The year is 2019 and if you have a thought process in any way similar to mine, you’d most likely prefer to start the year on a clean slate. Formatting and reinstalling only the essentials. With time, one’s workspace gets cluttered with ‘one-time-use’ softwares, ‘no-longer-needed apps’ and apps you might have forgotten about.
This is a listing of Apps that can and do succesfully replace sold/proprietary apps.
This will be updated when new ones are discovered. You could also submit PR’s to this repo with suggestions.
| Sold/Proprietary | Open Source Alternative |
|---|---|
| Image Manipulation | Gimp |
| Document Editor | Libre Office |
| Virtualization | Virtual Box |
| vectors | Inkscape |
| 3D drawings | blender |
| Audio Manipulation | Audacity |
| Media Players | VLC, IINA |
| Image Compression | ImgOptim |
| Media Compression | Adapter |
| Flash OS’s to SD | balenaEtcher |
| FTP Client | Cyber Duck |
| Web Servers | Mamp,Xampp |