• Ada@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    943·
    9 days ago

    Steam? Though I’m not sure I’m loving it… 22 years now… But it worked back then, it still works now, and it hasn’t lost itself to enshitification. It even followed me to linux.

      • KneeTitts@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        9 days ago

        making gaming on Linux better than ever

        Latest reports have linux up to 5%, almost double from 6 months ago

    • renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.netEnglish
      18·
      9 days ago

      The enshittification of Steam would really sting and significantly harm PC gaming as a whole.

      As GabeN ages, I really worry about the day when he finally hands control of that company over, because as soon as ROI becomes their primary objective, it’s game over.

      Prioritizing the experience and quality of the platform over profit maximization has actually earned them more money in the long run as they’ve slowly snowballed over all their competitors. I really hope the new stewards understand this and genuinely love gaming as a whole as it seems a lot of decision-makers at Valve currently do.

      • yeehawboy@lemmy.world
        6·
        9 days ago

        Your comment made me realize that when steam finally does succumb to enshittification. All the other pc gaming launchers are going to blame us pc gamers for supporting steam all these years and not using their shitty ass products. Hopefully it’s no time soon

    • Imhotep@feddit.frFrançais
      1·
      8 days ago

      I’m happy with keepass, but I’ve always been curious about pass.

      Does the browser extension work well? Is there a good solution for using it on android?

  • zxqwas@lemmy.world
    31·
    9 days ago

    For some 20 years VLC has been installed on my computers though streaming has made it less used than before.

    Steam: not been enshittified yet. Also one of the great forces behind Linux gaming being more mainstream.

    Does the Linux kernel count? It’s been 12 years since I tilted at a faulty network driver on windows 7 and just uninstalled it and did not look back. There has been many different distributions since (now I use arch btw) but the kernel is the same.

  • early_riser@lemmy.world
    30·
    9 days ago

    Vi/Vim. Is it intuitive? No. Is it user friendly? Heck no! What it is is everywhere. $20 Chinese travel routers? Yup. Wireless access points? It’s there. If it has a shell you can log into, it almost certainly has it.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    261·
    9 days ago
    • 7zip
    • Firefox
    • LibreOffice
    • Various Linux distros, but mostly Ubuntu variants and Raspbian
    • Cura
    • OpenVPN
    • Blender
    • Gimp
    • Windows - sorry everyone, it just works, but I stopped at 10.
    • VLC
    • Virtual Clone Drive
        • exaybachae@startrek.website
          1·
          8 days ago

          Thanks. Been trying to retire my age old PS6 portable app for ages, and want to move to Linux full time, but keep having to go back. GIMP has always been so frustrating to use. I install it, then run away after trying and struggling to do basic stuff.

          Maybe Photogimp will get me there?

        • Cherry@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          8 days ago

          Thanks, again i couldnt quick click with gimp, this looks nice. Have you tried any indesign alternatives?

      • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 days ago

        It‘s like photoshop pre-subscription. Just the menus and keyboard shortcuts are a little different. It‘s all I‘ve used for years now, I wouldn‘t know what to do with any other program.

        • Anivia@feddit.org
          1·
          8 days ago

          It‘s like photoshop pre-subscription

          I’m still using a (legitimate) copy of Photoshop CS6, and that couldn’t be further from the truth

    • AreaKode@riskeratspizza.com
      14·
      9 days ago

      Don’t worry. They stopped unless you have an order for 200,000 units. My GeForce 1650 has gotten me through some tough years. I sure hope I have the opportunity to affordably upgrade next decade.

    • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      6·
      9 days ago

      Unless you’re trying for the AAA “BESTEST GRAPHICS EBAR!” you don’t need a super powerful video card anymore. There’s many games, much better too, that don’t require that much hardware to run.

      • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        4·
        9 days ago

        Big true. I’m obviously not doing any raytracing but it still ran Cyberpunk. And it DLSS is turning out to be bunk but AMD’s FRS algorithm helps with a lot of stuff

          • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            3·
            9 days ago

            Yeah so many production companies are trying to incentivize you to buy shit.

            Unless they’re using Unreal Engine 5, them they just have no idea wtf they’re doing and you’ll have to read online how to edit the options ini to make it run

      • KneeTitts@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 days ago

        you don’t need a super powerful video card anymore

        my 2080 (that I think is 5 years old??) is just smashing all the steam games I can throw at it.

        • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          1·
          9 days ago

          We don’t need raytracing, fake frames, top tier graphics that’ll look obsolete. TF2 is still going strong and it sure as heck isn’t a graphical powerhouse. In fact one of the reasons it’s so popular is it’ll run on essentially a toaster of a computer.

  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
    21·
    9 days ago

    Many. The oldest and most popular ones are maybe

    vi
    bash
    putty
    Firefox
    Notepad++
    Irfanview
    Vlc
    OBS

  • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org
    211·
    8 days ago

    >= 33 years

    • Unix
    • C
    • the shell and commands like cd, ls, find, xarg, cp, mv, ln, df, du

    >= 32 years

    • vi/vim
    • LaTeX
    • tar

    >= 28 years

    • Emacs
    • awk, bash
    • C++
    • Linux

    >= 26 years

    • Python & Numerical Python
    • screen and tmux
    • rsync
    • ssh
    • InkScape

    >= 20 years

    • git
    • literate programming tools

    >= 17 years

    • Thunderbird & forks
    • Debian & Ubuntu
    • GNOME

    >= 15 years

    • MeeGo, Maemo, Sailfish & siblings
    • Lisps (Clojure, Guile, Racket)

    >= 11 years

    • tiling WMs (i3)
    • Arch (as second system)

    what I use now and will very, very likely still use in 10 years

    • Rust
    • Guix
    • Gollum wiki
    • Gemini protocol
      • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org
        4·
        8 days ago

        Arch is often pictured as some Uber hacker magic which it isn’t. It is a useful collection of software packages with great documentation.

        Arch is for example useful if you want to program with new Rust versions, tools like jujutsu, cross-compile for your Sailfish phone, and so on.

        (By the way, Guix features now a recent Rust/cargo version, too!)

        And both Debian and Arch have advantages / disadvantages, so both are useful for different tasks. Learning Arch is really not a big step or costs much time if you know the foundations of Linux.

        • laurathepluralized@lemmy.world
          4·
          8 days ago

          +1 on the great documentation! Have I ever used Arch? No, and there are enough distros out there that I’m not sure I ever will. But have I ever referenced Arch’s wiki? Yes, often, and plan to continue to do so. <3 to the Arch Wiki authors!

  • fun_times@lemmy.world
    19·
    9 days ago

    InkScape.

    I don’t fully know why but vector graphics just work for me in a way that pixel graphics don’t. I love fiddling with vectors.

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      8 days ago

      Vector is amazing for things that potentially need to be resized. I do a lot of scale drawings for work, and I never know if it’s going to be printed on something as small as letter size paper, or blown all the way up to something like a plotter blueprint size print. And working in vector means the gigantic plotter print isn’t blurry, because the drawing isn’t comprised of individual pixels that blur when you zoom them in or out.

      It also means I can get extremely fine detail on something that may normally only be tiny on a page. For instance, maybe I have a 50’x50’ room, and I have a small 4 inch object to place in it. On the regular letter paper size, that will basically just be a dot. But I can zoom waaaay in for a detailed image of that object if needed.

  • Fit_Series_573@lemmy.world
    18·
    9 days ago

    VLC for video MediaMonkey for audio

    Neither have ever failed me unless the files themselves have errors, then that’s beyond their control

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      4·
      8 days ago

      Foobar2000 for me for audio! Handles hundreds of thousands of songs on a standard USB HDD over the network incredibly fast, plays every audio file, best tag editing features I’ve ever seen, full conversion from lossless to other formats, a hella minimal interface dark before they was a common thing, and a tiny footprint.

      Incredible piece of software. I love it so much.

        • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          2·
          8 days ago

          Same! Anyone have reccos for Linux players that are like Foobar2000? It FEELS like a piece of software that should be on Linux hahaha

          Edit: I’m reading it works great with Wine, but I’ve never used that before as I’m new to “as primary OS, non-CLI Linux” so I’ll try that later!

          • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            2·
            7 days ago

            Yeah I’ve heard that too, I’d just rather not have to deal with wine for something as basic as a media player. Especially when it’s supposed to be as simple and lightweight as foobar