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Ask HN: What software is so good you are surprised it is free?
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#92KDE Plasma for me, it's amazing how good it is and how stable it has become. I've been using KDE for years and I've recommended it to almost anyone I could - and they always stuck with it, because it was simply too much well done. Compared to gnome 3 and other new desktop environments, KDE has always been so easy to use, predictable and customisable, a very joy to use.
Which kde distro would you recommend for stability?
I'm on KDE Neon. Built by KDE developers on top of Ubuntu.
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#93On a related note I have been wondering why artist's never provide quality content for free. You know graphics/images for games etc and music/sound effects for example. Coders provide software worth billions in man hours for free and trying to find quality "artistic" content is impossible. Every little clip art image costs many dollars. Why do coders provide their services for free so generously while artists are mai…
Maybe OS/FS programmers have a day job, while for the artists, that's their day job.
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#94Kazaa lite codecs, classic media player, Vs code, Google docs and most Google products, freely, android
> Google It's paid by advertisers. Docs and mail are just the Trojan horse to get you to use Google for searching.
I think their value to google is to hook users into googles paid services. We spend $60 year per user at my company.
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#95Inkscape for vector graphics. I feel it firmly competes with illustrator.
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#96Eclipse -- one of the best and most versatile IDEs, especially for JVM languages
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#98Cygwin. Yea, it's mostly just a collection of other free tools, but most of us in corporate America still find ourselves using Windows, and Cygwin is the only thing that makes the Windows command prompt bearable.