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Whats your favorite free open source software that everyone should try? (midwest.social)

submitted 1 year ago by Sigmatank@midwest.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Lemmy seems like the right place to ask this. Personally I've really enjoyed Gurgle, which is a FOSS Wordle clone app.

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[-] Jed_Hed@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago

        Hugo has been a phenomenal tool for building light-weight, static websites as I've been working to drop WordPress
KMyMoney is a life altering personal finance manager that has made budgeting and saving so much more achievable
KeepassXC is what I use for all of my passwords and important information relative to accounts
Aegis is also a tool I've been using for 2FA after seeing the benefits of that kind of model

[-] dan@upvote.au 3 points 1 year ago

For what it's worth, there's several static site generators that use WordPress as a backend but generate static HTML files. You might be interested if some of those WordPress sites are client sites, as the clients could still use the WordPress admin panel but the actual site will be static.

Aegis is good but I personally prefer Authenticator Pro. It's also open source, and supports watches. It's so much more convenient getting 2FA codes on my Samsung watch. Aegis is very principled and refuse to use non-open-source libraries. I really appreciate that stance, but unfortunately some of Google's libraries for building WearOS apps are closed-source.

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