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Debian, uptime right now on my server is 59 days and that's just because that was when we had a power outage longer than the UPS could keep up with
Probably something that is so basic or integrated into the distros I use that I forget about it because every time I use it, it just works.
Vim because its everywhere and is super powerful. It can even be used for some light scripting. GCC to make my own programs. Python as well, same thing and also portable. All the programs that come with mint and become part of the background like the terminal emulator. All of it, pretty awesome. Jellyfin has been a mainstay as well.
The Linux Kernel.
my desire to use Linux and continue learning
As phil Collins would say... Su su su sudo
Nano
Vlc.
All of them.
Okular
Elementary OS
bashmount
Caddy
Supernotes.app
Linux Mint
Rockbox
Sayonara music player
Syncthing
mpv, openbox
nano 😎
nano
Helix editor. I love terminal UI apps.
Guix
Systemd
*grabs popcorn*
Just it always makes you wait for ~3 min and shows: ... wait for something to be Configured (25s / no limit). :-)
Linux
mpv
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.
Good shout! I use syncthing myself to sync all my useful stuff between multiple devices seamlessly.
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.
Anything from Debian. I even run Debian-Testing, and it's rock solid. Also, Linux mint, on my other partition.
- Linux Mint.
- Cinnamon.
- Xfce.
- PPSSPP.
- GNOME Boxes.
Cron
Debian and basically everything in its repos. Might be somewhat old, but it is really fucking stable
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The OS itself, Debian. If I have to pick a component, Mate Panel. Compared to the Windows 11 start menu, it's useful, customizableand has no ads. My IT department at work can't even figure out how to remove the Windows 11 start menu ads from my computer.
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.
Debian!
grep
coreutils
yes this is a jab at rust-coreutils
Nano
KCalc. Man, it just computes! It can add, subtract, and even multiply. It's never given a wrong answer.
Dino, my favourite chat client, it just works.
All of it. Even Firefox.
tmux, weechat, helix
The program sl, works every time
Nah man, piece of shit software; Sometimes it just lists some random directory contents.
the random directories you see are shown as a punishment when you mix up the letters, yk
I tried neovim for a while and I went back to vim for that reason: setup once, then forget about it.
I have plugins that haven't been touch for 5 years+ and they are working as intended.
Rock solid.
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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
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