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What software is missing in the free software world? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My list:

A privacy respecting Dating platform.
A good 2D CAD program capable of dealing with DWG files.

Please don't post a huge list of games. That would belong in another post. since there are many good ones already.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago (2 children)

A truly open source mobile OS. Fuck Google's Android. /e/ foundation is quite good and postmarketOS seems promising but it needs proper development.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Replicant?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Lineage OS works great!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago

One problem is that Google is still the upstream source provider, and they have a strict "we make all the decisions and won't accept contributions" attitude.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

I want a libre OneNote competitor. Yes, there are libre notes apps out there but none that beat OneNote in letting you put whatever you damn well please in your notebook -- formatted text (on par with a word document, not just simple things like bold and italics), drawings, pictures, even files and web embeds. Especially when taking notes during lecture at university, flexibility is important because you have very little time to write everything down. I need to be able to switch from writing well-formatted text to drawing a diagram or hand writing a formula (I don't have time to figure out how to type some obsecure math symbol). I need something that will just let me frantically throw the lecture material onto a single document.

OneNote is the only reason I still keep Windows on my laptop. I simply don't have time to fight with my notes app during lecture.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Not exactly a list, but I feel like linux is missing "beautiful" software. There is a lot of extremely useful software, but until elementaryos came around, nobody was really trying their hand at "beautiful".

So I guess more visually appealing software in general would be my answer.

A privacy respecting Dating platform.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4aauib/lets_talk_about_the_free_software_dating_scene/

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

Not necessarily "beautiful" software for me, but just visually consistent software. If I can make GTK and Qt GUIs look the same, I will be so happy.