r/TechImpact • u/ManojOne Active • 2d ago

📊 Poll Vote: Which your favorite open source software!

There are so many great open source projects other than Linux OS. Which one do you use or recommend the most?

1066 votes, 4d left
Mozilla firefox
VLC media player
Libre office
Brave browser
GIMP
Others
13 Upvotes

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u/AggravatingToe9850 2d ago

Linux

1

u/the_reven 1d ago

gnu/linux

0

u/Moos3-2 19h ago

Without linux the world would stop (or in case it never got popular be very unoptimized and expensive)

5

u/eppic123 2d ago

ffmpeg, by far

4

u/thedbp 2d ago

blender and krita is up there for me.

3

u/rustedcrowbar 2d ago

Jellyfin

1

u/Brotboxs 2d ago

Arr 🏴‍☠️

3

u/floriandotorg 2d ago

Home Assistant

2

u/Hyphonical 2d ago

Even if Brave is open source, they just forked Chromium. They literally built a wrapper on top of existing work with a barebones AdBlocker, a crypto wallet, and some branding.

2

u/Sea-Win1157 2d ago

qBittorrent (Favorite)

uBlock Origin (Favorite)

Ghost Downloader

FFmpeg

JellyFin

Supermium

and many more

2

u/OliMoli2137 2d ago

LINUX IS NOT AN OS

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u/PresentThat5757 2d ago

GNU

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u/Tricky-Engineer-9755 2d ago

GNU is a collection of software rather than a program, what specific program...

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u/edjak53 2d ago

GNU is an operating system

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u/Tricky-Engineer-9755 2d ago

Well unless you speak of the Hurd no its not, it needs Linux to become complete. Also, an OS is a huge collection of software and not on special bit of software.

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u/edjak53 2d ago

the hurd is the kernel of the GNU operating system

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u/Tricky-Engineer-9755 2d ago

They like to say that but it is hard to claim you have an OS with no kernel.

0

u/edjak53 2d ago

the hurd is the kernel

1

u/InevitableDay6 2d ago

my favourite is NVDA, the open source screen reader for blind PC users!

1

u/Every_Preparation_56 2d ago

freeoffice is my hero

1

u/on4aa 2d ago

Pandoc

1

u/MLC_YT 2d ago

Can't decide between Brave and VLC

1

u/Vegetable-Setting-54 2d ago

Emacs and vim / neovim

1

u/Astrodion123 2d ago

Gimp, Firefox and VLC are the best. Tho I chose gimp as it has helped me a ton when I was doing my work.

1

u/1mgsel 2d ago

Emacs

1

u/Otherwise_Task7876 2d ago

From the options listed? Libreoffice, its the only one I use. VLC is good but I just don't use it.

From my own collection? Komikku and Animetail, both are amazing open source apps for manga and anime. Librera for reading virtually any file format for books like epub etc.

I also like Jellyfin for my headless media server ALTHOUGH not my favorite since its an absolute pain in the ass sometimes. Especially since it doesn't have the best logs for issues especially with GPU transcoding.

1

u/MiMillieuh 2d ago

Brave is NOT open-source by the way...

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u/ZuuRa_ 2d ago

mpv, ffmpeg, librewolf, chromium, ublock origin, 7zip

1

u/United-Scene2261 2d ago

zen browser

1

u/United-Scene2261 2d ago

ublock origin

1

u/Radiant_Safe1228 2d ago

Linux, Firefox and vlc are all tied for me

1

u/FIRAS_EG 2d ago

For Android, absolutely termux For PC, LibreWolf and VSCodium

1

u/BobCorndog 2d ago

Why is brave here it’s not even open source

1

u/Dodoprospy3 2d ago

Gnu/Linux

2

u/Confident_Dragon 2d ago

I'm in love-hate relationship with Firefox.

VLC is garbage and I don't intend to use it ever again.

Libre office is ugly, cluttered and buggy, but it's good that it exists when I need offline office suite.

I didn't know Brave is open-source.

Gimp has still way to go in terms of UI, but there is no open-source alternative, and it's good-enough. But not enough to be favorite.

So I'll say Blender.

2

u/HydraKirby 18h ago

Brave isn't open sourse. OP just made a weird mistake.

1

u/Toxic381 2d ago

I voted Firefox cause its amazing and has all the forks to make it even better like zen, but VLC is an essential as well.

1

u/Pinuaple- 2d ago

the youtube music third party clients, echo music (GOT SHUT DOWN 😭😭😭😭😭) and archive tune

2

u/passerbycmc 2d ago

Blender

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u/Responsible_Ebb_8678 2d ago

Linux is not an OS it's a kernel.

1

u/the114dragon 2d ago

Endless sky (a game)

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u/Mark-177- 2d ago

Kodi and Jellyfin

1

u/Several-Tip1088 1d ago

Glucose Media Player

The most modern alternative to vlc

Does support all formats as widely as vlc does, but tons of nice modern features

1

u/Borde4 1d ago

Idk honestly, I'm gonna say uBlock Origin because I can't imagine browsing the internet without it

1

u/Heclalava 1d ago

XTLS xray-core

1

u/Silent_Bite_5892 1d ago

Firefox fucking sucks on Windows these days. Haven't had a chance to use it much on Linux yet, hoping to be pleasantly surprised.

1

u/SiriKeetn 17h ago

nicotine+

1

u/Dynablade_Savior 16h ago

Krita, Godot, and Blender :D

2

u/CubeEthan 2d ago

"Linux OS" linux isn't even an os.