Comments & Reviews
Reviewed ImagePipe★★★★★Lightweight but powerful image editing app. I quite appreciate the file quality slider with instant preview, not having to guess what the compression is gonna look like.
It's got one or two UI quirks to iron out, but other than that, perfect.
Reviewed Pixelitor★★★★★Impressive. Basically has every basic functionality what I looked for in GIMP, straightforward to boot, but which isn't in GIMP or too inconveniently so. Installing Pixelitor on every machine from now on.
Reviewed Omarchy★Since Omarchy is political by default considering the vested interests of its rich tech bro donors, it's only fair the reviews are political as well. Hence: Omarchy is antithetical to what Linux stands for, ideal for users without a moral compass and parasitic profit mindsets. Its creator DHH is a far-right propagandist.
Reviewed Filen★★★★★Fast. Just files, no bloat.
Also, the prices are hard to beat. Probably gonna migrate everything from my former cloud service after my testing period.
Reviewed Vernissage★★★★★Feels like it's made for photographers, not influencers. One significant feature is that one can replace photos without losing community interactions; on nearly all other similar platforms one has to delete the original post.
Reviewed Twake Drive★★★★Used it for half a year or so on Linux. The desktop version is good, but on Android the app just stopped working.
I wish they'd stuck to Cozy Cloud, and did that well. Now they come with a whole suit of office software that's not really necessary.
- Reviewed Filen★★★★★
Fast. Just files, no bloat.
Also, the prices are hard to beat. Probably gonna migrate everything from my former cloud service after my testing period.
Reviewed RawTherapee★★★★★Hot pixel removal support. Relatively intuitive and pleasant to use.
Reviewed Deluge★★★★★Fast, intuitive. No creeptocurrency donations or any other techbro nonsense.
Reviewed PixelUnion★★★★★Picture perfect. PixelUnion completely changed my workflow thanks to the non-destructive cropping. If one embeds a photo on ten different places, and an adjustment to the crop was done, it changes everywhere. The user experience is smooth, and lastly, the pricing is remarkably fair. I find other hosting providers to be ridiculously overpriced just for data storage, but PixelUnion, anything below 16 GB is free and 150 GB is only a monthly €2.95, i.e., one beer a month.
Cheers to PixelUnion...
Reviewed Artix Linux★★★★★
Reviewed Immich★★★★★Non-destructive editing is a game-changer. Using any other platform to share pictures immediately feels outdated.
Reviewed Bear Blog★★★★★Perfect. Exactly how the World Wide Web should be.
Reviewed Brave★A cryptobro browser, i.e., indirectly runs on the basis of a pyramid scheme.
Also, its CEO Brandon Eich is a homophobe.
Reviewed Bluefish Editor★★★★★The developer is responsive and quickly implements useful suggested features with a speed I've never witnessed before. Bluefish itself is thus not surprisingly just as fast. It loads as quick or quicker than a simple plain text editor; impressive.
Reviewed Flameshot★★★★★Okay, wow. Should be the default on all operating systems. Intuitive, lots of features, easily configurable. And exportable settings!
Reviewed Grokipedia★Owned and manipulated by a society-eroding billionaire.
Reviewed Carbonio★
Reviewed Phoenix Code★★★★★Phoenix Code + Emmet finally made Microsoft based VSCodium redundant. At least for web development. Intuitive and powerful; surprisingly underrated.
Reviewed Element X★★★★★Pretty much the future of communication apps—protocol wise. As soon as it supports gifs/stickers then WhatsApp/Telegram is done for.
Reviewed KDE Plasma★★★★Very powerful, but a bit boastful. Just like Gnome it comes with a lot of "bloatware" which they assume are the best pieces of software. In some cases they are, in some they aren't. Leave that up to the users, or create a minimal plasma install.
Not without the occasional bugs either.
Anyway, to not sound overly negative, it is infinitely better than any Microsoft product, and makes computers fun.
Reviewed Budgie★★★★★Distros that ship with Budgie should be near-perfect, however, on Arch Linux the hot corners applet does not work by default. Apparently budgie-extras has to be compiled manually for it to work.
Reviewed Cinnamon★★★★★Desktop environment #Cinnamon is the perfect compromise between Xfce, KDE Plasma, Gnome, and Budgie. It's fast, user friendly for both ex Windows/Mac users, while still offering a wide variety of immediately useful features without being overwhelming. It doesn't come with bloat software as well. Intuitive, clean, remarkably satisfying to use.
#Budgie comes second as the #hotcorner feature doesn't work by default on #ArchLinux.
Had to find a #Compiz alternative; latest update was in Aug 2022.
Reviewed Namecheap★★★Was a positive review before, but since they started accepting crypto"currencies" they are (unwittingly?) legitimizing greed-inducing pyramid schemes.
Reviewed Pear Launcher★★★★★Extensive customization and speed.
