List Open Source Alternatives to Proprietary Software

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opensourcealternative.to

A good site that helps me find great alternatives to non-oss that I have grown accustomed to.

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Pretty rough around the edges, just did a quick scroll down and noticed several odd choices. Looks like this is mostly built via scraping or by someone who doesn't really know what some of these projects are.

  • Home Assistant is just called 'core' because that's the name of the main repo on github.
  • Mastadon is listed primarily as a facebook alternative.

GIMP

Open Source Alternative to Photoshop

oh god no

In a professional setting, GIMP is shit compared to Photoshop. For 95% of normal users, it's more powerful and full featured than you'll ever need.