What is your favorite open source software?

Ephera

Firefox. Wouldn’t want to use the internet without it. Probably wouldn’t be using this webpage without it.

@SirLotsaLocks

firefox is so underrated, it’s literally the only browser that isn’t google that is actually viable (sorry otter)

@abbystraaalt

linux :3

@nxlemmy

Bitwarden - A password manager

IngrownMink4

Lemmy, mpv, Firefox, Manjaro (GNU/Linux), NewPipe, OBS, Rufus, Alacritty, RPCS3, Lutris…

@jwinnie

Manjaro

Aged like milk :)

@Cloak

Love obs, firefox, and manjaro!

@stevo

VLC Media Player - Fast, reliable program that works across all operating systems. Many media players can’t play certain types of files, but VLC always works. For years its always worked. They could have stopped maintaining it, or sold out and put ads in it, or changed vision and created something different out of it.

@racoon

VLC media player has gifted me with more than 1 week of lifetime already. Before discovering VLC, I had to download divx drivers for each movie file. That involved mindlessly surfing. VLC just works and has everything. It’s so amazing

@AlexMV12

Nobody cited Miniflux, a very good self-hosted RSS aggregator with web UI.

@Cloak

Awesome!

@ray

Thanks for the recommendation I just tried it out and it’s pretty nice. It’s much faster than the one I was using but could use some polish with things like navigating back when in the unread view.

@Cloak

For me, blender

@andycuccaro

Same for me. It’s given me some jobs (not a steady one yet ) and it’s amazing how light, and feature filled it is at the same time. I just had to install After Effects recently (after not using it for about a year) and holy moly, it’s 2.5 GB of bloat. AE is pretty great, but it’s not 2.5-GB-and-still-slow great. and I can do almost the same job with Blender, so there’s that.

@Azkulbel

F-Droid , NewPipe , Ublock Origin , piHole

@big

zettlr - markdown word processor for desktop
JellyFin - plex/emby open alternative for media streaming from a private server

@fungo

1.Fdroid 2.Nextcloud 3.Matrix/Element

@techbolt

Tiddlywiki - I use it everyday and it is the most useful tool at a personal level.
Invoiceninja- aver well rounded solution and a very responsive team
Plantuml - another tool I use fairly regularly and it saves tons if time.
Nextcloud - am sure this needs nointroduction :)

@oriond

FreeCAD

@PorkrollPosadist

In effort to pick things not already mentioned here, Stellarium and Darktable.

@null_radix

guix, mpd, alacritty, chromeium

@avalos

Emacs, Fossil, Concourse, SearX, WireGuard, Mastodon, Element, Firefox (except for Mozilla and Pocket bullshit), CHICKEN Scheme, Docker, etc.

@Cloak

Docker is awesome! so is mastodon and element :)

@ajz

To name a few of my favs which were not mentioned yet.

Flameshot https://github.com/lupoDharkael/flameshot
Geeqie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geeqie
Midnight Commander https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Commander
Tor browser https://www.torproject.org/
Searx https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/searx_ynh
tldr python client : https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/tldr/

@ster

Git has to be up there

@Cloak

Git is love, git is life

Dessalines

Ok its done.

@Jae

Small list:

Xterm - Terminal emulator
Xmonad - Window Manager
Doas - A lighter sudo replacement
Linux - The thing that powers everything
NewsBoat - Command-line RSS news reader
Vi Mproved - Text & code editor

@ajz

Thanks for mentioning Doas. I thought it was exclusively for OpenBSD, but I see that there is an Arch Linux package for it. https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/opendoas/

@Jae

I like it, it is much faster on my laptop than plain old sudo.
I have some more in my dotfiles repo :)

@ajz

I like it, it is much faster on my laptop than plain old sudo.

Interesting. And I can imagine that Doas is more secure than sudo.

I have some more in my dotfiles repo :)

Nice!

@Cloak

Good old linux

@SirLotsaLocks

For quality programs I’d say blender vlc and obs. They are so good that normal people use them because they are good instead of using them as a foss alternative to a better proprietary option.

@Cloak

Compleatly agree!

@tho

ncdu is brilliant

@Doug

Linux, and all the random software that allows compatibility with my GAMER mouse, keyboard, and laptop. It’s amazing I can use Linux with out worry that my peripherals will not work!

@sphinxc0re

Godot. It’s a great game engine.

@Cloak

Love godot!

@wraptile

Libre software I love and use daily:

Qutebrowser: a keyboard driven, hackable (python) web-browser — it’s brilliant!
Darktable: brilliant photo workflow suite.
Qtile: hackable (python) window manager.
Xonsh: full python terminal emulator.
Ranger: keyboard-driven file system navigator.
Rofi: pop up window switcher/launcher also extended as many different pop-up slectors like: emoji picker (rofimoji) and clipboard history picker (greenclip).
pqiv: really powerful, customizable and beautiful image viewer.

jacques malchance

Love qutebrowser. I installed it just to see what it was like and now it is my main browser.

@uiizi

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@racoon

Nextcloud

@Scotty

Lemmy — Reddit alternative

LibreOffice Writer — 100% FOSS document writing software

OsmAnd — Android client for OpenStreetMap

F-Droid — Android application store with only FOSS apps

Bitwarden — FOSS password management

c/signalapp messenger

AndOTP — 2fa

@Kamui

Hmm NewPipe is great for watching youtube vids on Android. I also like Red Moon to prevent eyestrain and reduce blue light. Oh and Scarlet Notes FD is great for lists and stuff. All of these are available on the F-Droid app.

jacques malchance

The list is pretty long so I will limit myself.

On my phone the apps that I use the most are FairEmail and Bromite.

On my computer I use Qutebrowser , beets and Strawberry.

@blaha

Home Assistant

@jwinnie

GNU, Linux, Python, KDE, Firefox

@joule

Magic Wormhole - command-line tool to send files between computers

@geopoliticssuck

VLC

The guy who lead the dev team was offered millions for the right to the software, he declined it and made it open source. A true hero to us all

@Cloak

Thats crazy!

@Echedenyan

Delta Chat

@uipitino

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@resynth1943

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@Cloak

Omg how could I forget about Wikimedia? Elemnt, and Masdoon are both awesome too!

@Echedenyan

I think you meant MediaWiki and not Wikimedia. Wikimedia is a full organization which involves some projects (Wikipedia) and uses MediaWiki as main software for it.

@pavot

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@racoon

Self hosted Matrix/S/E/R/V?___

@resynth1943

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@uiizi

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@ufrafecy

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