What (free and open-source) applications do you use on a daily basis?

- I'm probably dumb and wrong, but I feel like Firefox is going in a bad direction along with Ubuntu.
  Like I think in 10 years there will be a business tier paid Ubuntu OS that ships with Firefox, and after like 3 or 4 iterations, it will be the IE of the future.
  Current Firefox user. Writing is on the wall. Looking for new browser. And OS.
  
  What writing?
  
  Like I think in 10 years there will be a business tier paid Ubuntu OS that ships with Firefox, and after like 3 or 4 iterations, it will be the IE of the future.
  I would love that future, to be honest. Currently, Chromium based browsers have no serious competition. Worst case, we can (and have already) forked Firefox (e.g. to Librewolf).
  
  Which browser do you recommend?
  
  What makes you say that? I only switched to it recently

- Vaultwarden?
  
  The client implementation is foss
  
  No, they said BitWarden

- I wish they'd fix and release the nightly. It so cool looking but there are quite some bugs still. Like performance, playlists, options not working and somehow it can't play videos from my network, while release version can all of this...
  
  Oh wow, they have a version that doesn't look like it was made for XP? Sucks that it's buggy.
  
  I too am a bleeding-edge addict. I would prefer worse acting software so long as it is beta (or better, alpha (or better, nightly)).
  So I wasn’t even aware VLC had solved these issues I’m still delighted to live with.
  
  I wish they'd fix and release the nightly. It so cool looking
  Are there any screenshots of the nightly? I'm curious if it looks good enough to switch back.
- VLC is so bad, IMO. There are so many things it does really badly or doesn't do at all that any other alternative (like MPC) does well. It doesn't help that it's ugly as sin, too.
  
  What's with the hate on VLC? It's done more than what I've ever wanted. You can also use it to download YouTube videos and stuff. It's the bees knees, man!
  
  MPC doesn't run on Linux. That's one point for VLC ;)

mpv (video player)
Logseq (knowledge base/journal)
KISS launcher (android launcher)
OpenTracks (fitness tracking)
BreezyWeather (weather)
KDE connect (app to do shit between pc and phone)
Tasks (todo)
AntennaPod (podcasts)
Hacki (hacker news)
FlorisBoard (keyboard)
Unexpected Keyboard (another keyboard)
- Logseq is fantastic. I use it every day at work now for both knowledge and also lightweight task management.
- Maybe it's just a me problem, but I always have had troubles getting KDE Connect connecting my phone to other devices than my desktop. My phone and laptop could both be connected to the same wifi and be within inches of each other but refuse to acknowledge their existence. But I have my phone on the other side of the world and I swear it'll be able to connect to my desktop with no problem.
  KDE Connect is a pretty good program, but I can't recommend it because of the troubles I always have.
  
  I had this too until I discovered my router doesn't allow communication between devices connected to the 5GHz band. 2.4GHz works fine so now I have everything connected to that
  
  It's ability to connect your phone to your computer is honestly awful. It would be better if they just openly popped up a window and told you to pick the IP, but they even have to hide that and not support it on every platform.
  My laptop's plugged in my phone's on a Wi-Fi network they're on different VLANs. They could let me search for it by DNS name. They could let me just use a couple of static IPs so when I go from home to work it could find it in either place.
  If you have any equipment beyond a crappy one band ap, it's just going to fight you every time you want to use it.
  I love the software, I love the plugins It's just too damn bad that You have to remember to screw with it every time you think you might want to use it.

- The iTunes of eBooks.
- Calibre Web. And Kavita.

Syncthing.

Somewhat self promoting for the first two of these items as I'm directly involved. Leaving out the more obvious ones (Linux distro etc.) as they will have been mentioned. I'll stick to some of the less known things I use.
Pulsar - a community-led fork of the discontinued Atom text editor. Lemmy community
Joplin - note taking app. Lemmy community
Halloy - IRC client built in Rust and Iced
Navi - Command line cheatsheet tool
GitUI - Terminal UI git tool
Skim - Fuzzy finder
Dust - Disk usage tool (like du)
- Kudos for including some of the Lemmy communities!
- Thanks for highlighting Pulsar.
  I always found Atom clunky, but it was instrumental in changing how editors were made, perceived, and used.
  It did not deserve the death/abandonment it got.
  
