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What is your favourite open source software that you discovered in the past year, that you can no longer live without? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Shape4985@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Mine is Local Send which is a FOSS alternative similar to air drop that works across a variety of devices.

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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)

My choice is screen on the CLI. It's an old one, but I just learned about it this year and it's been amazing helpful doing complex, long-running tasks via SSH.

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

screen is like tmux, right? So you can split your CLI, open a new window/tab to open more Bash/Vim instances?

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Yep! You can have multiple named screens, log them all individually, and they'll keep processes running even if you disconnect. Never used tmux but screen is usually installed on the systems I'm working on.

[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

tmux is a modern screen replacement.

[–] saplyng@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

In that same vein, give zellij a look! I use it pretty constantly whenever I'm sshing in a nominatim server

[–] Shape4985@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Screen is great, i used it for a long time to keep my Minecraft server process running on a raspberry pi. I recently just switched from screen to tmux

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Screen is great! My favorite though is byobu, a pretty screen