Listening to: Girls With Knives – Handsome Men
Because they’re not advertised, lots of folks are not aware of free or open source software packages, often suitable as an alternative to commercial products. Not that they are copies, in fact some features of commercial packages are first developed in open source. It goes both ways.
Here’s a short list of packages for common tasks although there are far, far more:
- Paint = Krita
- Image Manipulation = Gimp
- Vector Drawing = Inkscape
- Photo Grading and light-table = Darktable, digiKam
- 3D Graphics = Blender
- Office Suite = Libre Office
- Video Editing = OpenShot, Shotcut, KdenLive
- Web Browsing = Firefox, Brave, Chromium
- DAW = LMMS, Ardour
- Audio Editing = Audacity, Rosegarden