• Ada@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    902·
    21 天前

    Steam? Though I’m not sure I’m loving it… 22 years now… But it worked back then, it still works now, and it hasn’t lost itself to enshitification. It even followed me to linux.

      • KneeTitts@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        21 天前

        making gaming on Linux better than ever

        Latest reports have linux up to 5%, almost double from 6 months ago

    • renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.netEnglish
      17·
      21 天前

      The enshittification of Steam would really sting and significantly harm PC gaming as a whole.

      As GabeN ages, I really worry about the day when he finally hands control of that company over, because as soon as ROI becomes their primary objective, it’s game over.

      Prioritizing the experience and quality of the platform over profit maximization has actually earned them more money in the long run as they’ve slowly snowballed over all their competitors. I really hope the new stewards understand this and genuinely love gaming as a whole as it seems a lot of decision-makers at Valve currently do.

      • yeehawboy@lemmy.world
        5·
        21 天前

        Your comment made me realize that when steam finally does succumb to enshittification. All the other pc gaming launchers are going to blame us pc gamers for supporting steam all these years and not using their shitty ass products. Hopefully it’s no time soon

    • Imhotep@feddit.frFrançais
      1·
      20 天前

      I’m happy with keepass, but I’ve always been curious about pass.

      Does the browser extension work well? Is there a good solution for using it on android?

  • zxqwas@lemmy.world
    30·
    21 天前

    For some 20 years VLC has been installed on my computers though streaming has made it less used than before.

    Steam: not been enshittified yet. Also one of the great forces behind Linux gaming being more mainstream.

    Does the Linux kernel count? It’s been 12 years since I tilted at a faulty network driver on windows 7 and just uninstalled it and did not look back. There has been many different distributions since (now I use arch btw) but the kernel is the same.

  • early_riser@lemmy.world
    30·
    21 天前

    Vi/Vim. Is it intuitive? No. Is it user friendly? Heck no! What it is is everywhere. $20 Chinese travel routers? Yup. Wireless access points? It’s there. If it has a shell you can log into, it almost certainly has it.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    251·
    21 天前
    • 7zip
    • Firefox
    • LibreOffice
    • Various Linux distros, but mostly Ubuntu variants and Raspbian
    • Cura
    • OpenVPN
    • Blender
    • Gimp
    • Windows - sorry everyone, it just works, but I stopped at 10.
    • VLC
    • Virtual Clone Drive
        • exaybachae@startrek.website
          1·
          20 天前

          Thanks. Been trying to retire my age old PS6 portable app for ages, and want to move to Linux full time, but keep having to go back. GIMP has always been so frustrating to use. I install it, then run away after trying and struggling to do basic stuff.

          Maybe Photogimp will get me there?

        • Cherry@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          20 天前

          Thanks, again i couldnt quick click with gimp, this looks nice. Have you tried any indesign alternatives?

      • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
        1·
        21 天前

        It‘s like photoshop pre-subscription. Just the menus and keyboard shortcuts are a little different. It‘s all I‘ve used for years now, I wouldn‘t know what to do with any other program.

    • AreaKode@riskeratspizza.com
      14·
      21 天前

      Don’t worry. They stopped unless you have an order for 200,000 units. My GeForce 1650 has gotten me through some tough years. I sure hope I have the opportunity to affordably upgrade next decade.

    • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      6·
      21 天前

      Unless you’re trying for the AAA “BESTEST GRAPHICS EBAR!” you don’t need a super powerful video card anymore. There’s many games, much better too, that don’t require that much hardware to run.

      • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        4·
        21 天前

        Big true. I’m obviously not doing any raytracing but it still ran Cyberpunk. And it DLSS is turning out to be bunk but AMD’s FRS algorithm helps with a lot of stuff

          • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            3·
            21 天前

            Yeah so many production companies are trying to incentivize you to buy shit.

