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What non-FOSS software are you using that you wish you could replace? (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago by John_Coomsumer@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

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For me its honestly a ton of my work software (digital forensics), shit is too niche to be replaced by good FOSS options. Cellebrite, Magnet Axiom, etc. Autopsy is great and free and has a linux version but it simply cannot get the same level of data without a pretty nutty level of custom code.

And the biggest side effect of this is FUCKING WINDOWS. God I would replace this nightmare OS in a heartbeat if the aforementioned work software would make linux compatible versions. We have legitimately wasted 10k hours dealing with windows bullshit that would not be a problem in linux. Though im sure linux would take a different 10k for its own problems.

What about you guys? Doesn't have to be work related, thats just the thorn in my side right now.

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[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 13 points 2 years ago (9 children)

On my phone: a FOSS "find-my-phone" function

On my computer: a FOSS way to access Teams for work. Just give me a Weechat plugin please.

[–] mormegil@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Access Teams? Do you need anything more than opening the Teams web app in a browser?

[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That is what I do...but I work for 4 companies that all use Teams and it would be nice to have all the profiles in one place.

[–] mormegil@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

Oh, and you can do that even in the official application? I thought it was impossible to be logged into multiple Teams accounts at the same time! (That was one of the reasons I was using Teas in a browser, being able to open another instance in a private window.) Or did they finally fix that, at least?

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