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    • I use ferdium to concentrate all my communication accounts into a single place and not get lost
    • Syncthing is really nice to keep my files readily available between devices
    • Zotero is amazing if you do academic research. I can’t imagine making references without it
    • distrobox allows me to run things that aren’t available or that would conflict with my distro’s repos
    • frog saves me a lot when I have to copy text from an image. It’s a simple and easy to use ocr tool that can quickly get text from screenshots or image files
    • personaldnsfilter allows me to block ads on the phone, system-wide
    • changedetection.io checks a few sites for me automatically
    • Well caibrated guesslron and openoise are handy measuring tools
    • Just knew about paperknife recently, and it has been useful to process pdfs on the phone
    • Plainapp is really useful to share files from the phone with other devices

    Those are the ones that came to my mind


  • morto@piefed.socialtoLinux@lemmy.ml2026 is the year of the Linux desktop
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    16 days ago

    But the thing with anything that involves network effect (like any os adoption) is that the growth is very slow at first, but it grows faster and faster as more people get in. We used to be grouped along with “others” in charts, then came the “counted with less than 1%” mark, and it took a long time. Then the 1% milestone, then 2%, much faster than from not counted to counted, then 3%, faster than it moved from 1 to 2. Now stats vary from 3 to 5 %, depending on the source. It’s getting really fast, and will grow even faster. This is a very significant difference