Gonna go with Firefox as both my most-used piece of open-source software, and the software I see as most important to its ecosystem. If Firefox fails then we've just got Chromium-based browsers and, I guess, Safari.
There something I don't understand. How does one use Bitwarden daily? It generates, remembers and autofill passwords, right? I rarely enter a password anywhere. What am I missing? Please educate me.
There are certain sites which terminate your sessions after a while. For example, banking sites or most government portals. In such situations, the auto fill function is very handy.
Also the fact that if you use a shared machine at all to login, it's best practice to intentionally log out of everything, and clear cookies/cache when you're done.
Like the other commenter said, I use it for sites that tend to sign me out after a few hours. I also use it for work things that sign out every session.
I auto wipe cookies all on every browser close so that gets more use.
Firefox and its derivatives. They're the last free bastion preventing a Chromium monopoly on the browser market, which is hugely important - especially these days with Google's push for Mv3.
Shout out to Firefox and Librewolf
Shout-out to Vivaldi for forking before mv3 happens. It is chromium based but they are very openly anti-google. It's the OG Chrome devs as far as I understand.
Too bad Signal are dropping support for Windows 7 ;(
Kind of odd to use Signal (a privacy and security focused messenger) on Windows 7 (an EOL and thus highly unsecure operating system).
it is a development machine with highly specialised tools - Altium Designer, SolidWorks, IDA Pro, Altera Quartus, etc.
Upgrading the OS is not a trivial thing as would be on a phone or tablet. Also when upgrading the OS it would make sense to upgrade the HW as well, and that is a major investment. And Signal is just not important really to warrant that.
I would still use it on my phone though, but on the PC is just Viber unfortunately (whatsapp dropped as well).
StemRoller. It's an AI-powered toolthat takes an mp3 and separates each instrument into its own file. Im a musician, and having access to stems like this is a game changer.
Carla is a tool for hosting VST plugins without the need for a full DAW. I primarily use Amp Simulators, and this has become a mandatory tool on any computer I use. It's also maintained by the creator of KXStudio.
Blender by a huge mile. Yes, there’s tons of other software like Linux, of course, but Blender is such a powerful, well managed, economically viable and healthy (community) project that it should be shown as an example of how Open Source should be.
My biggest hurdle with other projects is the fanboys, because many times they’re quite toxic, insulting everybody who doesn’t adore the project and don’t accept constructive criticism.
By a huuuge mile indeed. Blender devs are great at listening and communicating with the community.
The standardization of hotkeys and features across the software is fantastic. The UI is snappy and filled to the brim with intuitive QoL features I wish were standard for my OS.
I have irreconcilable grievances with a lot of open source software, VLC, VSCode, etc, and find development slow and heading non optimal for others like Sharex and Firefox... but Blender, that's green on all fronts.
Firefox currently firing on all cylinders, it's a real beauty
Firefox, Thunder, LibreOffice, Kdenlive, Audacity on GNU+Linux .... (I'm no pro which is why I'm on Ubuntu but even still, I haven't paid for software in years)
LibreOffice is equal to any office software out there, and has been much more stable than OpenOffice, and works without an internet connection unlike Google Docs.
I recently read an article about how the "Open XML" M$ format was artificially made super cumbersome and complex so that it makes open source software support it almost impossible.
The article was written by one of the Libre office collaborator who was saying that they are intentionally introduced bugs so that we never see a better adoption of it in open source tools.
Everyone should use LibreOffice ... unless you work in a very specific office or school environment that specifically requires it, go install Microsoft Office, and even then, get your school or business to pay for it
Otherwise, for day to day document writing, letter writing or anything you have to do for yourself at home ... LibreOffice is more than enough.
About five or six years ago, I was buying a new laptop at Bestbuy and I found myself a great deal and specifically asked for a system that didn't have an OS with it or any software ... they got an old returned unit, wiped the drive and sold it to me for about $200 at the time. While I waited, I listened as a salesman sold a new laptop to a clueless mother buying a unit for her son in high school ... they got her to buy a $600 laptop, all sots of extras and MS Office and topped her off at about $1000 for a shitty laptop that was no more powerful than what I was getting
I'd go with either Firefox or Thunderbird. Both are immensely useful pieces of software that I use on a daily basis, and have evolved (mostly) nicely over time.
Not to give Mozilla too much credit, Nextcloud is also pretty slick!
Proxmox, opnsense, fdroid, and many more on r/selfhosted (now on lemmy also) .
sunshine, moonlight ( play my games anywhere in the world, games run on my pc at home)
Firefox (the best browser against google monopoly), thunderbird (best mail client)
LineageOS, microG, Mozilla Location services, Magisk, aurora store (let me use Android without any of google tracking)
Bitwarden, Proton mail/vpn, Nextcloud (finally no gmail tracking)
Jellyfin, kodi (lets me create my own Netflix)
GNU/Linux, GNOME, KDE and host of other Linux projects. No more windows tracking. Also if you want to really know how the OS works, you should start tinkering with Linux. I expanded my knowledge base by just using Linux as daily driver.
The list just goes on and on. I am so grateful for all the open source devs that put their time in developing these tools.
LineageOS, microG, Mozilla Location services, Magisk, aurora store (let me use Android without any of google tracking)
Can you expand on this more? I'm getting more and more interested in cutting ties with Google altogether. I've been using bing for the last few years now. Not much better, but at least I get paid for the info they glean from my searches. I rooted my galaxy S4 way back and was happy to finally get rid of all the bloatware and I'd like to do that again with my current phone, but ridding myself of Google location services is also really appealing.
Not by importance. Obviously that would be the Linux kernel, GCC and GNU coreutils, and the Firefox web browser, among some other foundational things (code to run my desktop GUI, for example).
So, I'll say my favorite is PCSX2. Ever since they got rid of the ancient plugin architecture this emulator has been getting sooooooo much better, and it was already great! I would add other top tier emulators like Dolphin, DuckStation, SNES9X, SameBoy, and so on. I just love emulators :)
Not one per se, but I love when a piece of open source software absolutely destroys it's competition. I'm not talking Firefox vs. Chrome or Unity vs. Godot debate (both are better, don't @ me), I'm talking when it's not even close, the open alternative is just industry standard.
VLC, Calibre, OBS and maybe Blender come to mind.
any video player really - though what's doing the hard work behind the scenes is ffmpeg, which is foss as well
Ffmpeg needs more love
It's the most loved by those who know ;)
I've used Calibre for so long, it's just a great piece of software
Has Blender become industry standard yet? Last time I looked (a couple of years ago?) the big commercial ones, at least Maya and Houdini, were still the industry standard. Not to take anything away from Blender though. It's an amazing piece of software, gaining ground quickly, and would be my choice for doing 3D. However, I'm not in industry, and I had read back then from industry folks that Blender was still lacking in some areas. Some of it may have just been inertia on the part of large organizations that used the commercial software though.
I'd say it is still more in the 'Firefox v. Chrome' ground, used to a degree where it is aknowledged, but still not the most used by a good chunk. It keeps gaining ground tho, so the future looks bright :D
Oh, yeah, the big studios have definitely taken notice for years now. Many of them seem to have incorporated it into their workflows too. The future definitely looks bright. I made a post on blenderartists years ago saying that Blender, due to its free/open-source nature, would knock all competitors down one by one, starting with the smallest, and I think it keeps proving true.
ytdlp and mpv also comes to mind.
Pretty much all terminal emulators are FOSS too.
How about the fact that a large majority of the internet and cloud services run on Linux powered systems
If i had to go with just one the linux
Or as I've recently taken to calling it gnu+linux
Home Assistant, a powerful home automation platform.
HA is still more of a lifestyle choice than just software.
Someday I'll get around to putting those bulbs back on the Homekit controller instead of trying to run them through OTBR.
