![]() ![]() DDG is not FLOSS but at least it’s not Google. To replace Google proved to be even more difficult. Next was Darktable instead of Photos to organize the thousands of photos that I have. More recently I discovered Avidemux which is simple and works on lightweight systems. I tried OpenShot but it kept crashing but after I while I discovered Shotcut which I found a better replacement. I installed these apps on my iMac still running OSX and took my time to get familiar with them.įor my simple video editing tasks I kept lazily working with iMovie for a long time. At that time I started to work with graphical applications so I chose Inkscape, GIMP and for my 3D CAD work Solvespace, FreeCAD and OpenSCAD. ![]() Next was the mail client so I replaced Mail with Thunderbird. I started with the low hanging fruit and the lowest hanging of them all is the web browser. Instead I decided a to gradually replace my apps with FLOSS alternatives until I finally reached a point where I could easily replace the OSX operating system with Linux. How to migrate all my documents and learn to work with a OS and all these apps that were new to me. Where to start? Just installing Linux on my iMac seemed far to large a step. From that point it felt as pretty daunting task to switch completely to FLOSS. I had an iMac with OSX and besides that I worked a lot with Google apps (Gmail, Blogger and Google Docs most notably). The problem was that almost all software that I used at that time was proprietary. About five years ago I got interested in free and open source software (FLOSS) and online privacy in general. ![]()
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