For me its honestly a ton of my work software (digital forensics), shit is too niche to be replaced by good FOSS options. Cellebrite, Magnet Axiom, etc. Autopsy is great and free and has a linux version but it simply cannot get the same level of data without a pretty nutty level of custom code.

And the biggest side effect of this is FUCKING WINDOWS. God I would replace this nightmare OS in a heartbeat if the aforementioned work software would make linux compatible versions. We have legitimately wasted 10k hours dealing with windows bullshit that would not be a problem in linux. Though im sure linux would take a different 10k for its own problems.

What about you guys? Doesn’t have to be work related, thats just the thorn in my side right now.

  • loops@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Pretty much anything on my phone. Though I have recently found f-droid, and through that I found Phonograph. I wish open street maps could replace google maps, but I really don’t know what it’s trying to do.

    • smpl@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Depends on your country, but where I live Open Streetmap is better than Google’s map. I hear OsmAnd is a great app, but I don’t use a smartphone so I haven’t tested it. I just know that their very compact offline maps are impressive.

    • JohnDumpling@beehaw.org
      3·
      1 year ago

      OSM has much better coverage in Europe as more volunteers contibute. I heard it’s not that great in the US.

    • d3Xt3r@beehaw.org
      3·
      1 year ago

      You should also check out Droid-ify if you like F-Droid. Has more sources, notably those apps on Github which aren’t on F-Droid. Since it can grab apps from Github directly, it gets updates much faster than F-Droid.