The sort of program that once set up, just ticks along without fuss or bother forever.
For me, as I’m replacing the vms today which I set up five years ago and haven’t needed to touch since;
- HAProxy
- KeepaliveD
Not easy to learn, but once they’re running, they both go on forever.
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Debian and basically everything in its repos. Might be somewhat old, but it is really fucking stable
My small selfhosted system appreciates this very much. Having Debian as my base OS makes everything easier.
Total agreement. So many unsung heroes involved in Debian. Work has agreed with me - today’s job involved migrating those load balancers to Debian underneath.
That’s my dream
It’s a blessing and a curse how stable it is. I think less bleeding edge is better but when shit like audio and GPU are fucked they’re pretty much always fucked until dist-upgrade time.
VLC
grep
coreutils
yes this is a jab at rust-coreutils
nano
The Linux Kernel.
Many have already mentioned tools that I also use and appreciate immensely.
My pick is Steam. I’ve picked up on gaming in the past 2 years and it’s very stable right now. Every game that I have interest in just works, I can install games, including early access or demos without looking at the compatibility or the release date. The download speeds of games are high (imho at least where I’m located, and compared with a PS5). My partner is a heavy gamer and has to yet find a game that doesn’t work on her machine.deleted by creator
nano 😎
Systemd
*grabs popcorn*
Just it always makes you wait for ~3 min and shows: … wait for something to be Configured (25s / no limit). :-)
Anything from Debian. I even run Debian-Testing, and it’s rock solid. Also, Linux mint, on my other partition.
Emacs
My beloved
I have mixed feels. It can work day after day but in practice it doesn’t. That’s on me 😂
Supernotes.app
Linux Mint
Rockbox
Sayonara music player
Syncthing
Rockbox
I desperately wish my Rockbox consistently worked without crashing or freezing once a week.
Firefox + uBlock Origin + sponsorblock. Set it and forget it.
I haven’t seen an advertisement or a sponsored segment on my desktop in over a decade, and same with my phone for several years. I’m astonished how willing most people are to put up with a constant barrage of ads coming from devices they own
The program sl, works every time
Nah man, piece of shit software; Sometimes it just lists some random directory contents.
I tried neovim for a while and I went back to vim for that reason: setup once, then forget about it.
I have plugins that haven’t been touch for 5 years+ and they are working as intended.
Rock solid.
I bounced off neovim because I am always on fresh boxes with minimal access to the internet. Helix is everything included and I can install with a single file.
nvim is great and convenient in many ways, and a vast improvement over vim, and yet vim is so amazing on its own that I can’t even be arsed to add an extra letter to the command like 70% of the time.