What is your favourite open source software that you discovered in the past year, that you can no longer live without?

Shape4985@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 515 points –

Mine is Local Send which is a FOSS alternative similar to air drop that works across a variety of devices.

334

You are viewing a single comment
View all comments

My choice is screen on the CLI. It's an old one, but I just learned about it this year and it's been amazing helpful doing complex, long-running tasks via SSH.

Screen is great, i used it for a long time to keep my Minecraft server process running on a raspberry pi. I recently just switched from screen to tmux

screen is like tmux, right? So you can split your CLI, open a new window/tab to open more Bash/Vim instances?

Yep! You can have multiple named screens, log them all individually, and they'll keep processes running even if you disconnect. Never used tmux but screen is usually installed on the systems I'm working on.

tmux is a modern screen replacement.

In that same vein, give zellij a look! I use it pretty constantly whenever I'm sshing in a nominatim server

Screen is great! My favorite though is byobu, a pretty screen