The sort of program that once set up, just ticks along without fuss or bother forever.
For me, as I’m replacing the vms today which I set up five years ago and haven’t needed to touch since;
- HAProxy
- KeepaliveD
Not easy to learn, but once they’re running, they both go on forever.
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Sabnzbd
Nano
Backup scripts using borg
All of it. Even Firefox.
Linux
It ‘was’ uCollage, but whiny, obnoxious, ungrateful LiGNUts ruined it like many other unpaid softwares by driving a critical developer (Ueberzug) to quit or sellout.
Many LiGNUts probably work for Microsoft, because Microsoft gains when they cause issues, and mislead and lie to people.
Arch
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.
nvim is great and convenient in many ways, and a vast improvement over vim, and yet vim is so amazing on its own that I can’t even be arsed to add an extra letter to the command like 70% of the time.
I bounced off neovim because I am always on fresh boxes with minimal access to the internet. Helix is everything included and I can install with a single file.
tree, locate, nvim, flatpak, htop, bmon, etc.
The program sl, works every time
tmux, weechat, helix
VLC
Caddy
Caddy is superb
grep
Bottles.
Without it, I wouldn’t be able to run addictive keys on Linux. I paid for the software back when I used Windows and since I’m able to use addictive keys on Linux, haven’t bothered trying to find an alternative.
That said, its the only use case I’ve had with bottles that just works. Other programs ive tried are more hit or miss.
Debian and basically everything in its repos. Might be somewhat old, but it is really fucking stable
It’s a blessing and a curse how stable it is. I think less bleeding edge is better but when shit like audio and GPU are fucked they’re pretty much always fucked until dist-upgrade time.
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.
