List free software you believe is better than its proprietary alternative.
um...all of it?
unfree = unusable
>>45687018
You're cancer.
>>45687018
>unfree = unusable
This is a joke, right
Why the fuck are so many people here this autistic
dwm == xmonad == awesome == i3 > stumpwm == ratpoison > openbox == fluxbox > xfce == lxde > mate > kde > gnome > cinnamon >>> Windows explorer
mpd + ncmpcpp > foobar2k == clementine == deadbeef == banshee > winamp >>> itunes
mplayer == mpc-hc > vlc >>> non-free... quicktime I guess?
obviously, rtorrent > deluge == qbittorrent == transmission >>> utorrent
other than that, though
photoshop > gimp
premiere > lightworks
rhino >>> whatever open cad software exists
fl studio > whatever else
>>45687098
>fl studio > whatever else
lol
>>45686982
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Alternative
Firefox, Inkscape, mpd+<any gui or control program>, mplayer/mplayer2/mpv, smplayer suite, qbittorrent, libreoffice, virtualbox/qemu
>>45687098
>fl studio > whatever else
more like:
logic > whatever else
Gimp
>>45686982
Krita is better than GIMP.
Blender is better than other mesh modeling programs and non-linear compositing video editors (but the learning curve is the steepest).
Unfortunately Inkscape is not better than Illustrator.
>>45687098
What shit taste you have.
>>45687098
HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA,
FL STUDIO
>>45687133
>https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Alternative
lol wtf, this is like 1st year community college bullshit
>>45687098
>meme computing
>>45686982
Firefox > IE
Okular > Acrobat reader
>>45686982
linux.
>>45687018
Freetard, ladies and gentlemen.
>>45687318
Firefox > any pdf reader
>>45687098
He's right you know.
>>45687390
You're him.
>>45686982
Goose - Apache Licensed
Thunderbird (vs Outlook?)
PostgreSQL - GPLv2 I think
vuze, deluge, rutorrent (vs mutorrent)
If you're a programmer or superuser virtual anything non-multimedia is better when free.
photoshop > gimp
>>45687351
add epub to that.
Anything Mozilla makes is quite amazing. Its leader also hated faggots.
>best music player isnt musicbee
>implying potplayer isnt better than vlc
>deluge better than qbittorrent
all my what
>>45687098
What's wrong with Windows Explorer?
Eclipse > Visual Studio
>>45687688
Nothing, but there are better alternatives.
>>45687688
You can't rice it with an Anime icon pack and it doesn't store weeb picks in the most convoluted, autistic way possible
Software made for non-commercial purposes (as in, free as in beer software) is already better than non-free (same sense of free) software. Because the developers are not driven by money, they don't need to worry about keeping a userbase; because of this, they do not need to worry about hiding flaws in their software. Bad software is sometimes hard to detect-- in a time where security has never been more important, this point is absolutely crucial. Free software tells you upfront its flaws.
Free as in freedom software is a natural extension of this; it tells you of its flaws and allows you to go fix them if you're able. Nonfree software has none of this; it is inherently inferior. In that sense, all nonfree software is worse than free software.
In the general sense, free software is often better
>>45687098
this is true with a few obvious exceptions (FL studio). In many cases, free software is better by having no competitors. I can hardly think of any programming language implementations which are nonfree. Even C# is free. This is because developers know better and they aren't willing to put up with nonfree software for its flaws. No developers == no use == the language never takes flight. (Historically nonfree implementations could survive because free implementations were not readily available; with the advent of the internet this point is null. We're watching history repeat itself with Shen, for example.)
>>45687688
Are you referring to the fairly normal file manager, or the bloated pile of crap desktop environment? Because one is normal and the other is a bloated pile of crap.
i can't think of anything proprietary that's nearly a good as ffmpeg at what it does
If you're offering software for no money, what is the problem with showing off that nice source code you wrote? Are you afraid some freetard nerd will fork it only without the bitcoin miner?
mpv > WMP, MPC-HC
mpd + frontend of your choice > itunes, WMP, foobar
rtorrent, transmission, qbittorent > MPAAtorrent
vim, emacs > notepad, sublime
bash, zsh... > Powershell
every single WM for Linux > dwm.exe
every single DE for Linux > Windows Explorer
firefox, chromium > IE
Apache, nginx > IIS
pretty much every filemanager > Windows Explorer
>>45687735
>explorer
>fairly normal file manager
explorer still has neither panes nor fucking tabs
in 2014
What were they thinking?