The exhaust fan turning on when the litterbox detects a cat is pretty cool though.
It does take up a lot of time, but I’ve found it really rewarding.
Was there more functionality through HomeKit Controller?
I’ve thought about running the air purifier when the cats use the tray, but haven’t done it yet. What do you use to detect the cats?
Can you do voice activation with this? I am using google home it works pretty well, but I'd like to move to a more custom setup. But I need voice activation. It's so nice just talking.
You can actually still use google Home if you want to - it integrates well with Google Home and Alexa but is currently massively expanding their own voice assistant option.
Home Assistant is more a "background" integrator - it links up all you different smart home options, makes them thereby smarter and adds external data (e.g. weather, traffic,etc.) whenever you want. And of course enables you to easily add your own visualisation and your own automations.
It is on one side incredibly easy to "start".
And on the other side incredibly powerful.
Newpipe, tor, keepass xc , syncthing and KDE connect
Blender. Probably one of the best pieces of software I've used ever.
I use a lot of Open Source software at home but Home Assistant is by far the most used, although mostly it's doing its automations in the background without me having to think about it.
Home Assistant is not only extremely useful, extremely good, but I've loved contributing to it: it's so cool being able to develop a new integration and control your actual devices with it!
So many to choose from...Linux, Syncthing, Vim, Firefox and Thunderbird/K-9 Mail, Keepass and derivatives, GrapheneOS, Inkscape, VLC/mpv, yt-dlp...there are just too many daily drivers to name them all.
Vim wouldn't even have occurred to me if you hadn't said it. I use Vim more than I talk to my family.
Exactly, text editors are such everyday staples and yet it's easy to take for granted that they are open source. Vim is often the first package I install on new systems when not already present and, outside of my web browser, is certainly the program I use most.
On that note, I'll add Markor to my favourites list. It's absolutely the best Android markdown editor/viewer I've found to date, and it works beautifully with Syncthing folders.
So git earns the "favorite" designation hands down.
There’s nothing more open source than Git. It’s open source software created to support the development of open source software. I’d bet that the vast majority of projects named in this thread are developed using Git.
Also, that’s a really cool project!
The only thing that even has a chance at being a contender against is gcc
Blender, don't even use it that much but I love it
I'm always blown away at the power I see available in Blender, it's a real anomaly.
Came to find Blender. It's amazing what that project achieves.
My favorites based on usage:
7Zip. It's clean and has a lot of convenient features.
Bitwarden. I have too many accounts these days. It's a life saver and it's on all my devices!
Rufus Formatting tool. This rules. It's great for just formatting or creating a bootable USB. Not to mention it's portable so I can bring it with me to work.
Genuine question because I've used winrar forever. Why 7zip over winrar?
Do people really still use WinRar? I thought that was a relic of the old internet.
WinRAR is simply obsoleted by 7zip.
Or does everything WinRAR does and more. In my case, I particularly use their context menu shortcut for checking sha256 file hash
They can all serve the same purpose. The advantages of 7zip are the following:
It is totally free (as both in free beer and free speach)
The 7z compression format is superior to rar because it can compress either more or faster (not both though)
The rar format is proprietary. You are free to decompress but not to compress. In a business setting, you could theoretically get in trouble if you don't have a license. In some countries, e.g. USA, even outside a business setting.
But if you have been using winrar forever, I can't see you changing your ways anytime soon! :)
I have used 7zip on a work computer or something, but it was quite a while ago. I mainly use winrar on my personal computers to decompress files. I may check out 7zip sometime, it may be nice to get rid of that pop up lol.
Thanks!
You don't have to pay for the license /s
Right now it's Proton. The work that has been done to makengaming possible on Linux is astounding!
Just got a steam deck and have been learning how incredible proton is
vim, neovim and a bunch of plugins. It's such a great productivity booster, I am using it daily for SW development.
SQLite. Probably the most widely used open-source library in the world. Pretty much every computer, phone, tablet, and a lot of embedded systems, all use it.
I'm convinced anyone who doesn't say emacs is simply just more productive than me
Maybe on the short term but damn, that M-x butterflies is a time saver.
Firefox I think is actually the best browser totally independent of technological ethics issues. Started using it because I was on 2GB RAM at the time and Chrome was much more RAM-intensive (apparently this is reversed now,) and I've never looked back.
7-zip, Firefox, VLC player
I think I'll go with GIMP: it's such a well made tool and for 99% of use cases is a valid alternative to professional photo editing suites
for 99% of use cases
Brave thing to say online about Gimp 😄
Yeah I know, being realist always backfires
Exactly ... I'd say more 80 percent of everything you ever want to do with an image ... the other 20 percent is probably stuff that isn't worth doing anyway ... I use GIMP all the time and it's the image editor I use the most often
GIMP is pretty good, but I think the expectation that it should fully replace Photoshop for professionals is wrong anyway. Use whatever you feel is the best tool in the toolbox for the job.
NVDA. Without it I literally couldn't use my computer every day, or do my job.
We definitely need Blender in the mix as well!
Also Signal, Bitwarden and Firefox.
Haven't seen Inkscape here yet. I use it for almost every image editing thing I regularly do like cropping, stitching together, adding text and of course creating graphics from scratch.
7zip is such an easy pick, its almost the default option lol
Freecad is pretty powerful, and fully functional now that they figured out their topological naming problem.
How does it compare to OpenSCad?
Openscad is all text based. Freecad is more like conventional cad software like fusion 360. Honestly I don't even know how people can use Openscad lol.
qBittorrent came to my rescue after uTorrent went commercial.
BitWarden and Homebridge.
Aegis, then ente and now 2FAS. Well 2FAS is slowly supporting unencrypted backups from other open source 2FA apps. I hope 2FAS will support backups from plain text.
Most used for me is Firefox (in fact I'm so used to it, it didn't even come to mind until I saw so many replies mentioning it!).
The favorite is probably git.
For the recently discovered stuff that would probably be the Astro frontend framework (and Svelte).
Also what a wonderful thread to discover stuff. Thank you all!
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Also my first ever comment on Lemmy. 😎
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In terms of overall usage, gotta go GIMP.
in terms of time I spend in it:
linux
firefox
vi
Throw in Git and that's me.
Are we only counting FOSS or would Doom count? If Doom counts, my pick is Doom. Having access to Doom's source code is where I learned a huge majority of my programming knowledge making mods for it.
I like a bunch of OSS projects but Firefox is way up there above the rest.
FFmpeg
Since major projects like Firefox keep getting mentioned, I’ll throw a shout out to Ant Renamer.
It’s simple, it’s FOSS, and it just works. I often - ahem - acquire a number of files from various sources that are labeled like “Mission.Impossible.7.Complete.zHD.2022.xReloadedx”, and an application like Ant Renamer can batch rename files into whatever you need.
For example, if I need to backup or copy a set of game saves in a folder that all need to have the same prefix like N007 from N002, I would have to manually change 10K files from one prefix to the other. Ant Renamer can do everything in a batch that runs quicker than the blink of an eye.
Gnome 44, (probably gonna get roasted by Gentoo users) Nano, Librewolf, Free tube, NixOS, Gnu utils, Krita, kdenlive, Gimp
Nuclear, Shredder, Gnome disks, Qemu/KVM
Edit- and test disk, it saved my ass this week. I accidentally wrote a new partion table over my hdd that had all my family photos. Used testdisk let it run on my laptop for 22hours recovered all photos and files. Shout out to the Devs for make great FOSS software
OMG another Gnome Enjoyer. This is so new to me... wanna hang out?
Libre Office
Have you tried Only Office? Recently discovered the application and kinda like it more than LibreOffice
OpenStreetMap and Trekarta (Offline OSM maps for Android)
No love for VLC player?!?
