The sort of program that once set up, just ticks along without fuss or bother forever.

For me, as I’m replacing the vms today which I set up five years ago and haven’t needed to touch since;

  • HAProxy
  • KeepaliveD

Not easy to learn, but once they’re running, they both go on forever.

  • Bluefruit@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Bottles.

    Without it, I wouldn’t be able to run addictive keys on Linux. I paid for the software back when I used Windows and since I’m able to use addictive keys on Linux, haven’t bothered trying to find an alternative.

    That said, its the only use case I’ve had with bottles that just works. Other programs ive tried are more hit or miss.

  • tirateimas@lemmy.pt
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    4 months ago

    So many. So many little utilities that just work. To mention a couple I think no one will mention because they are not sexy: Okular and Ark

    • passepartout@feddit.org
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      4 months ago

      Okular works so well at this point that I use it to annotate all my PDFs if I don’t explicitly need free-hand drawing (and xournalpp otherwise).

    • GatoMoto@lemmy.zip
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      4 months ago

      Big fan of the KDE suite of software. I’ve tried alternatives, but always come back to plasma and associated software

    • Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Ark is the best. It can open any type of zipped/compressed file, and it puts even 7zip to shame.

  • Jjoiq@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I will second KeealiveD.

    Pihole has been robust even the upgrades.

    Docker has been perfect for years.

    RaspberryPi os has been superb.

    • Dingaling@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Total agreement. So many unsung heroes involved in Debian. Work has agreed with me - today’s job involved migrating those load balancers to Debian underneath.

    • JoYo@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      4 months ago

      It’s a blessing and a curse how stable it is. I think less bleeding edge is better but when shit like audio and GPU are fucked they’re pretty much always fucked until dist-upgrade time.

    • nfms@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      4 months ago

      My small selfhosted system appreciates this very much. Having Debian as my base OS makes everything easier.

  • reluctant_squidd@lemmy.cadeleted by creatorEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Based on my experiences running multiple servers and pcs on multiple distros for more than a decade, almost all problems originate between the keyboard and the chair attached to the machine running Linux.

    Misconfiguration is usually the culprit.

    Oh and important note: I run Arch BTW

  • Veraxis@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I’ll give a shoutout to the rEFInd boot manager. If anyone has ever had trouble with Grub, rEFInd continues to work for years across multiple machines. I have never had a problem with it.

    • Dingaling@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      rEFInd

      Good shout. Not something I’ve heard of before and I’ve certainly had my share of problems with grub2, even recently.

  • wildflower@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I set up a couple of pi-zeros to monitor our heating and other stuff, it runs lightpd and have been running for several years uninterrupted.
    They are only accessible on the local network, so I don’t even bother to run updates :-)