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.
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As phil Collins would say… Su su su sudo
zsh
Helix editor. I love terminal UI apps.
Supernotes.app
Linux Mint
Rockbox
Sayonara music player
Syncthing
xterm, xv, mc, tmux, gimp, seamonkey
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
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.
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).
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.
Debian and basically everything in its repos. Might be somewhat old, but it is really fucking stable
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.
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.
My small selfhosted system appreciates this very much. Having Debian as my base OS makes everything easier.
I will second KeealiveD.
Pihole has been robust even the upgrades.
Docker has been perfect for years.
RaspberryPi os has been superb.
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
mc and vim
I’m on arch and everything I nerd just works no fuss. Webstorm, steam, bitwarden, notesnook, mullvad, anything I need just works really. Of course as with any is there are things that are pain in the ass but that is everywhere no exceptions.
bash. Konsole. vim (-neo or otherwise up to the point it became AI infested). ssh. steam. git i could go on for quite a while
I’ll give a shoutout to the rEFInd boot manager. If anyone has ever had trouble with Grub, rEFInd continues to work for years across multiple machines. I have never had a problem with it.
I wish the btrfs snapshot support were better for rEFInd
rEFInd
Good shout. Not something I’ve heard of before and I’ve certainly had my share of problems with grub2, even recently.
