For me, that would be Secure CRT. I have yet to find a terminal emulator that matches its feature set. If you regularly manage hundreds of machines using various connection protocols (serial and ssh mostly in my case) It’s worth the $$$, and so far there hasn’t been any subscription nonsense. I liked using it at work so much I forked over the dough to have it at home.
None of the free alternatives do everything I need.
I’ll also mention a few iOS apps. One is Sun Surveyor. It’s an AR app that shows you the position of the sun, moon, and galactic center at any given time. The other would have to be Radarscope. It’s a weather radar app, but it’s a really good weather radar app.
BeyondCompare. I’ve used it for all my Windows text comparison needs for decades. It also handles comparing spreadsheets and directory structures.
It’s FOSS software but I use it so much I donate to support it. FreeCAD. Yeah its interface isn’t the best. But compared to Fusion for my workflow it’s so much bettwr
DaVinci Resolve.
The software is free but not FOSS and on Linux paying for the h.264 support is nice.
Keen live is a good alternative but it feels like an advanced form of movie maker to me and lacks polish. If you learn it KDEN Live can be powerful.
For writers working on bigger projects : scrivener
Anki ios app. Developer doesn’t charge for desktop or web app. Well worth the $25 to support.
Procreate on iPad. Cheap and the best art studio you can ever buy
Symphonium, a music app for android (maybe also iOS, dunno). I’ve tried so many other apps for both local and remote music, none of them come even close - I particularly like the pre-caching and rolling cache features, as there are some places I go regularly where connection is spotty, and they allow me to stream pretty much uninterrupted from my subsonic server.
I know many would not agree, but for me it’s 1Password. I use it dozens of times a day - not just for passwords, but also for credit cards, social security numbers, notes, and maybe the most useful, SSH keys. My whole family is covered for $5/month, a laughably low sum.
Personally: Synergy (a formerly OSS software KVM). GlassWire.
Professionally: IntelliJ. Datadog.
donate the money to somebody who runs a fediverse server. running servers costs money every month, and that can’t be eliminated either because hardware can’t be optimized out of existence.
I paid for Ardour, but it is also free.
Who knew a PDF editor would become so useful.
I’m pretty sure the free version has more features than adobe reader.
And if you don’t want to pay, you can demo all of the paid features. Saving the file will put a watermark on every page, but if you print-to-pdf before you save, no watermark. Great if you just need to merge a few files or do some quick stuff once in a while.
I don’t normally do the whole trolling thing, but I gotta say I was tempted to write “Windows” with no explanation just to see how poorly it would go.
windows are good for letting the fresh air in but it’s no software so you missed the point here
Just a teensy iOS/macos extension, but Vinegar is awesome for watching YouTube.
I would have said the Affinity suite of stuff, but they recently sold out to Canva, and fuuuuuuuck them.
Agreed on Affinity. At least my old licenses still work. But yeah, fuck them.
Everyone around me is saying that DaVinci Resolve is great. It cost not an insignificant summ, so whether it actually worth it I will have to report later
Have you tried the free version? Unless you’re running a large scale production studio, the free version should cover you.
Even the iPad version is amazing for quick stuff. No ads, no watermark, and no render limits and all the other junk that the other “free” apps are filled with.
They make their money on expensive hardware.
I am using free version for the last 4 years at least to edit a YouTube show and a podcast. I don’t do anything really fancy, just basic editing, a bit of colour correction, a lot of audio cleanup.
Everyone is saying that starting version 20 they have some cool plugins that save a ton of timePlugins can be nice. I haven’t used resolve regularly in a while, so I don’t keep up with the news. I looked up the price and it’s $300, thought it was a lot more. That’s pretty reasonable to save up for. Although, I didn’t see if the price is per version or forever, that makes a difference.
