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AntennaPod on my android. An open source podcast player with no ads that has all the features I need to enjoy podcasts.

Firefox (including recent forks) Antennapod Linux Cyanogen mod / LineageOS Thunderbird K9 Mail GIMP Inkscape Steam DOTA2 (bots only) apt Debian

Probably many more...

On Windows machines probably since more than 20 years: TotalCommander

Wish they would offer a linux port. (Though Krusader is quite a good replacement.)

Blender.

10 years ago it was scarcely believable that a FOSS package for such a niche purpose could be so fucking good. And it got better in the meantime. If Blender had existed when I was a kid I would have probably spent every waking hour creating stuff with it. As an adult, I get limited time to do that, but I appreciate that it exists.

I've been using this app on my android forever called J4T it's a 4 track recorder. Love it. Might not count but I think it does.

OurGroceries.

The year was 2010, and the iPhone was not yet available where I lived. I could have bought one, and I could have activated service with it, but I would never be able to use it at home or anywhere around home. So it would have been pointless. I wanted one. Android was cool, but it wasn't really what I wanted. Wife needed a new phone, and our carrier had a deal. Two Android phones for $100, and each came with a $20 Android Market (what Google Play Store was called then) gift card. So yeah, we took that deal. The phones were ass, but I was able to put CyanogenMod (now called Lineage) on them and make them a little better.

We wanted a grocery app, and we discovered an app called OurGroceries. Free with ads, or $5 to remove the little banner at the bottom. Even without paying, it offered synced grocery lists and even Web access. As in, my wife is at the store and I'm on the computer, I just hit the bookmark and add something to the list, she sees it in a second or two (provided she has signal or WiFi). We both paid. The app was useful and it was nice.

When I got an iPhone, I immediately paid the $5 again. They since changed it to where only ONE person on the sync account needs to pay. That is to say, if you and five family members all download it, all six of you get ads. But if ONE person connected to the sync account pays, the paid status syncs and nobody has ads. That said, I'm not mad because $10 of the $15 I've paid wasn't even mine to start with, it was on a gift card. It's been 16 years, and we still use it.

Is it the best grocery app? I think it still ranks highly. Personally I think the one in Paprika is a little better. Our first requirement is that it must support iPhone, Android (my wife still uses Android), and computer. Paprika checks those boxes — so does Google Keep, which is another good option (that is also free!). Apple has shopping list support in Notes, and our computers are Macs, so that works, but Apple Notes doesn't really work on Android. It actually does, I think, through the browser (since my wife has an Apple account, on the Mac and on her iPad), but it's not as robust if you actually have an iPhone. Any note taking app should work, but the sync won't be there.

So if you don't want to pay, Google Keep should be your first stop. If you don't like Google for privacy or whatever reason, you'll probably have to pay. OurGroceries is either a single developer or a small team, and they're independent, and deserve at least the $5 they're asking for a whole family to use their app indefinitely (as long as they keep the server up — I hope, should they ever decide to take their server down, they allow a self-hosted option). If you want more features, Paprika is definitely a solid choice, but you'll want to wait for a sale. Normally it's like $10 on phones and $20 on computers or something. But it's actually not a shopping list app. It's a recipe manager that has a shopping list and a pantry inventory. And a couple other things. (OurGroceries also has a recipe manager, but it's not great, it's really just another kind of shopping list that can be copied into an actual shopping list — you can have multiple.)

VLC, IDM, Krita, Sharex

Damn Small Media Player. Loads instantly. Plays mp3s. Takes up 850 KB on my hard drive and ~15 MB RAM while playing a song in a large playlist. Now that's what I call software.

Skyrim, firefox, blender, libre office, heroes of might and magic 3

Warcraft III

Factorio

L~Y~X
It combines the advantages of L^A^T~E~X with the ease of use of LibreOffice.

GIMP
It has some rough edges (fewer than it used to), but it's all I need for editing my photos.

darktable
A fully capable Adobe Lightroom alternative

cmus
A TUI music player that plays music. Nothing else.

And of course VLC and Firefox, which aren't just the best FOSS programs for their use case, but the best, period.

Linux, vim, zfs

Greenshot, although MS snipping tool has a cool OCR that can grab text from screenshots which is really cool so I use both at work.

