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For personal reference and for the lazy (i think it’s complete, did it in a hurry in a break):
- Notion & Google Docs Alternatives: Capacities, Fibery, Tana, Nuclino
- Zoom Alternatives: Whereby, Jitsi Meet, Senfcall, Vowel
- Slack Alternatives: Mattermost, Element (Matrix), Rocket.Chat
- Gmail & Google Calendar Alternatives: Proton Mail, Tutanota, Mailbox.org, Infomaniak
- Notes & Markdown Docs: Anytype, Obsidian, SiYuan
- Task & Project Management: Fibery, Nuclino
I note that a good portion of these are commercial products, frankly I’d trust MUCH more a FOSS product than a commercial one after so damn many over the years have betrayed us all in the search for profit, if you’re gonna migrate to something you may as well go for the FOSS ones that are less in danger of enshittification (not a guarantee but far less of a chance since a fork kills all the walls around a walled garden pretty quickly), even if the FOSS product is not as polished.
What is FOSS? When i try to look it up, it just shows me some local companys website.
Free Open Source Software. It is software that gives you the freedom to see the source code, make modifications to it, and redistribute your changed version of the software to your friends.
FOSS software is generally developed in the open by a community of volunteers, although we are increasingly seeing FOSS projects take on funding from community donations or corporations that want to support the software’s development.
You can read more about it on the Free Software Foundation page: https://www.fsf.org/about/
It’s pretty easy if you have an e-mail job, but it’s hard to avoid American software with stuff like CAD.
Siemens (NX etc) is pretty European though.
The objective is not “perfect”, but “better than what we have”, there’s probably no way to get to perfect today within some niches, but there’s still chances of improvement
That’s what I’m saying.
- 3d composition
- rendering
- particle simulation
- music production …
Yes, you might be able to do it in European software but even if you might, it always means you waste a lot more time on it. And if your job’s competitive, there’s no way you have that to spare.
Don’t get me wrong,I want things to change and I’m honestly really hopeful, but we’re not quite there yet.
The only one i know of is rendering. Blender is open source and from the Netherlands (iirc) and just as powerful as anything else on the market.
Blender is indeed really good, but depending on what you wanna do you’re at the mercy of an external renderer, which could either be EU (e.g. V-Ray out of Sofia) or from outside (e.g. Octane is from California).
Dassault Systemes (CATIA and SolidWorks) is French and Bricsys (BricsCAD) it’s Belgian/Swedish. Unfortunately PTC and Autodesk are both American.
I work on Linux. The Linux Foundation is based in America and has recently demonstrated it abides by american law (by kicking russian maintainers).
Is there an alternative?
If Linux Foundation continues to comply with unjust and dangerous laws, I imagine europe will just establish their own fork foundation, rather than ditching linux.
That would be a schism to behold
“I did this thing” - “is this thing possible?”
Yes, because you literally just wrote that you did it…
Ironically the proton mail ceo is pretty Maga hard.
