FOSS or otherwise
Going back to a “normal” text editor after using Vim for a few years would be horrible
Life without qBittorrent would also be pretty difficult, hell no, I’m not paying for DRM content that requires proprietary software to watch
After 20 years on vi/m, I recently moved to vscode with vim plugin and I have to admit… I really like it.
You sinner
Check out zed or lapce. Both are open source but native editors as opposed to chromium with near first class vim support. Much faster but less stable as neither are 1.0 yet. Additionally they have great LSP features.
That being said I just can’t give up my vim and terminal workflow but I’m actively following both projects.
I really like qbittorrents built in search feature.
Yeah the search is pretty nice, but I prefer my selfhosted instance of bitmagnet
Browser, I guess? Without one you’d be back to early 1990s home computing.
A compiler. I mean, yeah, I guess I could go back to writing asm, but I really don’t want to.
asm? ha! back in my day we were hammering ones and zeros into clay tablets.
You had clay? You lucky. We used stones and put mammoths on the wall.
Vim, curl, git, python, bash
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What if I swap it out with helix like that statue in Indiana jones
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I will!! Right after I look up key command that does that.
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Sure and place neovim there
Shove-it, an ancient Windows utility by Phord Software that shoves any half-offscreen windows back onto the monitor so that you can get to all the gadgets. Phenomenally useful. First thing I install on any new build.
Linux, seriously, it’s in my phone, my router, my desktop, my ISP and nearly the entire infrastructure of the internet upon which I rely uses it.
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7zip
Newpipe
Nextcloud.
Does everything from GSuite that I need it to, but without looking through everything I upload, and analyzing it for advertising and other purposes that I wouldn’t consent to.
Android. As bad as it is, if I had to use iOS or Linux phones it would be even worse, at least with the current state of Linux phones.
But actually, maybe if Android didn’t exist, the FOSS community would focus more on Linux phones and they would be an actually good option. Maybe Android shouldn’t exist?
For me it’s iOS, funnily enough. I use Windows for all of our video game machines and Linux for everything else, but I don’t use any Google products or services. After messing around on my computers all the time, I don’t want to even have to THINK about doing things to my phone to make it go. My current phone is six years old and the only reason I’m upgrading this year is to get a 120hz screen, USB-C, and for better low light pictures of cats. And a terabyte would be nice.
Google is a bad company, and Apple isn’t any better. Probably the best option for you would be GrapheneOS on one of the latest pixels, they have intuitive software, 120hz screens, have bad USB-C for years, a good camera, lots of storage, and most importantly GrapheneOS doesn’t use Google or Apple, it’s FOSS.
GrapheneOS is awesome, but like I said, no google products and I don’t want to fuck with my phone at all. Apple isn’t perfect, but it’s leagues better than stock Google with app permissions and overall privacy. My six year old phone is still fully supported for at least another year, and I enjoy the OS for the very few things I do on my phone. This is definitely the best option for me.
My biggest concern with graphene is that I don’t really trust that my apps will work on it.
I haven’t looked into it for years, but I do need to use apps like Microsoftone drive, WeChat, banks, etc.
Even if they work I’m concerned that they will see I’m on some modified OS and block my account.
Maybe just a feature phone and tether it to a laptop?
Firefox, emacs, restic backup, bitwarden, linux/bsd
Git
My first thought is that my work requires office365 mail and my discovery that davmail exists has been a godsend. I’m not going to install outlook on my linux pc, so being able to check those emails using any client (claws in my case) is a massive convenience upgrade from relying on firefox to login.
