What is your favorite Open Source Application and Does it run on Linux, Windows, or Mac or some or all three?
Mine is Deluge when I use it with VPN. Only on Linux.
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Sayonara media player⊠itâs the duckâs nuts⊠far as I know it only runs on Linux⊠I guess maybe I should try see if it runs on FreeBSD, but havenât turned on my FreeBSD NUC for monthsâŠ
Except for when itâs not the duckâs nuts, like right now⊠I chipped in some money to the project but current version 1.5.1 got a bunch of bugs (well 2 or 3 that affect me), and hasnât been updated since around October 2019, so Iâm using 1.3.0-stable2⊠(as it seems more âstableâ than 1.4.1)âŠ
- Main one is that it while it will compile on 32 bit ARM platforms, it wonât run (read the same thing for 32 bit x86) - and developer says this may never work (issue with gstreamer) - hoping a 64 bit Raspbian may help me here (this is one of the issues stopping me using my RPi4 as a desktop environment).
- Some issues with âwidgetsâ in the interface (especially in the tree navigation panes)
- Middle click to play folder no longer works (neither with real middle button, or emulated with both buttons pressed down click).
But I still use it - all day, every day, at work⊠and thanks again to @Abishek for recommending it months/years back on Itâs Foss facebook group⊠Itâs also great at managing tags, when Iâm too lazy to script/cli using id3v2 (which isnât capable of doing metadata on FLAC files anyway)âŠ
Honourable mention shout out to :
- Resilio Sync
- Synergy KVM
I actually paid for / licensed both products, but the source code is available for either, and both are pretty much 100% functional as open source products, and I used both, at work, and playâŠ
Also âremminaâ - because sometimes vanilla ârdesktopâ (called from the CLI or shell script) almost crashes my Ubuntu desktop - no idea why⊠but never happens in RemminaâŠ
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For me itâs always the one that Iâm using at the moment, I cannot name only one as my favorite. Right now Firefox, as I type this reply.
Caprine, whenever my wife wants to reach me via messenger⊠Oh, thereâs Thunderbird, which is my PIM, much more than just an e-mail clientâŠ
Libreoffice Impress along with âExport as imagesâ extension when I need to turn a presentation into series of pictures. Or if it contains animations, fancy transients, I just play the âslideshowâ and record it with OBS.
I try not to forget GIMP, which is my preferred image editor.
VLC if I look into a videoâŠ
Seafile client maintains my many data folders in sync with my server -thus between my gadgets-, which is the community version, so opensource.
Audacious plays my favorite online radio in the background.
As I still need to produce huge amounts of optical discs, I could not live without cdrskin, as this the only one, that allows me to burn on multiple burners at the same time.
Fontforge is my life-saver, when Iâm pushed to use some specific fancy font, which lacks accentuated characters of my languageâŠ
All of them are my favoritesâŠ
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Make a lyer of me would ya? Dang!
Sayonara just crashed my Gnome session, I recovered it sorta, but everytime I tried to do anything in Sayonara (e.g. skip forward, or skip track) it would suddenly chew up 120% of my CPU! Doh! Had to remote into my desktop machine from a Windows 10 machine and issue âsudo rebootâ 
if that ainât ironicâŠ
So - Iâm currently using ogg123 in a terminal to play FLAC files (using Cool Retro Term) :
and despite what I wrote on another thread some time back, relating to Toolâs singer (MJK), and the #MeToo movement, I canât help it, I love the other 75% of this band, and going to see them play Perth next week on Friday with two matesâŠ
And resource-wise? ogg123 player doesnât even âtouch the sidesâ - itâs registering cpu/ram usage under pulseaudioâŠ
Nowâs I just need something thatâs like ogg123 or mpeg123, but a bit friendlier, and less âcrashyâ than Sayonara⊠which I think Iâll stop using till itâs fixedâŠ
Iâll 2nd @kovacslt on VLC⊠use it all the time / daily⊠might start using as a music player again tooâŠ
Another honorable mention should go to transmission and its console/server/web component transmission-daemon - which I run on an OrangePi+ 2E plus or whatever itâs called⊠rock solidâŠ
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@daniel.m.tripp
Try Audacious before. It doesnât look that fancy, but itâs really 100% functional.
