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.
I haven’t found a FOSS Ableton/Bitwig replacement either, but the FOSS audio world has many wonderful synths a effects.
Zrythm is close, but definitely not there yet
https://github.com/zrythm/zrythm
Synths? Effects??
https://www.bespokesynth.com/ https://github.com/DISTRHO/Cardinal
I’ll leave these here :)