cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/47032660

Discover Hidden Gems: Open-Source Software You Should Know About

We all love open-source software, but there are so many amazing projects out there that often go unnoticed. Let’s change that! Share your favorite open-source software that you think more people should know about. Here’s how you can contribute:

  1. Single Option Per Comment: Mention one open-source software per comment to be able to easily find the most popular software.
  2. No Duplicates: Avoid duplicating software that has already been mentioned to ensure a wide variety of options.
  3. Upvote What You Love: If you see a software that you also appreciate, upvote it to help others discover it more easily.

Check out last year’s post for more inspiration: Last Year’s Post

Let’s create a comprehensive list of open-source software that everyone should know about!

    • Novaling@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      3·
      5 hours ago

      I’m curious, I’ve never had the chance to really use Signal much, and I’ve never used an XMPP client before. What made you dislike Signal and use XMPP instead? I wish I could convince my iMessage loving mom to jump to anything else.

      • Stomata@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        4 hours ago

        I had no issue with signal (except phone number verification) but according to my family members signal uses a lot of ram and battery. Non of them have Google play services. XMPP doesn’t use that much resources and it’s simple, no unnecessary bloat.

        • Kekzkrieger@feddit.orgEnglish
          2·
          4 hours ago

          Sure all family members dont have play services…

          Also bullshit that Signals drains ram or battery, i wouldnt notice and never heard this before.

          • F04118F@feddit.nl
            2·
            1 hour ago

            Maybe Signal drains battery when it can’t use Google Play Services for notifications and falls back to keeping a connection alive to Signal servers instead?

  • OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml
    5·
    5 hours ago

    VeraCrypt, Clonezilla, Joplin, Futo voice and Futo keyboard, Sentry, Wasted, Untracker, WTMP app, Fossify app suite.

  • Mugita Sokio@discuss.onlineEnglish
    2·
    5 hours ago

    Picocrypt, which is an encryption tool for files and folders. It’s a 3MB application that utilizes XChaCha20 as its encryption algorithm. It isn’t developed anymore, but it’s well worth it regardless.

    Neigsendoig, my producer, just started using it, learning how it works.

  • Novaling@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
    5·
    8 hours ago

    I advise you to post any recommendations to the original post, I was just sharing it here so others can find it! I also wanna see those recs myself so that’s the motive for posting this 😅

    • Novaling@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Okay, just curious, does anyone else have a bug preventing them from using Openkeychain? Whenever I try to confirm a key, it simply gets stuck at the “My Key:” selection drop-down. There’s a 8 year old GitHub issue that was started and it never got solved…

      And like, there’s no alternatives for this app are there? It seems Thunderbird defaults to them.

      EDIT: I’ve been trying to create a keypair from Open keychain and simply export the pair to my laptop to use it there but any key it generates is unable to be imported by both gpg and Thunderbird. It seems I’m not the only one having this issue, meanwhile the project seems to be no longer maintained. What do I do? Give up on using Thunderbird on mobile?