Excellent presentation skills! He’s heard of the hero’s tale.

Indeed, but animating bulleted lists is like the most common thing people do in presentation. The fact that they didn’t notice it… It’s like if your compiler miscompiles printf.

A fairly recent version IIRC. May have been a one time bug but it was a pretty hilariously bad one. At the very least it shows poor quality control.

Ah fair enough. I assumed they kept up with each other. Anyway the point stands - LibreOffice is nowhere near MS Office, or even Google Docs really.

FreeCAD

FreeCAD is actually pretty good finally to be fair. Still not as good as Solidworks, but definitely usable. I dunno about its CAM capabilities though.

OpenSCAD

Yeah useful if you are making gears, pulleys, fasteners, art etc. Otherwise no. You’re not going to design a fork lift or motorcycle with OpenSCAD.

For simulation there is Octave, scilab, sympy, einsteinpy and other python projects.

I meant SystemVerilog simulation - Questa, Xcelium, VCS, Verilator. Verilator is the only open source option and while it is useful it is very far behind the commercial offerings in many ways.

openshot

Unusuable last time I tried. Blender’s VSE is still better even though it is buggy.

Opensource software have no budget and no money … With opensource you can … You can’t kill it

I wasn’t arguing the merits or flaws of open source. Also just because you can always take the source code and fork it blah blah blah doesn’t mean that actually happens. There are plenty of great open source projects that died because nobody did that. I’m saddest about Dia, which was a really great diagramming tool that is long dead. The modern replacement is Draw.io but that’s no longer open source and has some annoying flaws (e.g. you can’t export rich text to SVG).

Maybe I should use AI to modernise Dia or something. It’s not too bad at that sort of thing.

LibreOffice is just a fork of OpenOffice. I believe I was actually using LibreOffice.

Yeah I’m not saying I would use Unity - just that it’s not hard to see why other people would.

Nonsense. I am an open source fan, but I also call it like it is. There are plenty of domains where closed source is still state of the art and open source options are at best inferior, sometimes laughably so. For example

• CAD/CAM
• Hardware design: simulation, formal verification, etc.
• Video editing (Blender’s video sequence editor is so close to being good, but still has basic bugs unfortunately - hopefully in a few years I can take this off the list)
• Audio production, like Fruity Loops.
• Office software. Sorry but OpenOffice is still not a patch on MS Office. Last time I tried to use it for a presentation it literally reordered my bullet points. Absolutely bizarre bug.

And there’s a whole host of highly domain specific software that open source will never replace because it’s too niche, e.g. Simulink. I once worked on commercial software that solved for elastic wave modes in pipes. Good luck finding open source software to do that.

Yeah Krita is far better than GIMP in my experience, and it doesn’t have a godawful name.

The only downside I’ve found is it is really quite heavy. Probably the slowest program to start that I use. Pretty annoying when you just want to crop an image or whatever.

Also for some reason the clone brush is not enabled by default. I had to Google how to get it, which is not a good sign!

Not a game dev but doesn’t it currently have a vastly better asset ecosystem?

What kind of vectors?

Without further information, right-open is usually the best choice.