I always read there are better alternatives to VLC that give better playback features or a higher quality picture. I try them but always come back to it as there are always problems.
Potplayer, Mplayer, MPV.
Whether it's stupidly high CPU usage on some files, settings you need to manage through a config file, or unintuitive keyboard shortcuts. I forgo those features for the simplicity and easy configuration of VLC
Vaultwarden
Firefox and Nethack
Do you have any recommendations for how to get into NetHack? I've tried playing it in the past but it seems a bit obscure and incomprehensible to me.
We have the same experience then XD
In my experience, the learning curve felt similar to Dwarf Fortress.
This guy has a full run you can watch,(or not, that's LOOONG)
For me, I think it was just a combination of watching people play and banging my head against it until things start to sort of make sense. Kind of like dwarf fortress lol.
Firefox, probably. Though Heroic Games Launcher is getting there real fast. And currently I very often use Baby Journal, though it's an app I wrote, so I'm not sure I can really call it "favorite", but it's definitely one of my most used FOSS apps currently.
Baby Journal could use an more detailed About page. It looks like it's a shared space for families to post/talk about their kids in digital saftey. What an awesome idea! Well done!
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Linux and GNU too :p
If I had to pick only one artifact's worth: bash, probably.
Otherwise:
bash
vim
Linux (the kernel itself)
Kubernetes
Firefox
urxvt
Python
pacman
nix
util-linux
procps-ng
iproute2
iptables(-ng)/ebtables
GNU parallel
jq
Eeew bash? What are you, a Neanderthal? All the cool kids use Zsh. 😜
LibreWolf is the way. I have it on everything. I have it on Windows, Mac, and Linux. I have it on my Linux phone. It's nice to have Firefox without the adware and with extra privacy.
Os: Linux mint, Solus, endeavour
Programs: librewolf, freetube
I don't have "one" favourite but these are up there
mpv.io !
I discovered it before covid, and it is really lightweight and customizable. So many plug-ins, and they're so simple to create.
I was usually having issues with VLC or settings that he didn't have. No issues with mpv, so far.
Weird issue with VLC / Manjaro lately as it just wouldnt play any file. Opens and just closes. Just tried out mpv.io. Worked like a charm. Thanks!
I'm only going to mention desktop software, there's too many tools and layers involved in spinning up a server.
Daily use (most used first):
Firefox
MRemoteNG
Notepad++
VS Code
Git
WinSCP
7-zip (love the tool but hate the format, storage and bandwidth is cheap now, let's just use zip please)
VLC
Python
It's a pretty boring list: connectivity tools, text editors, and version control are placed front and centre. That said they are great tools and I would hate to live in a world where I was limited to only proprietary products
Stuff I wish I had more time to use:
Godot
Blender
Audacity
Krita
Special mention:
QGIS (and the whole OSGeo ecosystem)
qBittorrent
RetroArch (and all the FOSS emulators it promotes)
OpenTTD
GIMP/Inkscape (I don't need them often but I'm glad they are their!)
Going by what I use the most: Firefox, git, less, tailscale, midnight commander
Is Android a valid answer? Maybe not Google's monstrosity but AOSP (although I feel as though it's hard to extricate one from the other save for projects like GrapheneOS).
Firefox, GNU Linux, VLC, GIMP, Krita, Blender (even if I didn't used it that much), Lemmy of course with it's different FOSS clients
Linux, Firefox, PeerTube
Yggdrasil, an IPv6 end to end encrypted networking proof of concept. There's something about it that I find so innovative that I want it to succeed so badly !
Would this be able to replace ISPs if it succeeds? Did I read that right?
In short: No.
Assuming that I understood correctly with a quick reading that's creating a whole another network on top of existing internet and requires raw bandwidth to function at all.
Various mesh-networks have been around for quite a long time to solve the 'last mile' issue on poor areas. That requires pretty dense population to actually work, but at least couple of years ago there's been some moderately successful projects. I haven't followed those in years, so I don't know what's the current status and that's very different from what Yggdrasil is doing.
You read right. It is an overlay network built on top of the internet. For now. This is only a proof of concept right now, so it has to reuse existing networks to work and test the scalability, reliability, etc...
But the end goal would be to only use that to build the network, connecting modes together through $VARIOUS_MEANS, and implement the Yggdrasil code right at the network card level. So it could work without and underlay network, and that's basically the point of the project: prove that you can have a standalone mesh network that's fully encrypted. I've read an articles on people connecting nodes directly through AWDL, but it remains a proof of concept only for now.
And to answer OP's question, that would not replace ISP because you'd still need a way to physically connect your node to the network, and ISP could provide such service. However, you could also connect directly to your neighbor's house and access the network from there :)
I got sick of corporations forcing restrictions so looked into alternatives. Learned how to do it myself & haven't looked back:
Joplin notes - use this every day synced to multiple devices
Nextcloud - self hosted on a Raspberry Pi 4. Cloud storage plus syncs multiple stuff including Joplin
So many brilliant options on mobile:
OsmAnd+ (nav), Antennapod (podcasts), Keepass (password manager), Obtainium (app updater). Was also enjoying Fritter/Quacker (Twitter without needing an account) until Elons recent meltdown. Also enjoying Liftoff lemmy app for Android
EDIT: hot off the press. For those interested, Quacker is back in the game. Not had chance to check Fritter yet
how much can your rasp pi hold what?
Yeah I just use a HDD. On the whole its pretty stable though through tinkering Ive managed to crash my setup a few times. Sometimes restarting the Nextcloud Docker container is enough (Portainer makes it simple), when i really break it i start from scratch. I use a simple script to automaticacally back up all my data to another drive weekly
Not entirely software, but the MiSTer FPGA project. Having accurate zero-lag hardware accurate versions of almost every console, many arcade games, PCs (Amiga, Commodore etc), and handheld up to and including the PlayStation in a box the size of a game boy is unreal.
Majority of the project is open source, and has been used for ports to the analogue pocket handheld, which I also have and use often
Pihole, Kubernetes, ffmpeg, VLC, pretty much we are so technologically advanced because there is so much free and open source software. If it wasn't for it we would be ages behind technologically.
Subsurface
Its dive planning and dive logging software. It's also the only software I'm aware of that can actually pull the data from my dive computer, which uses some crappy proprietary cable and software. The fact that subsurface exists and is automatically in Linux repositories is what finally allowed me wipe out my aging and barely functioning computer, and revive it with Linux.
The Linux Kernel and operating system in general. It is simultaneously my favorite and I hate that it killed my prior favorite, the SGI Irix operating system. I was there at the beginning, from kernel 1.1 through today. I remember telling regional directors at silicon graphics that Linux was the future and them disparaging that opinion.
Godot game engine without a doubt.
I couldn't get by without AutoHotkey and AltSnap. Especially having extra buttons on my mouse, there's so many custom shortcuts, commands, controls, etc. that I couldn't make without them. AltSnap also has a built-in borderless windowed button that works better with games than some apps I have used that are explicitly for that purpose. I have shortcuts for changing volume, switching windows, toggling always-on-top, and even making windows transparent all from the mouse.
While I think AHK is great and I always use it if I'm daily driving a Windows install.. it's pretty sad that you have to use such a janky language + have this software always open listening to events just to do custom hotkeys on Windows.
On Gnome I can just write a shell script, go into Gnome settings and then add a hokey to it. I don't need to install anything, it works much more fluidly, and takes up less system resources.
On Gnome I can just write a shell script, go into Gnome settings and then add a hokey to it. I don’t need to install anything, it works much more fluidly, and takes up less system resources.
Holy shit. I've been sad we don't have ahk but this is such a simple solution. thank you.
