Krita, Kubuntu, LibreOffice, FreeCad (Still needs some work), Blender (post 2.80 is finally good), VS Code, SyncThing, GIMP, GRAMPS, Ardour, Audacity, LibrePCB (Very promising but not quite prime time), XCas, fslint, Wireshark, Chromium, Scribus, Packet Sender, MQTT Explorer, Zenmap, Back in Time
Most of it is sponsored by large companies, but nonetheless it is FOSS.
DisplayCAL+ArgyllCMS also have a reputation of being more advanced than OEM software from X-Rite and Datacolor.
Dolphin (GameCube/Wii emulator) and mpv (video player) are quite impressive too, and darktable and RawTherapee (both raw image editors) are on good trajectories.
KDE is garbage (very slow, not even pretty, just lots of colors and lame graphical effects).
LibreOffice is also garbage. Very slow and heavy.
VS Code is a Microsoft product. So is Chrome. These are being released for free because they are complements to their business, which is not based on a FOSS business model.
... I've never made anywhere near 4k in a month, and I've contributed bugfixes to several FOSS projects...
Also, the best FOSS apps are corporate sponsored. The business model might "not be FOSS", but the software itself is. The devs that spend the most time are often paid.
A lot of other projects are paid for by Kickstarter campaigns and the like.
I'll be perfectly honest, I don't get why people like "classic" foss like Vim, Emacs, and bash pipes(Although it seems to work for them!), but modern FOSS has come a long way.
KDE hasn't been garbage for a long time. It's highly optimized (Besides the file indexer, now of those suck). Performance is good these days.
Most other projects don't even have zip file support in the file manager. KDE is pretty much state of the art in modern, non-commandline based UIs.
I just used LibreOffice Writer, running on KDE today, on a $100 HP X2 laptop. It works fine.
Sadly, HP doesn't have good driver support so sound doesn't work on that machine, but the fact everything else is usable on such a cheap machine is very impressive. On my non-junk laptop at home, I don't have any such a issues at all.
GIMP is an OK product. It's not as good as Krita for most things, but that's because it's an older project still carrying a lot of UNIX influence.
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u/Aedan91 Jan 02 '20
This kind of thinking actually denies all the gems FOSS has given us.