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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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.
Wake up new niche Linux drama just dropped
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.
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.
That’s my dream
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.
The Linux Kernel.
Vlc.
grep
coreutils
yes this is a jab at rust-coreutils
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.
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Firefox + uBlock Origin + sponsorblock. Set it and forget it.
I haven’t seen an advertisement or a sponsored segment on my desktop in over a decade, and same with my phone for several years. I’m astonished how willing most people are to put up with a constant barrage of ads coming from devices they own
can i interest you in an AdNauseam instead? It blocks ads, but it also “clicks” the links to poison the data.
That’s literally what I was about to mention as well. I would just suggest that you change the clicking frequency from the default, which is every single ad, to just moderate, so that they don’t detect that you’re clearly sabotaging the system and may otherwise discount your clicks.
But yeah, be sure to mention that AdNauseam is a uBO fork. There’s literally no reason not to move to it.
Isn’t it better to let them wither and die due to no clicks, rather than encourage them?
KCalc. Man, it just computes! It can add, subtract, and even multiply. It’s never given a wrong answer.
Someone has clearly never tried Qalculate!
Just because one thing is better than another doesn’t mean the other isn’t good!
But thank you for the tip. I actually don’t like KCalc. My post was a joke because I thought the question was kinda dumb.
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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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Supernotes.app
Linux Mint
Rockbox
Sayonara music player
Syncthing
Rockbox
I desperately wish my Rockbox consistently worked without crashing or freezing once a week.
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