  Atom was my go-to editor while in school--hard to believe it's been long enough to be abandoned already. I'm going to have to check Pulsar out.
- Dust has completely replaced du in my every day work. Other tools also written in Rust I make use of include Bat for an upgraded experience from cat, Tokei for quickly counting and recognising codes, and several other security tools like RustScan.
  I learn about Joplin today. Thank you for sharing your list.

Vim
- I even use VIM on my phone (termux).
  I tried various GUI text editors on Android, but they tend to be buggy or hard to navigate. Then there's the fact that I can just open a tmux session, detach, ssh into my phone and attach it.
  
  I've been using vim since it was just vi and I can't even begin to think about using it on a virtual keyboard!

Termux
Holy hell. So much it can do. Right now I am using it to transcode MPEG2 videos to AV1. With CRF 25, Preset 5, with a 480p30 video I get 5fps in Termux on my older Snapdragon 860. Meanwhile my laptop's Ryzen 3 3200U does 2fps.
You can run different server applications. Some are supported natively (e.g.: Tinyproxy, Privoxy, Squid HTTP proxy, apache2, nginx, navidrome, OpenSSH, TigerVNC, rsync, xorg-server, xwayland, xrdp,...) and some can run in proot (e.g.: Jellyfin, NextCloud). If you already have some web server and want it public, there's cloudflared too, so you can access it via Cloudflare tunnel.
RTL-SDR driver
Allows connecting RTL-SDR on Android and starting RTL-TCP server.
SDR++
The best general-purpose SDR app available on Android, GNU+Linux, Windows and MacOS.
KDE Connect
Nicely connects phone with a computer. Data transfers, remote control, finding your phone, synchronizing notifications.
LibreTorrent
Great client for Android.
There's more, but those I don't use daily, or have already been mentioned.
- I understood a couple of those words...
- For iOS folks, a-shell and iSH can do what termux is doing on Android. Ffmpeg, most userland Linux things.
  Both are open source.
  
  Yeah, I remember iSH being on TestFlight and just being blown away. Like what it could do on an iPhone 6S as an app.
- Can you link to some tutorials to learn to do what you describe here? Specially termux all I found was a Linux terminal emulator for android
  
  Thats the termux they are referring to
  
  Install it though F-Droid, third party app store.
- I have many doubts, I'll try to quote each.
  I get 5fps in Termux on my older Snapdragon 860. Meanwhile my laptop's Ryzen 3 3200U does 2fps.
  Is this good or bad for Termux? I'm kinda inclined to think it is good (I have a SD 865 so I'm extra curious).
  (e.g.: Jellyfin, NextCloud).
  I have read about the self hosting possibilities before for sure and while I will always find it amazing I would die inside if I had to use my phone (and specifically Termux, since I think text selection, copy/paste and overall typing is bad on it), that without proper hardware ofc (like external mouse and keyboard... Or a UI like DeX) so I gotta ask, do you use any of those services? If yes do you have some of those tools I just mentioned?
  RTL-SDR driver
  Allows connecting RTL-SDR on Android and starting RTL-TCP server.
  I kinda want to know what you meant here.
  SDR++
  The best general-purpose SDR app available on Android, GNU+Linux, Windows and MacOS.
  I only know SDR from the video format scene, and I know you want HDR or better.
  LibreTorrent
  Great client for Android.
  This is cool, and I didn't know about it, but surely there are better options to use torrent on Android?
  There's more, but those I don't use daily, or have already been mentioned.
  I kinda want to know what more, because honestly, if Termux was paid you would almost sell it to me 🤣
  
