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What apps would you love to have open-source alternatives for?

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It seems like the FOSS community is continuing to grow, and FOSS apps keep getting better (Immich reallh blew my mind recently), which is a big win 😎 but there are still many apps I use that I would kill for an open source alternative. I am curious what you guys think? Are there any apps you’d love alternatives for?

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land@lemmy.ml
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  • Parallel Desktop
  • Arc Browser
  • X
  • Discord
  • Copilot
  • Vivaldi Browser
  • Unread RSS Reader
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vsis@feddit.cl
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Parallel Desktop

There are several FOSS alternatives. All of them are more popular that Parallels.

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HubertManne@kbin.social
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are you talking wine, virtual box, quemu and such? Im pretty sure he is looking for usage like parallels so dual booting a mac and then running it from the mac side. I mean im not sure but thinking from a parallels user perspective that is my guess at the ask.

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land@lemmy.ml
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I have used them all. None of them comes closer to Parallel desktop. (Qemu a little bit)

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trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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For macOS, I recommend UTM.

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RayOfSunlight@lemmy.world
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For X/Twittwr there are many options but Mastodon(mastodon.social instance specifically) it’s my favorite, it also works as an alternative to Facebook.

I just feel a lot better with Mastodon rather than X/Twitter

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fossyou@lemm.ee
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For Copilot, Codeium might have potentional?

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land@lemmy.ml
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Sorry for lack of clarification. I meant bing AI or they call it copilot now

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FrostKing@lemmy.world
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For RSS I recommend twine—not sure if it’s available on Mac os though. That’s always going to be a struggle with foss stuff, support for Mac is lacking because the people making them tend not to use macs

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SagXD@lemm.ee
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Vivaldi is open source I guess.

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land@lemmy.ml
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Partially, not entirely.

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theorangeninja@lemmings.world
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Of the three layers, only the UI layer is closed-source. This means that roughly 92% of the browser’s code is open-source coming from Chromium, 3% is open-source coming from us and only 5% is our UI closed-source code.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-browser-open-source/

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