• early_riser@lemmy.world
    19·
    19 days 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.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    191·
    20 days 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
    • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      5·
      20 days 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·
        20 days 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
            3·
            20 days 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
        1·
        19 days 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·
          19 days 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.

  • zxqwas@lemmy.world
    15·
    20 days 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.

  • fun_times@lemmy.world
    15·
    19 days 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
      3·
      18 days 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.

  • Fit_Series_573@lemmy.world
    11·
    19 days 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
      3·
      19 days 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
          2·
          19 days 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·
            18 days 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

  • Mothra@mander.xyz
    8·
    20 days ago

    Well I haven’t been using Newpipe for ten years… Maybe Skyrim…no, I haven’t played that in years… Well it seems my list is gonna be short:

    VLC
    GIMP
    7zip

  • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world
    7·
    19 days ago

    Darkstone (1999) - Good game for a Diablo clone.

    Debian-flavored Linux - My only complaints are hardware compatibility-related, and that is primarily because Nvidia and Intel both suck Microsoft’s floppy disk.

    Krita, Gimp, Blender - Never needed another art program. Adobe can eat my paintbrush.

    LibreOffice - I would literally have this over MSOffice any and every day of the week.

    VLC - It just frickin’ works. And it’s good at its job. It plays anything!