  I am sorry for not responding quicker, but I was at school and I am also tired, so don't expect a high quality reply.
  Is this good or bad for Termux? I’m kinda inclined to think it is good (I have a SD 865 so I’m extra curious).
  I have no idea. My phone and laptop are the 2 only pieces of hardware to test with. I also wanted to try OnWorks, but getting the file to that seems fairly painful. Downloading that particular video from archive.org is too slow, trying to get it from FileNow where I uploaded it would hang every 14MB and fail. The only working "solution" was running nginx webserver with that file there in Termux and creating Cloudflare QuickTunnel, but my mobile data is slow and we don't have internet at home. So I just didn't get to try it.
  I have read about the self hosting possibilities before for sure and while I will always find it amazing I would die inside if I had to use my phone (and specifically Termux, since I think text selection, copy/paste and overall typing is bad on it), that without proper hardware ofc (like external mouse and keyboard… Or a UI like DeX) so I gotta ask, do you use any of those services? If yes do you have some of those tools I just mentioned?
  I have only tried Jellyfin briefly and want to try running NextCloud when I'll have time for it, as that seems more painful looking at the guides on internet. Jellyfin just didn't fit my use case, so I replaced it for nginx with fancyindex module and Material theme.
  I don't have a problem using the touchscreen. Copy-paste works pretty well, like with any other text. Just a little tip: Home puts you on start of the line and End at its end.
  But anyway, I do often use a hardware keyboard. Sort of. I don't attach it to my phone, instead I SSH into my phone from some computer, be it my laptop or school PC. For GUI I can also use VNC server. Keep in mind VNC isn't encrypted by default. There's VNC-TLS and X509, but I have no idea how to deal with certificates, which allows anyone to do MITM attack on me. Simplest solution is running it over SSH tunnel, at which point I can use unencrypted VNC which is compatible with more programs.
  I kinda want to know what you meant here.
  RTL-SDR is one of the SDRs (Software Defined Radio) that I have. I also have a clone of RSP1. I don't know where I would start on that. It allows a lot. But after all, you can just search "What to do with SDR" yourself, and find countless answers.
  My most favorite use is receiving satellite signals. So far only in the 137MHz band because I don't have a satellite dish. In this case V-Dipole is enough. Since I have the RTL-SDR Blog's extendable dipole, I can fit a satellite imagery receiving station into my pocket.
  Check !amateursatellites@lemmy.world
  Example image that I received over APT (it's analog signal, old-school tech):
  
  I used noaa-apt, again in Termux, to decode it.
  Or perhaps this catches your interest: Cracking GSM phone calls and SMS with SDR (YouTube playlist) which is obviously illegal. It also only works for the weak A5/1 encryption and only with GSM (2G). While newer standards are sure safer, don't trust anything that's not E2EE at all anyway.
  I only know SDR from the video format scene, and I know you want HDR or better.
  Yep, SDR = Software Defined Radio.
  This is cool, and I didn’t know about it, but surely there are better options to use torrent on Android?
  I am not sure. LibreTorrent works well for me.
  I kinda want to know what more, because honestly, if Termux was paid you would almost sell it to me 🤣
  I meant other FOSS apps, not stuff in Termux. But it's like a locked down GNU+Linux machine, so it just does a lot of Linux things. Thanks to proot-distro or Andronix scripts you can even have Ubuntu, Arch Linux or other distros on it. That's what you need for Jellyfin for example. Just keep in mind that your phone is most likely aarch64 and Termux doesn't emulate other architectures. Though it can run QEMU 😏 (but if you tried Limbo PC Emulator x86 you understand how useless it is with anything better than Windows 98). I did get that to run Windows 7, yes, but even just opening a file browser took a few minutes.
  Anyway, cursed screenshot as a bonus:
  
  Even though it CAN be done doesn't mean you SHOULD. I already cooked 1 Poco X3 Pro motherboard to its death.
  
  RTL-SDR is basically a way of using a digital device as a broadband radio. That is an oversimplification, but that is the idea. There are cheap USB devices out there that will turn a PC into a ham radio receiver (among a really wide range of other bands like weather satellites). I have no idea how they are doing it with Android, however. Maybe using the phone's antenna.

