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

submitted 7 months ago by ClearCutCoconut@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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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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[-] techognito@lemmy.world 71 points 7 months ago

I wish there were more Open Source games.

[-] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 18 points 7 months ago

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

[-] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 14 points 7 months ago

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

[-] FrostKing@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

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

[-] techognito@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

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

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 7 months ago

And Beyond All Reason if you like RTS games.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 10 points 7 months ago

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

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[-] franglais@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

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

[-] techognito@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

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

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

[-] franglais@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

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

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 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.