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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    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.

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      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

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        You are completely right!

        UT2004 is not an arcade shooter, it is an arena shooter, sorry about that, thank you for correcting me

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      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.

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        30 days ago

        Tied to patreon how?

        I was on Clementine before but development seems to have stalled

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          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.

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        What is wrong with stock Firefox?

        I hope you are not calling it worse than Chrome, because that would be insane.

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          Hmm yeah. Not as bad as chrome but not that better. At this point, I use Librewolf because it allows uBo and has mozilla spyware removed. Mozilla pretends to be privacy-friendly. They aren’t your friend.

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            Well yeah, they are a company, I have never thought of them as a friend.

            I would like it if they released an annual “Firefox Pro” version, the only difference would be that Pro version would be branded as “Firefox Pro” and a badge in the about dialog.

            You would pay €20 for it, and Mozilla could rely less on ads, and focus more on privacy.