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 ====== Application Catalogue ======
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 It will be your impulse to identify the applications you used to use, and try to find clones of those. It's an unavoidable tactic, but time and time again it has disappointed users from all disciplines; applications are not built according to some mysterious universal specification. Applications are designed from the ground up according to the way that their programmers feel best. It may act completely different to what you are used to. The sooner you accept that you are embarking on a quest to learn //new// applications and not uncover the hidden "freeware" versions of the applications you learnt in school or on a job, the better!
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 It's also acceptable to use just one or two applications for everything you do.
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 Unless you have no standard operating environment, it's best to customise an application for efficiency.
-Adapt, or do not adapt. In a perfect world, you would not have to adapt to anything new. The reality of computing is that you do adapt. You adapted, whether you knew it or not, to closed source software when you chose to do everything in the way it makes you do things (in other
+Adapt, or do not adapt. In a perfect world, you would not have to adapt to anything new. The reality of computing is that you do adapt. You adapted, whether you knew it or not, to closed source software when you chose to do everything in the way it makes you do things (in other words, you used its file formats, ingested media, dealt with licensing, exported to finals, and so on, in the way that closed source software told you). Since many people learnt well-promoted and -marketed closed source software first, it does not feel like you are adapting to something, because you are instantiating habits and workflows that simply did not exist previously.
-    words, you used its file formats, ingested media, dealt with licensing,
-   exported to finals, and so on, in the way that closed source software
-   told you). Since many people learnt well-promoted and -marketed closed
-    source software first, it does not feel like you are adapting to
-    something, because you are instantiating habits and workflows that
-    simply did not exist previously.
-        If an open source application is not working, try adapting a little. If
+If an open source application is not working, try adapting a little. If you need to change file formats, or ingest media in a different way than what you think is obvious, or do different steps of your workflow in a different order, be willing to mix things up. Don't sacrifice quality, but do recognise that most of your habits have been built entirely upon one specific set of tools. Don't be too stubborn to recognise that there are more than one way of accomplishing something.
-        you need to change file formats, or ingest media in a different way
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-        than what you think is obvious, or do different steps of your workflow
-        in a different order, be willing to mix things up. Don't sacrifice
-        quality, but do recognise that most of your habits have been built
-        entirely upon one specific set of tools. Don't be too stubborn to
-        recognise that there are more than one way of accomplishing something.
 **Reflect**
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-Once you have learned a software sufficiently to be critical of its
+Once you have learned a software sufficiently to be critical of its results, decide whether or not it will work for you. If not, move to the next candidate.
-    results, decide whether or not it will work for you. If not, move to the
-    next candidate.
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 **Practise**
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 If the software will work for you, then the next perpetual task is to
  practise. You did not learn all that you know about closed source software
 in a day or even a year. Switching to something entirely new and different
 is going to take practise.
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 ===== Installing the Applications =====
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 Have fun!
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