mayflower@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoWhich proprietary software do you prefer over their open-source alternatives, and why?message-squaremessage-square282fedilinkarrow-up1266arrow-down110
arrow-up1256arrow-down1message-squareWhich proprietary software do you prefer over their open-source alternatives, and why?mayflower@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square282fedilink
minus-squaremsage@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoMS 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.
minus-squarexT1TANx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoIf 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.
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.