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Anonymous
10/21/25(Tue)21:05:57 No.106968085

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Anonymous 10/21/25(Tue)21:05:57 No.106968085

What's the one program you would put on the 'free open source software' pedestal? The one program you would point to and say 'this is the FOSS ideal. This is where we want all foss to end up and it is the goal the rest should live up to'.

Anonymous
10/21/25(Tue)21:12:51 No.106968134

Anonymous 10/21/25(Tue)21:12:51 No.106968134

>>106968085
Emacs

Anonymous
10/21/25(Tue)21:20:11 No.106968187

Anonymous 10/21/25(Tue)21:20:11 No.106968187

>>106968134
/thread tbhfamalamadingdong

Anonymous
10/21/25(Tue)21:25:12 No.106968229

Anonymous 10/21/25(Tue)21:25:12 No.106968229

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Kakoune

Anonymous
10/21/25(Tue)22:01:49 No.106968511

Anonymous 10/21/25(Tue)22:01:49 No.106968511

ffmpeg. It indirectly got me to use Linux and learn more and more about the CLI.

Anonymous
10/22/25(Wed)01:56:18 No.106969860

Anonymous 10/22/25(Wed)01:56:18 No.106969860

>>106968085
KeepassXC
>looks good
>competent UI
>self-hosted
>cross-platform

Anonymous
10/22/25(Wed)01:59:25 No.106969879

Anonymous 10/22/25(Wed)01:59:25 No.106969879

curl

Anonymous
10/22/25(Wed)02:10:56 No.106969943

Anonymous 10/22/25(Wed)02:10:56 No.106969943

GCC

Anonymous
10/22/25(Wed)02:45:35 No.106970139

Anonymous 10/22/25(Wed)02:45:35 No.106970139

For normalfags, I'd say mpv is ready for the big leagues.
For autistic people, ffmpeg, of course.

Anonymous
10/22/25(Wed)03:24:34 No.106970328

Anonymous 10/22/25(Wed)03:24:34 No.106970328

>>106968085
SQLite

Anonymous
10/22/25(Wed)03:34:53 No.106970382

Anonymous 10/22/25(Wed)03:34:53 No.106970382

>>106970328
Sqlite is incredible. I wish it had literally any built-in synchronous transaction replication feature though.

Anonymous
10/22/25(Wed)03:50:31 No.106970462

Anonymous 10/22/25(Wed)03:50:31 No.106970462

Blender obvs

Anonymous
10/22/25(Wed)03:50:50 No.106970466

Anonymous 10/22/25(Wed)03:50:50 No.106970466

>>106968085
the SQLite codebase is amazing

Anonymous
10/22/25(Wed)03:57:10 No.106970504

Anonymous 10/22/25(Wed)03:57:10 No.106970504

>>106970382
This is the closest thing, haven't used it myself though
https://sqlite.org/rsync.html

Anonymous
10/22/25(Wed)04:18:09 No.106970588

Anonymous 10/22/25(Wed)04:18:09 No.106970588

>>106970504
WTF that's amazing! I wish it had some way to mark rows as replicated though.

When did they add this? How did I not know?

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