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Ask HN: Which project does not have any good open-source alternatives?
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#12Octopus Deploy
Re: Ask HN: Which project does not have any good open-source alternatives?
#13Excel alternatives might be uncountable. Implementing spreadsheet basics is an advanced beginner exercise. But even Google’s billions only get it a distant second best because Microsoft is still working hard despite the lead. Sure Google and Apple can meet most needs most of the time. They’re good enough mainly because they are free beer. Not because they are open source. Obviously. Don’t get me wrong. I’m a GNU fanb…
I'm not an Excel user. Genuinely curious: Is it really that the alternatives are worse, lacking features, unstable, or does it come down to "they're not Excel", in that they're not a drop in replacement that can perfectly load and run every Excel sheet ever created. Because that would be my gut feeling: Not interoperable enough, since some things just work differently, but not necessarily much worse. If you can't sen…
The MS Office suite is far more user friendly than the alternatives.
I still use Libre Office on Ubuntu and I wonder why they chose to be so different. It would be great if they could completely copy MS Office in UI/UX, but there's probably some kind of copyright there right?
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#143D CAD software is light years behind in the open source ecosystem, but competing with Solid Works or Auto Desk is a enormous task... Although Blender seems to be catching up in 3D animation!
Re: Ask HN: Which project does not have any good open-source alternatives?
#15ManyCam - software that creates a virtual webcam on Windows and thus allows one to:
- use one physical webcam in multiple apps simultaneously
- switch which physical webcam software is using seamlessly
- add live video effects
- use a static image or video file as the webcam source
(If there is something like this already, then I have missed it!)
Re: Ask HN: Which project does not have any good open-source alternatives?
#16ManyCam - software that creates a virtual webcam on Windows and thus allows one to: - use one physical webcam in multiple apps simultaneously - switch which physical webcam software is using seamlessly - add live video effects - use a static image or video file as the webcam source (If there is something like this already, then I have missed it!)
OBS Studio has a plugin that enables virtual webcam output on windows. I’ve used it to create a more reliable webcam output from Blackmagic capture cards, as not all software likes to recognize the included webcam driver.
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#17Not completely on topic, but I fear we're rapidly losing many video games of yesteryear to time and their closed-source nature. Luckily, milestone games like Doom and Quake were open sourced some time ago.
There's reverse engineering of some codebases like Rollercoaster Tycoon, Diablo, and Super Mario 64, but for 99% of games we'll never see them outside of the original release or an emulator.
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#18Excel alternatives might be uncountable. Implementing spreadsheet basics is an advanced beginner exercise. But even Google’s billions only get it a distant second best because Microsoft is still working hard despite the lead. Sure Google and Apple can meet most needs most of the time. They’re good enough mainly because they are free beer. Not because they are open source. Obviously. Don’t get me wrong. I’m a GNU fanb…
I'm not an Excel user. Genuinely curious: Is it really that the alternatives are worse, lacking features, unstable, or does it come down to "they're not Excel", in that they're not a drop in replacement that can perfectly load and run every Excel sheet ever created. Because that would be my gut feeling: Not interoperable enough, since some things just work differently, but not necessarily much worse. If you can't sen…
A PM that worked on Excel in the late 2000s explained it to me like this:
Most people use about 20% of the features in Excel - which should make it easy for competitors to copy, right?
The kicker is that different people/industries tend to use a “different 20%” of the features, making the barrier to really compete very high.
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#19photoshop. Gimp has the functionalities, but its usability is poor.
Re: Ask HN: Which project does not have any good open-source alternatives?
#20Excel alternatives might be uncountable. Implementing spreadsheet basics is an advanced beginner exercise. But even Google’s billions only get it a distant second best because Microsoft is still working hard despite the lead. Sure Google and Apple can meet most needs most of the time. They’re good enough mainly because they are free beer. Not because they are open source. Obviously. Don’t get me wrong. I’m a GNU fanb…
I'm not an Excel user. Genuinely curious: Is it really that the alternatives are worse, lacking features, unstable, or does it come down to "they're not Excel", in that they're not a drop in replacement that can perfectly load and run every Excel sheet ever created. Because that would be my gut feeling: Not interoperable enough, since some things just work differently, but not necessarily much worse. If you can't sen…
I am an Excel user and nothing beats it in terms of functionality and add-ons but it's the win32 level of usability that scores it for me, nothing comes close to packing so much in to such a practical workspace. Don't even get me started on Project desktop and some key add-ons!