I'm with you here, but as a Linux user I use AutoKey. Game changer
OsmAnd
Emacs, tor, mpv, KDE, f-droid, python, qemu
Blender
Freecad. It's a little rough to use compared to professional cad products I've used but it can really do a lot. In a lot of ways it feels less constrained than some of the stuff I've used too
youtube-dl
I love the yt-dlp fork.
Yeah, was about to say that yt-dlp is currently much better
I’ve been using Logseq after trying Notion and Obsidian a good bit and I’m really enjoying it. It’s a block-based note app that makes connecting thoughts together super easy. So far so goo!
GNU Hurd. Never used it, but I like the idea and would love to see it become a viable option.
Since most of what I would have said has already be mentioned I will just go with almost anything under the umbrella of the KDE organization.
As in the Plasma desktop environment and the whole application suite. Includes programs like Krita, Kdenlive and KDE Connect, plus the whole range of "standard" desktop applications like terminal, file manager, document viewers, etc. pp.
Favorite? Hm... I would have to say Codeigniter (PHP framework) but I love these projects as well: Linux/GNU, VLC, LibreOffice, qBittorrent, VSCodium, Filezilla, GIMP, Firefox, Wireguard, GrapheneOS, Matrix, F-Droid.
If I won the lottery I'd donate to these projects or their respective foundations.
Ncdu is awesome. I even used it last night when I accidentally filled up my ssd causing my os to crash. Finding the offending folder took like 10 seconds. Much better than writing a whole script.
Firefox, Bitwarden, and Tachiyomi are some that I use almost everyday
Godot!
Favourite, not sure. Maybe my "favourite" would be the one which would be the hardest to replace with something I like.
There wouldn't be something i can think off that could be irreplaceable. However the hardest thing I like may be FanControl.
For the browser, Firefox is very nice, but it's "just" a browser if you think about it. There is brave, and other open source chromium alternatives if it disappears.
For mail clients, I also like the Mailspring design, however Thunderbird just got a new skin and damn it looks good too.
And for the rest, I don't really know. Either I don't remember right now, or no special "like" for the software. Or I like the closed source software convenience more (I may also have no idea of an open source alternative, or an equivalent in features open source).
It depends on the usage really.
Unfortunately, FanControl is not open source. It uses librehardwaremonitor which is, but the FanControl project does not have source code posted and is not under a FOSS license.
OpenSCAD and Gitlab. I can quickly iterate on designs through code, push it to my Gitlab instance, and have my CI/CD pipelines pick it up, render it, and automatically slice it in some common profiles to send to Octoprint
Duplicati: A backup software that securely stores and restores data across various platforms and cloud services. Supports encryption and incremental backups (versioning). Lots of possibilities, but use it to back up my PC to my NAS and the other way around.
Ferdium: Messaging and other services combined in a single interface. Using it for Telegram, Whatsapp and services like Home Assistant etc. Allows apps to hibernate when not in use.
OpenRGB: Control and customize RGB lighting effects on various computer hardware components.
Firefox
linux
Yes me too. Without Linux, basically nothing else runs in my house!
Ditto ffmpeg gstreamer obs Firefox & addons Thunderbird greenshot everythingtoolbar 7zip Lemmy jerboa and so many more OpenWRT simply a must, eartrumpet gajim conversations
Neovim. It's an awesome editor and it has a great community and ecosystem.
Suricata
Linux, of course. But another one that I use all the time, and love to death, is SageMath. It's the perfect blend of mathematics and programming for me.
Linux, Tor, and the Ballistica game engine/BombSquad game (not fully open source as stuff used for sensitive data remains closed source 😔)
ReVanced. I love my ad-free, sponsor-blocking, Shorts-removing YouTube experience.
As a bonus, I also enjoy using Mp3tag. It's a program I can use to easily change and update the tags on all my music files, and it can even do it all in batches. It can also connect to various music services (Discogs, Musicbrainz, etc.) to get music tag info directly so you don't have to type it all in manually.
Anuto TD (found a few days ago, isn't super feature rich but still fun to kill time)
Mindustry (never played a game like it before, ended up supporting by buying it on Steam)
Supertuxkart (I love how many custom add-on karts and tracks I have)
For non-games:
Termux (allows me to get apk files and install Revancify for add free yt)
VLC (I don't mind slow updates and have yet to switch mostly because I can't find anything better that isn't more complicated than it needs to be and/or is closed source)
KDE Connect (I have almost always had problems with moving files from and to my desktop via cord)
I'd include something like Linux, but I personally feel that's kinda cheating because of how large it is compared to the others.
Keepass and firefox expansion
Firefox of course
Ninite to install and update software
Newpipe / yt vanced : youtube alternatives
obsidian : note taking (not sure if this is technically open source)
I have used a lot of stuff over the years but my favorite would have to be a little command line program called cowsay. It takes whatever text you feed it and puts it in a speech bubble above a cow, hence the name.
Combine that with fortune and throw it in your bash script and you get a new message every time you open terminal.
Linux, Firefox, Apache
Bulk Crap Uninstaller
VS Code
VSCodium takes the binaries for VS code and assembles it without Microsofts telemetry
VSCode is not free software. It's licensed under proprietary license. VSCodium is fully free software under MIT license.
Media Player Classic (I'm unsure if the latest iterations are or even if the Home Cinema edition is open source), TOR, qbittorrent, firefox, thinderbird, obs to name a few that I use regularly.
I’ve been liking Digikam and Rawtherapee (which is an awful name for the record) for photo gubbins.
Rawtherapee
I'm a darktable guy myself. I have tried Rawtherapee and was even an exclusive user of Art (RT fork) for a while, but darktable has everything I need in one package.
Gonna go with Firefox as both my most-used piece of open-source software, and the software I see as most important to its ecosystem. If Firefox fails then we've just got Chromium-based browsers and, I guess, Safari.
I love and use Bitwarden daily.
There something I don't understand. How does one use Bitwarden daily? It generates, remembers and autofill passwords, right? I rarely enter a password anywhere. What am I missing? Please educate me.
There are certain sites which terminate your sessions after a while. For example, banking sites or most government portals. In such situations, the auto fill function is very handy.
Also the fact that if you use a shared machine at all to login, it's best practice to intentionally log out of everything, and clear cookies/cache when you're done.
Like the other commenter said, I use it for sites that tend to sign me out after a few hours. I also use it for work things that sign out every session.
I auto wipe cookies all on every browser close so that gets more use.
I knew about Bitwarden, but I thought how could a cloud based thing be truly open source, but they actually do have their backend on GitHub 🤯
Firefox and its derivatives. They're the last free bastion preventing a Chromium monopoly on the browser market, which is hugely important - especially these days with Google's push for Mv3.
Shout out to Firefox and Librewolf
Shout-out to Vivaldi for forking before mv3 happens. It is chromium based but they are very openly anti-google. It's the OG Chrome devs as far as I understand.
Signal, Thunderbird and Bitwarden
Signal, Firefox and Eclipse.
Too bad Signal are dropping support for Windows 7 ;(
Kind of odd to use Signal (a privacy and security focused messenger) on Windows 7 (an EOL and thus highly unsecure operating system).
it is a development machine with highly specialised tools - Altium Designer, SolidWorks, IDA Pro, Altera Quartus, etc.
Upgrading the OS is not a trivial thing as would be on a phone or tablet. Also when upgrading the OS it would make sense to upgrade the HW as well, and that is a major investment. And Signal is just not important really to warrant that.
I would still use it on my phone though, but on the PC is just Viber unfortunately (whatsapp dropped as well).
Ill throw in some obscure ones I use daily.
StemRoller. It's an AI-powered toolthat takes an mp3 and separates each instrument into its own file. Im a musician, and having access to stems like this is a game changer.
