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Dual pane file manager with GUI, in other words: a proper alternative to Total Commander on Linux. Fast, simple UI, has all required functionality built in and can be extended using plugins. Krusader is probably closest one, but still has few minor paper cut issues.
Even without dvtm you can have mutiple contexts. nnn is extremely fast with tons of features. Many plugins are available already and it's easy to add new ones.
Hotel PMS & operation. We pay roughly $7000 per year. If I want api access it cost additional $700 per year. It took them 9 months to transfer the licence when I bought the property.
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> We pay roughly $7000 per year. Erm, nobody is going to jump up and down to replace that software if that's all you have to pay. You can't get people to work on replacing Cadence, and that's a license that is on the order of $1 million per person per year.
I see some ~100 products at https://www.cadence.com/en_US/home/tools/tools-a-z.html -- which one(s) did you have in mind?
A good example at the price range cited is ballroom dance competition software. Dick Douglas created it a number of years ago and people gripe what it costs (I think $1000 per comp or so) and the fact that it hasn't been actively developed over the years. It would be very useful as open source software--except that nobody seems to have the knowledge of what is needed (Dick and his wife Liz have high domain knowledge of ballroom scoring and competitions) and nobody is willing to take on the training/customer support task.
This is, in my opinion, where software, in general, breaks down. Everybody wants to be the developer of scalable software that doesn't scale support costs--unfortunately, that's the exception, not the rule.
(Link to the ballroom software: https://www.douglassassociates.com/)
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I don't understand why there isn't an industrial consortium supporting an open source CAD standard. Enough companies depend on proprietary software that they already pay a fortune for that they could front the cost of software development to save money in the long run.
(1) Cost of software is relatively small compared with the cost of employing the people who use it. (2) Cost of software is relatively small compared with the cost of retraining staff and changing business workflows and processes to cope with different software. (3) Changing to new software is relatively simple compared with the problems of making all your staff, your contractors and your suppliers change to new soft…
Video editing. Adobe Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro. I guess the price might not be that high to justify, but still I have not seen anything like these as open source.
It's harder to names ones that do, really. It's easy to find some "alternative" to most famous software packets, but despite people repeatedly naming all the same programs (known to pretty much anyone interested anyways), none of them can replace, say, photoshop. So, out of my head (and, yeah, all of them have "alternatives" no serious user would ever switch to): Ableton Live Adobe Photoshop Adobe Premiere AutoCAD Mi…
They’re not open source, but quite a few graphic designers are switching from Adobe products like Photoshop and Illustrator to Affinity products like Photo and Designer. So Adobe is open to competitors, but they have to be very well executed (Affinity products are well-executed).
Also, it’s my opinion that (open-source) Inkscape is slowly closing in on Adobe Illustrator (and Affinity Designer). Not there yet, by any measure, but on its way.
Video editing. There’s Kdenlive and OpenShot that are maybe the most well-established, but they we’re both very buggy the last time I dealt with them, and they’re nowhere near featureful as what’s available commercially. I think we could benefit from a well-know MovieMaker equivalent. Something that isn’t featureful, but is reliable (read: doesn’t crash) and intuitive.
Once I can create the flashy animation style stuff I regularly create and not just Windows XP Movie Maker-level animations, I'd pay any price and switch to Linux in a heartbeat.
There was an link on the front page yesterday about “recycle mode” bricking devices to prevent resale. I’m now slightly disgusted that I own one.
Sonos hardware has great speakers and great sound, but the software is flaky (especially near microwave ovens) and requires a connection to Sonos servers at all times.
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For about 10 years I had a consultancy that in the latter half focused on B2B. One of the biggest qualifier pitfalls was thinking we could replace Excel with anything else. There are a myriad of reasons this fails to work. I swear some of them are near voodoo. Google Sheets is a fit in some situations but the real facts are that Excel is amazing and when someone has been running core biz logic on it for a long time;…
I know what that voodoo may be. Of the many failed "replace Excel" projects I've seen in the investment banking \ hedge fund world over 20 years, the usual mistake is that the focus was on the specific Excel model itself and not the generic building capabilities that Excel provides. An Excel model, i.e., the specific map from inputs to outputs, is typically fairly easy to replace with another tool. But what you've do…
I think the definition of "good" matters a lot here. Consider Adobe's Photoshop and Lightroom. Many people (including me) would love to see those supported on Linux, or even better, be out-classed by open-source software, e.g. Gimp and Darktable. Gimp and Darktable truly are wonderful pieces of software. But they aren't yet compelling enough to cause a mass-migration by professional photographs. Another example would…
Let's not kid ourselves -- Gimp is an unusable bag of crap.