VLC is a big one for me.
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some new weird video format opens windows stock media player because it's not yet associated with vlc
"Hey.. it looks like your going to have to buy a codec..."
manually open in vlc where it runs seemlessly
Organic Maps
Damn near every tool I use on PC, really. Audacity, OBS, VLC, all the random bits of software I need to run my jank-ass FBT setup...
7zip
I haven't used windows in about 15 years on my personal machines but see 7zip referenced everywhere...why is it so popular? Can windows 10/11 or whatever we're on now not compress/extract most things itself or do people prefer it for some reason (nice interface etc)?
I'm always amazed when I'm following a tutorial written for windows and it says "download and install 7zip, then extract the file using 7zip". I just right click the file and extract it...
Windows only recently got support for 7z and RAR. For the several decades before that, it supported neither.
Recently? Feels like it's been more than a decade now...I could be wrong though
You are wrong. Until recently Windows did not natively support 7z or unrar.
Looks like just 2 years ago. My bad!
uBlock Origin leading the pack by at least a furlong.
Godot
I cant believe it has a better user experience than unity, an app that has a 412 USD/month paid plan
Wikipedia
Don’t forget to donate!
But then it's not free anymore /s
Voyager.
Can you provide a bit of info on it? What is it for and how does it stand out among the other apps or programs?
Lemmy mobile client
It’s the closest thing to Apollo or Narwhal for Reddit, but for Lemmy.
Big thing is that the dev is very active and responsive to feedback. Which is really useful given Lemmy is in its developmental phase for the most part.
Unlike Sync which while good is largely abandoned thses days.
Fuck apps. Real people use programs.
Fuck water, real people drink H2O
I dislike the implication that the most useful apps are not free.
I always feel more comfortable using FOSS software, even if it doesn't look as nice as the commercial option.
I dislike the implication that FOSS software doesn't look nice.
There are plenty of beautiful apps on f-droid.
Vinyl media player is very pretty.
Adding the following that i have not seen mentioned yet:
Docker - I literally run most of my server programs with docker now. Home Assistant, Jellyfin, and many others.
Tiny Media Manager that I use to scraper and organize my media library
Tiny Tiny RSS to combine my news sites into one aggregator. I actually saw this post on it since Lemmy has RSS feeds!
Openwrt I run as my home router.
I2P but it's still pretty clunky.
Nomachine I use as a remote desktop client.
RocketDock I still use on my windows desktop after windows removed the programs toolbar.
ImageJ/Fiji I use for image processing, it's from the NIH, with a bunch of Java plugins.
Gluetun I use to run my vpn client
Kodi for multimedia
fuck Docker.
For those who don't even know what it is, why?
Basically like a sort of mini-VM.
What it solves (for me) is dependency hell.
No need to install a quadrillion dependencies and solve if two different programs want the same package but maybe different versions.
Instead of fiddling with that, the image isolates the components.
This way I could run 5 different web servers on different ports.
Yes they complicate troubleshooting but the upsides are way more valuable to me.
For me it actually simplifies troubleshooting by a lot. No worries when messing around inside the container. Maintainers are looking at the same picture as you and can reproduce everything more easily.
Without docker I could never run all the services I am currently.