Carla is a tool for hosting VST plugins without the need for a full DAW. I primarily use Amp Simulators, and this has become a mandatory tool on any computer I use. It's also maintained by the creator of KXStudio.
omg, stemroller sounds amazing!
Stemroller sounds insane.
Firefox. It is the only thing keeping Google from total internet domination
Isn’t most of the Firefox revenue coming from Google ?
What does that have to do with Google’s ability to force their view of the world through the dominance of the browser share market?
Yes, they need Firefox to avoid monopoly.
Blender by a huge mile. Yes, there’s tons of other software like Linux, of course, but Blender is such a powerful, well managed, economically viable and healthy (community) project that it should be shown as an example of how Open Source should be.
My biggest hurdle with other projects is the fanboys, because many times they’re quite toxic, insulting everybody who doesn’t adore the project and don’t accept constructive criticism.
By a huuuge mile indeed. Blender devs are great at listening and communicating with the community.
The standardization of hotkeys and features across the software is fantastic. The UI is snappy and filled to the brim with intuitive QoL features I wish were standard for my OS.
I have irreconcilable grievances with a lot of open source software, VLC, VSCode, etc, and find development slow and heading non optimal for others like Sharex and Firefox... but Blender, that's green on all fronts.
Firefox currently firing on all cylinders, it's a real beauty
Blender is the model open source project :P
Krita for me!
uBlock Origin, it's not even close!
the web would be miserable without it.
GNU+Linux
Firefox, Thunder, LibreOffice, Kdenlive, Audacity on GNU+Linux .... (I'm no pro which is why I'm on Ubuntu but even still, I haven't paid for software in years)
Firefox and Bitwarden
Linux.
How could it be anything else?
How about GNU/Linux?
Richard Stallman spotted. :-)
LibreOffice is equal to any office software out there, and has been much more stable than OpenOffice, and works without an internet connection unlike Google Docs.
I recently read an article about how the "Open XML" M$ format was artificially made super cumbersome and complex so that it makes open source software support it almost impossible.
The article was written by one of the Libre office collaborator who was saying that they are intentionally introduced bugs so that we never see a better adoption of it in open source tools.
The whole standardisation process was a sham: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open_XML
Everyone should use LibreOffice ... unless you work in a very specific office or school environment that specifically requires it, go install Microsoft Office, and even then, get your school or business to pay for it
Otherwise, for day to day document writing, letter writing or anything you have to do for yourself at home ... LibreOffice is more than enough.
About five or six years ago, I was buying a new laptop at Bestbuy and I found myself a great deal and specifically asked for a system that didn't have an OS with it or any software ... they got an old returned unit, wiped the drive and sold it to me for about $200 at the time. While I waited, I listened as a salesman sold a new laptop to a clueless mother buying a unit for her son in high school ... they got her to buy a $600 laptop, all sots of extras and MS Office and topped her off at about $1000 for a shitty laptop that was no more powerful than what I was getting
I'd go with either Firefox or Thunderbird. Both are immensely useful pieces of software that I use on a daily basis, and have evolved (mostly) nicely over time.
Not to give Mozilla too much credit, Nextcloud is also pretty slick!
uBlock Origin - the chaddest AdBlock of them all!
Proxmox, opnsense, fdroid, and many more on r/selfhosted (now on lemmy also) .
sunshine, moonlight ( play my games anywhere in the world, games run on my pc at home)
Firefox (the best browser against google monopoly), thunderbird (best mail client)
LineageOS, microG, Mozilla Location services, Magisk, aurora store (let me use Android without any of google tracking)
Bitwarden, Proton mail/vpn, Nextcloud (finally no gmail tracking)
Jellyfin, kodi (lets me create my own Netflix)
GNU/Linux, GNOME, KDE and host of other Linux projects. No more windows tracking. Also if you want to really know how the OS works, you should start tinkering with Linux. I expanded my knowledge base by just using Linux as daily driver.
The list just goes on and on. I am so grateful for all the open source devs that put their time in developing these tools.
For those wanting to go further, checkout https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
Firefox lets you use extensions on mobile too
Can you expand on this more? I'm getting more and more interested in cutting ties with Google altogether. I've been using bing for the last few years now. Not much better, but at least I get paid for the info they glean from my searches. I rooted my galaxy S4 way back and was happy to finally get rid of all the bloatware and I'd like to do that again with my current phone, but ridding myself of Google location services is also really appealing.
It's Lemmy you fools. It's always been Lemmy.
Not by importance. Obviously that would be the Linux kernel, GCC and GNU coreutils, and the Firefox web browser, among some other foundational things (code to run my desktop GUI, for example).
So, I'll say my favorite is PCSX2. Ever since they got rid of the ancient plugin architecture this emulator has been getting sooooooo much better, and it was already great! I would add other top tier emulators like Dolphin, DuckStation, SNES9X, SameBoy, and so on. I just love emulators :)
Not one per se, but I love when a piece of open source software absolutely destroys it's competition. I'm not talking Firefox vs. Chrome or Unity vs. Godot debate (both are better, don't @ me), I'm talking when it's not even close, the open alternative is just industry standard.
VLC, Calibre, OBS and maybe Blender come to mind.
any video player really - though what's doing the hard work behind the scenes is ffmpeg, which is foss as well
Ffmpeg needs more love
It's the most loved by those who know ;)
I've used Calibre for so long, it's just a great piece of software
Has Blender become industry standard yet? Last time I looked (a couple of years ago?) the big commercial ones, at least Maya and Houdini, were still the industry standard. Not to take anything away from Blender though. It's an amazing piece of software, gaining ground quickly, and would be my choice for doing 3D. However, I'm not in industry, and I had read back then from industry folks that Blender was still lacking in some areas. Some of it may have just been inertia on the part of large organizations that used the commercial software though.
I'd say it is still more in the 'Firefox v. Chrome' ground, used to a degree where it is aknowledged, but still not the most used by a good chunk. It keeps gaining ground tho, so the future looks bright :D
Oh, yeah, the big studios have definitely taken notice for years now. Many of them seem to have incorporated it into their workflows too. The future definitely looks bright. I made a post on blenderartists years ago saying that Blender, due to its free/open-source nature, would knock all competitors down one by one, starting with the smallest, and I think it keeps proving true.
ytdlp and mpv also comes to mind. Pretty much all terminal emulators are FOSS too.
How about the fact that a large majority of the internet and cloud services run on Linux powered systems
If i had to go with just one the linux
Or as I've recently taken to calling it gnu+linux
Home Assistant, a powerful home automation platform.
HA is still more of a lifestyle choice than just software.
Someday I'll get around to putting those bulbs back on the Homekit controller instead of trying to run them through OTBR.
The exhaust fan turning on when the litterbox detects a cat is pretty cool though.
It does take up a lot of time, but I’ve found it really rewarding.
Was there more functionality through HomeKit Controller?
I’ve thought about running the air purifier when the cats use the tray, but haven’t done it yet. What do you use to detect the cats?
https://www.litter-robot.com/explore/litter-robot-4
Unfortunately their API isn't local and goes through their site.
Can you do voice activation with this? I am using google home it works pretty well, but I'd like to move to a more custom setup. But I need voice activation. It's so nice just talking.
You can actually still use google Home if you want to - it integrates well with Google Home and Alexa but is currently massively expanding their own voice assistant option.
Home Assistant is more a "background" integrator - it links up all you different smart home options, makes them thereby smarter and adds external data (e.g. weather, traffic,etc.) whenever you want. And of course enables you to easily add your own visualisation and your own automations.
It is on one side incredibly easy to "start". And on the other side incredibly powerful.
Newpipe, tor, keepass xc , syncthing and KDE connect
Blender. Probably one of the best pieces of software I've used ever.
I use a lot of Open Source software at home but Home Assistant is by far the most used, although mostly it's doing its automations in the background without me having to think about it.