>>45687772
Dragging and dropping between windows is easier than tabs?
>>45687149
alone the UI in Illustrator is such disgusting to use.
Maybe it is because i am non-designerfag but why make it so hard to properly format text? I ended up using LibreOfficeDraw for my poster.
>>45687662
vuze is bloated and prob botnet
>>45687750
"trade secrets"
hiding stolen code
hiding shitty spaghetti code which might get you fired if it became publicly known, as some basement dweller would fix in a day what you couldn't fix in a year
>>45687098
>cinnamon
>not the best DE out there
i agree it's still inferior to wms
>>45686982
>>45687835
>fully functioning DE
>inferior to something that puts something on a screen and makes you do the rest
Are Archfags masochists?
>>45687778
you can drag and drop in a tab as well? also panes are solution to both
Vim, but it has no proprietary alternative as far as I'm aware.
>>45687133
>virtualbox/qemu
What is ESXi? What is SCVMM?
>>45687849
I always wonder where his beard ends and his chin begins, don't know why.
>>45687098
wow, do you really think that qbrokentorrent and shitluge are better than glorious utorrent 2.2.1 or you are paid by stallman to spread this shit on the internet?
>>45686982
>better than its proprietary alternative
Being proprietary automatically makes it worse. How could you possibly add a feature to proprietary software unless the author decides to do so? With free software, you just do it without having to redesign the application from scratch.
>>45687891
>people don't actually use software, they prefer to upgrade it
>>45687098
shit > fl studio
ftfy :^)
>>45687859
proprietary unix vi
>>45686982
Blender > maya,3ds max
>>45687876
>I always wonder where his beard ends and his chin begins, don't know why.
his beard never ends, under the beard there's just another neckbeard
it's neckbeard all the way down
>>45687762
>mpv > MPC-HC
Only if you're delusional and hate your eyes.
>grouping foobar in the same category as itunes
>>45688161
>being a retarded wintard
>>45688236
tell me how to install MPC-HC on linux without wine Sherlock
>>45688248
Why would you want to?
>>45688254
because I don't hate my eyes
>>45688271
Hence >being a retarded wintard
>>45688279
>imblang
sumatra pdf > adobe acrobat reader or whatever the fuck it's called now
Why do people hate ITunes?
It's the best way to manage songs. On foobar you can't organize shit.
And don't tell me it's because of placebo output drivers.
The only thing that ITunes lacks is FLAC support, really...
clementine > itunes
calibre > yo dick
>>45688401
>Lacks FLAC support
Jesus.. I didn't even know this. iTunes really is a piece of shit.
>>45687297
As a non-American, care to explain?
I'm not sure if there's a single piece of non-free software that I swear by.
Like, literally nothing.
>>45687747
jumping on the ffmpeg train
proprietary versions, especially for windows, is a forest of dodgy .exe files that can only convert between two formats at locked bit rates and so on
>>45688752
As ameritard I think he's just calling that guy new.
>>45688821
Thx Anon.
GCC
>>45687018
I'll tolerate proprietary software, but not drm. Actually I do tolerate the sublime drm, that's a model I don't mind, but it really just serves as motivation to learn vim.
Also pretty much every free media player is better than the proprietary alternative.
>>45687772
They're thinking in the normal user, who doesn't use those. And you certainly have alternatives.
Funny thing is that if they actually started adding those features, /g/ will go full retarded and call it bloat.
uh 7zip>winrar?
>>45688912
Geany is drm-free.
Linux.
>>45687133
>https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Alternative
This.
i like code::blocks better than visual studio
>>45687699
yeah, no.
>>45689311
Yeah but that's just a fact, it's a better IDE.
Path of Exile is better than Diablo 3
virtual box
when i used VM ware in its trial period it was one of the silliest UIs i have ever used by long and far and it irritates me people seem to still think VMware is better
>>45686982
QGIS. In some aspects, like reference system conversion.