            Unless they’re using Unreal Engine 5, them they just have no idea wtf they’re doing and you’ll have to read online how to edit the options ini to make it run

      • KneeTitts@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        21 天前

        you don’t need a super powerful video card anymore

        my 2080 (that I think is 5 years old??) is just smashing all the steam games I can throw at it.

        • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          1·
          21 天前

          We don’t need raytracing, fake frames, top tier graphics that’ll look obsolete. TF2 is still going strong and it sure as heck isn’t a graphical powerhouse. In fact one of the reasons it’s so popular is it’ll run on essentially a toaster of a computer.

  • fun_times@lemmy.world
    19·
    21 天前

    InkScape.

    I don’t fully know why but vector graphics just work for me in a way that pixel graphics don’t. I love fiddling with vectors.

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      20 天前

      Vector is amazing for things that potentially need to be resized. I do a lot of scale drawings for work, and I never know if it’s going to be printed on something as small as letter size paper, or blown all the way up to something like a plotter blueprint size print. And working in vector means the gigantic plotter print isn’t blurry, because the drawing isn’t comprised of individual pixels that blur when you zoom them in or out.

      It also means I can get extremely fine detail on something that may normally only be tiny on a page. For instance, maybe I have a 50’x50’ room, and I have a small 4 inch object to place in it. On the regular letter paper size, that will basically just be a dot. But I can zoom waaaay in for a detailed image of that object if needed.

  • Fit_Series_573@lemmy.world
    17·
    21 天前

    VLC for video MediaMonkey for audio

    Neither have ever failed me unless the files themselves have errors, then that’s beyond their control

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      4·
      20 天前

      Foobar2000 for me for audio! Handles hundreds of thousands of songs on a standard USB HDD over the network incredibly fast, plays every audio file, best tag editing features I’ve ever seen, full conversion from lossless to other formats, a hella minimal interface dark before they was a common thing, and a tiny footprint.

      Incredible piece of software. I love it so much.

        • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          2·
          20 天前

          Same! Anyone have reccos for Linux players that are like Foobar2000? It FEELS like a piece of software that should be on Linux hahaha

          Edit: I’m reading it works great with Wine, but I’ve never used that before as I’m new to “as primary OS, non-CLI Linux” so I’ll try that later!

          • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            2·
            19 天前

            Yeah I’ve heard that too, I’d just rather not have to deal with wine for something as basic as a media player. Especially when it’s supposed to be as simple and lightweight as foobar

  • WesternInfidels@feddit.onlineEnglish
    14·
    21 天前

    Sumatra PDF Reader is no-frills and distraction free. Even on my ancient PC, it’s fast as heck. I have rather rudely installed it on other people’s PCs, because their slow all-singing all-dancing PDF readers drove me up the wall.

    RawTherapee converts “RAW” files from digital cameras to friendlier image formats, and pretty often RawTherapee’s edit is all I need. It’s feature packed, it can do film simulations, image de-noising, tone-mapping, and now it has the ability to do some local adjustments, too. I have several “RAW” converters, including a commercial one, but I keep coming back to RawTherapee as the mainstay, the most productive for me.

    I’ve got foobar2000 set up as a pretty plain-looking, non-distracting music player. It’s got great library features, it has a wildly customizable interface, it’s got a plugin architecture to extend its abilities in many ways. It has stayed on my PC for years because of its quiet competence, always serving without demanding my time or attention.

    I used to keep my password file and other confidential stuff inside a TrueCrypt virtual volume. Now I use the successor, VeraCrypt. Both have always worked flawlessly; in fact, TrueCrypt is way smaller and I’m not aware of any security issues with it, it’s just not actively developed anymore.

    • Mothra@mander.xyz
      2·
      21 天前

      Ah, another Sumatra user! I also used RawTherapee during my student years. I’ll keep in mind your other two suggestions, you sound like a reasonable person

    • osanna@lemmy.vgEnglish
      1·
      18 天前

      Last i heard, truecrypt had some SERIOUS vulnerabilities. stick with veracrypt.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      20 天前

      Foobar, my love. No other audio player comes close. It’s so minimal and so powerful and fast.