• dishpanman@lemmy.caEnglish
    40·
    7 days ago

    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

  • ultimate@lemm.eeEnglish
    22·
    7 days ago

    Windows

    1. MPV - Video Player
    2. DaVinci Resolve - Best Free Video Editor
    3. Audacity - Audio Recorder
    4. TeraCopy - File Copy Tool
    5. Rufus, BalenaEtcher, Ventoy - Bootable USB Creator
    6. Wireguard, OpenVPN - VPN Client
    7. ShutterEncoder - Media Converter
    8. Revo Uninstaller - App Uninstaller
    9. Throttlestop - CPU Tweaker
    10. Peace, EqualizerAPO - Audio Equalizer
    11. Voicemeter - Virtual Audio Mixer
    12. Qbittorrent - Torrent Client
    13. Raindrop - Bookmark Manager

    Android

    1. Aegis - Authenticator
    2. Wireguard - VPN Client
    3. NextDNS Manager - DNS Manager
    4. MPV - Video Player
    5. NewPipe, GrayJay, LibreTube - YouTube Client
    6. FUTU Voice Input
    7. FUTO Keyboard
    8. Aves Gallery
    9. Delta Icon Pack
    10. K9 Mail - Mail Client
    11. QKSMS+ - SMS App
    12. Perplexity Ai - GPT
    13. Wavelet - Audio Equalizer
    14. SafeSpace - Encrypted Vault
    15. AppOps - App Permission Manager
    16. Shizuku - Required by AppOps
  • astrsk@fedia.io
    74·
    7 days ago

    Off the top of my head from daily use;

    • Borg backup, powerful backup software for self-hosted oriented users or enterprise automation.
    • proxmox, hypervisor that is performant and easy to setup for simple and complex virtualization needs.
    • bitwarden (combined with vaultwarden self-host), password management, secrets management, and available on basically all platforms and browsers. Self hosting your vault gives you peace of mind over who has your most sensitive data.
    • obsidian, a great notes app with polished cross platform applications that don’t do any funky proprietary storage shenanigans. Files are files and folders are folders.
    • kate (and most of the KDE suite), premiere Linux desktop environment suitable for customization and all the expected luxuries user would expect from windows or macOS. Kate specifically is a noticeable modern upgrade over notepad++ and rivals VSCode for programmers.
    • littletoolshed@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 days ago

      Could you expand on what you mean by ‘complex virtualization needs’ - I read this phrase sometimes but would appreciate an expert’s perspective 🙏

      • astrsk@fedia.io
        8·
        7 days ago

        My only point was to explain that proxmox is great free software because it supports both simple virtualization needs, such as having several different VMs or containers running on one headless system with very little overhead, and complex multi-system setups that include multiple machines running proxmox and clustered together for both reliability and redundancy with distributed services and applications.

  • RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.world
    14·
    7 days ago

    KiCad. It’s an electronics design tool on par with commercial options in the industry, which cost a ton of money. Ever since the UI facelift it got a few years ago, it has become my go-to option. They are even working on integrating circuit simulation and finite element analysis, which is just crazy.

    • PunnyName@lemmy.world
      121·
      7 days ago

      Audacity is terrible.

      REAPER is evaluationware akin to WinZip, and much more robust than Audacity. The trial and full version are the same. You can buy apropos licenses whenever you feel the desire.

      • _NetNomad@fedia.io
        10·
        7 days ago

        it’s worth bearing in mind that comparing audacity and reaper is like comparing notepad++ to libreoffice- in many cases libreoffice is a much more robust program but in others all the extra bells and whistles are bloat. you wouldn’t want to program in libreoffice!

        that said audacity has some wildly bizzare design, and any forks are either even worse with this or incredibly unstable, so audacity being terrible isn’t wrong sadly

        • mirisgaiss@lemmy.world
          3·
          7 days ago

          I will never understand how it’s the thing so many people suggest to edit audio. the UI is so obtuse and unlike every other piece of software that does the same things.

