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Read Era. They also have a paid option but the free is great as it is!
Brave
Acode. Amazing code editor with a very intuitive design and tons of features. Best phone implementation of a code app I've ever seen.
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I'm very interested and involved in the free software space. I wouldn't say I'm surprised by any being free.
There's some powerhouses of great or big or powerful free software, but I know that and know why they are or can be free.
Usefulness does not correlate with price.
VLC is a big one for me.
It won't keep track of my place in a Playlist to resume so I trashed it.
some new weird video format opens windows stock media player because it's not yet associated with vlc
"Hey.. it looks like your going to have to buy a codec..."
manually open in vlc where it runs seemlessly
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Organic Maps
Organic maps is great bit I wish it had real time traffic data. For that reason I normally use magic earth instead.
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Krita. I had a uni licence for Photoshop for years, even took a Photoshop course but still kept using Krita. It has an intuitive UI and all the tools I'll ever need.
RStudio+R is way better than any of its proprietary alternatives.
Blender. I'm no 3D modling expert but it does everything I as a hobbyist want to do with it and so much more. Nowadays, the UI is pretty decent, too.
Finally, the Lagrange browser is really good. The gemini protocol is kinda niche though, but if you're interested it's unreasonably pretty, well optimized and has a great UX. The guy who maintains it really puts his heart and soul into it.
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Off the top of my head from daily use;
- Borg backup, powerful backup software for self-hosted oriented users or enterprise automation.
- proxmox, hypervisor that is performant and easy to setup for simple and complex virtualization needs.
- bitwarden (combined with vaultwarden self-host), password management, secrets management, and available on basically all platforms and browsers. Self hosting your vault gives you peace of mind over who has your most sensitive data.
- obsidian, a great notes app with polished cross platform applications that don’t do any funky proprietary storage shenanigans. Files are files and folders are folders.
- kate (and most of the KDE suite), premiere Linux desktop environment suitable for customization and all the expected luxuries user would expect from windows or macOS. Kate specifically is a noticeable modern upgrade over notepad++ and rivals VSCode for programmers.
Could you expand on what you mean by ‘complex virtualization needs’ - I read this phrase sometimes but would appreciate an expert’s perspective 🙏
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