Discover Hidden Gems: Open-Source Software You Should Know About
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We all love open-source software, but there are so many amazing projects out there that often go unnoticed. Let's change that! Share your favorite open-source software that you think more people should know about. Here’s how you can contribute:
- Single Option Per Comment: Mention one open-source software per comment to be able to easily find the most popular software.
- No Duplicates: Avoid duplicating software that has already been mentioned to ensure a wide variety of options.
- Upvote What You Love: If you see a software that you also appreciate, upvote it to help others discover it more easily.
Check out last year's post for more inspiration: Last Year's Post
Let's create a comprehensive list of open-source software that everyone should know about!
SMplayer, one of the best multimedia player, fast, capable to stream YouTube and almost everything, all codecs.
Windows (all), Linux, Mac
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Curious as to why is that. Can you please elaborate?
Sure thing, the reasons that are most important for me personally are better multi-attach, easier splitting and resize, better plugin ecosystem and it being more modern and actively maintained in general.
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We all love open-source software, but there are so many amazing projects out there that often go unnoticed. Let's change that! Share your favorite open-source software that you think more people should know about. Here’s how you can contribute:
- Single Option Per Comment: Mention one open-source software per comment to be able to easily find the most popular software.
- No Duplicates: Avoid duplicating software that has already been mentioned to ensure a wide variety of options.
- Upvote What You Love: If you see a software that you also appreciate, upvote it to help others discover it more easily.
Check out last year's post for more inspiration: Last Year's Post
Let's create a comprehensive list of open-source software that everyone should know about!
Immich is a photo/video hosting solution à la Google photos
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Restic, a reliable backup solution.
How does it compare to Duplicati?
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We all love open-source software, but there are so many amazing projects out there that often go unnoticed. Let's change that! Share your favorite open-source software that you think more people should know about. Here’s how you can contribute:
- Single Option Per Comment: Mention one open-source software per comment to be able to easily find the most popular software.
- No Duplicates: Avoid duplicating software that has already been mentioned to ensure a wide variety of options.
- Upvote What You Love: If you see a software that you also appreciate, upvote it to help others discover it more easily.
Check out last year's post for more inspiration: Last Year's Post
Let's create a comprehensive list of open-source software that everyone should know about!
Portmaster, nowadays mandatory, monitor the traffic of all installed apps and even from the OS itself, blocking with a simple click all unwanted traffic, Inbuild DNS crypt with dynamic filterlists (customizable) blocking ads, trackers and unwanted crap from big companies. Optional SPN service (paid). Windows and Linux.
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On that note also:
- Alacritty: a minimalist Wayland GPU-accelerated terminal. Claims to be the fast currently available terminal. Also the coolest name ever. This is what I personally use, in combination with tmux.
- Kitty: a more feature rich alternative, also Wayland, GPU-accelerated, and on par with alacritty for speed. Actually starts up a little faster but uses up more resources and sacrifices in other performance metrics (in my experience).
- Foot: another minimalist Wayland alternative, but this time CPU driven. Despite this, the performance is still on par with the others. I think this is especially good for laptops and such that run on integrated graphics.
As long as there is a list, probably worth mentioning, the new Zig term on the block, ghostty.
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candle, an android app that turns your display into a flashlight-like utility. very useful on tablets without an actual flashlight. I have a shortcut to it on my lock screen on my phone, and I use a red background to see when my wife is sleeping.
brilliant!
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Warzone 2100 https://wz2100.net/
The first commercial video game to be released in the GPL
Are you sure? Doom was GPL'ed in 1999.
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Pandoc: A universal document converter allowing conversion among numerous markup formats including Markdown, LaTeX, HTML, and Word.
I couldnt figure it out, probably because I am a CL noob.
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I could not believe I didn't find this fun free gem sooner. I'll let the description from F-Droid explain the details:
This is a roguelike twist on the original Breakout formula:
The goal is to catch as many coins as possible during 7 levels.
Coins appear when you break bricks.
They fly around, bounce and roll, and you need to catch them with your paddle.
At the end of the level, you get to pick upgrades.
There are 50+ different upgrades that impact the gameplay in various ways.
Many upgrades will impact your combo, that's the number of coins spawned for each brick broken.
Your "combo" is displayed on your paddle. Your score is displayed in the top right corner of the screen.
Oh, and don't miss the ball, you don't have extra lives.So addicting, lost several hours to it and i dont even like mobilegames...
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LibRedirect is an open-source browser extension for Firefox and Microsoft Edge that automatically redirects popular online services like YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, and others to privacy-friendly alternative websites, enhancing user privacy by avoiding trackers and data collection on the original platforms.
I have it setup for IMDB as well.
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I couldnt figure it out, probably because I am a CL noob.
Do you use a gui for it?I asked perplexity and just copy pasted the command in the terminal and it worked.
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I couldnt figure it out, probably because I am a CL noob.
Do you use a gui for it?the official way is with no gui,
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LocalSend should be called God Send because it'll save your life. It's AirDrop, but for everything and open source. Works really well, no setup, no server.
LocalSend link
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This might read as a stupid question but ; Do you have to use KDE Plasma as a DE for it to work ?
It even works on windows
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My only complaint with KeePass is that if any corruption occurs, your passwords are borked. I use KeePass for non-critical accounts, like Lemmy, etc. I don't trust myself or the sync enough for storing my bank or other identity passwords.
I have used KeePass for many, many years and have never run into this. Besides, I usually have a copy of the database on some other device so I'm not too worried
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I always read it as "Forge-Go," for some reason...
How are you supposed to pronounce it?
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We all love open-source software, but there are so many amazing projects out there that often go unnoticed. Let's change that! Share your favorite open-source software that you think more people should know about. Here’s how you can contribute:
- Single Option Per Comment: Mention one open-source software per comment to be able to easily find the most popular software.
- No Duplicates: Avoid duplicating software that has already been mentioned to ensure a wide variety of options.
- Upvote What You Love: If you see a software that you also appreciate, upvote it to help others discover it more easily.
Check out last year's post for more inspiration: Last Year's Post
Let's create a comprehensive list of open-source software that everyone should know about!
Hexchat, irc client
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LocalSend should be called God Send because it'll save your life. It's AirDrop, but for everything and open source. Works really well, no setup, no server.
Been using it for a long time, it's great!
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We all love open-source software, but there are so many amazing projects out there that often go unnoticed. Let's change that! Share your favorite open-source software that you think more people should know about. Here’s how you can contribute:
- Single Option Per Comment: Mention one open-source software per comment to be able to easily find the most popular software.
- No Duplicates: Avoid duplicating software that has already been mentioned to ensure a wide variety of options.
- Upvote What You Love: If you see a software that you also appreciate, upvote it to help others discover it more easily.
Check out last year's post for more inspiration: Last Year's Post
Let's create a comprehensive list of open-source software that everyone should know about!
Guake, drop down terminal.
