MS Office > LibreOffice, it’s not even remotely a contest. This is not because of any personal preferences, nor because of functionality. I’d just be an asshole for being the guy who breaks interoperability, which we have long established. Since this is squarely a work-first product, and everyone is just trying to get through they day and go home to their families, I won’t make their day worse. Hence, MS Office preferred.
Photoshop > GIMP. The latter is good for simple edits, but anything even moderately complex is not only far easier in Photoshop, it’s also flat out faster, owing to far better hardware utilization.
Google Maps > any alternative really but specifically OSM, for cars and public transit (I don’t hike much but I heard good things about OSM for hiking though there are of course specialized apps for that since you want to bring specialized hardware for serious trips). While I can make OSM work, it’s just such a hassle, and often so buggy and wrong I might as well just wing it entirely without navigation then. In particular for public transit.
If I had a dollar for every time waze tried to save me time by taking a side street to avoid a light only to have me try to turn left without a light onto a major street at 7am in Los Angeles I wouldn’t want to kill those devs.
I found paint.net a much better experience than GIMP. Now, I’m not that into photo editing, but it’s a much easier user experience for me.
An example being that you don’t need a 7 step solution just to deselect something. You can just click outside of the canvas.
Does it have all the bells and whistles of GIMP? Eh, not really, but there is a forum where people make individual packages for it, and there are a lot.
Ouff, a fair few of the big players:
MS Office breaks interoperability betweem different versions, so it can go off the cliff.
I don’t use GMaps, but for driving Waze with traffic warnings just can’t be beaten. Hiking with OSM is great.
If I had a dollar for every time waze tried to save me time by taking a side street to avoid a light only to have me try to turn left without a light onto a major street at 7am in Los Angeles I wouldn’t want to kill those devs.
I found paint.net a much better experience than GIMP. Now, I’m not that into photo editing, but it’s a much easier user experience for me.
An example being that you don’t need a 7 step solution just to deselect something. You can just click outside of the canvas.
Does it have all the bells and whistles of GIMP? Eh, not really, but there is a forum where people make individual packages for it, and there are a lot.
Imagine the day when using Ms Office is identified as the reason for breaking compatibility, instead of the inverse.
why everyone should learn to pirate (for legal reasons this is a joke)
OSM for day hikes and Avenza for anything more serious.