What Commercial Software would you prefer to your sh|twork software

08-05-2022 4:50pm #1

Myself, I'd use da Vinci resolve with the hardware dongle - there a couple of different dongles available.

Can't afford them though.

I use Final Cut Pro X on my Mac, but as a PC person I find the Final Cut pro community a bit too close minded.

You can also post about your preferred software at work, Don't have to mention your actual software if it's confidential.

Capt'n Midnight · 09-05-2022 12:20am

If you can't afford there's always

https://alternativeto.net/software/davinci-resolve/?license=free

sam t smith · 09-05-2022 12:25am

Notepad++ instead of Notepad.

Ficheall · 09-05-2022 5:25am

Any of a range of other email clients instead of Outlook.

Zoom instead of Teams.

09-05-2022 8:29am

Okay okay I really meant

Cheap ass software not commercial software.

The Cheap skate

(although my Final Cut Pro is fully licenced and paid up!)

Ubbquittious · 09-05-2022 10:48am

Altium designer just to have a go. Although I survive fine without it. The license fees are insane €9000 or 295 a month

09-05-2022 11:12am

Hope I didn't offend any Mac fanguys or gals too much in my OP.

I use XCode on Mac which is the easiest coding environment by far to set up compared to Visual studio etc.

McGinniesta · 09-05-2022 2:31pm

Pornhub.

I find that my best research projects are all on the hub.

Potential-Monke · 11-05-2022 11:54pm

Holy crap! How does one do the "greater than" symbol between 2 words without this site thinking I wanted to change the paragraph style!

Winamp > Media player

(I had to copy/paste the symbol in....)

dotsman · 12-05-2022 12:21am

Mediamonkey > Winamp > Media Player

Winamp just makes me feel like it's the 90's

As for the ">" symbol - yes this site is $hite. Just noticed this problem when you mentioned it. As a workaround, I found you can simply write the ">" immediately after the word (without a space before it), such as "test>". Then when you have finished the sentence, go back in and enter a space, such as "test >".

As for the teams vs zoom. Zoom winds, hands down for video/calls. However, I do like the chat function, teams grouping and file sharing aspects etc. If zoom introduced that, they would really have a killer app. Otherwise, they, like slack, are going to suffer under MS dominance. With Teams bundled in O365, a lot of companies using zoom etc will switch over to teams. Likewise, with it bundled and default etc in Win 11, expect a lot of personal users to also start using it. My org is currently migrating us from zoom to teams, which sucks. I wish they would still let us use zoom as well as teams.

12-05-2022 2:38am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119036632#Comment_119036632

Don't forget 4chan

Ubbquittious · 12-05-2022 3:13pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119049282#Comment_119049282

I presume the migration is because Teams has some unique employee-monitoring features that the PHBs all love?

dotsman · 12-05-2022 5:27pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119051743#Comment_119051743

TBH, I think it's just the fact that it is free (they are paying for it anyway with O365), it is MS, and consultants love recommending it (courtesy of M$).

With the rollout in my org, there is a noticeable drop in video quality as well as a massive surge in people having connection problems etc, but nobody from IT (very political, and massively dependant on consultants) is entertaining the idea of keeping zoom.

12-05-2022 9:25pm

Zoom over Teams; Final Cut Pro (on my own Mac v Dell at work)

Adobe Lightroom CC - again, at home.

Also, going off topic a bit - Mac over Windows every day

Potential-Monke · 13-05-2022 10:13pm

Slack > Everything else!

What Commercial Software would you prefer to your sh|twork software

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