Fluent Reader – to very quickly get a lot of news which I need for work
Beeper – for the 100 chat apps I need to use to stay in contact with my friends who don't use Matrix
Nheko – for the based friends who have [matrix] accounts and chats with industry professionals in my field
FluffyChat – mobile device [matrix] client
Logseq – as second brain, works better for me than Obsidian
Jameica – for online banking and accounting
K-9 Mail / Thunderbird – mail client
DecSync CC – for synchronising contacts with multiple devices through Syncthing
ActivityWatch – to track everything I do in case I forget to book time in my corporate time sheet, or if I want to know how long I played games in contrast to programming
KDE Plasma – best desktop environment boosting my productivity to about 140% of what I could do with Windows 10
Qalculate! – very fast and easy to use scientific calculator, can also do conversions like "1h50min → min" or "15€ → $"
Aegis – TOTP generator for mobile
VLC – plays everything you throw at it
mpv – plays everything you throw at it, if you installed the right codecs, and also does fancy ML-based GPU upscaling in my case
KeePassXC, KeePassDX – password managers integrated on Desktop, Laptop, Tablet and Phone
Syncthing – to automatically and seamlessly sync all my devices (Laptop, Desktop, Tablet, Phone, second Laptop, Servers, …)
Firefox Developer Edition, Librewolf – browsing the web without Chromium
Chromium – for PWAs like Teams, Outlook, Discord
- Now I really want to know what you do for a living.
  
  That's classified. Let's say I need OSINT for it :p
  
  ?
  
  Sounds like trading to me
- I've been on the beeper waitlist since July, how long did it take for you to get in?
  
  I think it was about 6-9 months.
- Thanks for the links provided !
- whats the difference between the keepass forks
  
  KeepassXC is for desktop, while DX is for Android.
  
  Keepass is the oldest one and only for Microsoft Windows. KeePassX is a discontinued project. KeePassXC is a community fork and my choice. Not sure about KeePassXD, maybe an Android version.
- Are you sure beeper is opensource?
  
  The client itself isn't, but their server implementation is and you could do the same with Element.

Well, there's the usual: GIMP. Lemmy & Firefish instances. Linux OS. Syncthing. Firefox. Inkscape.
qOwnNotes is cool and I don't hear much about it.
Also shout out to libre games. GZDoom and UnCiv mostly. But MOSTLY GZDoom. GZDoom is a platform, not a game.
- My kids love minetest. I play Dday, a quake 2 "ww2" total conversion mod.
  
  iirc the purpose of mintest itself is to be a stepping stone to make other game, but if people are having fun playing it as it is then I'm very glad
  
  Pretty much all I know about Minetest is "It's not Minecraft, and my friends all play Minecraft."
- Wesnoth's very fun too!

Firefox

NewPipe fork with SponsorBlock
- Not that there's anything wrong with newpipe, just additional information:
  Sponsor block is now avaliable on Firefox mobile app. It even works for YouTube videos that are embedded in other sites.
  
  That's good to know. It's integrated with ReVanced really well too.
  
  Thank you for pointing that out. I knew Firefox had updated to enable desktop add-ons to work with mobile but I didn't see Sponsor Block when I took a quick look.
- Seems like it is no longer maintained. Unfortunately that means it is only a matter of time until it breaks forever.
  
  Looks like it's only one update behind though. That's not too bad.

LibreWolf

Hey I use my own app every day. Let me tell you about it. :)
nephele-serve is the dedicated server version that I use to manage all my Jellyfin movies and TV shows. I also back up all my systems to it with DejaDup.
QuickDAV is the desktop app version that I use to transfer files around all of my way too many PCs, tablets, and phones (I develop mobile apps too, so I have a lot of devices). It’s easier (and usually faster) than using a USB stick, and it’s safer than leaving shares open all the time.
They’re both open source and use the same server software, Nephele, that I wrote for my email service, Port87.
Oh I’m also working on putting up a Docker image for nephele-serve and a Flatpak of QuickDAV.
- And nephele-serve is now available as a Docker image! :)
- why not syncthing for files?
  
