Submitted 1 year ago by Iam@lemmy.dbzer0.com to linux@sh.itjust.works
Just saw a thread on thermal monitors for a desktop set up. It made me think of GKrellm. No https apparently.
I loved using that! But for some reason I stopped installing it.
Same with Afterstep. Though I found the configs for that one a pain to use, and I eventually started using things like Fluxbox.
So, what did you used to love, and maybe still do? Bit of a desktop-focus but it can be anything I suppose.
FileZilla, until the maintainer(s?) decided to start putting malware in the installer.
Likewise with Moq, it’s not cool grabbing emails from my got config without asking and sending them somewhere.
I use Easytag regularly despite not being updated in 7 years
If someone told me over twenty years ago that one day I would not be using Gentoo, Enlightenment, screen, bash and ssh. I would have had a hard time believing it yet now I am using Arch, i3wm, tmux, fish and mosh. Gkrellm was always permanently running on my desktop at that time too.
Enlightenment. Loved it. What did I run it on? Back before we did the free Ubuntu cdrom… Knoppix! That took a while to remember and find. GKrellm and the webcam plugin for things like Earthcam.Com
Kubernetes and the ecosystem around it… Things like external-dns, autoscalers, external secrets operator, istio, cilium, vitess, etc… It’s a joy to work with and I don’t want to go back to the old way if I can avoid it.
Audacity
Windows before I found linux, adobe software in general before they started making their stuff subscription only. Krita and da vinci fill the void somewhat.
XMonad
I really liked my setup, but some programs sucked to use with it (GIMP comes to mind). It was the tiling WM that I stuck with the longest (also tried i3 and AwesomeWM).
Maybe I’ll find Sway a shot now that I have an AMD GPU so Wayland should work properly. If anyone has any recommendations for Wayland tiling compositors, let me know, I see there are several now.
MacOS. Until someone at Apple decided it needed to look and act like iOS.
cloudless@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Ubuntu until it integrated with Amazon search. Years later I tried a recent version but I hated snap being forced everywhere.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Switched to Mint when Mark Shuttleworth personally declared all windows would be left-handed, the day before a long-term feature freeze.
Coin-toss decisions have no wrong answer… except going back to re-flip that coin. Once people learn whichever way you implemented, that is the right answer.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
For me it was more petty, I bailed when they moved my window buttons to the left (Ubuntu 10.04 I think?) because I saw the writing on the wall for further unwanted changes. And sure enough, they moved to Unity as their DE, which I couldn’t stand.