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What is your favourite open source software that you discovered in the past year, that you can no longer live without? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Shape4985@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Mine is Local Send which is a FOSS alternative similar to air drop that works across a variety of devices.

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[–] nosnahc@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Klipper, for 3d printing. Most of current manufacturer use it as primary software for their printers.

[–] squid_slime@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Jami, a p2p zoom replacement I am looking to use.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

I'll take a slight tangent to this topic and talk about FOSS software I've recently had to give up that I really really miss: Autokey. Autokey is a rough equivalent to AutoHotKey on Windows, it can do anything from on the fly text replacement (type teh and it will correct to the, or type *date and it fills in today's date) right up to firing whole Python scripts. it doesn't work on Wayland (apparently there are security features that prevent it from working the same way it does on X11?), and I've yet to find a replacement for it that does.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ditto clipboard manager and altsnap with the Hot-click and fancyzone style controls

[–] isyasad@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Seconding AltSnap although I use normal controls with an Alt key bound to a mouse button. Special shoutouts to "Action menu" for all the cool stuff it lets you do and "Windows list" which is just a better version of Alt+tabbing if you have multiple monitors.

[–] jaxxed@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I switched to niri about a year ago. It's perfect for those who like tiling WMs but want a more natural flow, without constant window resizing.

Niri with waybar, fuzzel, and tessen give a pretty complete desktop.

[–] markstos@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I discovered this more than a year ago, but Fuzzel.

I just wrote about the new release here:

https://mark.stosberg.com/feature-packed-app-launcher-and-fuzzer/

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