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Vlc.
mpv, openbox
Helix editor. I love terminal UI apps.
Supernotes.app
Linux Mint
Rockbox
Sayonara music player
Syncthing
Guix
nano
nano 😎
mpv
- Linux Mint.
- Cinnamon.
- Xfce.
- PPSSPP.
- GNOME Boxes.
Cron
Systemd
*grabs popcorn*
Just it always makes you wait for ~3 min and shows: ... wait for something to be Configured (25s / no limit). :-)
If that happens to you, maybe you should open the logs and figure out why it is happening.
Syncthing. Absolutely ace bit of software. I remember it being a little questionable in 2013, but today it performs exactly the same task, just more reliably. Love it.
Good shout! I use syncthing myself to sync all my useful stuff between multiple devices seamlessly.
Yep I love it. It's how I keep my password manager synced between devices. It can be finicky to set up but just works without thinking after that.
Linux
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Anything from Debian. I even run Debian-Testing, and it's rock solid. Also, Linux mint, on my other partition.
The OS itself, Debian. If I have to pick a component, Mate Panel. Compared to the Windows 11 start menu, it's useful, customizableand has no ads. My IT department at work can't even figure out how to remove the Windows 11 start menu ads from my computer.
Debian!
Dino, my favourite chat client, it just works.
Nano
VLC
Debian and basically everything in its repos. Might be somewhat old, but it is really fucking stable
My small selfhosted system appreciates this very much. Having Debian as my base OS makes everything easier.
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grep
tmux, weechat, helix
The program sl, works every time
Nah man, piece of shit software; Sometimes it just lists some random directory contents.
the random directories you see are shown as a punishment when you mix up the letters, yk
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.
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.
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.
alias vim=nvim
Ohhh, gotta see if my system lets me do that one 😂
tree, locate, nvim, flatpak, htop, bmon, etc.
KCalc. Man, it just computes! It can add, subtract, and even multiply. It's never given a wrong answer.
Caddy
Love caddy
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Arch
Sabnzbd
So many. So many little utilities that just work. To mention a couple I think no one will mention because they are not sexy: Okular and Ark
Big fan of the KDE suite of software. I've tried alternatives, but always come back to plasma and associated software
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Backup scripts using borg
All of it. Even Firefox.
Based on my experiences running multiple servers and pcs on multiple distros for more than a decade, almost all problems originate between the keyboard and the chair attached to the machine running Linux.
Misconfiguration is usually the culprit.
Oh and important note: I run Arch BTW
Emacs
That was what I was going yo say; 100%.
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bash. Konsole. vim (-neo or otherwise up to the point it became AI infested). ssh. steam. git i could go on for quite a while
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