Home Assistant is not only extremely useful, extremely good, but I've loved contributing to it: it's so cool being able to develop a new integration and control your actual devices with it!
So many to choose from...Linux, Syncthing, Vim, Firefox and Thunderbird/K-9 Mail, Keepass and derivatives, GrapheneOS, Inkscape, VLC/mpv, yt-dlp...there are just too many daily drivers to name them all.
Vim wouldn't even have occurred to me if you hadn't said it. I use Vim more than I talk to my family.
Exactly, text editors are such everyday staples and yet it's easy to take for granted that they are open source. Vim is often the first package I install on new systems when not already present and, outside of my web browser, is certainly the program I use most.
On that note, I'll add Markor to my favourites list. It's absolutely the best Android markdown editor/viewer I've found to date, and it works beautifully with Syncthing folders.
Git itself.
Which allowed this monstosity I contributed heavily to, to leave a hellscape of svn patches: https://github.com/LandSandBoat/server
So git earns the "favorite" designation hands down.
There’s nothing more open source than Git. It’s open source software created to support the development of open source software. I’d bet that the vast majority of projects named in this thread are developed using Git.
Also, that’s a really cool project!
The only thing that even has a chance at being a contender against is gcc
Blender, don't even use it that much but I love it
I'm always blown away at the power I see available in Blender, it's a real anomaly.
Came to find Blender. It's amazing what that project achieves.
My favorites based on usage:
7Zip. It's clean and has a lot of convenient features.
Bitwarden. I have too many accounts these days. It's a life saver and it's on all my devices!
Rufus Formatting tool. This rules. It's great for just formatting or creating a bootable USB. Not to mention it's portable so I can bring it with me to work.
Genuine question because I've used winrar forever. Why 7zip over winrar?
Do people really still use WinRar? I thought that was a relic of the old internet.
WinRAR is simply obsoleted by 7zip. Or does everything WinRAR does and more. In my case, I particularly use their context menu shortcut for checking sha256 file hash
They can all serve the same purpose. The advantages of 7zip are the following:
I have used 7zip on a work computer or something, but it was quite a while ago. I mainly use winrar on my personal computers to decompress files. I may check out 7zip sometime, it may be nice to get rid of that pop up lol.
Thanks!
You don't have to pay for the license /s
Right now it's Proton. The work that has been done to makengaming possible on Linux is astounding!
Just got a steam deck and have been learning how incredible proton is
vim, neovim and a bunch of plugins. It's such a great productivity booster, I am using it daily for SW development.
SQLite. Probably the most widely used open-source library in the world. Pretty much every computer, phone, tablet, and a lot of embedded systems, all use it.
I'm convinced anyone who doesn't say emacs is simply just more productive than me
Maybe on the short term but damn, that M-x butterflies is a time saver.
Firefox I think is actually the best browser totally independent of technological ethics issues. Started using it because I was on 2GB RAM at the time and Chrome was much more RAM-intensive (apparently this is reversed now,) and I've never looked back.
7-zip, Firefox, VLC player
I think I'll go with GIMP: it's such a well made tool and for 99% of use cases is a valid alternative to professional photo editing suites
Brave thing to say online about Gimp 😄
Yeah I know, being realist always backfires
Exactly ... I'd say more 80 percent of everything you ever want to do with an image ... the other 20 percent is probably stuff that isn't worth doing anyway ... I use GIMP all the time and it's the image editor I use the most often
GIMP is pretty good, but I think the expectation that it should fully replace Photoshop for professionals is wrong anyway. Use whatever you feel is the best tool in the toolbox for the job.
NVDA. Without it I literally couldn't use my computer every day, or do my job.
We definitely need Blender in the mix as well!
Also Signal, Bitwarden and Firefox.
Haven't seen Inkscape here yet. I use it for almost every image editing thing I regularly do like cropping, stitching together, adding text and of course creating graphics from scratch.
That and Gimp together are excellent.
7zip is such an easy pick, its almost the default option lol
Freecad is pretty powerful, and fully functional now that they figured out their topological naming problem.
How does it compare to OpenSCad?
Openscad is all text based. Freecad is more like conventional cad software like fusion 360. Honestly I don't even know how people can use Openscad lol.
GNU & Linux (Debian)
TeX & LaTeX (TeX Live)
Firefox
Edit (forgot):
qBittorrent came to my rescue after uTorrent went commercial.
BitWarden and Homebridge.
Aegis, then ente and now 2FAS. Well 2FAS is slowly supporting unencrypted backups from other open source 2FA apps. I hope 2FAS will support backups from plain text.
OpenSSH from OpenBSD, by a wide margin.
Most used for me is Firefox (in fact I'm so used to it, it didn't even come to mind until I saw so many replies mentioning it!).
The favorite is probably git.
For the recently discovered stuff that would probably be the Astro frontend framework (and Svelte).
Also what a wonderful thread to discover stuff. Thank you all! ::: spoiler spoiler Also my first ever comment on Lemmy. 😎 :::
In terms of overall usage, gotta go GIMP.
in terms of time I spend in it:
linux
firefox
vi
Throw in Git and that's me.
Are we only counting FOSS or would Doom count? If Doom counts, my pick is Doom. Having access to Doom's source code is where I learned a huge majority of my programming knowledge making mods for it.
I like a bunch of OSS projects but Firefox is way up there above the rest.
FFmpeg
Since major projects like Firefox keep getting mentioned, I’ll throw a shout out to Ant Renamer.
It’s simple, it’s FOSS, and it just works. I often - ahem - acquire a number of files from various sources that are labeled like “Mission.Impossible.7.Complete.zHD.2022.xReloadedx”, and an application like Ant Renamer can batch rename files into whatever you need.
For example, if I need to backup or copy a set of game saves in a folder that all need to have the same prefix like N007 from N002, I would have to manually change 10K files from one prefix to the other. Ant Renamer can do everything in a batch that runs quicker than the blink of an eye.
So, Ant Renamer for the win!
Tachiyomi.
I love that app when I have a phone. I broke my phone tho so now I've been using Komikku
Gnome 44, (probably gonna get roasted by Gentoo users) Nano, Librewolf, Free tube, NixOS, Gnu utils, Krita, kdenlive, Gimp Nuclear, Shredder, Gnome disks, Qemu/KVM
Edit- and test disk, it saved my ass this week. I accidentally wrote a new partion table over my hdd that had all my family photos. Used testdisk let it run on my laptop for 22hours recovered all photos and files. Shout out to the Devs for make great FOSS software
OMG another Gnome Enjoyer. This is so new to me... wanna hang out?
Libre Office
Have you tried Only Office? Recently discovered the application and kinda like it more than LibreOffice
No love for VLC player?!?
I always read there are better alternatives to VLC that give better playback features or a higher quality picture. I try them but always come back to it as there are always problems.
Potplayer, Mplayer, MPV.
Whether it's stupidly high CPU usage on some files, settings you need to manage through a config file, or unintuitive keyboard shortcuts. I forgo those features for the simplicity and easy configuration of VLC
Vaultwarden
Firefox and Nethack
Do you have any recommendations for how to get into NetHack? I've tried playing it in the past but it seems a bit obscure and incomprehensible to me.
We have the same experience then XD
In my experience, the learning curve felt similar to Dwarf Fortress.
For starters, there's the Guidebook and the Wiki.
You probably also want to keep a Keyboard Reference handy.
This guy has a full run you can watch,(or not, that's LOOONG)
For me, I think it was just a combination of watching people play and banging my head against it until things start to sort of make sense. Kind of like dwarf fortress lol.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=qamzMYrth4M&list=PLChC_Y8sQL21GM5Crm1wfctYjxupi9YBa
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.
firefox and lemmy I guess
Linux, Firefox based browsers, vs code, KDE, and the fediverse.
