FOSS or otherwise
libreoffice, particularly calc. I keep all my finances and planning in spreadsheets I migrated from excel years ago.
OpenSSH
Or OpenBSD in general. I’ve used it on my desktop for about 25 years.
KDE. My brain is hard-wired for Windows, so KDE is intuitive and just gets out of the way.
Vi/Vim - had it on every computer I’ve owned or used since about 1991.
Just head down to the basement, find the circuit breakers for your building and flip them all to off for 10 seconds. That usually gets you out of Vi.
The best alternative is to take off and nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
Kate
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Microsoft Windows 😭😭😭
I thought so too, yet here I am on arch linux now.
I guess I could run it under wine or something if I really needed it.
There is notepadqq, if I remember correctly.
Nice find!
Maintained by a Hungarian too, coolio.
I feel like the text editors we get by default do all the things I ever wanted notepad++ for anyway.
There’s still something nice about np++ though, sure it might be unnecessary on Linux but it just feels familiar and reliable
Absolutely. Nothing wrong with np++ for sure. But it does feel like something someone had to make just to make up for the shortcomings of built-in options in Windows.
You can pry Vim from my cold dead hands.
Sure and place neovim there
What if I swap it out with helix like that statue in Indiana jones
You know, I’ve heard a lot of good things about Helix; if it gets more people using modal editors then I’m all for it. Personally though, I haven’t seen a convincing reason to leave Vim yet.
The biggest reason though is that my editor works literally everywhere. Even without my custom vimrc, vanilla vim is hugely powerful, and to have that on every random server I need to access is a gamechanger for me. Even if all you have is Vi, you still have a very capable editor available.
I mean uh… Crushed by a boulder! Which on Lemmy means you’ll be downvoted into oblivion until they run you off the instance haha.
I used to use neovim for a while, the main reason I migrated to helix was because it just has everything built in, no need to spend hours getting lsps working and everything
The motions are vastly better than vim though imo, the select as you go thing makes it feel a lot more natural
(For example, w moves you to the end of the word and selects it, then pressing it again deselects and selects the next word unless you’re in v mode)
Meaning to delete a word it’s w+d not d+w
Also very good multi cursor support, instead of typing out a long sed command I can select a block or all, and do S,(regex) and it spawns a cursor on every match which can do everything the normal one can
As for it being everywhere have you ever used sshfs? It’s always my go-to when editing projects on a remote server and then you can use whatever you want
I will!! Right after I look up the key command that does that.
:h pry
On windows it’s grepWin - it is an excellent utility implementation.
Leisure Suit Larry
Firefox. I hate how inflexible other browser are.
Have you tried out LibreWolf? By default its a bit hard to use since it doesnt save passwords or history or cookies or anything, but you can turn all that on. Its a fork of firefox meant to be more privacy focused. You can still use your firefox account and everything im pretty sure.
Use IceRaven for Firefox with full extension compatibility.
The fact, that you can install plugins on a mobile browser
head blown gifKiwi Browser is Android Chrome with desktop extension compatibility.
Firefox > Chrome
Honestly. I use it at home but atm too lazy to move everything again at work. :|
I’m referring to Android versions. No extensions allowed on Android Chrome, but Kiwi does. Android Firefox allows some small number of extensions, but IceRaven allows many more.
Speaking of which, user scripts. So useful at un-enshittifying the web. Or just personalizing it to scratch those little design itches that annoy you.
any good ones you can recommend?
Eg. I use this for facebook
https://github.com/zbluebugz/facebook-clean-my-feeds
Or eg. for BandCamp I wrote a script that hides the play progress bar so that I can actually focus on the music instead of how many seconds of music there are left.
oh nice – for the second one, you can also use UBO’s eyedropper tool to hide a component by CSS selector
Others browsers, plural?
I guess Lynx exists…
Android. As bad as it is, if I had to use iOS or Linux phones it would be even worse, at least with the current state of Linux phones.
But actually, maybe if Android didn’t exist, the FOSS community would focus more on Linux phones and they would be an actually good option. Maybe Android shouldn’t exist?
Maybe just a feature phone and tether it to a laptop?
For me it’s iOS, funnily enough. I use Windows for all of our video game machines and Linux for everything else, but I don’t use any Google products or services. After messing around on my computers all the time, I don’t want to even have to THINK about doing things to my phone to make it go. My current phone is six years old and the only reason I’m upgrading this year is to get a 120hz screen, USB-C, and for better low light pictures of cats. And a terabyte would be nice.
Google is a bad company, and Apple isn’t any better. Probably the best option for you would be GrapheneOS on one of the latest pixels, they have intuitive software, 120hz screens, have had USB-C for years, a good camera, lots of storage, and most importantly GrapheneOS doesn’t use Google or Apple, it’s FOSS.
My biggest concern with graphene is that I don’t really trust that my apps will work on it.
I haven’t looked into it for years, but I do need to use apps like Microsoftone drive, WeChat, banks, etc.
Even if they work I’m concerned that they will see I’m on some modified OS and block my account.
GrapheneOS is awesome, but like I said, no google products and I don’t want to fuck with my phone at all. Apple isn’t perfect, but it’s leagues better than stock Google with app permissions and overall privacy. My six year old phone is still fully supported for at least another year, and I enjoy the OS for the very few things I do on my phone. This is definitely the best option for me.
Python
Python is underappreciated
The kernel. I can take or leave most things, but I’m not going back to the days of writing directly into memory-mapped registers.
Someone always beats me to the funniest response!
Oh, don’t worry. The guy who answered
vmlinuzbeat me to the joke in general :)
But that’s my favorite part
Encryption.