        • Übercomplicated@lemmy.ml
          2·
          7 days ago

          I almost disagree with this.

          IMO Reaper is fantastic and simply a better drop-in replacement for audacity. Audacity—despite the wonderful name, second only to Alacritty (maybe the greatest program name ever)—is wildly difficult to use, buggy as all hell, and insanely inefficient. Reaper, on the other hand, works for simple things and for complex synthesizer and wacky editing stuff perfectly. I still remember how surprised and bemused I was that the Electro-Akustik department in the Akademie der Künste in Berlin uses basically-free Reaper for their recording needs.

          The only argument for audacity is the slightly faster start-up time, and the absence of a “buy-me” pop-up (if you haven’t purchased one of the very affordable licenses). Seriously though, since I discovered Reaper I’ve basically used it for everything not related to work et al. Fantastic software.

      • Christov@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        7 days ago

        +1 for reaper. Its free to “demo” forever with no limitations and is much closer to a traditional DAW than audacity. So many plugins and scripts to customise too, such a great tool I can never recommend it enough to anyone wanting to do anything from simple audio edits/conversions to full fat tracking and mixing sessions.

  • postnataldrip@lemmy.world
    25·
    7 days ago

    There are some excellent apps already listed that I won’t repeat, but I’ll add FFmpeg. Not sure it’s quite what you’re after, but it’s incredible.

  • Amax@lemmy.ca
    571·
    7 days ago

    Can’t believe no one has mentioned Home Assistant. Automation engine for home and have local control over almost everything “smart” at home.

  • fondue@lemmy.world
    2·
    7 days ago

    CalTopo - free, with paid option worth every penny. Exceptionally good (intuitive, simple, utilitarian) wilderness mapping platform.

    • M137@lemmy.world
      83·
      7 days ago

      I agree that it’s cool and all, but I just really don’t like VLC. It’s ugly, bad UX and misses some major features. I love other similar and also free ones thoigh, like PotPlayer, MPC and MPV.

    • d00phy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      7 days ago

      VLC is pretty great. I would say IINA is at least a close second on Mac. Haven’t had a problem playing anything in it yet.

      • million@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        7 days ago

        Yeah I personally prefer IINA on the Mac because of how native the interface is. Neither VLC or IINA has had trouble paying any video files I have.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          3·
          7 days ago

          It even runs on iOS. It’s one of the only ways to play videos that aren’t in Apple’s bullshit proprietary format.

    • cm0002@lemmy.world
      27·
      7 days ago

      +1 VLC will dutifully try to play even corrupted to hell files that any other media player would just fail with some form of “can’t play, file is corrupt”

    • frunch@lemmy.world
      6·
      7 days ago

      VLC just managed to get some newer video files to play for me on a 10 year old tablet that wouldn’t play them with it’s included video player. It was also one of the only apps on the play store that would still work on that old tablet as well. It’s been my go-to video player for years now, terrific software 🥂

    • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
      1032·
      7 days ago

      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

        • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
          25·
          7 days ago

          A variation happened to me last week that’s why it came to mind. Was opening an mp4 recorded on a digital camera on a new laptop. So the stock player had a go and gave a message similar to the above. vlc was installed moments later and of course had no issue…

        • pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io
          3·
          6 days ago

          Yep. You need to pay for the patent with certain codecs, that’s why operating systems with a company behind them usually do not distribute them. Same with a few Linux distros, such as Fedora.

          You can install them and the packages for your os are freely available. Just not from the company making the product in the fear of patent trolls.

        • LongLive@lemmy.world
          26·
          5 days ago

          Literally never heard of the end user being billed for the codecs.

          [Edit]: I think I should rephrase. Could I please be informed about how are codecs priced?

    • daw@feddit.org
      1·
      7 days ago

      I second QGIS sooo much. I would even count it as an app because its shipped integrated (same as blender).

      Its ridiculous how many people use QGIS and what amount of responsibility they carry. Its like actually the pro option in the gis space as its much more flexible than the proprietary counterparts.