What Free Software Is So Good You Can't Believe It's Free? (Reddit)

the libraries&#x2F;packages for all the languages we use, pip install $20,000 of work so i don&#x27;t have to do it.<p>database stuff like postgres, sqlite is especially lovely for portability and ease of deployment.<p>Firefox, libreoffice, gimp, vlc, and Linux, Ubuntu particularly.<p>evince and calibre<p>compression software &#x2F; archivers like 7zip<p>cli stuff like mosh, irssi, and htop.<p>i essentially no longer use proprietary software not out of any moral or economic stance, but just because it either does less or is vastly less extensible or takes too long to deploy or can&#x27;t be trusted.<p>open software is wonderful.

Cue 100 comments about &quot;you are paying with your data&quot;, but I use the following tools (happily) without paying for them with money: Gmail and the Google suite of products (drive, chrome, etc), Feedly, various social networks, Hubspot CRM, eventvods.com (I donate to them), Trello, Goofy (FB messenger for desktop), Sublime Text, RescueTime, AutoMute, Flux, Metabase.

1. Android<p>2. VLC and it&#x27;s dependencies<p>3. Linux!!<p>4. Vscode<p>5. Node<p>6. GCC, Clang, Cmake ...<p>7. Git<p>8. Chromium<p>9. Webassembly, emscripten

GCC and KDE

Blender. C&#x27;mon now.