7zip, VLC, MS PowerToys, KeepassX, Firefox, been using those for a long time now.

Ah, OneNote, been using that for work since I was in University, around 2005ish. Unfortunately they stopped development on the old version, made a shit mobile version which also seems to have stalled, so not sure if it's going to get any future updates. But it's still good. If people have good alternatives please let me know.

7zip, notepad++, ScreenShotAssistant, git

I've used ls, cat, echo, cd, mkdir, mv, cp, rm, & ssh pretty much every day I've touched a computer since some time near the end of the twentieth century. Honorable mention to sudo, find, rename, ffmpeg, Gimp, & VLC. If you count ROMs for games, the list gets into the deeper past, though I don't use them as often. I guess I still need to get around a few Windows/DOS machines, so ~~DIR and~~ (I don't love DIR) CD ~~are~~ is probably the absolute oldest when at the keyboard, but it's technically a different thing for different systems even though it does the same task.

As for loving it, I love when shit just works and I love the command line.

Most of 'em. Here are some highlights.

• vi/vim. The one true text editor
• thunderbird. Standard email client
• musicbee. Absolutely the BEST audio player/organizer anywhere. Sadly, not available on Linux
• potplayer. Just a simple, high quality video player
• LibreOffice. Used to be almost as good as MS. Now it is far better.
• FIrefox, sort of. I've lately switched to Waterfox, which is from the same code base as ff.

gcc

For that long? There are only a few left:

• Firefox
• Thunderbird (not loving it, but it is ok)
• 7zip
• My own app for sorting and moving files
• My own password manager

If I include games then:

• OpenTTD
• Quake III Arena (for LAN parties)

There were more that I loved, but I have stopped using them a month ago. (Because I switched to Linux):

• MusicBee
• FastStone Image Viewer
• MPC-HC + madVR
• StrokesPlus
• Q-Dir
• Malwarebytes Firewall Control
• Input Director

Linux.

Im coming up on 15 years of being a Linux user. From playing around/tinkering to leading to my first Job to now working as a Linux Sysadmin for a couple of years.

Switched to being a full-time Linux user around 2005, still love it ...

Used AwesomeWM for a long time but a few years ago I switched to an even more minimalist WM a friend of mine is developing ... still love it despite some bugs ...

Tried a variety of IDEs but always ended up with Emacs ...

And, last but not least, I've been developing my own software for music composition and performance for more than 10 years now, and use it every day ... can't say it's the same because it always changes, but I use it practically every day :)

XNview. This was a screen capture & basic editing tool I started using in like the Windows95 era. Yes, the latest couple of version of Windows also do this, but I've got the hotkeys memorized at this point.

I reckon I should point out that I'm transitioning to Linux, so I rarely use it anymore. But we had a helluva run together.

I like Paint.NET. It's easy to use for simple image edits.

Kodi/XBMC - a little over 20 years ago I jailbroke my old X-Box gen 1 and after about a week I installed XBMC (X-Box Media Center), which was about 2 years old. I just was looking for a way to save space because I could fit a whole season of a show as AVIs on a single burned DVD and XBMC could be used to play it. 20 years and a name change later it’s still my TV front end. I’ve moved from a jailbroke X-Box to a Linux based media center PC but I still automatically boot to Kodi which plays anything I throw at it, keeps track of all the shows and movies I’ve watched, is front end for playing retro games and spawns Steam if I needed all off MCE remote and a Xbox controller to game with.

Kubuntu & it's default KDE apps. LibreOffice VLC CherryTree Firefox Thunderbird Gimp Kid3 Filelight UNetbootin Krename

Krita (a digital painting and Photoshop alternative). I've been enjoying using it for probably 10 years now, and it's only continued to steadily improve. Fantastic program.

mIRC (or for you guys, any IRC client). Not as vibrent as in the old days and some missing functions in comparison to modern clients such as Discord and many more.

WINAMP WINAMP WINAMP

It really whips the llama's ass

WinAMP

Definitely MediaMonkey, though I’ve had it for 16 years instead of 10 after paying $40 for a lifetime license. The license format changed once and I’ve misplaced my key a couple of times, but their support has always been great at getting me back on track.