I approve of all these except GIMP.
GIMP is just terrible.
this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2025
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Nobody should ever use the internet without uBlock Origin.
Friends donβt let friends surf unprotected.
But also, I'd like we should be able to use internet without having to use uBlock Origin...
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Its super scary that there are many people not using it.
Yeah, whenever I hear people complaining about ads, I'm like "You guys are seeing ads?!"
I could understand if you needed to be some 1337 hacker to block ads, but uBlock is one of the easiest extensions I've ever used. You just set it and forget it. There's zero configuration you need to do.
Of course, if there's some ad that slips past, then you need to do some hacking, but that almost never happens nowadays.
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An open source package that would replace adobe would be a game changer.
Which Adobe?
The building style?
Someoneβs been living in a cave.
That can replace adobe, well done!
I would sacrifice my first unborn kid for this.
I would also sacrifice your first unborn kid for this.
Truly the spirit of FOSS
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I am so stoked and appreciative to see so many great projects underway in the EU. Bad for the US right now but good in the long run.
It's good for the US, too.
Americans don't have to live under the bootheels of corporations.
Do they also fund these projects?
They are not only no funding but largely not using it in practice and letting most public institution spent billions in Microsoft Office 365 contract
Probably a lot like the actual users of (F)OSS: Not really :p
The SILL About page translated explains the list :
https://code.gouv.fr/sill/readme
Why this catalog?
The socle interministΓ©riel de logiciels libres (SILL) is the reference catalog of open-source software recommended by the French government for use throughout the administration.
This catalog helps administrations find their way around the open-source software they are encouraged to use, in line with Article 16 of the French Law for a Digital Republic
Hopefully the French will also endorse Fedora, Red Hat, and Valve's SteamOS. Microsoft is a huge security issue, since it isn't clear whether MS would bend to DOGE's whims. The NLRB and other aspects of the US government had DOGE set up accounts, which were accessed within 15 minutes by Russia.
Why RedHat? I thought it's a bad version of Linux and generally disliked (similar to Broadcom and ESXi).
Why not prefer something based on Debian. As it's being regarded as very stable I don't feel like it would interfere with the employees daily job as they don't need a cutting edge distro like arch.
So, I love Debian, and it's an excellent distro.
But personally something like suse makes more sense, it's more user friendly and is so German it's painful.
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Why Steam OS? It does what it sets out to do, and probably makes Valve a ton of money.
Donations should go to projects that need it. Valve seems to be doing fine.
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on another note.. Microsoft export their software and OS to almost every one of our users' pc while US doesn't buy any of our OS. Using Trump logic of fairness, we need to tariff US, to balance the trade deficit.
DuckDuckGo as a web browser?
On android at least, yes there is a duck duck go browser.
based!
That's cool, I hope ONLYOFFICE gets some love one day too. I vastly prefer the GUI at least in the word processor. Also open source.
note I'm only using it for writing, can't speak to the rest of the suite
Not judging the software at all, but the fact that OnlyOffice is owned/developed by a semi-sketchy Russian corporation would probably preclude it from getting any endorsement from a Western government.
Cryptpad (which partly uses onlyoffice), writes about it here: https://forum.cryptpad.org/d/232-onlyoffice-concerns-vendor-makes-shady-moves/4
I think it's an excellent post worth reading. Open Source entails collaborating with the whole world. Any code base is simply to big to audit from the start, but all incremental code can be audited, and you can disable stuff you don't need etc.
For me, the post makes me trust cryptpad more than I did before.
And yes. Cryptpaf = onlyoffice, but still relevant I think
Edit: spelling of "worth"
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It is endorsed, though?
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