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Thanks for the suggestion mate, just tried it out, and I kinda hate it (audacious)âŠ
I already sort all my music by artist, and album, in folders⊠I donât need something else to come along and decide how to organise, what I already meticulously organise in minute detail, using a simple âb treeâ database (i.e. UNIX filesystem with files and folders)âŠ
Audacious comes along and presents it by genre! That mp3 tag annoys me so much - for a start thereâs like 50,000,000 sub-genres of metal alone! e.g. Scandinavian Melodic Black Metal (which has Norwegian and Swedish sub-genres itself!), vs Scandinavian Grindcore Black Metal - I sometimes, when Iâm tagging, and get prompted for genre, I make it âaccapellaâ whether itâs Shostakovich or Burzum, because the whole idea of âgenreâ annoys me so much! I already know that Mozart is Baroque, Tool is progressive metal, and Pink Floyd is progressive rockâŠ
Reckon Iâll use VLC until thereâs fixes in the wild for Sayonara⊠I just use nautilus (or any other file manager - like Thunar) to drop folders onto VLC and they play⊠I think thereâs Nautilus customizations so can right click and âEnqueue in VLCâ - but drag n drop works just as well for meâŠ
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@daniel.m.tripp
I donât like that either. Just let sort the playlist on the thing you want it to. I do let sort the list on track 
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Forgot to mention tmux and zsh (not necessarily in that order)âŠ
And in zsh I use âoh my zshâ (and customise it - because Iâm colourblind and I canât see/read red text on a black terminal background), and in tmux I just started using âoh my tmuxâ today.
Oh My Zsh :
Oh My Tmux :
In oh-my-zsh I use the gnzh.theme (from ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/themes) and use sed to search for red and replace it with â141â :
cp ~/.oh-my-zsh/themes/gnzh.zsh-theme ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/themes/dmt-gnzh.zsh-theme
cd ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/themes/
sed -i âs/red/141/gâ dmt-gnzh.zsh-theme
sed -i âs/robbyrussell/dmt-gnzh/â ~/.zshrc
(red is the colour this zsh theme uses if it realises youâre in a remote SSH session - and I do about 90% of my âstuffâ in a ssh session, remotely - and I NEED to know at a glance what host Iâm working on!)âŠ
One thing I love about oh-my-tmux? You can toggle mouse mode with âctrl +b +mâ, I figured out how to do that a while ago, but could only get it to work with âctrl +b +Mâ to turn it on, and âctrl +b +mâ to turn it off - and it wouldnât work in remote tmux sessions - but it works now! It needs to be an easy toggle option, because in mouse mode, copy+paste (e.g. select to copy, and middle-button to paste) doesnât work the âUNIX wayâ âŠ
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My favorite open source app would be signal:
Of course, itâs tough to choose one while Iâm using several others (which are also useful to me).
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Itâs actually funny how many open source apps there are that a lot of people use and people donât even make up their mind about it being open source. Sometimes they donât even notice.
This applies to browsers and other tools.
But if youâre really strictly looking at who is using such software, basically every Internet user, uses FOSS to some degree. There is OpenSSL, Linux, other components I donât remember the names of, etc.
So the point for me is that I use a lot of great F(L)OSS, so that I cannot really decide what is âbestâ or âmy favouriteâ . It depends on the area.
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Home from work - stinker today must have hit 40 celsius, and itâs still over 30 at 19:30 - having a few coldies (chilled white wines) and spotted this meme about metal 
:
Truth be known, I prefer black metal, to death metal, but most folks wouldnât know the difference between Metallica and Watain
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maybe we can have a separate thread for âmeme collectionâ 
? That would be a treasure xD
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I kinda thought spicing up any thread with some dank, or even spicy, memes would perk the place up a bit - seriously, I actually once worked as an undertaker*, and sometimes this forum seems as dead as a mortuary
- my wife still is, an undertaker
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Speaking of FOSS:
I just found this new IM. I like P2P networks in general, but there are some areas that I just donât find useful if based on P2P technology. Therefore Iâm happy this new IM is actually based on a centralised server approach.
I found this IM by checking out new apps on F-Droid.
The description says, that the Android client is based on XMPPâs most popular client, so I was not sure if the server is just another fork of XMPP based servers. However, the server seems to be created from scratch, so maybe it is indeed something new, which would be preferable, of course.
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Geany programmer text editor runs on all Major Platforms
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Mine is LibreOffice, runs on Linux, Windows and Mac. Also Firefox, Thunderbird, VLC Mediaplayer and TeamViewer⊠Thanks to Akito I am able to correct this message because TeamViewer is NOT open source!
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Would be too nice if TeamViewer were open source. 
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Iâve been using Sayonara for quite a while now, and IMHO, itâs got all the others Iâve used over the years, beat.
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Apart from Firefox,VLC and Libra Office suit, I use KSnapshot a lot for cropping pictures and grabbing sections of screen. I find it easier than a more featured program for simple stuff (GIMP has a pretty steep learning curve
)Itâs particularly useful when trying to explain something remotely as you can send âbig pictureâ plus an enlarged section as a detail view. Iâve even taken a picâs of a quick sketch, took 20 seconds instead of drawing out in CAD
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Agreed⊠Decided to kick the tyres on 1.4.1 (Sayonara) again - seems more stable than 1.3.x⊠Originally ent back to 1.3.x when I had problems with 1.5.1, which is âbuggyâ and hasnât been updated, canât remember my reasoning for eschewing 1.4 in favour of 1.3⊠I think Sayonara is the one app that I cannot live without ⊠just wish Lucio would update itâŠ
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