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I want to know what kind of apps/programs y'all recommend to people or just use personally. This is just in general, could be anything from a game to a media codec. I personally use Linux but stuff for other operating systems is welcome too.

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[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I have a few to recommend...

Firefox - Stop giving an ad network all of your data on a silver platter.

Affinity Photo - Good photo editing software with perpetual licensing.

digiKam - FOSS photo organizing software

Strawberry Music Player - A fork of a fork of amaroK, good music player!

VLC - Watch any video file.

Kodi - Consume your media library, in style!

OpenRA - Play the original Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert as well as Dune 2000 on modern hardware/software for free.

Unreal Tournament 2004 - I have bought this game three times, the original CD release on 6 discs, Steam and GOG. This is to my mind the best arena shooter ever, the original CD release even came with an official Linux installer.

[-] akkajdh999@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

OpenRA - Play the original Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert as well as Dune 2000

OMG I'm gonna unlock some really deep memories right now

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

they can be found on openra.net

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Minor warning about Strawberry Music Player:

If you are looking for a completely free local music player on windows or mac without paying, I'd skip this because both versions are tied to patreon last I checked. I know as a fact the windows version is, but not 100% sure on the mac version since I don't have a mac.

I personally think it's good enough if you feel like paying for it so they can keep developing it, but it's good to keep this kinda stuff in mind.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 weeks ago

Tied to patreon how?

I was on Clementine before but development seems to have stalled

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 2 points 4 weeks ago

Currently, at least for the windows version, you need to be part of the patreon if you don't want to have to build from source. Right now I can get on my desktop and load Strawberry (which I got before this started happening) and it'll tell me there's an update for the windows version, the one I have because my desktop currently runs win10. If I click the button to update, it'll take me to their patreon account and ask me to support them if I want the precompiled update.

I'd build from source on windows, but that sounds like a nightmare, so I just haven't been able to update.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 weeks ago

Ah, I had no idea, thanks for letting me and others know!

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