KDE Connect was worth switching away from Mint for. I was blown away. All of this stuff that just works!

Proton.

It allowed me to ditch Windows for good. Playing games on Linux, often with similar or even better performance than on Windows, was an insane idea ten or fifteen years ago. Nowadays it‘s rare to see a game not working on day one. And if it doesn‘t, Proton‘s devs oftentimes fix it within a day or two. It‘s an amazing piece of software with an amazing team behind it.

Now that I think about it, most of it.

Neovim, curl, ffmpeg, all gnu utils, sioyek (pdf viewer), i3wm, autorandr, alacritty, tmux and so on.

OH! tmux obviously. It’s rock solid.

bolt launcher

busybox

ffmpeg

neovim

It just feels right. It took me some time to get used to the vim motions. But man, does it make moving around any project so fast and natural. I went in for the customizability. And that’s obviously there. But the sheer speed it gives me is uncanny. My past self with VS Code could never.

I’d also suggest taking some time to write your own config from scratch once you get the hang of it; it’ll be worth it.

Does “Linux” itself count? I can’t even remember the last time I had anything running Linux have a system crash.

mpd+ncmpcpp

df -h for a bit of existential dread.

xbps as of recent

ffmpeg and rsync are heavy candidates for me

foot has been pretty solid for me. No complaints.

vim

GNU nano.

I don’t know why I bothered using Vim, Neovim, Micro, mg, and JOE for so long, when nano was always there (though not necessarily OOTB), configurable with all of the features I used in the other editors, and has never broken as long as I’ve been using it.

The only editor I may leave it for would be Emacs, and that would be more for the extension scripts and an excuse to learn ELisp than anything else.