Are you a creative person

[buyfromeu@mastodon.social]

Are you a creative person?
Maybe it's a high time to give European alternatives a chance

#BuyFromEU #Europe #EU #GoEuropean

[juliancmd@mastodon.social]

@BuyFromEU Add FreeCAD!

[mark@mastodon.fixermark.com]

@BuyFromEU

Raster Graphics

GIMP

... well, I'm out.

(No, but more seriously: I like GIMP's functionality, hate the UI. emacs has a couple modes to make the defaults a lot more ergonomic for people familiar with vim or a text editor not written in the '60s... Has anyone done something equivalent for GIMP to "make this act like Photoshop?" Because I can use it, but I don't have to like, for example, having to go push the "ANCOR" or "STACKIT" layer buttons every time I paste something).

[aegg@mastodon.social]

@BuyFromEU I'm not a designer, but Penpot.app looks like a good alternative to Figma @penpot

[415s30@mastodon.social]

@BuyFromEU I actually started using DxO because I didn't like how Adobe does business, DxO just let's you get a program and update it. It's pretty impressive.

[jfml@mastodon.art]

@BuyFromEU Can reccomend @frictiongraphics for (vector! 🤯) animation as well

[enea90@mastodon.social]

@juliancmd It is already there.

[eatyourgreens@mastodon.social]

@aegg @BuyFromEU @penpot Penpot is recommended here too.

https://piccalil.li/blog/the-open-source-design-stack/

[sloanlance@mastodon.social]

@BuyFromEU

Now do it with #altText.

[yonggan@iceshrimp.de]

@BuyFromEU Those are not european projects. Those are general open source projects. As far as i support boycot of big tech and us companies i want to leave some sentences on this "european companies are better" thinking. The problem is not only that US companies are evil because they are US based. Sure legislation especially on dsgvo is stricter in europe than in the US and US oligarchs are going crazy ...
But thats not the core of the problem. The core of the Problem is that the companies are for profit companies. Thats also true for european companies. But the Problem is that they are for profit companies and the profit is most of the times in contradiction to the needs of the working class. As long as we have that contradiction also EU based companies won't save us. They just server our particular interests more. We have to smash capitalism. That does not mean that it is not good to switch to other providers that may take privacy or other things more serious. I just want to say that this is not enough.

#eu #capitalism #communism #software #opensource