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.
awk
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?
Yakuake. Nothing major but a nice quality of life upgrade for terminal work.
The Linux Kernel.
I love how little of the projects mentioned here are truly Linux specific.
“Firefox” lol.
Anyways, MUSL.
Vlc.
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.
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
Vim because its everywhere and is super powerful. It can even be used for some light scripting. GCC to make my own programs. Python as well, same thing and also portable. All the programs that come with mint and become part of the background like the terminal emulator. All of it, pretty awesome. Jellyfin has been a mainstay as well.
Debian, uptime right now on my server is 59 days and that’s just because that was when we had a power outage longer than the UPS could keep up with
A couple of decades back I was a Systems Manager at a small campus, and personally admin’d one of the servers. There was a server in the room that had a 3 year uptime when I left. May have been running longer after that.
What UPS do you have?
Just some small consumer grade APC that I got like ten years ago. It’s basically good enough to withstand quick blips but I have it set to send a shutdown command to the server when the batteries fall below 90% because they last about as long as it takes to cleanly power down the machine.
As phil Collins would say… Su su su sudo
Nano
Probably something that is so basic or integrated into the distros I use that I forget about it because every time I use it, it just works.
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.
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.
Good shout! I use syncthing myself to sync all my useful stuff between multiple devices seamlessly.
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.
