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The apps I actually use daily:
The apps I wish I had time to use daily:
Edit: I forgot:
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.
How's your experience with Moonshine / Sunshine? Latency on local network?
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.
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).
I made my own curated list of open source software. Most of the software on there is stuff I use.
Wow, that's cool, thank you! I'll definitely explore it, and I think I'll take a few apps for myself😁
On my mobile with GrapheneOS:
More FOSS apps on my notebooks with Fedora, but not on a daily basis.
FUTO keyboard is not Open Source.
FUTO Keyboard was forked from another project which is Open Source. But the license FUTO keyboard itself is under, by restricting modifications to for non-commercial purposes and forbidding removal of functionality that allows the user to make payments to FUTO, fails to qualify as "Open Source".
Thx for pointing out.
AnySoftKeyboard does. And it's under an Apache 2.0 license which is fully foss.
Unfortunately AnySoft Keyboard doesn't seem to receive updates anymore, latest release dates back to 2022.
Switched to Heli Board now.
On my laptop:
On my Android phone:
Cross-platform:
If we can count FOSS modifications of proprietary apps:
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.
Voyager for Lemmy, Thunderbird email client, Firefox browser, Librera FD ebook reader, Mercurygram for Telegram, QUIK SMS, Material Files, LibreTube
Oh boy! Here goes
Desktop:
Phone:
server:
If I donated $5 per month to each of these projects I would be broke 😂
My most used:
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.
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.
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.
Tubular has sponsor block too.
Do you mean Heliboard? It supports gesture typing, but you need to import the library you want.
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.
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
I see. Okay. Thanks.
NewPipe, Seal, Spotube, AntennaPod basically
Edit: FireFox, uBlock Origin
A lot.
Desktop/Laptop
Phone
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.
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.
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.
Firefox, syncthing, antennapod, organic maps
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
Never heard of Zen, I'm just using vanilla Firefox on my Linux laptop. Will check it out later :)
Every app is open source if you can read assembly.
— someone someday on internet.
One many of us use but I don't see listed so far is the Signal protocol.
Dosbox (magic dosbox for android) Scummvm (scummvm for android) UnCiv Obsidian Obtainium URLCheck
On Android :
on android it's RiMusic, Thunderbird, Firefox, Feeder, Breezy Weather, Showly OSS, PipePipe, and Simple Keyboard. all available on f-droid
yep. Browsing F-droid is a good way to find random apps, too. Like Audio Spectrum Analyzer is fun to play with.
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.
Firefox, GCC, VS Code (sorry, but Microsoft actually made something decent there, and yes, I do feel dirty using it).
If you haven’t tried Zed I recommend giving it a try. I was skeptical about it at first, but it’s so much faster than VS Code, and it has a lot of great quality of life features built in.
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).
I was just looking for an alternative to the standard gallery on Xiaomi, thanks!
Apps I use in about the order of use:
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.