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Hello, I’d like to know your top open-source apps that you use every day. Here are mine:

Signal AntennaPod RadioDroid Which ones do you use most often?

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

The apps I actually use daily:

  • Firefox
  • uBlock
  • Vs code
  • Notepad++
  • Revanced (i might patch something every second month but I use the apps it has patched daily)
  • PuTTY
  • moonlight/sunshine
  • 7zip
  • qBittorrent

The apps I wish I had time to use daily:

  • Godot
  • Blender
  • Krita
  • libResprite

Edit: I forgot:

  • WinSCP
  • VLC
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

VS code is technically not open-source since it has many proprietary blobs on top. VScodium is the fully open-source version.

I don't know how much can Revanced be considered open-source except for their Revanced manager app since you still use the patched versions of the proprietary Google apps.

Sorry for being pedantic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

How's your experience with Moonshine / Sunshine? Latency on local network?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

On a home network I was having audio sync issues with RDP. When I switched to moonlight/sunshine that sync issue cleared up.

Its streaming resolution isn't as dynamic as RDP but once its setup it feels pretty close to running locally (on my home LAN).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not OP, but in my house we're very happy with it. Will even work nicely over WiFi, though you do have to manually turn all the settings down for that.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Desktop

  • Arch Linux
  • GNOME
  • Firefox
  • Tilix
  • Thunderbird or Evolution
  • Vim (I still use PyCharm for writing code)
  • Joplin
  • Bitwarden
  • Python

Phone

  • Joplin
  • Firefox Focus & Firefox
  • Bitwarden
  • New Pipe
  • Thunderbird (K-9 Mail)
  • Signal
  • Aegis
  • Antenna Pod
  • VLC
  • The FOSSify suite (not the dialer)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I made my own curated list of open source software. Most of the software on there is stuff I use.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Wow, that's cool, thank you! I'll definitely explore it, and I think I'll take a few apps for myself😁

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

On my mobile with GrapheneOS:

  • Aard 2 (dictionary, since QuickDic doesn't seem to work on my Pixel 7)
  • Breezy Weather
  • Fossify Suite (Calendar, Clock, Contacts, Gallery, Messages, Notes)
  • Currencies
  • DAVx5 (calendar sync)
  • Feeder (RSS)
  • FUTO keyboard
  • Hypatia (malware scanner)
  • Island (work profile enabler)
  • K-9 Mail
  • KeePassDX
  • Molly (Signal fork)
  • Music Player
  • Nextcloud
  • Obtainium (update apps from source)
  • Oeffi (public transport)
  • OSMAnd
  • Planisphere
  • StreetComplete
  • Threema Libre
  • Tor
  • Tusky (Mastodon)
  • Vanadium (GOS Browser)
  • Voyager (Lemmy)
  • Who Bird (bird call identifier)

More FOSS apps on my notebooks with Fedora, but not on a daily basis.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

On my laptop:

  • Void Linux
  • GNOME (desktop environment)
  • gThumb (image viewer that can do simple edits)
  • Firefox (the famous web browser)
    • uBlock Origin (content blocker that blocks ads, trackers, etc. out of the box)
    • SponsorBlock (automatically skips sponsor segments in YouTube videos)
  • Betterbird (fork of the Thunderbird email client, with various QoL tweaks)
  • GIMP (image editor)
  • Kdenlive (video editor)
  • virt-manager (manage QEMU virtual machines)
  • Celluloid (media player)
  • yt-dlp (command-line utility for downloading YouTube videos, and the basis of some graphical apps as well)
  • Bottles (if you want to use Wine to run Windows apps, without too many headaches)
  • Foliate (.epub ebook reader)
  • OBS (for screen recording and livestreaming)
  • Code - OSS (code editor, "clean" version of Visual Studio Code without "Microsoft-specific customizations")
  • Tenacity (fork of the Audacity audio editor without opt-out telemetry)

On my Android phone:

Cross-platform:

