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Ill throw in some obscure ones I use daily.

• StemRoller. It's an AI-powered toolthat takes an mp3 and separates each instrument into its own file. Im a musician, and having access to stems like this is a game changer.

• Carla is a tool for hosting VST plugins without the need for a full DAW. I primarily use Amp Simulators, and this has become a mandatory tool on any computer I use. It's also maintained by the creator of KXStudio.

uBlock Origin, it's not even close!

Blender by a huge mile. Yes, there’s tons of other software like Linux, of course, but Blender is such a powerful, well managed, economically viable and healthy (community) project that it should be shown as an example of how Open Source should be.

My biggest hurdle with other projects is the fanboys, because many times they’re quite toxic, insulting everybody who doesn’t adore the project and don’t accept constructive criticism.

Firefox and Bitwarden

If i had to go with just one the linux

GNU+Linux

Not by importance. Obviously that would be the Linux kernel, GCC and GNU coreutils, and the Firefox web browser, among some other foundational things (code to run my desktop GUI, for example).

So, I'll say my favorite is PCSX2. Ever since they got rid of the ancient plugin architecture this emulator has been getting sooooooo much better, and it was already great! I would add other top tier emulators like Dolphin, DuckStation, SNES9X, SameBoy, and so on. I just love emulators :)

I use a lot of Open Source software at home but Home Assistant is by far the most used, although mostly it's doing its automations in the background without me having to think about it.

7zip is such an easy pick, its almost the default option lol

LibreOffice is equal to any office software out there, and has been much more stable than OpenOffice, and works without an internet connection unlike Google Docs.

Going by what I use the most: Firefox, git, less, tailscale, midnight commander

Linux.

I'd go with either Firefox or Thunderbird. Both are immensely useful pieces of software that I use on a daily basis, and have evolved (mostly) nicely over time.

Not to give Mozilla too much credit, Nextcloud is also pretty slick!

uBlock Origin - the chaddest AdBlock of them all!

vim, neovim and a bunch of plugins. It's such a great productivity booster, I am using it daily for SW development.

I think I'll go with GIMP: it's such a well made tool and for 99% of use cases is a valid alternative to professional photo editing suites

Home Assistant, a powerful home automation platform.

Right now it's Proton. The work that has been done to makengaming possible on Linux is astounding!

Proxmox, opnsense, fdroid, and many more on r/selfhosted (now on lemmy also) .

sunshine, moonlight ( play my games anywhere in the world, games run on my pc at home)

Firefox (the best browser against google monopoly), thunderbird (best mail client)

LineageOS, microG, Mozilla Location services, Magisk, aurora store (let me use Android without any of google tracking)

Bitwarden, Proton mail/vpn, Nextcloud (finally no gmail tracking)

Jellyfin, kodi (lets me create my own Netflix)

GNU/Linux, GNOME, KDE and host of other Linux projects. No more windows tracking. Also if you want to really know how the OS works, you should start tinkering with Linux. I expanded my knowledge base by just using Linux as daily driver.

The list just goes on and on. I am so grateful for all the open source devs that put their time in developing these tools.

For those wanting to go further, checkout https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

firefox and lemmy I guess

SQLite. Probably the most widely used open-source library in the world. Pretty much every computer, phone, tablet, and a lot of embedded systems, all use it.

Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, Readarr, and Prowlarr.

Os: Linux mint, Solus, endeavour Programs: librewolf, freetube

I don't have "one" favourite but these are up there

I'm convinced anyone who doesn't say emacs is simply just more productive than me

OpenSSH from OpenBSD, by a wide margin.

I like a bunch of OSS projects but Firefox is way up there above the rest.

Linux, Firefox, Bitwarden, Android

Vaultwarden

In terms of overall usage, gotta go GIMP.

NVDA. Without it I literally couldn't use my computer every day, or do my job.

So many to choose from...Linux, Syncthing, Vim, Firefox and Thunderbird/K-9 Mail, Keepass and derivatives, GrapheneOS, Inkscape, VLC/mpv, yt-dlp...there are just too many daily drivers to name them all.

Bitwarden & Jellyfin

Ditto ffmpeg gstreamer obs Firefox & addons Thunderbird greenshot everythingtoolbar 7zip Lemmy jerboa and so many more OpenWRT simply a must, eartrumpet gajim conversations

oh and grapheneos!!!

For games:

• Anuto TD (found a few days ago, isn't super feature rich but still fun to kill time)

• Mindustry (never played a game like it before, ended up supporting by buying it on Steam)

• Supertuxkart (I love how many custom add-on karts and tracks I have)

For non-games:

• Termux (allows me to get apk files and install Revancify for add free yt)

• VLC (I don't mind slow updates and have yet to switch mostly because I can't find anything better that isn't more complicated than it needs to be and/or is closed source)

• KDE Connect (I have almost always had problems with moving files from and to my desktop via cord)

I'd include something like Linux, but I personally feel that's kinda cheating because of how large it is compared to the others.

What an extremely hard question to answer, but I would probably go with Firefox.

mpv.io !
I discovered it before covid, and it is really lightweight and customizable. So many plug-ins, and they're so simple to create.
I was usually having issues with VLC or settings that he didn't have. No issues with mpv, so far.

linux

in terms of time I spend in it:

• linux
• firefox
• vi