Linux of course, it’s been headlining lately in terms of improvements particularly on the gaming front, but also FreeBSD based on how quickly it’s been moving in terms of improvements on the general desktop front, FreeBSD is at the point where it’s a viable third option on the desktop if you’re not gaming, although that’s assuming you’re running its
CURRENTbranch since that’s where the latest development happens.Ladybird because Mozilla is killing Firefox as fast as they can and I refuse to use Chrome or one of its forks.
I am a tad disappointed in Ladybird due to Andreas and Kirk debacle.
Servo is extra-important for things like webviews embedded in other apps.
Wargus for sure. In the age of darkness! In the age of darkness! Why do you keep touching me?
Currently I think the one that is the most exciting to me is Natsumi Browser, a modification for most firefox-based browsers with an interface similar to arc or zen browser. I used zen for months after it released, but every few updates some core functionality would break and they kept removing features that were essential to my workflow so I much prefer this addon on top of Floorp. There’s new useful features added frequently, and keybindings!
As someone who used zen for a while I feel that lol. I ended up going back to firefox, and I found ways to make it work for my workflow :3
Exciting enough for me to use on a daily basis, and I’m actively following their development progress. Not contributing, mind you. Nobody wants me of all people touching their codebase.
FreeCAD - The open source alternative to various proprietary parametric CAD and solid modelling software such as Solidworks, Fusion360, OnShape, etc. This recently passed its milestone 1.0 release at which point it could finally be considered actually broadly functional for actual real world use. Among various other widgets, I prominently used it to make this and this. Yeah, you guys know how it is.
I consider FreeCAD pretty important coming from the 3D printing hobbyist’s perspective because its the lone bulwark (well, okay, maybe also along with Blender and OpenSCAD) standing firm against the tidal wave of predatory bullshit being peddled by the commercial modelling software options, all of which at this point are genuine full-blown instruments of evil desperately trying to strangle, gatekeep, and paywall humankind’s ability to just make some goddamned shapes to 3D print.
In other news, I complied UZDoom from source the other night because somehow I missed that zdoom.org has precompiled binaries on their site, which I haven’t had to visit in years, but the UZDoom Github page doesn’t. We live and learn. UZDoom is pretty exciting because it’s a continuation of GZDoom with the added feature of kicking its insane former lead developer off of the project, or rather forking it out from under him. And everybody loves to play Doom.
I ought to contribute to FreeCAD.
Thrive and Veloren
Open source gaming will get a massive leg up from these 2
What about Godot?
Good point
I was mostly thinking in terms of Foss directly
Most gamers don’t make their own games as far as I know
PostmarketOS, I have an fp3 I want to install it on
I’m also watching the latest 1v1 tournament of Beyond All Reason, double heavy mines are terrifying
I have a few open source audio projects in the works myself right now. Aside from my own stuff, Fish shell has been my latest addiction.
I really love the work Asahi linux is doing, once they add m3 support (god knows when) I am switching over.
RPCS3 and ShadPS4
Mine of course! A decentralised sharing/file system.
Soon to come; web compatibility…
Plasma Bigscreen. I would love to replace my Apple TVs with something more open.
Funnily enough, I never managed to get big screen working on a raspberry pi. I ended up flashing a broken build of Android TV to it instead
I like I2P. Such a cool concept and there are plenty of services that can be built upon it. Most famous for anonymous torrenting I suppose, but it can do so much more.
A buddy and I were playing with Sonobus this morning. It lets you collaborate on music remotely.
Musicians will know already, but if you’re not aware, the latency (lag) between participants makes it impractical to play in time together. But if you can get it below 30ms then it’s roughly equivalent to playing with someone across the room. Needs a hard wired connection and the other people probably can’t be more than 500 miles away. But for me eliminates a two hour round trip to work on a song.
I’m currently compiling a list of open-source audio streaming solutions and I think Sonobus is not on there yet, so this is a pretty useful comment to me. Thanks.
You’re welcome! I’d be interested to see your list if you share it somewhere.
I am super hyped about Arrs. I have configured a stack and yet to activate it. Waiting til I can install Raspberry pi with vpn in another country for an endless downloads.
All the Arr stuff is working really great already. Whats going to happen in future? Can’t wait!
Other than that, Immich is dope.