If we can count FOSS modifications of proprietary apps:

  • YouTube Revanced (the official YouTube app, but you don't get ads, you can play videos in the background, you get SponsorBlock, etc.) (follow this guide for auto-updates)
  • Vesktop (desktop client for Discord, has Vencord preinstalled and supports Linux screen sharing)
  • Prism Launcher (Minecraft: Java Edition launcher that allows you to easily manage different "instances" of the game. Good for playing with different mods and/or versions)
  • Fabulously Optimized (modpack for Minecraft: Java Edition, that improves performance and adds some minor QoL features)

addendum: I'd like to use Matrix (via the Element client) and Signal more, but most of the people I know are on Discord and WhatsApp instead.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Voyager for Lemmy, Thunderbird email client, Firefox browser, Librera FD ebook reader, Mercurygram for Telegram, QUIK SMS, Material Files, LibreTube

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

My most used:

  • self hosted Matrix server with Element client
  • Jellyfin server and clients
  • self hosted Radicale server for my family calendars
  • self hosted Joplin server with the Joplin app on all my machines and devices for my notes
  • Navidrome
  • Firefox
  • tasks.org with my self hosted nextcloud
  • all the fossify apps on my phone
  • audiobookshelf server and client
  • GNU/Linux (various distros across different machines)
  • Voyager for Lemmy

There's a bunch more that I can't think of that I use, but the above list is the stuff I rely on and use every day.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Oh boy! Here goes

Desktop:

  • Bazzite
  • KDE Connect
  • KiCAD
  • FreeCAD
  • Plasma
  • LocalSend
  • Thunderbird
  • Bitwarden
  • Code OSS
  • Krita
  • CoreCTRL
  • LibreOffice
  • CuteCOM
  • KopiaUI
  • Calibre
  • Heroic Games Launcher
  • Lutris
  • PrusaSlicer
  • Okular
  • Inkscape
  • FluffyChat
  • SyncThingy
  • Elisa
  • Haruna
  • Kdenlive
  • YouTube Downloader GUI
  • Paperwork (stille can't get network scanners working on Bazzite with sane set up)
  • Solar
  • ProtonUp-QT

Phone:

  • AntennaPod
  • Immich
  • Aegis
  • Heliboard
  • Organic Maps
  • Breezy Weather
  • Aurora Droid
  • K9 mail
  • Signal
  • Fluffy chat
  • Home Assistant
  • Eternity
  • Findroid
  • Gadgetbridge
  • Fitotrack
  • Loop habits
  • Tuta
  • StreetComplete
  • Wireguard
  • Unit converter untimate
  • mastodon
  • ntfy
  • newpipe
  • KDE Connect
  • bitwarden
  • findroid
  • localsend
  • material files

server:

  • Leantime
  • Bookstack
  • Immich
  • Jellyfin
  • Home Assistant
  • Traefik
  • Crowdsec
  • Authelia
  • Dozzle
  • Glances
  • full *arr suite
  • transmission + wireguard
  • paperless-ngx
  • cloudflare-ddns
  • syncthing
  • valheim server
  • Boinc
  • stash
  • ntfy.sh

If I donated $5 per month to each of these projects I would be broke 😂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Looks like a great list, but I can't tell what a lot of them do by name alone.

Can you recommend any open-source desktop personal/small business finance software?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

On android, I guess, it's smth like: heliboard, mull, eternity, tubular (a newpipe fork), antennapod, feeder, simplex, element and slightly patched mercurygram.

As for the desktop, Firefox, keepassxc, anyrun (the app launcher) and cosmic-term would probably be the GUI apps I use most often; occasionally neovide if I feel like drooling on those sick cursor animations, mpv if I want to watch stuff without distractions, or kicad if I'm into making some electronics-related pet project. Other than that, my workflow is mostly terminal-centric, so the fish shell, coreutils, neovim, moreutils -- mostly vidir for visual bulk renaming and vipe for editing piped stuff in place (for one-time things that require, say, >2 seds) --, and so on.