>>45686982
The only proprietary crud I dabble about to and fro is the wireless card and maybe a few blobs here there. Well, I do mean to and fro, simply, and not complications of the security of waves, lovely.
>>45687098
>not using tixati
stay pleb
>>45687018
this
>>45687023
>>45687027
>>45687332
sheeps
Free as in free or free as in respects muh freedums?
>>45688998
Definitely!
>>45688066
Seconded.
Generally if it's a category of software that developers personally use and stand to personally benefit from improving it, it will be better than the closed source version. This includes browsers, operating systems, text editors, etc. However, software that developers as a community generally do not care about, the proprietary versions commonly have an advantage. This includes software for a specific proffesion, like video editing and photo editing software.
>>45689470
Is path of exile free as in freedom?
Gimp > Photoshop
Just kidding. It sucks nigger dicks.
>>45688066
>>45690385
This.
>>45688066
Yep,this thing is now a beast.
>>45686982
KCP with madvr
http://haruhichan.com/forum/showthread.php?7545-KCP-Kawaii-Codec-Pack
>>45689766
>closed source and dev'd by ponyfags
Nope
>>45687023
>>45687027
>>45687332
>somebody follows and stays consistent with their beliefs
>omg stfu!!!!
God forbid someone doesn't like being spied on
>>45687149
Krita and Gimp have different purposes, though.
Gimp is a general image manipulation program
Krita is a painting/sketching program (and a damn good one, too)
>>45687098
>people who replied to this ignored everything but the fl studio shit
>>45687332
>>45687023
What's wrong with somebody being passionate about free software?
Free software is usually better than the proprietary software alternatives anyway.
>>45687098
And here you can see the evidence of full blown autism, everybody. He has formed very fine tuned opinions which he believes are the ultimate truth, when in fact they are autistic opinions based on insignificant facts.
>>45686982
Pretty much all of it.
Everything except alternatives to photoshop and video editors.
>>45686982
IrfanView
SumatraPDF
Paint.net>>>paint if you need simple shit, otherwise use something else.
Everything> any other windows search engine ever coded.
Seriously, this shit is so fast even on my laptop's HHD
>>45687873
>What is ESXi? What is SCVMM?
Xen, open source and closer to ESXi than VirtualBox or QEMU
any linux distro is immediately easier to program on than any proprietary crap. all you need to do is apt-get or yum or whatever and off you go. but for everyday productivity, proprietary beats the shit out of open source. also lots of specific applications companies use are going to be better than their free alternatives, if they have any free alternative at all (hospitals, airplanes, machining plants, fucking nuclear reactors, etc)
Mypaint > SAI
>>45691432
>>45691432
Sooo, if someone just wants to draw I should go with Krita?
>>45692458
no
get this and install the SAI brushes pak
http://mypaint.intilinux.com/
>>45687098
FL Studio is nothing compared to Pro Tools, Logic, Ableton and Cubase.
>>45691937
apt/yum is nice but the repos are where it turns to shit
>>45692615
What about Reaper?
>>45686982
none. shit ui, shit errors, spaghetti in code
>>45686982
nginx and ZFS
>>45687018
this
if it's nonfree it can't be trusted to be:
Accurate
Secure
>>45688998
this
>>45688998
lrzip > 7zip
though it's also open source
>>45686982
systemd is better than launchd.
>>45693294
I still prefer xml over service files
I would prefer bash scripts to both.
>>45693294
sysvinit > *
>ffmpeg
Industry standard, used everywhere by everybody for everything including all the plebs who don't even know they're using it. Same for mkvtoolnix stuff and handbrake.
>aegisub
Same deal. Used by basically everyone, there aren't even any real proprietary competitors for the same niche.
>>45686982
>free software movement values freedom over convenience
>non-free software devs only concerned with convenience, function
>start thread asking which free software is "better" than non-free software
>ignore the word "better" (central issue)
>guaranteed replies
Daily reminder that GNU license isn't true freedom. If you want to write actual free software, use the BSD license.
>>45693969
>no coherent explanation
>no source
>doesn't specify which GNU license/s
>hasn't read any of them or the MIT licenses
All of it is.
If you want specific examples of software that I currently use:
SBCL
EMACS
Mplayer
Evince
Iceweasel
