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Fantastic. Audacity keeps it simple and does it well, if there was ever a hall of fame of applications, Audacity deserves a spot. Heck, if I were to distribute any kind of "creative suite", I would always include Audacity, no matter what operating system I was targeting. It is a near essential tool for working with audio, daily, or every now and then.

The genius of the application is that it does not try to be more than a waveform editor. Oftentimes, no matter if you are new to audio production or a veteran audio technician, you just need to edit some sound, and Audacity lets you get it done in a easy enough way for newbies, and in a complex enough way for veterans.

Maintainers of projects like these should carry themselves with pride. Projects that stand the test of time and continue to deliver exactly what you needed is what makes the IT-world go around.



yup, vscode, blender, audacity, gimp, inkscape and openshot running on linux can get you very far for basically 0 software cost.

Its great to have an array of these tools provided for free


While I'm not using linux it really is amazing how far FOSS can take you. I haven't used openshot but can definitely vouch for kdenlive[0]

[0] https://kdenlive.org/en/


Entirely seconded. What people really need is there, works, is just not a big deal to get done.

Well done.




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