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In terms of overall usage, gotta go GIMP.
Most used for me is Firefox (in fact I'm so used to it, it didn't even come to mind until I saw so many replies mentioning it!).
The favorite is probably git.
For the recently discovered stuff that would probably be the Astro frontend framework (and Svelte).
Also what a wonderful thread to discover stuff. Thank you all!
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Are we only counting FOSS or would Doom count? If Doom counts, my pick is Doom. Having access to Doom's source code is where I learned a huge majority of my programming knowledge making mods for it.
Since major projects like Firefox keep getting mentioned, Iβll throw a shout out to Ant Renamer.
Itβs simple, itβs FOSS, and it just works. I often - ahem - acquire a number of files from various sources that are labeled like βMission.Impossible.7.Complete.zHD.2022.xReloadedxβ, and an application like Ant Renamer can batch rename files into whatever you need.
For example, if I need to backup or copy a set of game saves in a folder that all need to have the same prefix like N007 from N002, I would have to manually change 10K files from one prefix to the other. Ant Renamer can do everything in a batch that runs quicker than the blink of an eye.
So, Ant Renamer for the win!
FFmpeg
I like a bunch of OSS projects but Firefox is way up there above the rest.
in terms of time I spend in it:
- linux
- firefox
- vi
Throw in Git and that's me.
Gnome 44, (probably gonna get roasted by Gentoo users) Nano, Librewolf, Free tube, NixOS, Gnu utils, Krita, kdenlive, Gimp Nuclear, Shredder, Gnome disks, Qemu/KVM
Edit- and test disk, it saved my ass this week. I accidentally wrote a new partion table over my hdd that had all my family photos. Used testdisk let it run on my laptop for 22hours recovered all photos and files. Shout out to the Devs for make great FOSS software
- Git
- (Open)SSH.
- OpenStreetMap and Trekarta (Offline OSM maps for Android)
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Linux and GNU too :p
- Linux (generally speaking)
- KDE as a whole
- Tusky
- Brave as a browser
- Bitwarden/vaultwarden
Lemmy
Firefox, probably. Though Heroic Games Launcher is getting there real fast. And currently I very often use Baby Journal, though it's an app I wrote, so I'm not sure I can really call it "favorite", but it's definitely one of my most used FOSS apps currently.
firefox and lemmy I guess
Vaultwarden
Os: Linux mint, Solus, endeavour Programs: librewolf, freetube
I don't have "one" favourite but these are up there
Going by what I use the most: Firefox, git, less, tailscale, midnight commander
gnu
I'm only going to mention desktop software, there's too many tools and layers involved in spinning up a server.
Daily use (most used first):
- Firefox
- MRemoteNG
- Notepad++
- VS Code
- Git
- WinSCP
- 7-zip (love the tool but hate the format, storage and bandwidth is cheap now, let's just use zip please)
- VLC
- Python
It's a pretty boring list: connectivity tools, text editors, and version control are placed front and centre. That said they are great tools and I would hate to live in a world where I was limited to only proprietary products
Stuff I wish I had more time to use:
- Godot
- Blender
- Audacity
- Krita
Special mention:
- QGIS (and the whole OSGeo ecosystem)
- qBittorrent
- RetroArch (and all the FOSS emulators it promotes)
- OpenTTD
- GIMP/Inkscape (I don't need them often but I'm glad they are their!)
Linux, Firefox, PeerTube
Firefox, GNU Linux, VLC, GIMP, Krita, Blender (even if I didn't used it that much), Lemmy of course with it's different FOSS clients
Honestly probably neko my friends and I used to love rabbit but it went to shit
If I had to pick only one artifact's worth: bash
, probably.
Otherwise:
bash
vim
- Linux (the kernel itself)
- Kubernetes
- Firefox
urxvt
- Python
pacman
nix
- util-linux
- procps-ng
- iproute2
iptables
(-ng
)/ebtables
- GNU
parallel
jq
Is Android a valid answer? Maybe not Google's monstrosity but AOSP (although I feel as though it's hard to extricate one from the other save for projects like GrapheneOS).
Linux, Firefox, Bitwarden, Android
Emacs, tor, mpv, KDE, f-droid, python, qemu
Yggdrasil, an IPv6 end to end encrypted networking proof of concept. There's something about it that I find so innovative that I want it to succeed so badly !
Godot game engine without a doubt.