And why do you use them?

    • Lantern@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Was going to say this. Pycharm is probably the only paid software I use. With that being said, students don’t need to pay for it, so I don’t have to worry about that.

    • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 months ago

      I won’t say it’s “best”, as I just want to run a game without friendlists and other bloat, so I really hate the fact Steam is nessesary for so many games.

      But I would call it “essentiall”.

    • toastal@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      Valve has put a lot of work into helping WINE & Linux. Even if it was a selfish play to break free from Microsoft & other app stores to lock those into their marketplace fee, I can’t help but be grateful for the better ecosystem & uptick in users. Since they are privately held too, they aren’t in the same business of chasing quartely profits or making the experience worse & worse by selling your data & slapping ads everywhere.

    • yala@discuss.online
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      6 months ago

      Yup, as time went on, I simply felt less need to have proprietary software on my system. Steam remains as an exception; simply by virtue of having no F(L)OSS alternative (AFAIK).

      • woelkchen@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        Steam itself isn’t that special and things like Heroic exist but where Steam wins is the ecosystem. Also Valve sponsor developments of Linux desktop technologies, so even if Steam itself is proprietary, some of the money ends up advancing open source.

  • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Lightburn for controlling laser engravers.

    It’s pretty much the only choice on Linux (though it is cross platform). Free 30 day trial, then ~$80 lifetime licence.

    The other choice is LaserGRBL, which is open source, but doesn’t seem to have a Linux port for some reason. And it has a lot fewer features, with a more complex workflow.

  • utopiah@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Half-life: Alyx, Baldur’s Gate 3, Elden Ring, … you get the idea. It’s not so much those apps per se, and I’d prefer them to be FLOSS too, rather it’s the amazing content and in such rare cases, I’m happy to financially support the creators.

  • joojmachine@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    DaVinci Resolve is THE video editor on Linux. Unfortunately the libre apps for it don’t get even close, to the point that even with all the limitations in the free and paid versions, it still is the best option.

    Also shout out to Bitwig Studio, although I don’t use it.

      • Eugenia@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        6 months ago

        KDEnLive is a good “editor” for simpler projects, but not a good video editing “suite”. It comes nowhere near Resolve’s color grading ability, or even audio editing ability these days. And it has no compositing ability at all. In fact, except Natron on Linux (that gets updated once every 2-3 years with just bug fixes and not many features), there’s nothing about compositing. Blender’s compositing is unusable btw.

      • refalo@programming.dev
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        6 months ago

        Honestly IMO it’s not even a comparison whatsoever. Kdenlive cannot be used professionally for any real work, it will just crash on you before you even find out it can’t even do what you want. I’ve tried it off and on for many years and it’s always a massive disappointment compared to pro solutions.

    • Gamma@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Can you run it on anything besides cent yet? I tried it a few years ago and it fell flat on its face

  • KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Does it count as paid if I donated what I think is a reasonable price?
    Cause then it’s KDE, Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice and Gimp. I’d prefer those programs even if their proprietary counterparts were free.

    • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Came here to say this too… I contribute a few €/£/$ per month to various projects…

      I won’t get all righteous here, but just because you don’t have to pay, doesn’t mean you to say you can’t support the developer(s)…

  • Julian@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Reaper. Great usability and decent Linux support out of the box (looking at you, davinci resolve). Generous free trial and a cheap one-time payment for a license. LMMS has served me well and is fine for basic stuff, but reaper is a whole other level, both in features and usability. I’ve heard good things about ardour too but have yet to give it a try.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    I’m sure there are some closed softwares left worth paying for but personally I would stop paying for all of it.

    The only software left that I pay for is phpstorm and it’s buggy as hell and for every bug report I get a “well, nobody really cares”. Then what the hell am I paying for?

    Well I’m paying for features not found in other systems but seriously, it soeerds my work up by 300% and slows it down by 200% due to the extreme amount of bugs… it’s not acceptable for a paid product but unfortunately there is no good alternative open source product yet.

      • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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        5 months ago

        I don’t know other IDE’s very well, haven’t used others in years.

        Amongst things… PHPstorm allows me to rename a method and it will automatically rename that method in any extended class, interface, etc, and any call to they method too. It usually, mostly, does a reasonable job at it, but sometimes it forks up big time.

        I guess I am willing to try eclipse again, see how well that goes.

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I would never willingly use proprietary software. I don’t mind paying if I also have access to source code that is licensed foss.