systemd

openssh

and on the opposite side, nvidia drivers

vim

grep

Proton.

It allowed me to ditch Windows for good. Playing games on Linux, often with similar or even better performance than on Windows, was an insane idea ten or fifteen years ago. Nowadays it‘s rare to see a game not working on day one. And if it doesn‘t, Proton‘s devs oftentimes fix it within a day or two. It‘s an amazing piece of software with an amazing team behind it.

less is an unsung hero.

Okular.

ffmpeg

Does "Linux" itself count? I can't even remember the last time I had anything running Linux have a system crash.

OH! tmux obviously. It's rock solid.

neovim

It just feels right. It took me some time to get used to the vim motions. But man, does it make moving around any project so fast and natural. I went in for the customizability. And that's obviously there. But the sheer speed it gives me is uncanny. My past self with VS Code could never.

I'd also suggest taking some time to write your own config from scratch once you get the hang of it; it'll be worth it.

ffmpeg and rsync are heavy candidates for me

KDE Connect was worth switching away from Mint for. I was blown away. All of this stuff that just works!

qBittorrent

Now that I think about it, most of it.

Neovim, curl, ffmpeg, all gnu utils, sioyek (pdf viewer), i3wm, autorandr, alacritty, tmux and so on.

i3

GNU nano.

I don't know why I bothered using Vim, Neovim, Micro, mg, and JOE for so long, when nano was always there (though not necessarily OOTB), configurable with all of the features I used in the other editors, and has never broken as long as I've been using it.

The only editor I may leave it for would be Emacs, and that would be more for the extension scripts and an excuse to learn ELisp than anything else.

foot has been pretty solid for me. No complaints.

busybox

tint2

xbps as of recent

glibc

geeqie

mpd+ncmpcpp

df -h for a bit of existential dread.

bolt launcher

bash

plan9port