sgt-puzzles. Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle collection.
Contains a bunch of simple puzzles, of the minesweeper and sudoku style. Loopy is my favorite.
Available for Linux, Windows, MacOS, Android, and anything with a web browser and a mouse. Packaged in Debian and F-droid, and probably many other places.
I like it for time wasting in lines at the DMV, for a low-stakes game when anxious, and for falling asleep.
Silverbullet is like Trilium or Obsidian a markdown notes app, which is lightweight and highly customizable (by css and scripting). And all files could be forever accessed as simple markdown-files in an easy folder structure without much overhead. The database is only for indexing and could be restored anytime.
alternativeto.net is great for finding these
fzf fuzzy finder. Great tool to quickly find those files you were looking for.
It's very integrated in some shells as well.
Use fzf-tab for tab completion, for instance.
NextCloud - Self hosted personal cloud solution that you can run on Docker or bare metal.
Its good, i started using it because it allows you to inverts the colors, so you can turn your pdfs into white text on black background.
Mihon Manga reader for android. Allows auto aggregation from web sources to make tracking and reading manga smooth and easy
VLC (VideoLAN media player): play media files, DVDs, network streams and more. Just works,
VLC is nice, but I switched to the SMplayer, which do the same, but is way faster and easier to handle.
CoolerControl - Fan control for Linux based on any available sensors.
I find it much easier to use than fancontrol included with lm_sensors and much more reliable for me.
LibreOffice - simply the best office suite there is (IMHO). I was a MS-office user for years, but since I switched, I haven't looked back...
Inkscape - the best vector graphics program out there. So easy to use, and so powerful.
I'm not sure about that "best" qualifier. From what I've read, it still doesn't really support CMYK colour mode and its text tools are lacking compared to Adobe Illustrator.
CMYK is easy to work around.
So, your argument is, that you can find 1 tool where AI is better, and then everything else doesn't matter?
Well, fine - keep paying a sh*tload of money for Adobe, and use AI, that's totally fine by me. :-)
Oh, if you'd be so kind, show me something made in AI, that Inkscape can't do?
Not sure why you're being this hostile.
CMYK is easy to work around.
But that's the point, that you need workarounds for such a simple and (if you work with printed materials) essential feature.
So, your argument is, that you can find 1 tool where AI is better, and then everything else doesn’t matter?
That's literally not what I said, just that I don't think it's necessarily the best based on what I've read. I agree that it being FLOSS raises its appeal quite a bit, but it's not quite there yet to replace Illustrator for me.
Well, fine - keep paying a sh*tload of money for Adobe, and use AI, that’s totally fine by me. :-)
Yeah, Adobe's predatory pricing is why I'm not paying for it. But sadly it's still the only tool I found that has all the features I need.
Oh, if you’d be so kind, show me something made in AI, that Inkscape can’t do?
A CMYK file lol. But I'm not going to do work for you, you're clearly not engaging in good faith.
Because "best" is obvious a subjective statement, and you wanted to argue that...
Inkscape can make a CMYK-file, with an addon. It's pretty easy. Besides CMYK is only relevant is you want to print, and most graphics work today is for screens. It literally takes about 7 seconds to make it CMYK.
What feature do you need, that Inkscape can't do? Is it really the 7 seconds to make it CMYK, that breaks you?
GIMP - unlike Krita - which is made for drawing - this is made for photo-editing. It's like Photoshop. The learning curve is a bit steep, but it is really powerful.
Krita is certainly made for painting and also animation, but you can also edit photos with it, best to have both, GIMP and Krita, they are great complementing tools.
Sure, you can use it to edit photos. That's just not it's strength.
It's not, right, because of this I said that Gimp and Krita are good to use as complementary tools for normal users. Krita is even capable to edit .raw formats, used in Photography, In Gimp you need an Plug-in to edit .nef or .raw formats, but with not so good results, also not in Krita, that is why Photografs still prefer to use Photoshop.
Almost all I work with, have switched to Affinity. Both because of the price tag, but also because they are so tired of Adobe... A great tool is not worth much, when it's rented from a big and greedy control freak... It's insane how much they want to install on your computer...
Firefox - the original private webbrowser. Even though some people don't like the options in it (like those that let you stream Netflix and other DRM content). If people care about privacy, they use this browser, or one that is made from it...
Thunderbird - a brilliant e-mail program, which also handles contacts, newsfeeds, calender and more. It's available for multiple platforms, like Android, Windows, Linux and so forth...
strudel. From the website:
With Strudel, you can expressively write dynamic music pieces.
The best place to actually make music with Strudel is the Strudel REPL
It's really fun to make music in it, I recommend trying it out!
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