Happy I love free software day! It snuck up on me while I was doing other projects, but here’s a silly drawing I made today in Krita!
There are so many incredible projects out there which help countless people be empowered in their computing. Many thanks to all of the developers and web hosts, which allow folks like myself to stay away from proprietary and predatory corporations.
I don’t have nearly enough characters, but here’s several projects I’ve been using often. Thanks to everyone on the Fediverse (particularly Lemmy, Mastodon, and Peertube for me, as well as apps such as Voyager and Fedilab), KDE (especially Krita and Kdenlive), the mountain of people responsible for several GNU/Linux distros, GrapheneOS, F-Droid, Freesound, Matrix, LibreOffice, instruments using the SFZ standard (especially VCSL keys), and DAWs (LMMS, and Zrythm).
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I didn’t know Free Software Day was a thing, but I’m glad it is! I recently started using Krita for digital art, and it’s been amazing. There is so much cool software that I use almost daily, it’d be hard to make a list, and I’m so grateful for all the people who keep these projects alive and who use their limited time and money to provide an alternative to big tech <3
That’s wonderful to hear! I think it being so hard to make a list is part of why it’s a thing, so that different people can all positively talk about different projects that help them, and even just about developing free software in general. It’s just nice to hear you’re appreciated, and they absolutely are!
For me, I would personally have to thank a ton of projects, but the most often used would be: the Fediverse (Lemmy, Mastodon, PeerTube, as well as Arctic for Lemmy), Inkscape, LibreOffice, F-Droid, Linux Mint, GrapheneOS, kdenlive, Matrix, VLC, Librewolf and Nextcloud :3
That’s really awesome you’ve been able to get so much benefit from FOSS stuff! I have as well :3
I assume you have a flashed graphene OS phone judging by the stuff you’re using? Also, LMMS? Why not use Ardour which is arguably the most developed DAW on Linux?
Thank you!
Yes, that’s correct, I have a flashed Pixel 8 Pro. As for LMMS, because it was freely available to download, along with Zrythm. When I looked at Ardour last, the message I got was they were a little antagonistic to building binaries from source from the display messages, it put me off. I don’t mind paying for binaries, but the scary messages about not to do it, and that they actively don’t keep the build pages up to date with what you might need? Eh.
Your welcome!
That’s fair, I didn’t know they did that. How good is LMMS compared to mainstream, proprietary DAWs? And why not just install it rather than build from source? What’s the benefit there?
Proprietary DAWs? By that I have to imagine you mean FL Studio, I don’t think anything really holds a candle to that, especially because I’d also have to include the myriad of propetary plugins too (even if you can technically use them with free software). I’ve used it to make a few simple jingles and whatnot for myself, and also to just jam on my MIDI keyboard, which is really all I need anyway. Zrythm is a bit more robust with plugin support, but the 1.0 release is certainly rough around the edges at the moment.
I do largely just install things, but I like to go to source pages, about pages, try and get a feel for the vibes, and ensure it is actually free software before I use it. It just set off a red flag and I wrote it off; maybe the software is great and there’s nothing to worry about, I dunno.
