What non-FOSS software are you using that you wish you could replace?

John_Coomsumer@beehaw.org to Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org – 204 points –

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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Surely all those do have FOSS alternatives?

Dropbox has the feature that lets me scan PDFs using the phone camera. It also doesn't need me to self-host.

Google Photos allows quick refinements to a photo and sharing all the pictures with someone's face in a gallery that they can then see, automatically.

I don't know any alternative to Snapseed on mobile, and there's barely anything as simple and polished on the desktop.

OCR for pdf scanning, open note scanner work well enough.