Firefox, probably. Though Heroic Games Launcher is getting there real fast. And currently I very often use Baby Journal, though it's an app I wrote, so I'm not sure I can really call it "favorite", but it's definitely one of my most used FOSS apps currently.
Baby Journal could use an more detailed About page. It looks like it's a shared space for families to post/talk about their kids in digital saftey. What an awesome idea! Well done!
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Linux and GNU too :p
If I had to pick only one artifact's worth:
bash, probably. Otherwise:bashvimurxvtpacmannixiptables(-ng)/ebtablesparalleljqEeew bash? What are you, a Neanderthal? All the cool kids use Zsh. 😜
But what about fish?
Lemmy
I use Librewolf for all of my personal browsing
LibreWolf is the way. I have it on everything. I have it on Windows, Mac, and Linux. I have it on my Linux phone. It's nice to have Firefox without the adware and with extra privacy.
Which mobile do you use?
PinePhone Pro at the moment, with keyboard case.
Firefox, VLC, LibreOffice
Os: Linux mint, Solus, endeavour Programs: librewolf, freetube
I don't have "one" favourite but these are up there
mpv.io !
I discovered it before covid, and it is really lightweight and customizable. So many plug-ins, and they're so simple to create.
I was usually having issues with VLC or settings that he didn't have. No issues with mpv, so far.
Weird issue with VLC / Manjaro lately as it just wouldnt play any file. Opens and just closes. Just tried out mpv.io. Worked like a charm. Thanks!
love mpv! such a minimal video player, and it's really easy to pipe video sources into it via cli with something like streamlink.
only complaint i have about it is i couldn't get chromecast working with it, but it was pretty easy with vlc.
Honestly probably neko my friends and I used to love rabbit but it went to shit
Is this a more private way of browsing the internet than something like a hardened Firefox or Librewolf?
Nah, I mean it can be and you can set it up like so. It's mainly just to watch stuff together
Linux, MPV, Proton, bash, Newpipe
I'm only going to mention desktop software, there's too many tools and layers involved in spinning up a server.
Daily use (most used first):
It's a pretty boring list: connectivity tools, text editors, and version control are placed front and centre. That said they are great tools and I would hate to live in a world where I was limited to only proprietary products
Stuff I wish I had more time to use:
Special mention:
Going by what I use the most: Firefox, git, less, tailscale, midnight commander
Is Android a valid answer? Maybe not Google's monstrosity but AOSP (although I feel as though it's hard to extricate one from the other save for projects like GrapheneOS).
Firefox, GNU Linux, VLC, GIMP, Krita, Blender (even if I didn't used it that much), Lemmy of course with it's different FOSS clients
Linux, Firefox, PeerTube
Yggdrasil, an IPv6 end to end encrypted networking proof of concept. There's something about it that I find so innovative that I want it to succeed so badly !
Would this be able to replace ISPs if it succeeds? Did I read that right?
In short: No.
Assuming that I understood correctly with a quick reading that's creating a whole another network on top of existing internet and requires raw bandwidth to function at all.
Various mesh-networks have been around for quite a long time to solve the 'last mile' issue on poor areas. That requires pretty dense population to actually work, but at least couple of years ago there's been some moderately successful projects. I haven't followed those in years, so I don't know what's the current status and that's very different from what Yggdrasil is doing.
You read right. It is an overlay network built on top of the internet. For now. This is only a proof of concept right now, so it has to reuse existing networks to work and test the scalability, reliability, etc...
But the end goal would be to only use that to build the network, connecting modes together through
$VARIOUS_MEANS, and implement the Yggdrasil code right at the network card level. So it could work without and underlay network, and that's basically the point of the project: prove that you can have a standalone mesh network that's fully encrypted. I've read an articles on people connecting nodes directly through AWDL, but it remains a proof of concept only for now.And to answer OP's question, that would not replace ISP because you'd still need a way to physically connect your node to the network, and ISP could provide such service. However, you could also connect directly to your neighbor's house and access the network from there :)
Hyprland So much fun
Linux, Firefox, Bitwarden, Android
gnu
Blender, by far :)
I got sick of corporations forcing restrictions so looked into alternatives. Learned how to do it myself & haven't looked back:
Joplin notes - use this every day synced to multiple devices Nextcloud - self hosted on a Raspberry Pi 4. Cloud storage plus syncs multiple stuff including Joplin
So many brilliant options on mobile: OsmAnd+ (nav), Antennapod (podcasts), Keepass (password manager), Obtainium (app updater). Was also enjoying Fritter/Quacker (Twitter without needing an account) until Elons recent meltdown. Also enjoying Liftoff lemmy app for Android
EDIT: hot off the press. For those interested, Quacker is back in the game. Not had chance to check Fritter yet
how much can your rasp pi hold what?
Yeah I just use a HDD. On the whole its pretty stable though through tinkering Ive managed to crash my setup a few times. Sometimes restarting the Nextcloud Docker container is enough (Portainer makes it simple), when i really break it i start from scratch. I use a simple script to automaticacally back up all my data to another drive weekly
archlinux firefox thunderbird emacs
"archlinux firefox thunderbird" sounds like an amazing name for something.
Not entirely software, but the MiSTer FPGA project. Having accurate zero-lag hardware accurate versions of almost every console, many arcade games, PCs (Amiga, Commodore etc), and handheld up to and including the PlayStation in a box the size of a game boy is unreal.
Majority of the project is open source, and has been used for ports to the analogue pocket handheld, which I also have and use often
Pihole, Kubernetes, ffmpeg, VLC, pretty much we are so technologically advanced because there is so much free and open source software. If it wasn't for it we would be ages behind technologically.
Subsurface
Its dive planning and dive logging software. It's also the only software I'm aware of that can actually pull the data from my dive computer, which uses some crappy proprietary cable and software. The fact that subsurface exists and is automatically in Linux repositories is what finally allowed me wipe out my aging and barely functioning computer, and revive it with Linux.
KDE Plasma desktop
A few of mine that I use daily...
Networky Things:
A couple of personal projects:
qemu/kvm
Infinitime, for my PineTime.
The Linux Kernel and operating system in general. It is simultaneously my favorite and I hate that it killed my prior favorite, the SGI Irix operating system. I was there at the beginning, from kernel 1.1 through today. I remember telling regional directors at silicon graphics that Linux was the future and them disparaging that opinion.
Godot game engine without a doubt.
I couldn't get by without AutoHotkey and AltSnap. Especially having extra buttons on my mouse, there's so many custom shortcuts, commands, controls, etc. that I couldn't make without them. AltSnap also has a built-in borderless windowed button that works better with games than some apps I have used that are explicitly for that purpose. I have shortcuts for changing volume, switching windows, toggling always-on-top, and even making windows transparent all from the mouse.
While I think AHK is great and I always use it if I'm daily driving a Windows install.. it's pretty sad that you have to use such a janky language + have this software always open listening to events just to do custom hotkeys on Windows.
On Gnome I can just write a shell script, go into Gnome settings and then add a hokey to it. I don't need to install anything, it works much more fluidly, and takes up less system resources.
Holy shit. I've been sad we don't have ahk but this is such a simple solution. thank you.
I'm with you here, but as a Linux user I use AutoKey. Game changer
OsmAnd
Emacs, tor, mpv, KDE, f-droid, python, qemu
Blender
Freecad. It's a little rough to use compared to professional cad products I've used but it can really do a lot. In a lot of ways it feels less constrained than some of the stuff I've used too
youtube-dl
I love the yt-dlp fork.
Yeah, was about to say that yt-dlp is currently much better
OBS is my one of my favorite softwares in general, let alone open source
Dolphin Emulator always amazes me in how perfect of an emulator it is.
I'unno. Don't really think about it that hard.
