Shoutouts

Thanks to the following commenters below for additional recommendations that I added to this post!

  • bruhduh
  • Toes

Free Open Source Alternatives

[Visual/Graphical]

For all visual/graphical artists I would personally recommend switching from Photoshop over to


[Audio]

For audio migration I’d recommend switching from Soundbooth to


[PDF]

Acrobat Reader to


[Video]

Premiere to


There’s also an excellent thread started by [email protected]

  • recursive_recursion [they/them]@programming.devOP
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    5 months ago

    thanks for the recommendations!

    I added openshot and left out IFME (it doesn’t seem like the devs understand software licensing unfortunately, the project’s also a bit of a copyright landmine😅)

    • Toes♀@ani.social
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      5 months ago

      They state it’s under gpl2 they do have ffmpeg but the tool doesn’t include its own codecs outside of that if I understand it correctly. It does use any codecs provided by the OS though.