What are the best proprietary/paid apps for linux?
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Steam probably.
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Yup, as time went on, I simply felt less need to have proprietary software on my system. Steam remains as an exception; simply by virtue of having no F(L)OSS alternative (AFAIK).
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Steam itself isn’t that special and things like Heroic exist but where Steam wins is the ecosystem. Also Valve sponsor developments of Linux desktop technologies, so even if Steam itself is proprietary, some of the money ends up advancing open source.
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I won’t say it’s “best”, as I just want to run a game without friendlists and other bloat, so I really hate the fact Steam is nessesary for so many games.
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Valve has put a lot of work into helping WINE & Linux. Even if it was a selfish play to break free from Microsoft & other app stores to lock those into their marketplace fee, I can’t help but be grateful for the better ecosystem & uptick in users. Since they are privately held too, they aren’t in the same business of chasing quartely profits or making the experience worse & worse by selling your data & slapping ads everywhere.
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Although I don’t use them, the Jetbrains products should be near the top of the list.
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Was going to say this. Pycharm is probably the only paid software I use. With that being said, students don’t need to pay for it, so I don’t have to worry about that.
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OpenAudible - because Audible cycles books in and out of the membership too fast and sometimes their phone app sucks.
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Agreed, OpenAudible is fantastic. I’ve been an audible member for ages. I really only listen to my books when commuting and traveling and the pandemic set me back in my listening. Using OpenAudible allows me to keep my library available on any device and use any application to listen.
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DaVinci Resolve is THE video editor on Linux. Unfortunately the libre apps for it don’t get even close, to the point that even with all the limitations in the free and paid versions, it still is the best option.
Also shout out to Bitwig Studio, although I don’t use it.
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I personally use Shotcut but i only do basic editing.
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KDEndlive is pretty solid, imho
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It is, but when it comes to more complex needs, it falls short. It is really good for simpler editing needs and it is getting better fast.
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If you haven’t done it yet, please consider contributing by writing down what you believe is currently missing, either as your own blogpost or via community.kde.org/Kdenlive#Contact
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Honestly IMO it’s not even a comparison whatsoever. Kdenlive cannot be used professionally for any real work, it will just crash on you before you even find out it can’t even do what you want. I’ve tried it off and on for many years and it’s always a massive disappointment compared to pro solutions.
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In the past 5 years stability has improved significantly, like I haven’t had a crash in the past year of casual use. ymmv but I would recommend it to new users at this point.
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I had to switch from kdenlive to DaVinci Resolve recently and it breaks my heart. I’m by no means a professional, but I am a heavy user who is frequently sifting throughout footage. Unfortunately, crashes are still very common for a power user. After encountering a memory corruption bug for the second time that resulted in lost project work (despite saving to disk!!!), I had to switch to something better.
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Save often.
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it will just crash on you before you even find out
Older versions may have has issues with that, but I haven’t encountered any crashing in over 2 years.
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I just tried to make some subtitles with the most recent version and it still crashes on me.
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KDEnLive is a good “editor” for simpler projects, but not a good video editing “suite”. It comes nowhere near Resolve’s color grading ability, or even audio editing ability these days. And it has no compositing ability at all. In fact, except Natron on Linux, there’s nothing about compositing.
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Is it really too hard to import audio tracks after editing in audacity. I’m glad kdenlive doesn’t waste time trying to be an audio editor.
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You misunderstand the word “editing” in this case. It’s not a matter of adding a few plugins and cutting audio. It’s a matter of having the tools to normalize human voice in a way that it’s expected in a movie, or to have automation about it, or envelopes that tracks the volume and fixes it for you. That’s the stuff that neither audacity nor kdenlive has, because they’re very specific to the movie industry. They have more generic plugins instead.
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Where can iblearn more about how human voice is normalized for movies? I’ve noticed a big difference in the audio of old movies and some shows, and movies. But I can never pinpoint the difference
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That’s mostly due to the difference in recording equipment rather than editing.
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Solid? I’m a casual user for occasionally editing video and it crashes all the time. It’s easily the least stable Linux application I ever use.
