• @theafterman
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      Great list. Props for including Jellyfin. Also, I use DuckDuckGo for searching. Is it any better to switch to Startpage or self host a Searx instance?

      • @SirLotsaLocksOP
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        I hd to dump a lot of streaming services so I setup a jellyfin server and it’s really amazing. I’ve never had a piece of software that amazed me as much as jellyfin did (it helped that I never did self hosted streaming before).

        • @theafterman
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          You started with the best imo. My experience with Plex is awful in every aspect, and Emby was ok for a while until I found Jellyfin. FOSS 4 Life. It’s worth mentioning I was subscribed to both services.

          • @SirLotsaLocksOP
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            Thats great to hear, I’m glad I dodged a bullet.

      • DessalinesA
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        I think both startpage and ddg have problems now, but searx instances get blocked so often too. No good solution yet. :frowning face:

        • @theafterman
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          I just found out about Searx instances being blocked. A shame really. I was thinking about self hosting a Searx instance after the shady DDG URLs issue.

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    • @sparky8251
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      As one of the longest active contributors to Jellyfin, I’m really glad to see it being so well loved here on Lemmy.

      Starting to not really like moderating reddit myself, so I’m starting to look around ;)

      • DessalinesA
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        Hey that’s great! Jellyfin is one of the best OSS projects around.

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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    a few that come to mind would be

    • Audacity
    • Bitwarden
    • Blender
    • Krita
    • NextCloud
    • VLC
  • @YouWalkOffCliffSoDoI
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    Best in class open source programs that I use daily:

    Firefox/chromium

    Ublock origin

    Linux

    Curl (is there even a proprietary alternative)

    Ssh / mosh / bastion

    gcc/clang (over Microsoft’s) / most other language toolinh and compilers (often with no proprietary competitors)

    Android, marginally

    Package managers (e.g. apt)

    I3 (or your tiling window manager of choice, non tiling window managers typically aren’t better than proprietary ones)

    I think that’s a reasonable complete list of the things I use regularly. There are lots of other open source programs of course, but there is typically an equal (or better) proprietary alternative (that might only run on a different os)

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    Some that people hadn’t mentioned yet:

    • Taskwarrior - by far the best todo list manager I could find.
    • Miniflux and Tiny Rss - self hosted rss aggregators. Seriously how something like Feedly expects me to drop like something like 200$ a year for such unusable front-end that is getting beaten by single developer projects lol

    And of course I think Vim is by far the best example of this - best editor experience by far. I can’t believe that there are still new editors coming out that make you use arrow keys, yeah just let me move to this other side of my keyboard to click one key every once in a while. What do you think I am? an octopus?

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    Blender

    Python

    Matrix

  • @andycuccaro
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    34 years ago

    I think it depends. “Better” is very subjective, and sometimes an apps does some stuff better and some stuff worse than their competitor.

    • @SirLotsaLocksOP
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      good point, I changed the title to account for that

      • @andycuccaro
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        Answering your question: VLC for multimedia, qBittorrent for torrenting, Krita is better than Photoshop for painting, but it isn’t the best image editor (although is really good). Blender is “jack of all trades, master of none” case, where it’s not the best at anything, but is very good at everything.

        Edit: I forgot to mention Handbrake, which is basically a frontend for ffmpeg, but is really good.

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