  I’m not exactly sure what you mean, since Syncthing doesn’t do either of the things I was talking about.
  Syncthing is for syncing files.
  nephele-serve is for running a dedicated WebDAV server.
  QuickDAV is for transferring files.
  Syncthing has its own use cases, they’re just not the ones I use these apps for.

No mention of Thunderbird yet??

That's a very very long list...
Debian + Cinnamon desktop which inck7des the countless tools that come with that stack.
Termux on my phone
Zsh as my debian shell
OpenSSH
OpenVpn
tmux + tmuxinator
neovim, and dozens of plugins/tools with that
dart
flutter
large chunks of Node.js and the npm ecosystem
dotnet framework and countless nuget packages
lazygit
stable diffusion
llama.cpp, and many tools built on top of that
k3OS running Rancher
my entire selfhosted stack on the above which includes but is not limited to:
Shinobi
Bitwarden
Gogs
- Gogs
  You know it has been forked to Gitea and Gitea has been forked to Forgejo in the meantime?
  
  I knew of the Gogs forking, but why was Gitea forked?
- Valid

I'd finish earlier telling you which of my software is not open source.

Daily:
Signal
GrapheneOS
Bitwarden
Firefox/Mull
VPN
Baserow
Not daily:
Lemmy
Mastodon
Pixelfed
Invidious
Cryptomator
Aegis
Penpot
Aurora
LocalSend
OSM
Obtanium
Voyager
Open Video Editor
OpenScan
Cryptee
Element

MakeMKV! I primarily rent Blu-Ray from my library and sometimes enjoy it enough to rip it and keep it (for personal use)
- 🏴‍☠️🫡
  
  Off topic and cheesy.
  “What’s a pirate’s favorite CD?”
  “A CD-RRRRRRRR”
  I’ll see myself out
  
  See you out there on the bay! Rrrrrrrr

Daily basis:
SteamOS
Rasberry pi OS,
Firefox
Chromium
Gnumeric
Jerboa
Almost daily basis:
ffmpeg
streamlink
- 8Vim keyboard
  VLC

KeepassXC
Ardour
Thunderbird
- Ardour is fantastic.
  
  Agreed! I only use it for hobby purposes but the amount you can do is staggering.

On my server:
OpenMediaVault (NAS OS based on Debian)
Syncthing
Home Assistant
Zigbee2MQTT
Docker
Portainer
Radicale
Navidrome
On my phone:
Syncthing
Tailscale
Feeder
DAVx⁵
OSS Document Scanner
RPNcalc
DSub
EDSY
On my PC:
Odyssey Material Helper
EDDiscovery
EDSY
ObservatoryCore
Paint.net and GIMP
OpenRGB
Tailscale
- o7 cmdr
  
  O7
- Tailscale
  Not critiquing you or the software, but tailscale is not fully open source.
  
  Yeah and neither is paint.net

I use Aniyomi, Fennec, Obtainium, Jerboa, BetterUntis, Bitwarden, DroidFS, Aegis, LibreTorrent, Shelter, Survival Manual, Termux, ConnectBot, LocalMonero, F-Droid, RethinkDNS, InnerTune, Mastodon, Kuroba-Ex, Signal, Element, QUIK and FlorisBoard

AnkiDroid

Voyager for Lemmy
Harmonic for Hacker News
OpenBoard
- There were some scary moments when I lost my only means of accessing Reddit. Finding Lemmy and then _using accessing it through Voyager is so awesome I ought to post more about that.

Element

Does anyone know of a FOSS file explorer for Android that supports network locations? Fossify file manager would be perfect but doesn't have support for network locations.
- Material Files is by far the best file browser.
  https://github.com/zhanghai/MaterialFiles
  
  Thanks, I'll check it out!
- https://github.com/pgp/XFiles is what I've been using and am pretty happy about it
  
  Thanks, I'll take a look at that one as well.