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I see it has two different products for two different use cases. Kdenlive is for those who missed Windows Movie maker or iMovie. Something to stitch together videos, or split apart videos.
DaVinci Resolve is for those who need stable professional software like adobe.
Not saying that kdenlive can’t be used professionally but I found its stability lacking, its tools unpolished and its functionality limited. The only benefit is that it can handle aac audio, and export it too thanks to ffmpeg.
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Can you run it on anything besides cent yet? I tried it a few years ago and it fell flat on its face
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it totally does, it’s pretty easy to install and run on regular distros and just a bit more work to do in immutable ones, but with davincibox it’s bound to get better
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moneydance for household finance tracking
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Step 1: reduce your household spending by avoiding useless paid software.
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Fair, but last time I tried them, the foss apps were awful. But that was several years ago so might be worth looking again
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I’ve heard good things about actual. Doesn’t sync with banks automatically, though.
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Looks interesting. Thanks!
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I like Sublime Text and Sublime Merge and use both daily.
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Does it count as paid if I donated what I think is a reasonable price?
Cause then it’s KDE, Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice and Gimp. I’d prefer those programs even if their proprietary counterparts were free.
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Came here to say this too… I contribute a few €/£/$ per month to various projects…
I won’t get all righteous here, but just because you don’t have to pay, doesn’t mean you to say you can’t support the developer(s)…
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Pianoteq for virtual piano emulation with MIDI keyboards.
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SAP S/4HANA
If expensive and proprietary is what you want, it's hard to beat.
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IBM Maximo :)
Both are expensive but not for you average consumer.
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Reaper. Great usability and decent Linux support out of the box (looking at you, davinci resolve). Generous free trial and a cheap one-time payment for a license. LMMS has served me well and is fine for basic stuff, but reaper is a whole other level, both in features and usability. I’ve heard good things about ardour too but have yet to give it a try.
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Reaper is awesome.
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Would you mind linking it?
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www.reaper.fm
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Some rare games that don’t scam you.
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I like Insync. It synchronizes with Google Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox. It is not the only client out there but it works better than the other ones I’ve used.
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rclone, but there’s no GUI
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Actually it has two GUIs, it has its own web GUI or you can use rclone browser
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+1 for Insync
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Does Unraid count as paid Linux itself, not just a Linux utility?
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Pycharm professional and Steam are pretty dope
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I have some hobby projects in Python but I’ve never needed the pro features, I do pay for Clion though
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It’s so odd how proprietary software is frowned upon so much in this community, but no one cares when it comes to gaming.
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Even Stallman said games are an unfortunate, but reasonable exception. Of he can see it, anyone can.
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It is a bit different. Have you invested thousands of hours developing skill with a piece of productivity software, and locked your data into their proprietary data format? Has that vendor looked at your investment, and found that they have plenty of leverage to turn the screws on you?
With a game, you invest tens of hours developing skills, lock your “master sword” in a proprietary save format, and then you save the princess. After that, you’re done. It is an ephemeral experience, give or take wanting to replay a few really good games. The game vendor doesn’t have that much hold over you, and their grip doesn’t get stronger the more you use it. I can replace your game with hundreds of other games, and I don’t really lose anything by doing so.
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I absolutely agree with you, but look at launchers and such. Steam is very much proprietary and commercial. I find it a little odd that those who might do anything to avoid proprietary software, willingly use it for gaming.
Those are just my thoughts.
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I paid for Vuescan. There are a ton of Linux scanning apps, but pretty much all of them require editing all pictures to some extent after the scan. Vuescan applies a useful set of defaults that work for most pictures, speeding up the work flow. I had over 4,000 pictures to scan so anything to simplify that was worth it.
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Vuescan is great, and near as I can tell it’s one guy. Totally worth it.
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Yeah, I think you’re right. I forgot to add that there’s no mucking about with drivers and all of that, it really just works. Older scanners usually aren’t a problem with Linux, but Vuescan almost certainly supports them as well.
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IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, Master PDF Editor, Duplicacy (paid GUI)
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