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Patreon Podcast: We're All Software Junkies (Patreon)

Published:
2021-07-08 14:43:00
Imported:
2024-01

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People who are into technology often are excited to pick up new hardware. But most of the time, we set up a new computer to look and behave the same as our old one. Is there something about the software we use that makes it difficult to let go?

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Anonymous

Coming from a regular user, I honestly haven't run into anything specifically open source that's superior. I think the forks are actually going to produce the outcome you desire, since there is already some interest in changing elements of the usable program. If someone wants, they could practically make an entirely different program out of what is currently Audacity. Most of us agree that a good open source piece of software is the endgame, since it's almost like a promise that it will remain both free and receive updates for the life of the program. While I'm sure there's no harm in finding another option that's proprietary, there's no way to ensure that I or someone else will be able to fork and maintain that software in the future if the original authors cease to maintain it. That is why I've personally decided to try and mirgate to exclusively open-source software for everything I do. So far, I've managed to migrate from Fusion360 to FreeCAD, which definitely took a while. I'm fairly comfortable with the FreeCAD workflow, and it feels as fast once you get things down. I'm having a absolutely dastardly time trying to move to GIMP from Photoshop, even with the PhotoGIMP add-on installed. That one is likely going to take the longest, because I've spent countless hours in Photoshop, and I know the tools I use very, very well. So, while I absolutely can't wait until the day where I'm fully open source-d, I think it's going to be a little while yet. In short, Audacity is its own competition, since open source is an exit route for people to create competing applications. Since people who fork have their own intentions for the program, we're likely to see possibly dozens of interpretations as to what Audacity should be. It's very likely some of those will cater to your dislikes, changing the UI and adding newer functionality. If any catch on, it will only serve to damage the original Audacity project's userbase.

Asaf Sagi

That was super interesting. Got me thinking about my flows as well. Yeah, I feel like I'm stuck on Windows but I'm OK with it. Most annoying things I can disable in one form or another. But thinking about other flows, yeah, looks like I'm kinda stuck. I've been using ACDSee since the 90's, and in the past decade or so I've been a paying customer as well. I tried some alternatives and couldn't find my hands and feet with them. I think I could mostly migrate away from Premiere to DaVinci Resolve if I needed to, but that would leave all my Premiere projects untouchable (prproj files can't be opened anywhere else). When on my work laptop I use Photopea instead of Photoshop and it's REALLY more capable than I had imagined. Certainly faster. But I will give the programs you mentioned a try. It would be nice to stop paying for Adobe CC sometime. Still feeling locked down though, for backwards compatibility.