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Basically, what the title says. Do you use any app, that is proprietary, but either has no OSS alternatives or they're all not good enough? If there is an alternative, what keeps you from switching?

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[–] anzo 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

OpenCamera is good, but could do better. But I'd say video editing is the biggest void.

Also, gesture typing keyboards are an empty niche of foss alternatives. HelioBoard requires loading some proprietary blob unfortunately.

I guess the most heavy machine learning use cases are not filled in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also, gesture typing keyboards are an empty niche of foss alternatives. HelioBoard requires loading some proprietary blob unfortunately.

FlorisBoard is on the way to implement swype-typing. Unfortunately, it is unlikely to be very soon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

wasn't the last update 2 years ago?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Latest release candidate was released a few days ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

oh, that's nice!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

For gesture typing I use AnySoftKeyboard and it's quite ok. It has a lot of options that make it very convenient for me, despite it's reputation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The FUTO keyboard has swipe tying, but it's not as fluid imo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

You're right, it's some FUTO license and has some limitations that make it not FOSS.

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