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
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.
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.
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
grep
coreutils
yes this is a jab at rust-coreutils
So many. So many little utilities that just work. To mention a couple I think no one will mention because they are not sexy: Okular and Ark
Big fan of the KDE suite of software. I’ve tried alternatives, but always come back to plasma and associated software
Okular works so well at this point that I use it to annotate all my PDFs if I don’t explicitly need free-hand drawing (and xournalpp otherwise).
Ark is the best. It can open any type of zipped/compressed file, and it puts even 7zip to shame.
I’ve found a few things it won’t open that 7-Zip will, but they’ve been very few and far between.
VLC
Cant get VLC working properly on my linux and I miss having it. Ive been thinking about switching to LMDE because of it.
I think ffmpeg imploded or something? And maybe VLC is maintaining their own fork? But it got split into a bunch of pieces or something, I don’t know, but maybe installing one of the alternate sources of the ffmpeg packages might work for you.
Consider alternative ways to get it, e.g. static binary, other package managers e.g. am, AppImage, etc.
Yeah, I only tried what I assume was the snap version, and then APT which I suspect redirects to installing the snap version (maybe not though since this is mint and not direct ubuntu?) In any case I have a few more tendencies towards LMDE which will probably make me end up there eventually.
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.
Based on my experiences running multiple servers and pcs on multiple distros for more than a decade, almost all problems originate between the keyboard and the chair attached to the machine running Linux.
Misconfiguration is usually the culprit.
Oh and important note: I run Arch BTW
nano 😎
nano
The Linux Kernel.
Systemd
*grabs popcorn*
Just it always makes you wait for ~3 min and shows: … wait for something to be Configured (25s / no limit). :-)
If that happens to you, maybe you should open the logs and figure out why it is happening.
The other thing has logs too…
Emacs
That was what I was going to say; 100%.
I have mixed feels. It can work day after day but in practice it doesn’t. That’s on me 😂
My beloved
Vlc.
