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

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

If you can't afford there's always

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

sam t smith

Notepad++ instead of Notepad.

Ficheall

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

Zoom instead of Teams.

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

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

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

Pornhub.

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

Potential-Monke

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

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.

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

Don't forget 4chan

Ubbquittious

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

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.

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

Slack > Everything else!