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@programming.dev 9 points 10 months 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.

[–] JustMarkov@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months 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.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

wasn't the last update 2 years ago?

[–] JustMarkov@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Latest release candidate was released a few days ago.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

oh, that's nice!

[–] Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months 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.

[–] exu@feditown.com 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] badcodecat@lemux.minnix.dev 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

isn't this one proprietary?

[–] exu@feditown.com 4 points 10 months ago

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

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