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.

  • Eugenia@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    4 hours ago

    Anything from Debian. I even run Debian-Testing, and it’s rock solid. Also, Linux mint, on my other partition.

  • ElectricMachman@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    5·
    5 hours ago

    Syncthing. Absolutely ace bit of software. I remember it being a little questionable in 2013, but today it performs exactly the same task, just more reliably. Love it.

    • JillyB@beehaw.org
      2·
      2 hours ago

      Yep I love it. It’s how I keep my password manager synced between devices. It can be finicky to set up but just works without thinking after that.

    • JustVik@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      Just it always makes you wait for ~3 min and shows: … wait for something to be Configured (25s / no limit). :-)

  • Limonene@lemmy.world
    2·
    4 hours ago

    The OS itself, Debian. If I have to pick a component, Mate Panel. Compared to the Windows 11 start menu, it’s useful, customizableand has no ads. My IT department at work can’t even figure out how to remove the Windows 11 start menu ads from my computer.

    • madthumbs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      7 hours ago

      It ‘was’ uCollage, but whiny, obnoxious, ungrateful LiGNUts ruined it like many other unpaid softwares by driving a critical developer (Ueberzug) to quit or sellout.

      Many LiGNUts probably work for Microsoft, because Microsoft gains when they cause issues, and mislead and lie to people.

  • PushButton@lemmy.world
    7·
    9 hours ago

    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.

    • All Ice In Chains@lemmy.ml
      3·
      9 hours ago

      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.

    • JoYo@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      9 hours ago

      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.