Ardens

Thanks for that pessimistic comment.

Is that not a good reason, if you are trying to help people, and competitors likely would damage that mission? There’s a thousand possible reasons, and I really wonder why you can’t imagine any of them…

Maybe, but not necessarily. You see, there could be plenty of reasons to protect ones code…

…or non-profit… But I agree…

Been using it since it was Netscape Navigator. It’s the only solution for me, that has stuck. It’s not like I haven’t tried anything else like Opera, Waterfox, Vivaldi and a few others. I have never installed Chrome though… Firefox is the only one I feel safe with… A few addons, and a few tweaks, and like you, I’m good to go…

I can see that people really have a hard time when someone speaks figuratively…

I don’t love things. I might like them, and I do like LibreOffice, Firefox and lot’s of other OS software. I can’t take your job, but I hope you find someone for the position! :-)

Almost all I work with, have switched to Affinity. Both because of the price tag, but also because they are so tired of Adobe… A great tool is not worth much, when it’s rented from a big and greedy control freak… It’s insane how much they want to install on your computer…

Because “best” is obvious a subjective statement, and you wanted to argue that…

Inkscape can make a CMYK-file, with an addon. It’s pretty easy. Besides CMYK is only relevant is you want to print, and most graphics work today is for screens. It literally takes about 7 seconds to make it CMYK.

What feature do you need, that Inkscape can’t do? Is it really the 7 seconds to make it CMYK, that breaks you?

Well, it’s not great to take an already compressed audiostream like 320kbps mp3, and then compress it again. Use your FLACs if possible. Then, I’d recommend that you use .ogg - they give better compression (smaller files), but with better sound than mp3…

There’s a lot of apps out there, but AFAIK not anyone who does this automatically for you.

I know the feeling. Maybe not always videos, but I also keep some tabs open, that I have to get back to. Then, after a couple of weeks, I finally either bookmark them or delete them. :-)

Sure, you can use it to edit photos. That’s just not it’s strength.

CMYK is easy to work around.

So, your argument is, that you can find 1 tool where AI is better, and then everything else doesn’t matter?

Well, fine - keep paying a sh*tload of money for Adobe, and use AI, that’s totally fine by me. :-)

Oh, if you’d be so kind, show me something made in AI, that Inkscape can’t do?

Strange. I use Firefox with 18 tabs open right now, and I use 1,5 GB of RAM…

First of all, you don’t have to go back. Second of all, being perfect is a pretty high bar for any software - can you mention any on this list, or even commercial ones, that have no flaws or bugs, or could not be better? Third. I’ve used it since it was part of Navigator, and I have never lost any data. Without being tech-support for Thunderbird, I might think that you have somehow installed either a different version of Thunderbird, which makes a new user-folder. Your data might still have been there.

Sorting is done the same way in Outlook and Thunderbird, by clicking on the subject you want to sort it by. How you couldn’t do that, is beyond me…

But, as I said at first - you don’t have to go back. I guess you felt like making this post about complaining - something I don’t think that any software in this list (or beyond this list) could be above…

I feel for the bee…

I know what you mean. Back in the day I worked at a graphics bureau, making logos and other illustrations. I worked in Illustrator, and though I could make what I wanted, when I tried Inkscape, it all just got so much easier - and so much more fun and intuitive to work with. Before I felt more like a constructor, and with Inkscape I feel more like a crafter/artist.

GIMP - unlike Krita - which is made for drawing - this is made for photo-editing. It’s like Photoshop. The learning curve is a bit steep, but it is really powerful.

Inkscape - the best vector graphics program out there. So easy to use, and so powerful.

Krita is a fantastic program for drawing. It’s made for making beautiful paintings and animations.

LibreOffice - simply the best office suite there is (IMHO). I was a MS-office user for years, but since I switched, I haven’t looked back…