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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Dino, my favourite chat client, it just works.
Anything from Debian. I even run Debian-Testing, and it’s rock solid. Also, Linux mint, on my other partition.
Systemd
*grabs popcorn*
Just it always makes you wait for ~3 min and shows: … wait for something to be Configured (25s / no limit). :-)
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.
Debian!
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.
Linux
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.
Sabnzbd
Nano
Backup scripts using borg
All of it. Even Firefox.
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.
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.
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.
Arch
The program sl, works every time
Nah man, piece of shit software; Sometimes it just lists some random directory contents.
tree, locate, nvim, flatpak, htop, bmon, etc.
