It seems like the FOSS community is continuing to grow, and FOSS apps keep getting better (Immich reallh blew my mind recently), which is a big win 😎 but there are still many apps I use that I would kill for an open source alternative. I am curious what you guys think? Are there any apps you'd love alternatives for?

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[–] land@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

Parallel Desktop
Arc Browser
X
Discord
Copilot
Vivaldi Browser
Unread RSS Reader

[–] RayOfSunlight@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

For X/Twittwr there are many options but Mastodon(mastodon.social instance specifically) it's my favorite, it also works as an alternative to Facebook.

I just feel a lot better with Mastodon rather than X/Twitter

[–] vsis@feddit.cl 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Parallel Desktop

There are several FOSS alternatives. All of them are more popular that Parallels.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago

are you talking wine, virtual box, quemu and such? Im pretty sure he is looking for usage like parallels so dual booting a mac and then running it from the mac side. I mean im not sure but thinking from a parallels user perspective that is my guess at the ask.

[–] land@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

I have used them all. None of them comes closer to Parallel desktop. (Qemu a little bit)

[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago

For macOS, I recommend UTM.

[–] FrostKing@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

For RSS I recommend twine—not sure if it's available on Mac os though. That's always going to be a struggle with foss stuff, support for Mac is lacking because the people making them tend not to use macs

[–] fossit@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

For Copilot, Codeium might have potentional?

[–] land@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Sorry for lack of clarification. I meant bing AI or they call it copilot now

[–] sag@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Vivaldi is open source I guess.

[–] land@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Partially, not entirely.

[–] theorangeninja@lemmings.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Of the three layers, only the UI layer is closed-source. This means that roughly 92% of the browser's code is open-source coming from Chromium, 3% is open-source coming from us and only 5% is our UI closed-source code.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-browser-open-source/

[–] land@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Do you recommend using it, though? (It used to be one of my favourite browsers) especially when we have other browsers such as librewolf, Floorp, etc.