Gonna go with Firefox as both my most-used piece of open-source software, and the software I see as most important to its ecosystem. If Firefox fails then we’ve just got Chromium-based browsers and, I guess, Safari.
This a million times over!
I love and use Bitwarden daily.
I also love bitwarden daily ;)
I also love bitwarden daily ;)
Firefox and its derivatives. They’re the last free bastion preventing a Chromium monopoly on the browser market, which is hugely important - especially these days with Google’s push for Mv3.
Shout out to Firefox and Librewolf
Signal, Thunderbird and Bitwarden
I didn’t know thunderbird was open source!
Signal, Firefox and Eclipse.
Too bad Signal are dropping support for Windows 7 ;(
that’s cool that others also love open source. these three right here are 🔥
Blender by a huge mile. Yes, there’s tons of other software like Linux, of course, but Blender is such a powerful, well managed, economically viable and healthy (community) project that it should be shown as an example of how Open Source should be.
My biggest hurdle with other projects is the fanboys, because many times they’re quite toxic, insulting everybody who doesn’t adore the project and don’t accept constructive criticism.
Blender is the model open source project :P
Honestly, Blender was the first software that really “proved” open source software to me, and I’ve been an open source exclusive user to this day
uBlock Origin, it’s not even close!
the web would be miserable without it.
My vote was for Godot but this one is a very close second. I even have it installed on my mobile Firefox instance.
uBlock Origin - the chaddest AdBlock of them all!
LibreOffice is equal to any office software out there, and has been much more stable than OpenOffice, and works without an internet connection unlike Google Docs.
I recently read an article about how the “Open XML” M$ format was artificially made super cumbersome and complex so that it makes open source software support it almost impossible.
The article was written by one of the Libre office collaborator who was saying that they are intentionally introduced bugs so that we never see a better adoption of it in open source tools.
Everyone should use LibreOffice … unless you work in a very specific office or school environment that specifically requires it, go install Microsoft Office, and even then, get your school or business to pay for it
Otherwise, for day to day document writing, letter writing or anything you have to do for yourself at home … LibreOffice is more than enough.
About five or six years ago, I was buying a new laptop at Bestbuy and I found myself a great deal and specifically asked for a system that didn’t have an OS with it or any software … they got an old returned unit, wiped the drive and sold it to me for about $200 at the time. While I waited, I listened as a salesman sold a new laptop to a clueless mother buying a unit for her son in high school … they got her to buy a $600 laptop, all sots of extras and MS Office and topped her off at about $1000 for a shitty laptop that was no more powerful than what I was getting
Not by importance. Obviously that would be the Linux kernel, GCC and GNU coreutils, and the Firefox web browser, among some other foundational things (code to run my desktop GUI, for example).
So, I’ll say my favorite is PCSX2. Ever since they got rid of the ancient plugin architecture this emulator has been getting sooooooo much better, and it was already great! I would add other top tier emulators like Dolphin, DuckStation, SNES9X, SameBoy, and so on. I just love emulators :)
If i had to go with just one the linux
Not one per se, but I love when a piece of open source software absolutely destroys it’s competition. I’m not talking Firefox vs. Chrome or Unity vs. Godot debate (both are better, don’t @ me), I’m talking when it’s not even close, the open alternative is just industry standard.
VLC, Calibre, OBS and maybe Blender come to mind.
I’ve used Calibre for so long, it’s just a great piece of software
How about the fact that a large majority of the internet and cloud services run on Linux powered systems
My favorites based on usage:
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7Zip. It’s clean and has a lot of convenient features.
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Bitwarden. I have too many accounts these days. It’s a life saver and it’s on all my devices!
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Rufus Formatting tool. This rules. It’s great for just formatting or creating a bootable USB. Not to mention it’s portable so I can bring it with me to work.
Genuine question because I’ve used winrar forever. Why 7zip over winrar?
WinRAR is simply obsoleted by 7zip. Or does everything WinRAR does and more. In my case, I particularly use their context menu shortcut for checking sha256 file hash
You don’t have to pay for the license /s
They can all serve the same purpose. The advantages of 7zip are the following:
- It is totally free (as both in free beer and free speach)
- The 7z compression format is superior to rar because it can compress either more or faster (not both though)
- The rar format is proprietary. You are free to decompress but not to compress. In a business setting, you could theoretically get in trouble if you don’t have a license. In some countries, e.g. USA, even outside a business setting. But if you have been using winrar forever, I can’t see you changing your ways anytime soon! :)
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Newpipe, tor, keepass xc , syncthing and KDE connect
Right now it’s Proton. The work that has been done to makengaming possible on Linux is astounding!
Proxmox, opnsense, fdroid, and many more on r/selfhosted (now on lemmy also) .
sunshine, moonlight ( play my games anywhere in the world, games run on my pc at home)
Firefox (the best browser against google monopoly), thunderbird (best mail client)
LineageOS, microG, Mozilla Location services, Magisk, aurora store (let me use Android without any of google tracking)
Bitwarden, Proton mail/vpn, Nextcloud (finally no gmail tracking)
Jellyfin, kodi (lets me create my own Netflix)
GNU/Linux, GNOME, KDE and host of other Linux projects. No more windows tracking. Also if you want to really know how the OS works, you should start tinkering with Linux. I expanded my knowledge base by just using Linux as daily driver.
The list just goes on and on. I am so grateful for all the open source devs that put their time in developing these tools.
For those wanting to go further, checkout https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
LineageOS, microG, Mozilla Location services, Magisk, aurora store (let me use Android without any of google tracking)
Can you expand on this more? I’m getting more and more interested in cutting ties with Google altogether. I’ve been using bing for the last few years now. Not much better, but at least I get paid for the info they glean from my searches. I rooted my galaxy S4 way back and was happy to finally get rid of all the bloatware and I’d like to do that again with my current phone, but ridding myself of Google location services is also really appealing.
For degoogling i remove stock os that comes with my Android device. I buy phones which have good support for custom roms (like nothing, oneplus, pixel). You can find the custom roms on xda threads and telegram groups for your device.
After installing the custom rom i root it with magisk and flash minmicrog package which installs microG (oss version of play services) and with it comes mozilla Location services.
You can install minmicrog package on stock rom also.
