It is a little strange. But even way back in the day we called PC software meant for user interaction “software applications”.
Yeah I think people started calling software applications “programs” because that’s easier to say.
And then Steve Jobs’ made his biggest contribution to civilization and popularized the term app, which is even easier to say.
Get outta here you Hedge Fund Manager! Leave our apps alone!!
Acode. Amazing code editor with a very intuitive design and tons of features. Best phone implementation of a code app I’ve ever seen.
Wait what? People write code on their phones? That in itself amazes me.
This nerd does! I’m taking a CS course and being able to access my git and make changes if I get an idea while I’m on the go is very useful.
i have a terminal emulator app that i use to connect to some of my vps’s whenever there’s some issue i need to resolve and i’m not at home. although it’s quite a painful experience. i’m impressed at anybody who uses a phone to do anything substantial.
i remember there was some kid on probation for hacking who used a kindle fire stick to do some cool stuff. you can do really anything you want if you have the creativity and vision
It certainly isn’t fast but Acode is seriously amazing for its functionality. It even supports keyboard commands with a command key plugin, which let’s you do things like move lines, select within parenthesis, run code, etc.
I’m a bit of a luddite though, I don’t really care much for major IDEs and i prefer to write in simple code editors like Kate and do my debugging with the compiler and gdb.
I spent like a full week setting up my nvim config and it’s the only thing I use. Fits like a glove and everything else feels off.
Although VS Code + vim mode isn’t bad.
What kinda stuff do you usually write? These days I’m mostly doing react native. I wonder if Kate plays nicely with vim mode. I use Gnome on my Arch so I try to avoid KDE applications.
I am very new to programming so as of now I’m not doing much more than simple shell scripts and C programs to do basic CLI things lol. I’m talking the Harvard CS50x course which has been a real treat. I’m no “programmer” yet but someday I hope I can make applications. I really enjoy C and have an interest in Java, Zig and PHP (mostly because my buddy loves PHP and doesn’t shut up about it)
uBlock Origin leading the pack by at least a furlong.
/e/OS, Fedora, Fediverse, many apps from the F-Droid store.
Not an app, but a whole ass OS.
Fedora. Switched to Linux full time over a year ago, after years and years and years (like… 06/07?) of dabbling. It blows my mind how polished and wonderful it is to use. It’s completely everything I need, and it always blows my mind that it’s fucking free
Fedora is awesome. I use the immutable version Kinoite, and it’s fork with non-free extras Aurora. Dev container is with Arch just because there are a ton of packages. All the GUI apps from Flathub.
I need to add KDE to this mix. What a wonderful desktop it is. Like what Windows should be but is not.
I’m running Bazzite right now, because I wanted to test it out, but normally I run Silverblue. When I first went to Linux years ago it was all Ubuntu, so I got used to GNOME and unity. Since then, I’ve never really been able to get into KDE. It feels too windowsy to me, and I fell in love with the quick keyboard controls and the smoothness on gnome. I fully get why someone might not like it, but for me it’s a near perfect fit.
That’s honestly the best thing about Linux. With windows or Mac you’re stuck with how they want things to function. I love being able to change my DE, even if I never do it
I also didn’t like it for years. I used a tiling window manager (first i3, then sway), but tried the new plasma 6 and really liked it. Dolphin file manager was the thing that converted me.
Hear hear! I’m living in Fedora-land for school and gaming, and I run into way less trouble than my classmates!
My computer isn’t good enough for gaming, but I use the steam deck for that. I’m accidently 100% Linux (well, and android, which doesn’t really count). Lol. But, man, I was nervous about making the switch to completely Linux. The only time I’d done that before was back in like 09 when I had this shitty Acer laptop that I swapped to Ubuntu because it simply would not run windows. That wasn’t a great experience, but things weren’t as polished then, plus it was the world’s worst laptop. Now I feel like I’ve upgraded to something that should cost 5 times the price. Like, it feels like I should be embarrassed by how good it is, like it was a splurge or an irresponsible financial decision. And it’s free!
Do you face many compatibility issues when gaming?
There are some games that run anti-cheat that just don’t run. I don’t play any of those at the moment, but other than that, no. The odd thing has quirks, but between Steam and Lutris, I’m good. Not a heavy duty gamer though.
for windows:
- WizTree - Disk space visualizer
- Everything (& EverythingToolbar) - Search tool
- Playnite - Game library
for android:
- Mihon/Tachiyomi - Manga reader
- Obtanium - Manage apps from various sources (github, gitlab, etc)
- Syncthing-Fork - File syncing
- MiXplorer - Feature dense file manager
- Universal Android Debloater Next Generation (technically a windows/linux program) - Remove/disable stock apps
for linux:
- wine/proton - windows translation software
- yazi - File manager
- easyeffects - Audio processing
- mpv - Video player
love mihon I use the yokai fork on my tablet, got me back into comics, mixplorer is also nice but zarchiver while uglier always works, mixplorer sometimes doesn’t for me, so I keep both.
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NAPS2. I go paperless as much as possible, but still have to scan stuff sometimes. It’s the GOAT for scanning.
Dosbox
ScummVM
GZDoom
DevilutionX
Wargus
JDownloader
Retroarch.
God awful complexity but once you figure out how it all works it’s incredible.
I’m still trying to figure it out. It’s not easy when you have ADHD and get frustrated easily.
I wouldn’t say it is complex but rather they have the shittiest UI I have ever seen, which makes it so difficult to use.
It’s shitty until you realize how it’s put together and what operates what. It makes a lot more sense since I watched Russ’ video on shaders and overlays at Retro Game Corps.
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.
Off the top of my head:
Krita
Handbrake
LibreOffice
Let me hijack your comment mentioning Krita with another KDE app: Okular!
I simply can’t believe a PDF app can be this performant, this fully featured, and entirely free. It even works on Windows, if you’re trapped in that nightmare.
Adobe Acrobat Reader, from the people who created the PDF format, is unbelievably slow, it takes a thousand steps through an ugly UI to do anything useful, and any feature you actually care about is locked behind payment. Okular, a free tool, will load PDFs instantly, render previews flawlessly, let you edit, sign, merge, add text, select text, whatever you wish.
And KDE creates this app and a thousand others for less money than Mozilla wasted on some random bs last year. Long live KDE.
Thanks, I’ll check that out.
Tagging onto this comment to say that I’m also very impressed by stirlingpdf.com for pdf stuff.
I’ve recently started using KDE for the first time, so I’ll see how I get on with Okular
Kodi
Vim. Every computer I’ve owned since the early 1990s has had some version of Vi on it.
Or Emacs, if you want a full operating system as your text editor!
I’ve grown to hate vi as I’m building an Ubuntu server, but it’s begrudgingly better than the other text editors I’ve dealt with so far
OnlyOffice. Great office suite. Also any app from FUTO
