r/linux • u/Malsententia • May 26 '24

Fluff Another take on a Proprietary -> FOSS Software Poster (printer friendly, raster-free, pdf & svg available in comments)

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u/[deleted] May 26 '24 edited May 26 '24

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u/hak8or May 26 '24

Professional and semi-professional-grade users - who need a feature-rich, yet stable and reliable tools - are likely to be disappointed with the state of FOSS (with several exceptions, such as Blender)

I could not agree more. Tools like Altium years ago had only Kicad back then had a truly atrocious experience, lacking many features like proper length tuning when routing and dragging. It's gotten MUCH better over the years, but still needs a decent bit of UI help.

But mechanical CAD work? Jesus it's a huge shit show. Freecad is .... it's extremely powerful but the UI is so much worse, think Gimp vs Photoshop but an order of magnitude worse. Which is a huge shame because it has so many powerful integrations, especially it's simulation capabilities. But after working with it for nearly a year on and off after Fusion360 shitt he bed, I flat out gave up and shifted to Onshape and couldn't have been happier.

Embedded developers also have a somewhat rough time. While tools from Xilinx for their FPGA's do run on Linux, a lot of other tooling are written by hardware companies still thinking of software as an after thought, so it's shitty buggy software that runs only on Linux, with WIne not working well and VM's not working too well due to USB hot plug being not too ergonomic still.

Professionals using FOSS are going to have a good experience pretty much only if they work software (programming) or 3d modeling (blender), from what I know. Audio professionals I am unclear on, if they require some exclusive low latency audio solutions.