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- Linux Mint.
- Cinnamon.
- Xfce.
- PPSSPP.
- GNOME Boxes.
Dino, my favourite chat client, it just works.
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.
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.
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.
Nano
Sabnzbd
Linux
It 'was' uCollage, but whiny, obnoxious, ungrateful LiGNUts ruined it like many other unpaid softwares by driving a critical developer (Ueberzug) to quit or sellout.
Many LiGNUts probably work for Microsoft, because Microsoft gains when they cause issues, and mislead and lie to people.
Backup scripts using borg
Systemd
*grabs popcorn*
Just it always makes you wait for ~3 min and shows: ... wait for something to be Configured (25s / no limit). :-)
Arch
The program sl, works every time
Nah man, piece of shit software; Sometimes it just lists some random directory contents.
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.
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.
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.
tree, locate, nvim, flatpak, htop, bmon, etc.
VLC
tmux, weechat, helix
Caddy
Love caddy
Caddy is superb
grep
All of it. Even Firefox.
Debian and basically everything in its repos. Might be somewhat old, but it is really fucking stable
It's a blessing and a curse how stable it is. I think less bleeding edge is better but when shit like audio and GPU are fucked they're pretty much always fucked until dist-upgrade time.
My small selfhosted system appreciates this very much. Having Debian as my base OS makes everything easier.
Total agreement. So many unsung heroes involved in Debian. Work has agreed with me - today's job involved migrating those load balancers to Debian underneath.
zsh
Bottles.
Without it, I wouldn't be able to run addictive keys on Linux. I paid for the software back when I used Windows and since I'm able to use addictive keys on Linux, haven't bothered trying to find an alternative.
That said, its the only use case I've had with bottles that just works. Other programs ive tried are more hit or miss.
KCalc. Man, it just computes! It can add, subtract, and even multiply. It's never given a wrong answer.
Many have already mentioned tools that I also use and appreciate immensely.
My pick is Steam. I've picked up on gaming in the past 2 years and it's very stable right now. Every game that I have interest in just works, I can install games, including early access or demos without looking at the compatibility or the release date. The download speeds of games are high (imho at least where I'm located, and compared with a PS5). My partner is a heavy gamer and has to yet find a game that doesn't work on her machine.
vim, awesomewm, mbsync (isync),
As for recent discoveries: dwl — I was surprised on how robust it is, and how well it works.
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
Ark is the best. It can open any type of zipped/compressed file, and it puts even 7zip to shame.
I've found a few things it won't open that 7-Zip will, but they've been very few and far between.
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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
I'm on arch and everything I need just works, no fuss. Webstorm, steam, bitwarden, notesnook, mullvad, anything I need just works really. Of course as with any OS there are things that are pain in the ass but that is everywhere no exceptions.
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
Nginx.
It runs everything at home and at work.
mc and vim
I'll give a shoutout to the rEFInd boot manager. If anyone has ever had trouble with Grub, rEFInd continues to work for years across multiple machines. I have never had a problem with it.
I wish the btrfs snapshot support were better for rEFInd
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