• renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.netEnglish
      12·
      3 months ago

      Over 20 years, easy. I started my PC life as a Mac user, switched to Windows for gaming, then switched to Linux for freedom. VLC has followed me the whole way and been a must-install since the first time I used it.

  • Ada@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    633·
    3 months ago

    Steam? Though I’m not sure I’m loving it… 22 years now… But it worked back then, it still works now, and it hasn’t lost itself to enshitification. It even followed me to linux.

      • KneeTitts@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        3 months ago

        making gaming on Linux better than ever

        Latest reports have linux up to 5%, almost double from 6 months ago

    • renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.netEnglish
      9·
      3 months ago

      The enshittification of Steam would really sting and significantly harm PC gaming as a whole.

      As GabeN ages, I really worry about the day when he finally hands control of that company over, because as soon as ROI becomes their primary objective, it’s game over.

      Prioritizing the experience and quality of the platform over profit maximization has actually earned them more money in the long run as they’ve slowly snowballed over all their competitors. I really hope the new stewards understand this and genuinely love gaming as a whole as it seems a lot of decision-makers at Valve currently do.

      • yeehawboy@lemmy.world
        4·
        3 months ago

        Your comment made me realize that when steam finally does succumb to enshittification. All the other pc gaming launchers are going to blame us pc gamers for supporting steam all these years and not using their shitty ass products. Hopefully it’s no time soon

    • Imhotep@feddit.frFrançais
      1·
      3 months ago

      I’m happy with keepass, but I’ve always been curious about pass.

      Does the browser extension work well? Is there a good solution for using it on android?

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    23·
    3 months ago
    • 7zip
    • Firefox
    • LibreOffice
    • Various Linux distros, but mostly Ubuntu variants and Raspbian
    • Cura
    • OpenVPN
    • Blender
    • Gimp
    • Windows - sorry everyone, it just works, but I stopped at 10.
    • VLC
    • Virtual Clone Drive
  • zxqwas@lemmy.world
    21·
    3 months ago

    For some 20 years VLC has been installed on my computers though streaming has made it less used than before.

    Steam: not been enshittified yet. Also one of the great forces behind Linux gaming being more mainstream.

    Does the Linux kernel count? It’s been 12 years since I tilted at a faulty network driver on windows 7 and just uninstalled it and did not look back. There has been many different distributions since (now I use arch btw) but the kernel is the same.

  • early_riser@lemmy.world
    20·
    3 months ago

    Vi/Vim. Is it intuitive? No. Is it user friendly? Heck no! What it is is everywhere. $20 Chinese travel routers? Yup. Wireless access points? It’s there. If it has a shell you can log into, it almost certainly has it.

    • AreaKode@riskeratspizza.com
      9·
      3 months ago

      Don’t worry. They stopped unless you have an order for 200,000 units. My GeForce 1650 has gotten me through some tough years. I sure hope I have the opportunity to affordably upgrade next decade.

    • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      3·
      3 months ago

      Unless you’re trying for the AAA “BESTEST GRAPHICS EBAR!” you don’t need a super powerful video card anymore. There’s many games, much better too, that don’t require that much hardware to run.

      • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        Big true. I’m obviously not doing any raytracing but it still ran Cyberpunk. And it DLSS is turning out to be bunk but AMD’s FRS algorithm helps with a lot of stuff

          • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            2·
            3 months ago

            Yeah so many production companies are trying to incentivize you to buy shit.

            Unless they’re using Unreal Engine 5, them they just have no idea wtf they’re doing and you’ll have to read online how to edit the options ini to make it run

      • KneeTitts@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        3 months ago

        you don’t need a super powerful video card anymore

        my 2080 (that I think is 5 years old??) is just smashing all the steam games I can throw at it.

        • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          1·
          3 months ago

          We don’t need raytracing, fake frames, top tier graphics that’ll look obsolete. TF2 is still going strong and it sure as heck isn’t a graphical powerhouse. In fact one of the reasons it’s so popular is it’ll run on essentially a toaster of a computer.

  • Fit_Series_573@lemmy.world
    11·
    3 months ago

    VLC for video MediaMonkey for audio

    Neither have ever failed me unless the files themselves have errors, then that’s beyond their control

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      4·
      3 months ago

      Foobar2000 for me for audio! Handles hundreds of thousands of songs on a standard USB HDD over the network incredibly fast, plays every audio file, best tag editing features I’ve ever seen, full conversion from lossless to other formats, a hella minimal interface dark before they was a common thing, and a tiny footprint.

      Incredible piece of software. I love it so much.

        • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          1·
          3 months ago

          Same! Anyone have reccos for Linux players that are like Foobar2000? It FEELS like a piece of software that should be on Linux hahaha

          Edit: I’m reading it works great with Wine, but I’ve never used that before as I’m new to “as primary OS, non-CLI Linux” so I’ll try that later!

          • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            2·
            3 months ago

            Yeah I’ve heard that too, I’d just rather not have to deal with wine for something as basic as a media player. Especially when it’s supposed to be as simple and lightweight as foobar

  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
    11·
    3 months ago

    Many. The oldest and most popular ones are maybe

    vi
    bash
    putty
    Firefox
    Notepad++
    Irfanview
    Vlc
    OBS

      • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
        4·
        3 months ago

        IrfanView, haven’t heard that one mentioned for a long time.

        It is very fast, eats all formats including RAW, can delete without stupid questions, and I use the “batch rename” a lot.

        Have yet to find a replacement on Linux…

        • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip
          3·
          3 months ago

          Really? I always considered irfanview to be tolerable if I had to use windows but nothing special, and the licensing has issues.

            • ratsnake@lemmy.blahaj.zone
              2·
              3 months ago

              Personally, I don’t use IrfanView for editing because there are far better alternatives (Rawtherapee, Krita, Gimp if must be) but it is great for browsing photos because it is so fast and versatile.

              Scanning is pretty neat too.

  • fun_times@lemmy.world
    11·
    3 months ago

    InkScape.

    I don’t fully know why but vector graphics just work for me in a way that pixel graphics don’t. I love fiddling with vectors.

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      Vector is amazing for things that potentially need to be resized. I do a lot of scale drawings for work, and I never know if it’s going to be printed on something as small as letter size paper, or blown all the way up to something like a plotter blueprint size print. And working in vector means the gigantic plotter print isn’t blurry, because the drawing isn’t comprised of individual pixels that blur when you zoom them in or out.

      It also means I can get extremely fine detail on something that may normally only be tiny on a page. For instance, maybe I have a 50’x50’ room, and I have a small 4 inch object to place in it. On the regular letter paper size, that will basically just be a dot. But I can zoom waaaay in for a detailed image of that object if needed.