Proton.
It allowed me to ditch Windows for good. Playing games on Linux, often with similar or even better performance than on Windows, was an insane idea ten or fifteen years ago. Nowadays it‘s rare to see a game not working on day one. And if it doesn‘t, Proton‘s devs oftentimes fix it within a day or two. It‘s an amazing piece of software with an amazing team behind it.
Proton is a god damn godsend. After wrangling four or five WINE tools for a decade, this is a beautiful innovation. Genuinely, made switching away from Windows viable.
KDE Connect was worth switching away from Mint for. I was blown away. All of this stuff that just works!
Now that I think about it, most of it.
Neovim, curl, ffmpeg, all gnu utils, sioyek (pdf viewer), i3wm, autorandr, alacritty, tmux and so on.
OH!
tmuxobviously. It’s rock solid.ffmpeg
busybox
neovimIt just feels right. It took me some time to get used to the vim motions. But man, does it make moving around any project so fast and natural. I went in for the customizability. And that’s obviously there. But the sheer speed it gives me is uncanny. My past self with VS Code could never.
I’d also suggest taking some time to write your own config from scratch once you get the hang of it; it’ll be worth it.
Does “Linux” itself count? I can’t even remember the last time I had anything running Linux have a system crash.
bolt launcher
vim
ffmpeg and rsync are heavy candidates for me
systemd
Those a fighting word
shere you go: systemd is so much better then sysv-init, it’s not even funny
I really can’t take people serious that think sysv-init was the superior system. I mean for real, have you ever worked with it and all it’s shortcomings? It wasnt even a system, it was a bunch of bad init scripts
Nobody argued that sysv was better.
Just that there are other options, apart from systemd.
i started my professional software development career in 1999. the amount of older guys who called the web stupid and a fad or “gopher is the future of the internet” was crazy. people hate change
It was a bunch of bad init scripts, but it was our bunch of bad init scripts.
grep
Okular.
openssh
and on the opposite side, nvidia drivers
