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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Blender by a huge mile. Yes, there’s tons of other software like Linux, of course, but Blender is such a powerful, well managed, economically viable and healthy (community) project that it should be shown as an example of how Open Source should be.

My biggest hurdle with other projects is the fanboys, because many times they’re quite toxic, insulting everybody who doesn’t adore the project and don’t accept constructive criticism.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By a huuuge mile indeed. Blender devs are great at listening and communicating with the community.

The standardization of hotkeys and features across the software is fantastic. The UI is snappy and filled to the brim with intuitive QoL features I wish were standard for my OS.

I have irreconcilable grievances with a lot of open source software, VLC, VSCode, etc, and find development slow and heading non optimal for others like Sharex and Firefox... but Blender, that's green on all fronts.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Firefox currently firing on all cylinders, it's a real beauty

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Blender is the model open source project :P

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly, Blender was the first software that really "proved" open source software to me, and I've been an open source exclusive user to this day