What software is so good you can’t believe it’s free?

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  • vscodium

    binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing

    • There’s a Microsoft-less version equally good: https://vscodium.com/

  • wireguard-vyatta-ubnt

    WireGuard for Ubiquiti Devices

    • WireGuard lets you create your own VPN; super helpful if you want to access a computer on your home network remotely

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • PhotoGIMP

    A Patch for GIMP 2.10+ for Photoshop Users

    • This may help https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP

  • endless-sky

    Space exploration, trading, and combat game.

    • Endless Sky, yes it's a game but that's still a program and completely free. ;)

  • NewPipe

    A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.

    • Are you on Android? Then take a look at NewPipe!

  • darktable

    darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer

    • Darktable and RawTherapee for editing raw photos.

  • RawTherapee

    A powerful cross-platform raw photo processing program

    • Darktable and RawTherapee for editing raw photos.

  • SaaSHub

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  • KMS_VL_ALL

    🔑KMS_VL_ALL - Smart Activation Script

  • sapling

    A Scalable, User-Friendly Source Control System.

    • Anyway, it's open source now. They called it Sapling. I understand your skepticism, I was skeptical too. Give it a serious try though. It really is better than git, just not as popular.

  • scrcpy

    Display and control your Android device

  • node

    Node.js JavaScript runtime ✨🐢🚀✨

    • For example, NodeJS is licensed under MIT. That doesn't really allow MIT to call it their own + someone else's software.

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