Debian and basically everything in its repos. Might be somewhat old, but it is really fucking stable
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My small selfhosted system appreciates this very much. Having Debian as my base OS makes everything easier.
Total agreement. So many unsung heroes involved in Debian. Work has agreed with me - today's job involved migrating those load balancers to Debian underneath.
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KCalc. Man, it just computes! It can add, subtract, and even multiply. It's never given a wrong answer.
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So many. So many little utilities that just work. To mention a couple I think no one will mention because they are not sexy: Okular and Ark
Big fan of the KDE suite of software. I've tried alternatives, but always come back to plasma and associated software
Okular works so well at this point that I use it to annotate all my PDFs if I don't explicitly need free-hand drawing (and xournalpp otherwise).
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Syncthing. Absolutely ace bit of software. I remember it being a little questionable in 2013, but today it performs exactly the same task, just more reliably. Love it.
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nano 😎
Systemd
*grabs popcorn*
Just it always makes you wait for ~3 min and shows: ... wait for something to be Configured (25s / no limit). :-)
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nano
The Linux Kernel.
Vlc.
Anything from Debian. I even run Debian-Testing, and it's rock solid. Also, Linux mint, on my other partition.
bash. Konsole. vim (-neo or otherwise up to the point it became AI infested). ssh. steam. git i could go on for quite a while
xterm, xv, mc, tmux, gimp, seamonkey
Many have already mentioned tools that I also use and appreciate immensely.
My pick is Steam. I've picked up on gaming in the past 2 years and it's very stable right now. Every game that I have interest in just works, I can install games, including early access or demos without looking at the compatibility or the release date. The download speeds of games are high (imho at least where I'm located, and compared with a PS5). My partner is a heavy gamer and has to yet find a game that doesn't work on her machine.
Firefox + uBlock Origin + sponsorblock. Set it and forget it.
I haven't seen an advertisement or a sponsored segment on my desktop in over a decade, and same with my phone for several years. I'm astonished how willing most people are to put up with a constant barrage of ads coming from devices they own
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Nano
I tried neovim for a while and I went back to vim for that reason: setup once, then forget about it.
I have plugins that haven't been touch for 5 years+ and they are working as intended.
Rock solid.
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Nano
The OS itself, Debian. If I have to pick a component, Mate Panel. Compared to the Windows 11 start menu, it's useful, customizableand has no ads. My IT department at work can't even figure out how to remove the Windows 11 start menu ads from my computer.
tree, locate, nvim, flatpak, htop, bmon, etc.
I'll give a shoutout to the rEFInd boot manager. If anyone has ever had trouble with Grub, rEFInd continues to work for years across multiple machines. I have never had a problem with it.
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Cron
Nginx.
It runs everything at home and at work.
Debian!
mpv
- Linux Mint.
- Cinnamon.
- Xfce.
- PPSSPP.
- GNOME Boxes.
As phil Collins would say... Su su su sudo
zsh
Prosody for me. I set it up over 2 years ago, and the only time I touched it was when updating to the latest Debian stable and enabling some new features in the config files. It's been rock-solid and just worked without complaint.
Sabnzbd
All of it. Even Firefox.
mpv, openbox
Arch
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