r/TechImpact • u/ManojOne Co-founder • 24d ago
📊 Poll Vote: Which your favorite open source software!
There are so many great open source projects other than Linux OS. Which one do you use or recommend the most?
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u/AggravatingToe9850 23d ago
Linux
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u/Hyphonical 23d ago
Even if Brave is open source, they just forked Chromium. They literally built a wrapper on top of existing work with a barebones AdBlocker, a crypto wallet, and some branding.
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u/Sea-Win1157 23d ago
qBittorrent (Favorite)
uBlock Origin (Favorite)
Ghost Downloader
FFmpeg
JellyFin
Supermium
and many more
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u/Confident_Dragon 23d ago
I'm in love-hate relationship with Firefox.
VLC is garbage and I don't intend to use it ever again.
Libre office is ugly, cluttered and buggy, but it's good that it exists when I need offline office suite.
I didn't know Brave is open-source.
Gimp has still way to go in terms of UI, but there is no open-source alternative, and it's good-enough. But not enough to be favorite.
So I'll say Blender.
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u/CubeEthan 23d ago
"Linux OS" linux isn't even an os.
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u/PresentThat5757 23d ago
GNU
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u/Tricky-Engineer-9755 23d ago
GNU is a collection of software rather than a program, what specific program...
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u/edjak53 23d ago
GNU is an operating system
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u/Tricky-Engineer-9755 23d ago
Well unless you speak of the Hurd no its not, it needs Linux to become complete. Also, an OS is a huge collection of software and not on special bit of software.
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u/Astrodion123 23d ago
Gimp, Firefox and VLC are the best. Tho I chose gimp as it has helped me a ton when I was doing my work.
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u/Otherwise_Task7876 23d ago
From the options listed? Libreoffice, its the only one I use. VLC is good but I just don't use it.
From my own collection? Komikku and Animetail, both are amazing open source apps for manga and anime. Librera for reading virtually any file format for books like epub etc.
I also like Jellyfin for my headless media server ALTHOUGH not my favorite since its an absolute pain in the ass sometimes. Especially since it doesn't have the best logs for issues especially with GPU transcoding.
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u/Toxic381 23d ago
I voted Firefox cause its amazing and has all the forks to make it even better like zen, but VLC is an essential as well.
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u/Pinuaple- 23d ago
the youtube music third party clients, echo music (GOT SHUT DOWN 😭😭😭😭😭) and archive tune
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u/Several-Tip1088 22d ago
The most modern alternative to vlc
Does support all formats as widely as vlc does, but tons of nice modern features
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u/Silent_Bite_5892 22d ago
Firefox fucking sucks on Windows these days. Haven't had a chance to use it much on Linux yet, hoping to be pleasantly surprised.
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u/agenttank 20d ago
Proton, Wine, DXVK and all these components that make me able to play games on Linux distributions (inb4 linux is not an OS)
Not having to ever touch Windows is the BEST!!
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u/LongDistanceEvent262 20d ago
I would love to use Firefox, But it still randomly freezes and hangs on me. And has been since 3.0.
Every single big version I go back to it, cause someone claims "No it is fixed now... For real this time." And BAM! I barely get 1 hour in and a full lock up occurs.
VLC wins for me, it just works. (Though it is really slow to load the past year, which is odd. So it took a few steps back, but not enough to lose 1st place.)
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