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What (free and open-source) applications do you use on a daily basis? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Somewhat self promoting for the first two of these items as I'm directly involved. Leaving out the more obvious ones (Linux distro etc.) as they will have been mentioned. I'll stick to some of the less known things I use.

Pulsar - a community-led fork of the discontinued Atom text editor. Lemmy community
Joplin - note taking app. Lemmy community
Halloy - IRC client built in Rust and Iced
Navi - Command line cheatsheet tool
GitUI - Terminal UI git tool
Skim - Fuzzy finder
Dust - Disk usage tool (like du)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Kudos for including some of the Lemmy communities!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for highlighting Pulsar.

I always found Atom clunky, but it was instrumental in changing how editors were made, perceived, and used.

It did not deserve the death/abandonment it got.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Atom was my go-to editor while in school--hard to believe it's been long enough to be abandoned already. I'm going to have to check Pulsar out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Dust has completely replaced du in my every day work. Other tools also written in Rust I make use of include Bat for an upgraded experience from cat, Tokei for quickly counting and recognising codes, and several other security tools like RustScan.

I learn about Joplin today. Thank you for sharing your list.