Easy - VLC
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.
VLC for me too. What a great program it is, never a single problem.
VLC maybe 20 years. How long has it even been around?
GIMP 10+ years for sure.
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.
I’m loving their commitment to Proton, making gaming on Linux better than ever.
making gaming on Linux better than ever
Latest reports have linux up to 5%, almost double from 6 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.
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
If I had a gripe to share it’d be (the gambling) and Community features feeling stuck in 2008.
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.
Is it user friendly?
Isn’t vi designed to be navigate with a keyboard that looked like this? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/KB_Terminal_ADM3A.svg
Arrow keys were on HJKL.
vi is bloat. What’s wrong with using cat and echo?
vi is bloat. Back in my day we used ed. And we were happy with it.
Cat and echo are bloat? What’s wrong with programming the microchips each time you want to change a byte?
You’re thinking like a developer. “I can just add or remove this or that.” I have to think like an IT guy. I’m working on dozens or hundreds of machines that are not mine and that I can’t change. So I need to get comfy with the tools that are most likely to be there by default.
It’s a joke. I’m also an IT guy, so I’m comfortable with vi.
Although I use nano at home so I don’t have to think.
I just use nano, but I’m not a developer or anything
Is it stupid to say Linux
No it isn’t.
arch btw
Got 'em (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
VLC
7-Zip
Steam
FireFox
Everything else deteriorates beyond recognition over time.
VLC…
Legen (wait for it)… dary.
I like Paint.NET. It’s easy to use for simple image edits.
- vlc
- vim
- tmux
- neomutt
- FreeBSD / Linux
- IntelliJ IDEA
- Firefox
- KDE’s Dolphin
- SwayWM
- pass
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?
WinAMP
Factorio
Age of Empires 1 is old enough, but does one “use” it?
It’s got a unique co-op feature where you actally control the same people and can divide tasks (not like other RTS where you can play in a team but still need to do everything yourself, with any resource sharing being a manual (or even taxed) action in a menu somewhere), so my gf and I are sticking with this game. I think it’s the only game we’ve been playing consistently for our 10 years together. Crap, did I say playing? I meant using! It’s a relationship tool. Try it today! xD
Only ten years?
KDE, better then ever.
- 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
Gimp. You’re a much better person than me. I always found the gimp learning curve way too steep for me
check out photogimp
Thanks, again i couldnt quick click with gimp, this looks nice. Have you tried any indesign alternatives?
Skyrim, firefox, blender, libre office, heroes of might and magic 3
VLC for video MediaMonkey for audio
Neither have ever failed me unless the files themselves have errors, then that’s beyond their control
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.
I wish it was on Linux
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!