LunaSea

Nextcloud

Habits

KDE Plasma
Okular
Dolphin
Librewolf
FreeTube
Debian
LyX
Eternity for Lemmy
Git

Some subset of modern Linux distro - Firefox, Emacs, Git, Tmux, OpenSSH, i3, sway... Android - F-Droid stuff

On mobile:
Feeder (RSS reader)
K9-Mail / Thunderbird
Mull (Deblobbed and privacy oriented Firefox Mobile fork)
Catima (Loyalty card manager)
Cofi (Coffee timer)
Neo Launcher
On desktop:
Spotify-qt and Librespot
I use a bunch of other stuff as well but these are the one I truly use daily that haven't been mentioned yet.
- deblobbed?
  
  I'll copy-paste this stackoverflow answer, because it sounds like its written by someone more knowledgeable than me.
  blobs are binary firmware, not distributed as source. they are necessary for certain hardware drivers to function, in whole or in part. As the source is not readily available, there are deblobbed distributions for opensource "purists".
  In the firefox context, there are certain non-free portions of firefox code base, namely the branding and some mozilla services integrations. Those are removed. This is more about licensing then availability of the code.

Don't think I've seen fish shell yet

Jellyfin

Goodtime (a pomodoro app)

Linux
GrapheneOS
OpenWRT
webservers / the internet (nginx, databases, storage, networking, ...)
Mull / Librewolf
Nextcloud (contacts / calendar sync ...)
an email server and client
Matrix chat
LG WebOS on my TV
Home Assistant
lots of user applications
There isn't much important proprietary software in this apartment except maybe for the firmware of the dishwasher / microwave, washing machine and additionally whatever software runs in an old car.
- WebOS is OSS?
  
  I think so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebOS
  I don't know about every component, but there is the Linux kernel and a lengthy list of open source components and licenses somewhere in the settings and manual. And you can get a busybox shell or something alike.
  
  There is an Open Source Edition

daily and both (desktop and mobile, cross-platform),
Mozilla Firefox

Vlc

I self host:
Miniflux - RSS Reeader
Alexandrite - Lemmy Client
Invidious - Youtube frontend

Godot

Libretube

Habits
Tasks
Quillpad
Firefox
Bitwarden
Immich
Miniflux
Wallabag (also testing Omnivore)
- I really love Onnivore, but my only issue is that RSS feeds are mixed in with the things you add to it. That being said, they’ve had a few updates that make it a lot better.

I use FreeCAD for both 3D printing and woodworking design.
I use Rednotebook for my personal journal, and it's mostly satisfactory.
- I'm a fan of OpenSCAD for my woodworking. But I'm not, like, industrial with it. But I can get my work done.
  
  I never hitched horses with OpenSCAD. Do you model each board individually? What's your workflow?

OpenRadio is a good one if you like radio and music in general. It has radio stations from everywhere and from almost every music style.

SumatraPDF
NotePad++

Joplin
- Do you sync your Joplin notes with Synching? Any tips?
  
  I do, works like a charm
  
  Not at the moment, but I suppose I could.

KDE Plasma

Syncthing (for obsidian notes, mostly. I know there are FOSS apps that do what obsidian does, but they just don't feel as good for my purposes).
LibreTorrent

Jellyfin and findroid. Mainly findroid.
Also PipePipe (piped app for youtube) and libretube
I also play an open source version of solitaire and a game called box stacker, both are from the f droid store
And ofc, infinity for lemmy
- I'm curious, what do you prefer about findroid over standard jellyfin media player? They seem to be pretty much the same minus findroid not having transcode support
  
  I’m curious, what do you prefer about findroid over standard jellyfin media player? They seem to be pretty much the same minus findroid not having transcode support
  Findroid allows for seamless downloading of media for offline playing, which is pretty useful. Also it's focus on only music makes it a bit simpler and more comfortable for me to use.

I started using Upscayl to upscale the AI images I make.
https://www.upscayl.org/

I want to highlight a practical usecase for password management with open source tools. Keepass (gnome secrets on computers, and keepassdx on mobile) with syncthing syncing encrypted password files between the devices. Very effective so far. Passwords are synced seamlessly.