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What apps would you love to have open-source alternatives for? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It seems like the FOSS community is continuing to grow, and FOSS apps keep getting better (Immich reallh blew my mind recently), which is a big win 😎 but there are still many apps I use that I would kill for an open source alternative. I am curious what you guys think? Are there any apps you'd love alternatives for?

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 5 months ago (8 children)

I wish there were more Open Source games.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

Just wanted to shout out https://osgameclones.com/. It has a pretty decent list of them and source ports.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

You may have heard of them, but I love Shattered Pixel Dungeon and unCiv

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Recently discovered Veloren, maybe you haven't heard of it

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Veloren is great, there is also Mindustry and Shattered Pixel Dungeon to name a couple of high quality ones.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

And Beyond All Reason if you like RTS games.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

I wish we had an opensource game store to sell or donate to opensource games.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Perhaps not Foss, but definitely free (beer) , endless sky, available on steam

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Looks like Endless Sky is under GPL license, so definitely FOSS

https://github.com/endless-sky/endless-sky

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Regardless, it is well worth your time. Find the wormhole, steal alien tech, build a fleet, become invincible.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I really liked how Id used to release their old engines as open source, but of course once they got bought out all that stopped. The biggest problem for OSS games is with assets though. There are a few decent open source engines now for a lot of types of games, but it's a lot harder to find decent looking assets to make games. I wonder if stuff like stable diffusion might help with that going forward.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Naev is another good one. I made a post a few weeks ago on one of the ask Lemmy communities asking about favourite open source games. Lots of good stuff came out of that post. Here's a link to it for your instance https://lemmy.world/post/13444739

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

There: https://mander.xyz/post/11076441

There was a post recently about people's favourite open source games and it's been a nice repository of games for me :)