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What's your favourite "just works, day after day" Linux software? (lemmy.ml)
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The sort of program that once set up, just ticks along without fuss or bother forever.

For me, as I'm replacing the vms today which I set up five years ago and haven't needed to touch since;

  • HAProxy
  • KeepaliveD

Not easy to learn, but once they're running, they both go on forever.

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[–] 8 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I tried neovim for a while and I went back to vim for that reason: setup once, then forget about it.

I have plugins that haven't been touch for 5 years+ and they are working as intended.

Rock solid.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    nvim is great and convenient in many ways, and a vast improvement over vim, and yet vim is so amazing on its own that I can't even be arsed to add an extra letter to the command like 70% of the time.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    I bounced off neovim because I am always on fresh boxes with minimal access to the internet. Helix is everything included and I can install with a single file.

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