Software Recommendations

A collection of FOSS software recommendations and alternatives. To make your own contributions, clone this repo, edit ./data.json, and submit a pull request.

Collabora Online

Collaborative Open-Source Document Editing

Collabora Online is a powerful collaborative office suite that supports all major document, spreadsheet and presentation file formats, which you can integrate into your own infrastructure.

OBS

Open Broadcaster Software

Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.

Kdenlive is a video editing application with support for many audio and video formats. It offers advanced editing features, a variety of effects and transitions, color correction, audio post-production, and subtitling tools.

KiCad

A Cross Platform and Open Source PCB Design Suite

KiCad is a free and open-source electronics design automation (EDA) suite. It features schematic capture, integrated circuit simulation, printed circuit board (PCB) layout, 3D rendering, and plotting/data export to numerous formats. KiCad has minimal system requirements and runs on Linux, Windows, and macOS.

OpenSCAD

The Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller

OpenSCAD is a solid 3D modeler that enables the creation of parametric models using its scripting language. Models are created by utilizing a technique called constructive solid geometry. According to this technique, simple objects can be transformed and combined in order to create almost any complex model.

Kile

An Integrated LaTeX Editing Environment

Kile is a user-friendly TeX/LaTeX editor by KDE. Kile is available for many architectures and operating systems such as PC, Mac, and BSD, including Linux and Microsoft Windows.

RapidRaw

A non-destructive and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor

RapidRaw is a user-friendly and open source image editor written in rust. It offers most of the same features as Adobe Lightroom and runs on all operating systems.

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