Easy - VLC
VLC for me too. What a great program it is, never a single problem.
- vlc
- vim
- tmux
- neomutt
- FreeBSD / Linux
- IntelliJ IDEA
- Firefox
- KDE’s Dolphin
- SwayWM
- pass
- 7zip
- Firefox
- LibreOffice
- Various Linux distros, but mostly Ubuntu variants and Raspbian
- Cura
- OpenVPN
- Blender
- Gimp
- Windows - sorry everyone, it just works, but I stopped at 10.
- VLC
- Virtual Clone Drive
Gimp. You’re a much better person than me. I always found the gimp learning curve way too steep for me
check out photogimp
It‘s like photoshop pre-subscription. Just the menus and keyboard shortcuts are a little different. It‘s all I‘ve used for years now, I wouldn‘t know what to do with any other program.
VLC
7-Zip
Steam
FireFox
Everything else deteriorates beyond recognition over time.
VLC…
Legen (wait for it)… dary.
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.
InkScape.
I don’t fully know why but vector graphics just work for me in a way that pixel graphics don’t. I love fiddling with vectors.
Absolutely. Nothing scales better 😃
For some 20 years VLC has been installed on my computers though streaming has made it less used than before.
Steam: not been enshittified yet. Also one of the great forces behind Linux gaming being more mainstream.
Does the Linux kernel count? It’s been 12 years since I tilted at a faulty network driver on windows 7 and just uninstalled it and did not look back. There has been many different distributions since (now I use arch btw) but the kernel is the same.
VLC for video MediaMonkey for audio
Neither have ever failed me unless the files themselves have errors, then that’s beyond their control
VLC
VLC used to be the bomb, but lack of recent development forced me to switch to MPC
Age of Empires 2, my true love xoxoxo
Linux, vim, zfs
Darkstone (1999) - Good game for a Diablo clone.
Debian-flavored Linux - My only complaints are hardware compatibility-related, and that is primarily because Nvidia and Intel both suck Microsoft’s floppy disk.
Krita, Gimp, Blender - Never needed another art program. Adobe can eat my paintbrush.
LibreOffice - I would literally have this over MSOffice any and every day of the week.
VLC - It just frickin’ works. And it’s good at its job. It plays anything!
SSH.
vim mutt tmux curl bash ksh WindowMaker Firefox OpenBSD Debian Krita Inkscape ffmpeg VLC git
SSH in first place. No explanation needed.
But also MATE and Pulseaudio (yes). I really like paprefs, pasystray, and how easy it is to send audio over the network. To the point where I reinstall Pulseaudio instead of Pipewire, because Pipewire requires long command lines for what was easily done in a few clicks with Pulseaudio.
I dread the day where I will be forced to “progress” to Pipewire and lose that easy feature.
