KDE Plasma for me, it's amazing how good it is and how stable it has become. I've been using KDE for years and I've recommended it to almost anyone I could - and they always stuck with it, because it was simply too much well done. Compared to gnome 3 and other new desktop environments, KDE has always been so easy to use, predictable and customisable, a very joy to use.
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#33and such.
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#35Kazaa lite codecs, classic media player, Vs code, Google docs and most Google products, freely, android
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#36https://sourceforge.net/projects/group-office/
Amazingly complete CRM system with a robust and fast web based IMAP client.
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#37Linux. Arch for my fancy stuff, Alpine for my servers.
SQLite and Fossil, from the inimitable D. Richard Hipp, plus rsync and rclone to keep everything in its place.
Yes, I'm a minimalist.
Of course, good is so intrinsically tied up with free that we cannot pry them apart. Not for the sake of money (I do contribute, I do donate), but for the convenience and accessability, and of course the principle.
Oh, and GIMP. How could I forget?
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#39Kazaa lite codecs, classic media player, Vs code, Google docs and most Google products, freely, android
It's paid by advertisers. Docs and mail are just the Trojan horse to get you to use Google for searching.
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#40TreeProjects Personal Database: http://personaldatabase.org/ - searchable, inter-linkable, hierarchical notes and media tracking for projects
Godot Game Engine: https://godotengine.org/ - the scene graph system wherein a "scene" is just a saved subtree of nodes and can be instantiated at any point within a parent scene is so far beyond the clumsy scene/prefab split in eg. Unity