Re: [PLUG] opensourcestash.com

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021, 1:07 PM Isaac Bennetch via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:

Hi Joe and everyone,

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 11:43 AM Joe Rosato via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
I recently had someone from windows-land ping me asking about this site (opensourcestash.com) since they are looking into using more open-source software.

Did a quick look but I am not familiar with the site.
Afraid of saying yes since unfamiliar with this link.

I'm not familiar with that link, either. What's the question about it, exactly? It looks to me, like so many similar sites, to be a good effort but incomplete (the wiki page is missing several great options, and the Word Processing category lacks Libre Office). Perhaps it's because it claims to be a privacy-focused site and some of the tools I use aren't focused on privacy? Anyway, I'd say be cautious with it simply because it's incomplete.

Anyone know if this is good and/or better ones?

Sometimes https://alternativeto.net/ helps, or looking in the category or comparison page of Wikipedia. Mostly, though, I just search the web for "Corel Draw replacement" or something like that, spend hours researching and testing the options, get distracted with something else, and forget about everything I learned until the software and my needs have changed enough to obsolete everything I discovered.

I'm tempted to just point him to https://chocolatey.org - is their GUI good? (yes I know meant to be command line but he wants to point and click - and I know they DO have a GUI also.)

To my understanding, Chocolatey is the de facto standard for installing Windows programs from the command line, like a Linux package manager (apt/dpkg/yum/rpm/dnf and many more). The MacOS equivalent is Homebrew or MacPorts. You can install the same programs manually, but using Chocolatey gives a great resource for scripting installations or giving one single interface for installing programs (sort of like the app store). I know it's popular in some types of corporate IT to manage rolling out packages, too. I don't currently have any Windows machines in the house, but if I did, I'd use Chocolatey to manage installations and updates.

I don't know anything about the GUI, though.

Joe
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