• zxqwas@lemmy.world
    25·
    18 days ago

    For some 20 years VLC has been installed on my computers though streaming has made it less used than before.

    Steam: not been enshittified yet. Also one of the great forces behind Linux gaming being more mainstream.

    Does the Linux kernel count? It’s been 12 years since I tilted at a faulty network driver on windows 7 and just uninstalled it and did not look back. There has been many different distributions since (now I use arch btw) but the kernel is the same.

  • early_riser@lemmy.world
    24·
    18 days ago

    Vi/Vim. Is it intuitive? No. Is it user friendly? Heck no! What it is is everywhere. $20 Chinese travel routers? Yup. Wireless access points? It’s there. If it has a shell you can log into, it almost certainly has it.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    231·
    18 days ago
    • 7zip
    • Firefox
    • LibreOffice
    • Various Linux distros, but mostly Ubuntu variants and Raspbian
    • Cura
    • OpenVPN
    • Blender
    • Gimp
    • Windows - sorry everyone, it just works, but I stopped at 10.
    • VLC
    • Virtual Clone Drive
        • exaybachae@startrek.website
          1·
          17 days ago

          Thanks. Been trying to retire my age old PS6 portable app for ages, and want to move to Linux full time, but keep having to go back. GIMP has always been so frustrating to use. I install it, then run away after trying and struggling to do basic stuff.

          Maybe Photogimp will get me there?

        • Cherry@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          17 days ago

          Thanks, again i couldnt quick click with gimp, this looks nice. Have you tried any indesign alternatives?

      • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
        1·
        18 days ago

        It‘s like photoshop pre-subscription. Just the menus and keyboard shortcuts are a little different. It‘s all I‘ve used for years now, I wouldn‘t know what to do with any other program.

        • Anivia@feddit.org
          1·
          17 days ago

          It‘s like photoshop pre-subscription

          I’m still using a (legitimate) copy of Photoshop CS6, and that couldn’t be further from the truth

  • Fit_Series_573@lemmy.world
    16·
    18 days ago

    VLC for video MediaMonkey for audio

    Neither have ever failed me unless the files themselves have errors, then that’s beyond their control

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      18 days ago

      Foobar2000 for me for audio! Handles hundreds of thousands of songs on a standard USB HDD over the network incredibly fast, plays every audio file, best tag editing features I’ve ever seen, full conversion from lossless to other formats, a hella minimal interface dark before they was a common thing, and a tiny footprint.

      Incredible piece of software. I love it so much.

  • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org
    171·
    18 days ago

    >= 33 years

    • Unix
    • C
    • the shell and commands like cd, ls, find, xarg, cp, mv, ln, df, du

    >= 32 years

    • vi/vim
    • LaTeX
    • tar

    >= 28 years

    • Emacs
    • awk, bash
    • C++
    • Linux

    >= 26 years

    • Python & Numerical Python
    • screen and tmux
    • rsync
    • ssh
    • InkScape

    >= 20 years

    • git
    • literate programming tools

    >= 17 years

    • Thunderbird & forks
    • Debian & Ubuntu
    • GNOME

    >= 15 years

    • MeeGo, Maemo, Sailfish & siblings
    • Lisps (Clojure, Guile, Racket)

    >= 11 years

    • tiling WMs (i3)
    • Arch (as second system)

    what I use now and will very, very likely still use in 10 years

    • Rust
    • Guix
    • Gollum wiki
    • Gemini protocol
      • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org
        3·
        17 days ago

        Arch is often pictured as some Uber hacker magic which it isn’t. It is a useful collection of software packages with great documentation.

        Arch is for example useful if you want to program with new Rust versions, tools like jujutsu, cross-compile for your Sailfish phone, and so on.

        (By the way, Guix features now a recent Rust/cargo version, too!)

        And both Debian and Arch have advantages / disadvantages, so both are useful for different tasks. Learning Arch is really not a big step or costs much time if you know the foundations of Linux.

        • laurathepluralized@lemmy.world
          2·
          17 days ago

          +1 on the great documentation! Have I ever used Arch? No, and there are enough distros out there that I’m not sure I ever will. But have I ever referenced Arch’s wiki? Yes, often, and plan to continue to do so. <3 to the Arch Wiki authors!

  • fun_times@lemmy.world
    15·
    18 days ago

    InkScape.

    I don’t fully know why but vector graphics just work for me in a way that pixel graphics don’t. I love fiddling with vectors.

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      17 days ago

      Vector is amazing for things that potentially need to be resized. I do a lot of scale drawings for work, and I never know if it’s going to be printed on something as small as letter size paper, or blown all the way up to something like a plotter blueprint size print. And working in vector means the gigantic plotter print isn’t blurry, because the drawing isn’t comprised of individual pixels that blur when you zoom them in or out.

      It also means I can get extremely fine detail on something that may normally only be tiny on a page. For instance, maybe I have a 50’x50’ room, and I have a small 4 inch object to place in it. On the regular letter paper size, that will basically just be a dot. But I can zoom waaaay in for a detailed image of that object if needed.

  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
    14·
    18 days ago

    Many. The oldest and most popular ones are maybe

    vi
    bash
    putty
    Firefox
    Notepad++
    Irfanview
    Vlc
    OBS

      • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
        3·
        18 days ago

        IrfanView, haven’t heard that one mentioned for a long time.

        It is very fast, eats all formats including RAW, can delete without stupid questions, and I use the “batch rename” a lot.

        Have yet to find a replacement on Linux…

        • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip
          2·
          18 days ago

          Really? I always considered irfanview to be tolerable if I had to use windows but nothing special, and the licensing has issues.