Can I say Jellyfin? I think so, since it was emby before it was Jellyfin.
Kodi/XBMC - a little over 20 years ago I jailbroke my old X-Box gen 1 and after about a week I installed XBMC (X-Box Media Center), which was about 2 years old. I just was looking for a way to save space because I could fit a whole season of a show as AVIs on a single burned DVD and XBMC could be used to play it. 20 years and a name change later it’s still my TV front end. I’ve moved from a jailbroke X-Box to a Linux based media center PC but I still automatically boot to Kodi which plays anything I throw at it, keeps track of all the shows and movies I’ve watched, is front end for playing retro games and spawns Steam if I needed all off MCE remote and a Xbox controller to game with.
- vlc
- vim
- tmux
- neomutt
- FreeBSD / Linux
- IntelliJ IDEA
- Firefox
- KDE’s Dolphin
- SwayWM
- pass
Easy - VLC
Over 20 years, easy. I started my PC life as a Mac user, switched to Windows for gaming, then switched to Linux for freedom. VLC has followed me the whole way and been a must-install since the first time I used it.
mpv is superior imo, especially on Linux.
VLC for me too. What a great program it is, never a single problem.
vim mutt tmux curl bash ksh WindowMaker Firefox OpenBSD Debian Krita Inkscape ffmpeg VLC git
mutt
You’re a braver person than I.
aerc is a very nice, a little less fiddly modern alternative for me nowadays
Yeah, that’s what I use, too, after years on Alpine.
jasc paintshop pro 7.0
xnview
vim
fvwm
seamonkey
midnight commander
Upvote for xnview, have you tried the MP version, or whatever it is. I think I run that now, but I have both installed still.
I actually just removed an old portable version that was just living rent free in my portable apps folder for years.
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.
Is it user friendly?
Isn’t vi designed to be navigate with a keyboard that looked like this? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/KB_Terminal_ADM3A.svg
Arrow keys were on HJKL.
vi is bloat. What’s wrong with using cat and echo?
vi is bloat. Back in my day we used ed. And we were happy with it.
You’re thinking like a developer. “I can just add or remove this or that.” I have to think like an IT guy. I’m working on dozens or hundreds of machines that are not mine and that I can’t change. So I need to get comfy with the tools that are most likely to be there by default.
It’s a joke. I’m also an IT guy, so I’m comfortable with vi.
Although I use nano at home so I don’t have to think.Ah ok. whoosh I guess. I’m used to hearing “just write the drivers yourself” and the like.
I just use nano, but I’m not a developer or anything
Cat and echo are bloat. What’s wrong with programming the microchips each time you want to change a byte?
Linux, Firefox, Thunderbird, vi/vim, VLC, Mutt (only occasionally), Irssi
WinRAR. And I paid for it.
the only reason to use winrar as far as im aware is ignorance
why are you using it
let him enjoy his WinRAR. after all, he is the one who paid for it.
XNview. This was a screen capture & basic editing tool I started using in like the Windows95 era. Yes, the latest couple of version of Windows also do this, but I’ve got the hotkeys memorized at this point.
I reckon I should point out that I’m transitioning to Linux, so I rarely use it anymore. But we had a helluva run together.
Only ten years?
KDE, better then ever.
Linux.
Definitely MediaMonkey, though I’ve had it for 16 years instead of 10 after paying $40 for a lifetime license. The license format changed once and I’ve misplaced my key a couple of times, but their support has always been great at getting me back on track.
7zip, notepad++, ScreenShotAssistant, git
There’s a “modern” fork of 7zip that works better on Windows 11 and it’s called NanaZip.
Blender.
10 years ago it was scarcely believable that a FOSS package for such a niche purpose could be so fucking good. And it got better in the meantime. If Blender had existed when I was a kid I would have probably spent every waking hour creating stuff with it. As an adult, I get limited time to do that, but I appreciate that it exists.
+1 for Blender, as an animation professional I can say it changed the landscape
