# Open-source software to use

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**Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 3:11pm UTC](https://tzm.one/t/open-source-software-to-use/671/1 "2021-03-23T15:11:20Z")

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# Introduction

This is a community wiki post, everyone with [trust level](https://blog.discourse.org/2018/06/understanding-discourse-trust-levels/) 1 or higher can contribute here with new content. Please **only** add open-source software to the list.

> ℹ Also have a look at [Switching Software](https://switching.software/), [Open Source Alternatives](https://www.opensourcealternative.to/) and [Prism Break](https://prism-break.org/en/) overview of open-source alternatives, which is already pretty complete.

# Text

## 📝 Text editors

- [GNU Emacs](https://www.gnu.org/s/emacs/) — [FLOSS](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.html) software

# 📱 Communication

- [Signal](https://signal.org/en/) the privacy oriented messaging application, open source, cross-platform.

# Media

## 🖼 Image and Graphics Editors

- [Inkscape](https://inkscape.org/), vector graphics editor

## 🖵 Screen Recording

- [OBS (Open Broadcaster Software)](https://obsproject.com/), cross-platform screen recorder.

## 🎞 Video editors

- [Kdenlive](https://kdenlive.org/)
- [Olive](https://olivevideoeditor.org/download.php)

## 🎼 Music Production

- **Linux MultiMedia Studio** [https://lmms.io/](https://lmms.io/)

## 🎚 Audio editors

- [Audacium](https://audacium.github.io/audacium/)

## 🎹 Synthesizers

- [Surge](https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/)

# 🪔 Social Media

- [Mastodon](https://mastodon.online/@gobolinux) Follow friends and discover new ones (Twitter/Facebook alternative).
- [Lemmy](https://lemmy.ml/) Share interest across communities (Reddit alternative)
- [Pixelfed](https://pixelfed.org/) A free and ethical photo sharing platform (Instagram alternative)

# 🌾 Agriculture

- Crop Rotator - my program for complex rotation plans management (demo)(help appreciated) [source code](https://github.com/Bahusson/crop_rotator)
- [Farhacks software](https://farmhack.org/tools/?f%5B0%5D=im_field_tags%3A111) - software bookmark of farmhacks project.

# Linux desktop environments

- [GNOME](https://www.makeuseof.com/features-gnome/) is a free and open-source desktop environment for Unix-like operating systems.