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For me it is KDE Plasma desktop. By far the most powerful, customizable, flexible and innovative of the computer desktops today. And despite all these features and power it is still one of the more lightweight ones.
Also there are other great KDE apps and GNU/Linux operating system in general. Just love how they respect my digital rights and freedoms and my privacy and I do not need to use proprietary alternatives which are just getting more bloated and include more and more spyware. Not to mention their constant dumbing down of the interface and closing it up.
The Linux ecosystem as a whole
You have got to have one of the best names on this server (unless it is actually an error)
No, it's my actual username
Omnivore! It's just a "read it later" app, but so nice to use. I enjoy newsletters again, because they all go there instead of in my emails, and they all have a uniform look to them now. Sorting by labels and syncing highlights to my Obsidian inbox page are great features. And they said bulk editing is coming soon.
Also bitwarden, lichess, and qbitorrent.
Firefox is the first to come to mind. Also all the KDE software (when run in KDE).
I wish Firefox used QT or there was a KDE browser that was better maintained
KDE's stuff is amazing.
Linux! The responsible for my knowledge in computing and a great deal of English..Linux is the power!
I switched to Linux Mint full-time a few months ago and it's blown me away with how good it is.
After 13 years using Linux I still can't believe it's free!
OpenSSH!
Jellyfin
Blender
Darktable
Bitwarden / Vaultwarden
Darktable is awesome. People rave on about Lightroom like it's irreplaceable, but Darktable exists and is a legit alternative.
wtf BLENDER is open source???
Yep, there are quite a few forks of it too, eg. one for artists with a friendlier UI, a CAD-focused one, a game engine one etc.
Definitely Blender. I'd consider myself a medium grade expert at using it for CAD, solid modelling, 3D printing, yet there are vast sections of it I have never touched, and appear to be so rich that you could build a career around them without overlapping with my skill set.
Blender used to be so difficult to use. It has come a long way and I genuinely like using now, not just forced to because of budget limits.
Itβs probably safe to use but ghidra feels so sus considering who made it
- Yunohost
- KDE Plasma
- Kdenlive
- Krita
- Inkscape
- Blender
- OBS
- Xonotic
- Beyond All Reason
- Manjaro (Despite the hate, no other distro has worked as well for me)
- Firefly III
- Grocy
- Nextcloud
- DisplayCal / Argyll CMS
- Scribus
- Natron
- MuseScore
- Jellyfin
- Navidrome
- QOwnNotes
...and so many more
OBS is the one that gets me. A lot of streamers I follow talk about how they use OBS because it's such a reliable standard and works the way they expect. Pretty cool that an open source app is the standard for something as mainstream as livestreaming.
I kinda have the opposite response. I've been a mostly open source guy for the last 20 years so when I see what kind of half baked proprietary tools people buy I'm always shocked how much money mediocre software costs.
I'll reply in a kind of opposite to the subject. I can't believe there aren't any decent open source 3d CAD programs that are worth a damn.
VSCode. I know its owned by Microsoft but its such a good editor. Having a strong tool is so important since nobody wants to be concerned about the app, they just want to code and do their work!
Check out VSCodium. It's VSCode compiled without all the Microsoft bits.
Love me some VSCodium. I honestly can't even tell a difference between the two.
All of them! Manny have already been mentioned. But I'd like to add: -Gimp -Inkskape -KdenLive
Blender and KDE
OBS
- Xonotic
- SearXNG
VLC and OBS
Honestly, Lively Wallpaper. You can set anything as your wallpaper and it'll work wonderfully: a video streaming directly from YouTube, a Unity game, a shader, a browser tab, a gif... You name it!
And the API supports sound input so anyone can make their sound visualizers now. I always wanted to do that as a kid after being an og WMP fanboy and finally got that knocked off my bucket list