[–] lemmeBe 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Which browser do you use KeepassXC on? I'm having trouble integrating it with any other browser than Firefox. Tried to integrate it with Brave on Fedora and Mac, lost hours and achieved nothing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't use browser extensions with it and just copy-paste stuff, unfortunately. Also it's mostly a failsafe in case my vaultwarden instance goes tits up

[–] lemmeBe 2 points 2 weeks ago

I see. Okay. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

What does Tubular do for you that the stock New Pipe doesn't? I'm also curious about neighbours, as I'm still using gBoard and I'd rather switch to something else that still supports swipe-typing.

[–] Cheradenine 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Tubular has sponsor block too.

Do you mean Heliboard? It supports gesture typing, but you need to import the library you want.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

It would gBoard's autocorrect got one final dig in. I did indeed mean Heliboard, and I've now installed it with the glide extension and... it's great! Thanks for the reference!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Thanks. That Heliboard comment sent me down a rabbit hole. I don't really use glide typing, but in case any one's curious: scroll a bit down under this section on Heliboard's Github and you'll find the instructions on how to install the proprietary library. You'll also find a link shortly thereafter that leads you to the repo where you can download the needed library.

Neat little feature I wasn't aware was available for Heliboard. Cheers.

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[–] LambdaRX 6 points 2 weeks ago
  • Librewolf - hardened, demozilled Firefox

  • Newpipe - I forgot that Youtube has ads

  • Organic Maps - I dont even have gmaps installed

  • Keepass XC/2android

  • Orion viewer - for pdfs

  • Thumbkey - unique keyboard I have installed for fun, but I got used to it

I also wish I could use foss comunicators more.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

A lot.

Desktop/Laptop

  • Artix Linux
  • Neovim
  • BSPWM
  • Suckless Terminal
  • Librewolf
  • Firefox
  • Ungoogled Chromium
  • Thunderbird
  • mpv
  • rtorrent
  • Keepassxc
  • btop (TUI resource monitor)
  • links (old school TUI browser)
  • newsboat (TUI RSS reader)
  • yt-dlp
  • git
  • Espanso (text expander)
  • GIMP
  • Inkscape
  • Krita
  • Calibre (for epubs, great with Kobo ereader)
  • Wireshark
  • Lutris/WINE/Proton
  • OBS

Phone

  • Android/GrapheneOS
  • Heliboard
  • FUTO Voice (Speech to Text)
  • Mull
  • Vanadium
  • Various Fossify Apps
  • Keepassxc
  • Thunder
  • Tusky
  • Thunderbird
  • Tubular
  • Seal (yt-dlp wrapper)
  • mpv
  • Antennapod
  • Feeder (RSS reader)
  • Glider (HN client)
  • OSMand
  • Stealth (Reddit lurking)
  • Element (Matrix client)
  • Transistor
  • Translate You
  • Protonmail
  • Proton Drive
  • Breezy Weather
  • URLCheck
  • Wikipedia (official reader)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

NewPipe, Seal, Spotube, AntennaPod basically

Edit: FireFox, uBlock Origin

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Firefox, Matrix chat, Proxmox, Homarr, Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, Overseer, Nextcloud, Bazzite, Lemmy, QBittorent, Immich, Home Assistant, Keepass, Thunderbird, and Debian.

If it’s free, it is for me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Firefox browser, misskey as my SNS. On Android: Komikku (a tachiyomi fork), element X matrix client; on my desktop: rnote for note taking, fractal matrix client.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Every app is open source if you can read assembly.

