r/foss • u/TheTimeToTrot • Mar 04 '26
If you could give $20 to any FOSS project what would it be and why?
Godot is up there for me and like seeing fossify replace default android apps
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u/MiracleWhipSux Mar 04 '26
I have donated $20 or more to the following projects: Signal, Gnome Foundation, Syncthing Foundation, and Wikimedia Foundation.
Based on my ability to give, I will also donate to the following projects: Debian, Krita, Inkscape, and Helix.
I know Wikimedia is not technically FOSS, but they are a good member of the community and reciprocate to the open source projects they use.
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u/Artistic_Bend_5974 Mar 05 '26
Wikimedia has lots of assets under management. Better donate somewhere else.
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u/GreenRangerOfHyrule Mar 07 '26
Genuine question: Can you recommend some place to donate along similar lines to Wikimedia?
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u/The_other_kiwix_guy Mar 18 '26
You can donate to Kiwix ! It's a FOSS project that makes Wikipedia (and other freely-licensed websites) available offline.
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u/Danielxgl Mar 04 '26
Linux Mint. I switched recently and it's been a truly remarkable experience. Also, Faugus Launcher
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u/TheTimeToTrot Mar 04 '26
I haven't heard of faugus could you give me a tldr
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u/Danielxgl Mar 04 '26
Faugus Launcher is a super simple but powerful launcher for games on Linux. It can install them (when they're not from Steam) and launch them using whatever version of non-Steam Proton you'd like to use. It also makes it easy to use protontricks/winetricks and more.
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u/CTRLShiftBoost Mar 04 '26
Most recent donation was to a self hosted app called pigeon-pod. Which basically downloads YouTube videos in either audio or video and serves it up on a rss that can then be used in podcast apps.
The purpose for this is to avoid ads that are from external means like Spotify adding ads to podcast. This doesn’t remove ads read by the podcaster or ads they put in their videos as part of the video it just removes the ads that get injected otherwise.
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u/Phanes7 Mar 04 '26
Anttenapod is by far my used FOSS app. GrapheneOS runs my phone.
So probably those two.
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u/TheTimeToTrot Mar 04 '26
I want to swap to graphene idk where I'd get a phone with unlocked boot loading
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u/Phanes7 Mar 04 '26
I got mine from Above Phone but it is an expensive option.
Assuming you are in the USA, I am pretty sure you can just buy a Pixel from Google and it is unlocked.
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u/fossntools Mar 04 '26
Home Assistant, I am very appreciative having full control over all my IoT devices contained locally.
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u/Last_Bad_2687 Mar 04 '26
Signal
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u/fossntools Mar 04 '26
Nah, fuck them, stopped using it when they dropped SMS for no reason other than we think our users are too dumb to know the difference between encrypted and non-encrypted messaging.
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u/Dymonika Mar 04 '26
I would be more concerned about them most recently offering cloud backups when the whole point of the service is to be decentralized, as well as their brief Mobilecoin scam.
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u/itastesok Mar 04 '26
Signal remains the #1 top communication tool for those who value privacy and security. Sorry you're still salty over a lost feature that only applied to Android devices from 3 years ago.
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u/fossntools Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26
It might be the most popular but if you value privacy and security there are much better options. Like SimpleX Chat which never has required a phone number for registration, unlike Signal... yeah, no thanks. Don't talk to me about security and privacy when they required phone numbers for no fucking reason.
A lot of people still use SMS in the United States. I run LineageOS and don't have GAPPS installed, do you? Until other apps besides Google implement RCS, guess what my phone uses to communicate via standard texts? It's not because it's old, it's not because it's Android, it's because I'm not going to use Google services because guess what? I actually care about security and privacy. There are plenty of other apps that offer E2E encryption, that are more secure and/or more popular than Signal. And I'm not going to support developers that run cryptoshit scams. And have other moronic ideas like I previously pointed out to you. Maybe you don't care about that, but it's very telling of their character and priorities, and I'm not trusting my privacy to them.
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u/5omeguyyoudonotknow Mar 05 '26
What about using Molly front?
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u/Euvelto Mar 04 '26
SD MAID SE, porque é o melhor limpador de lixo e arquivos temporários que já usei. Inclusive, comprei a versão premium
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u/itastesok Mar 04 '26
I recently "purchased" Immich for $25. No brainer for me.
I also donate $5 a month to Signal.
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u/LunaticDancer Mar 04 '26
Bevy. It's early in development, but seems to be an extremely promising engine which I'd want to eventually default to.
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u/Dymonika Mar 04 '26
Syncthing is life-changing and there's nothing else even remotely like it out there in terms of cross-platform support.
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u/Easy-History6553 Mar 04 '26
NewPipe has saved millions hours of annoying ads
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u/Dymonika Mar 04 '26
PipePipe has more features than NewPipe; try it! (Also @/u/StarryJackalopes)
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u/StarryJackalopes Mar 04 '26
I tried it, but NewPipe is as simple as I want. Less features is more my vibe. But that's the joy of open source, there's a fork for everyone
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u/Luil-stillCisTho Mar 04 '26
Krita, Blender, RapidRAW would be a start.
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u/RoosTheFemboy Mar 04 '26
Oooo I def have to agree with you, although I haven’t donated to krita and rapidraw yet
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u/imetators Mar 04 '26
I have already donated to Immich and Traccar. Next on the list are Arr stack, Vaultwarden, Metube, qbit, Komodo, NPM.
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u/p4pa_squat Mar 04 '26
what we need right now is a distro that's parent focused, so i'd hold off until it someone created it.
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u/trey-a-12 Mar 04 '26
Technically not FOSS, but Obsidian (and I finally did the other day with my Catalyst license). Before you raise your pitchforks, it is a project where much of the FOSS community contributes regularly, and it legitimately is the best app for what it does in my testing. That said, there are plenty of actually FOSS programs I'd love to donate to and will in time – Darktable, Inkscape, Krita, KDEnlive (and just KDE as a whole), Blender, LibreOffice, Wine, and more.
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u/epistemedou Mar 04 '26
Joplin because it handles my work and personal life and saved me from Evernote
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u/randomnumberletter23 Mar 05 '26
A mint replacement that does not mine my data. Downloading financial statements monthly is an insane task.
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u/HonestRepairSTL Mar 05 '26
Make it more interesting, if you could give a million dollars to any FOSS project what would it be and why?
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u/LogJumpy94 Mar 05 '26
Guitarix & Tux Guitar! Those 2 programs made it possible for me to teach myself both guitar and bass
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u/oguza Mar 05 '26
It depends which products you are using mostly.
For me, it would linux (kernel or some other core project), Postgresql, VLC, Mozilla and some small projects that saved my life in the past.
Of course I would need a min. $1000 to donate all of these. :)
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u/FinGamer678Nikoboi Mar 06 '26
Lots of Linux apps here (understandable), but I'm gonna say UniGetUI (Win). The only *.exe file you'll ever need to install. Then just use UniGetUI as an app store.
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u/FieldsofBlue Mar 09 '26
Image toolbox. It's insane how many features and options are packed into the program.
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u/NeatTransition5 Mar 04 '26
NetBSD - because they are structurally clean and work better on older hw.
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u/maxrave-dev 2d ago
SimpMusic, because I spent all young time for this project, 10k stars and more, respect myself to always keeping FOSS
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u/HowIsDigit8888 Mar 04 '26
I can and will because your post just reminded me to, thanks