I guess firefox, since it gives me
pornaccess to websites.Gotta go with python here, though vim would be a close second.
Firefox, Libreoffice, and Bitwarden (I would include Zotero, but idk if it's open source)
i think Zotero is indeed open source, free software
Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Readarr, and Prowlarr.
Readarr and Lidarr have been less than functional for me. I switched to Deemix for music and just use libgen for books now.
Suckless software like dwm, st, dmenu
I’ve been using Logseq after trying Notion and Obsidian a good bit and I’m really enjoying it. It’s a block-based note app that makes connecting thoughts together super easy. So far so goo!
Debian
Android and Linux
aosp and linux
Bitwarden & Jellyfin
GNU Hurd. Never used it, but I like the idea and would love to see it become a viable option.
Since most of what I would have said has already be mentioned I will just go with almost anything under the umbrella of the KDE organization.
As in the Plasma desktop environment and the whole application suite. Includes programs like Krita, Kdenlive and KDE Connect, plus the whole range of "standard" desktop applications like terminal, file manager, document viewers, etc. pp.
And the DE itself is just adorably hackable. Want to replace the Kwin window manager with i3? Sure it's possible, here you go: https://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/Using_Other_Window_Managers_with_Plasma
Wine, despite the headache that is fiddling with its configurations for specific older games to work.
linux, godot, blender, neural amp modeler
Pandoc, KeepassXC, NeoVim
Favorite? Hm... I would have to say Codeigniter (PHP framework) but I love these projects as well: Linux/GNU, VLC, LibreOffice, qBittorrent, VSCodium, Filezilla, GIMP, Firefox, Wireguard, GrapheneOS, Matrix, F-Droid.
If I won the lottery I'd donate to these projects or their respective foundations.
godot engine
dungeon crawl stone soup
ncdu
Ncdu is awesome. I even used it last night when I accidentally filled up my ssd causing my os to crash. Finding the offending folder took like 10 seconds. Much better than writing a whole script.
Ardour
Thunderbird. Hasn't bugged on me once.
In terms of what I use daily
Would probably say Firefox, but since many others have already mentioned it, I'll go with Nushell
Didnt know Nushell, but that looks better than cmder! Will give it a try.
Voyager, Firefox, Tachiyomi (J2K specifically), Bitwarden, Jellyfin and Findroid, Sonarr, LunaSea...there's so much I can't pick.
I think alot of Indie and open source games owe their existence to SDL.
I also have a love-hate relationship with meson...
Playnite, all your games in one launcher.
Firefox, Bitwarden, and Tachiyomi are some that I use almost everyday
Godot!
Favourite, not sure. Maybe my "favourite" would be the one which would be the hardest to replace with something I like.
There wouldn't be something i can think off that could be irreplaceable. However the hardest thing I like may be FanControl.
For the browser, Firefox is very nice, but it's "just" a browser if you think about it. There is brave, and other open source chromium alternatives if it disappears.
For mail clients, I also like the Mailspring design, however Thunderbird just got a new skin and damn it looks good too.
And for the rest, I don't really know. Either I don't remember right now, or no special "like" for the software. Or I like the closed source software convenience more (I may also have no idea of an open source alternative, or an equivalent in features open source).
It depends on the usage really.
Unfortunately, FanControl is not open source. It uses librehardwaremonitor which is, but the FanControl project does not have source code posted and is not under a FOSS license.
Linux
OpenSCAD and Gitlab. I can quickly iterate on designs through code, push it to my Gitlab instance, and have my CI/CD pipelines pick it up, render it, and automatically slice it in some common profiles to send to Octoprint
Firefox, Neovim, Pass (password store) and Wezterm. I heavily use all four of them.
I also need to give a special mention to Aegis Authenticator on Android.
Arch Linux, LibreWolf & KeepassXC are the first that come to mind.
Bitwarden, NetNewsWire, Firefox
Linux, Firefox, OBS, Emacs, Hatari
rust
Duplicati: A backup software that securely stores and restores data across various platforms and cloud services. Supports encryption and incremental backups (versioning). Lots of possibilities, but use it to back up my PC to my NAS and the other way around.
Ferdium: Messaging and other services combined in a single interface. Using it for Telegram, Whatsapp and services like Home Assistant etc. Allows apps to hibernate when not in use.
OpenRGB: Control and customize RGB lighting effects on various computer hardware components.
Firefox
linux
Yes me too. Without Linux, basically nothing else runs in my house!
Ditto ffmpeg gstreamer obs Firefox & addons Thunderbird greenshot everythingtoolbar 7zip Lemmy jerboa and so many more OpenWRT simply a must, eartrumpet gajim conversations
Linux
vim
Hard to answer but maybe Haiku or GNU Emacs
Definitely OpenFOAM. It competes with commercial software that costs thousands of dollars.
Neovim. It's an awesome editor and it has a great community and ecosystem.
Suricata
Linux, of course. But another one that I use all the time, and love to death, is SageMath. It's the perfect blend of mathematics and programming for me.
Linux, Tor, and the Ballistica game engine/BombSquad game (not fully open source as stuff used for sensitive data remains closed source 😔)
Edit: forgot git lol
Currently OBS and Motrix
https://www.kicad.org/
ReVanced. I love my ad-free, sponsor-blocking, Shorts-removing YouTube experience.
As a bonus, I also enjoy using Mp3tag. It's a program I can use to easily change and update the tags on all my music files, and it can even do it all in batches. It can also connect to various music services (Discogs, Musicbrainz, etc.) to get music tag info directly so you don't have to type it all in manually.
NetHack!
Helix text editor.
QGIS and OpenStreetMap for mapping
yayFor games:
Anuto TD (found a few days ago, isn't super feature rich but still fun to kill time)
Mindustry (never played a game like it before, ended up supporting by buying it on Steam)
Supertuxkart (I love how many custom add-on karts and tracks I have)
For non-games:
Termux (allows me to get apk files and install Revancify for add free yt)
VLC (I don't mind slow updates and have yet to switch mostly because I can't find anything better that isn't more complicated than it needs to be and/or is closed source)
KDE Connect (I have almost always had problems with moving files from and to my desktop via cord)
I'd include something like Linux, but I personally feel that's kinda cheating because of how large it is compared to the others.
Keepass and firefox expansion Firefox of course Ninite to install and update software Newpipe / yt vanced : youtube alternatives obsidian : note taking (not sure if this is technically open source)
ShareX and it isn't even close
I have used a lot of stuff over the years but my favorite would have to be a little command line program called cowsay. It takes whatever text you feed it and puts it in a speech bubble above a cow, hence the name.
Combine that with fortune and throw it in your bash script and you get a new message every time you open terminal.
Linux, Firefox, Apache
Bulk Crap Uninstaller
VS Code
VSCodium takes the binaries for VS code and assembles it without Microsofts telemetry
VSCode is not free software. It's licensed under proprietary license. VSCodium is fully free software under MIT license.
Qemu/kvm
Right now, it's Warpinator. Makes at-home wireless file transfers so damn SIMPLE.
Media Player Classic (I'm unsure if the latest iterations are or even if the Home Cinema edition is open source), TOR, qbittorrent, firefox, thinderbird, obs to name a few that I use regularly.
I’ve been liking Digikam and Rawtherapee (which is an awful name for the record) for photo gubbins.
I'm a darktable guy myself. I have tried Rawtherapee and was even an exclusive user of Art (RT fork) for a while, but darktable has everything I need in one package.
I'm getting a lot of use from Syncplay recently
paperless-ngx
Mi favorito que uso todos los días y no entiendo que no lo use todo el mundo es : thunderbird
My favorite that I use every day and I don't understand why not everyone uses it is: thunderbird
Neovim(astronvim ftw), Firefox,
Node Red