— someone someday on internet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Matrix (element on mobile, cinny on pc), materialious (linux app for invidious, alternative yt frontend), gzdoom (foss engine for doom & mods), luanti (a minecraft-like engine for playing minigames and shit), zen browser (firefox fork with a pretty skin), xfce as desktop environment, wine for playing windows games

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Never heard of Zen, I'm just using vanilla Firefox on my Linux laptop. Will check it out later :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Firefox, syncthing, antennapod, organic maps

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
  • AnySoftKeyboard (love it!)
  • FireFox
  • KDE connect
  • Librera FD
  • Pepper&Carrot viewer (my son loves it)
  • OsmAND
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

One many of us use but I don't see listed so far is the Signal protocol.

[–] RmDebArc_5 3 points 2 weeks ago

Apps I use in about the order of use:

  • Firefox
  • Brave
  • The KDE application suite
  • A terminal
  • Voyager for Lemmy
  • NetNewsWire (RSS)
  • Jellyfin
  • Proton Pass
  • The Wikipedia app
  • a-shell mini
  • Heroic Games launcher
  • Parabolic (yt-dlp gui)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

On Android :

  • ⭐Kvaesisto launcher
  • ⭐Acode
  • Blichess
  • ⭐Brave browser
  • ⭐Cuscon
  • Data monitor
  • Drip
  • Droidify
  • ⭐ FetchIt
  • Right files
  • ⭐ Right messages
  • Fossify gallery
  • Libchecker
  • ⭐Linkora
  • Inkwell keyboard
  • Obtainium
  • ⭐Octogram
  • Oincoin
  • ⭐PocketPal
  • ⭐Proton VPN
  • ⭐Quillpad
  • ⭐Record You
  • Simply translate
  • ⭐Termux
  • ⭐Thunder
  • ⭐Tubular
  • VLC
  • ⭐Windscribe VPN
  • Warden
  • Zcalc
  • I also used to use apps like Anytime podcast , Focus podcast , Book's story , Hacki for hacker news , Rain , Weather master , Heliboard (I'll reuse it again because inkwell and florisboard still don't support typing suggestions) and other apps I can't remember right now
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Dosbox (magic dosbox for android) Scummvm (scummvm for android) UnCiv Obsidian Obtainium URLCheck

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

On my Android: Fossify Gallery & Calendar, Thunderbird Mail, Eternity for Lemmy, AntennaPod, OSS Document Scanner, FUTO Keyboard, Gallery, KDE Connect, Moshidon (client for Mastodon), Next Player, Obtainium, (I wanted to have Logseq but I prefer Obsidian so I left it out), Swift Notes (I'm trying to get into).

On my Windows laptop: OnlyOffice Suite, Betterbird (Thunderbird, but better), FluentCast Podcast Player, FluentWeather, GIMP, Inkscape, KDE Connect, (I wanted to have Logseq but I prefer Obsidian so I left it out), Screenbox (VLC but modern and sexy), QuickLook, ShareX, Tenacity (Audacity fork that apparently is less controversial or something).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Damn, I didn't know Screenbox exisited. I'll start using it on my Windows desktop

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I was just looking for an alternative to the standard gallery on Xiaomi, thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

On android, GrapheneOS, AntennaPod and Tempo are probably my top ones. On my desktop, Firefox, tmux, mpd, ncmpcpp, gonic, neomutt, qbittorrent, weechat, mc, btop, Lagrange and emacs probably round things out for me outside of base OS stuff. OS side, my desktop has Arch Linux and my laptop runs OpenBSD. Bitwarden across platforms.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Here is a short list.
Pc: Cachyos(Preformant linux distro based on arch),Cinnamon (fork of Gnome 3),Librewolf (web browser)
Android phone:F-Droid(Appstore),Clipious(YouTube client but network is nonfree),aurora store(replaced Google play store with this and network nonfree),Iceraven (Web browser,Can be hardened as much as mull.),
Cross platform: Localsend(Airdrop for any device),Vlc media player
Yeah that's it,here is my major apps I use

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I use GVIM everyday.

I frequently use CentOS because that is what the embedded system I work on runs.

I use cygwin regularly professionally and at home. Identifying specific software within it is tough, but I definitely use grep and g++ all of the time.

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