vim, awesomewm, mbsync (isync),
As for recent discoveries: dwl — I was surprised on how robust it is, and how well it works.
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Prosody for me. I set it up over 2 years ago, and the only time I touched it was when updating to the latest Debian stable and enabling some new features in the config files. It's been rock-solid and just worked without complaint.
mc and vim
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.
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 :-)
sl
Actually ssh and nmap
all rock solid af
monit, postfix, gearman, dhcpd, bind
I will second KeealiveD.
Pihole has been robust even the upgrades.
Docker has been perfect for years.
RaspberryPi os has been superb.
Sadly even Linux is a fuss. This is primarily due to full os updates needed every four years plus the changing security landscape. Then there are the hardware issues and replacement every ten years. I guess a partial alternative is a rolling release but then you have the issue of constant change.
OS update fuss level is hugely dependant on distro though.
EL and rebuilds? Full new machine and copy services over (or if paying RHEL, use their migrator which can have mixed results). Agree, huge fuss.
Debian/ubuntu? Dist-upgrade, normally safe and much quicker.
Plus a bunch of rolling release distros that just keep up to date (but will occasionally add breaking changes that you might not be ready for)
Can't so easily get around hardware issues, so build cattle that can be easily redeployed or scaled. Doesn't fit all situations though.