – 272 points –

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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  • Parallel Desktop
  • Arc Browser
  • X
  • Discord
  • Copilot
  • Vivaldi Browser
  • Unread RSS Reader

For X/Twittwr there are many options but Mastodon(mastodon.social instance specifically) it's my favorite, it also works as an alternative to Facebook.

I just feel a lot better with Mastodon rather than X/Twitter

Parallel Desktop

There are several FOSS alternatives. All of them are more popular that Parallels.

are you talking wine, virtual box, quemu and such? Im pretty sure he is looking for usage like parallels so dual booting a mac and then running it from the mac side. I mean im not sure but thinking from a parallels user perspective that is my guess at the ask.

I have used them all. None of them comes closer to Parallel desktop. (Qemu a little bit)

For RSS I recommend twine—not sure if it's available on Mac os though. That's always going to be a struggle with foss stuff, support for Mac is lacking because the people making them tend not to use macs

For Copilot, Codeium might have potentional?

Sorry for lack of clarification. I meant bing AI or they call it copilot now

Vivaldi is open source I guess.

Partially, not entirely.

Of the three layers, only the UI layer is closed-source. This means that roughly 92% of the browser's code is open-source coming from Chromium, 3% is open-source coming from us and only 5% is our UI closed-source code.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-browser-open-source/

Do you recommend using it, though? (It used to be one of my favourite browsers) especially when we have other browsers such as librewolf, Floorp, etc.