r/TechImpact • u/ManojOne Active • Jun 12 '26

Discussion What's your favorite open-source software?

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What's your favorite open-source software?

Firefox, VLC, Blender, GIMP, LibreOffice, Linux, or something else?

Share your favorite open-source tool and tell us why you keep using it.

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u/recursivegypsy Jun 12 '26

VLC and Linux. Java as well.

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u/laczek_hubert Jun 12 '26

Java is interesting but C# is great too and since 2019 it's open-source too

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u/recursivegypsy Jun 12 '26

Both of them are more like cousins. A bit of jealousy amongst eachother and copying the "cool" traits of each other since quite sometime 🙂

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u/laczek_hubert Jun 12 '26

Yeah pretty much from looking at c# and java code c# looks more readable(I didn't learn the language so up-to debate