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Vim because its everywhere and is super powerful. It can even be used for some light scripting. GCC to make my own programs. Python as well, same thing and also portable. All the programs that come with mint and become part of the background like the terminal emulator. All of it, pretty awesome. Jellyfin has been a mainstay as well.
my desire to use Linux and continue learning
vim, awesomewm, mbsync (isync),
As for recent discoveries: dwl — I was surprised on how robust it is, and how well it works.
mpv, openbox
mc and vim
sl
Actually ssh and nmap
Dino, my favourite chat client, it just works.
Guix
Probably something that is so basic or integrated into the distros I use that I forget about it because every time I use it, it just works.
Debian, uptime right now on my server is 59 days and that's just because that was when we had a power outage longer than the UPS could keep up with
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I set up a couple of pi-zeros to monitor our heating and other stuff, it runs lightpd and have been running for several years uninterrupted.
They are only accessible on the local network, so I don't even bother to run updates :-)
Depends what "fuss or bother forever" means. Background tools run without interaction, and therefore aren't bothering. But any application with interaction is basically "fussing". The simpler the programs and its scope, less chance of problems are expected. Also updating with an Arch system BTW can cause an issue, that is not even related directly to the program itself. Oh and I'm known to make simple questions complicated...
As a daily user of Firefox and Thunderbird, they just works. I also use the KDE standard terminal "Konsole" and don't remember having a problem. I do screenshots (maybe not everyday, but often) here and there using KDEs "Spectacle". It works as expected. The simple terminal tool fastfetch to display system information works always. After installing searxng-git, to run the search engine server locally, it basically always works without fuss. I just have to update it from time to time manually, as it updates from Git source directly.
awk
Helix editor. I love terminal UI apps.
I love how little of the projects mentioned here are truly Linux specific.
"Firefox" lol.
Anyways, MUSL.
Backup scripts using borg
all rock solid af
monit, postfix, gearman, dhcpd, bind
bashmount
Caddy
All of them.
Elementary OS
I will second KeealiveD.
Pihole has been robust even the upgrades.
Docker has been perfect for years.
RaspberryPi os has been superb.
KRunner, I think. I even removed the application menu from my panel and I have a keyboard macro for just opening KRunner
- MythTv
- LVM
- Xfce
- Transmission
- Doom