diff --git a/content/other/swrecommendations.md b/content/other/swrecommendations.md index 49f36db..841e47e 100644 --- a/content/other/swrecommendations.md +++ b/content/other/swrecommendations.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ title: "Software recommendations" description: Stuff that I use or that I think you may like date: 2023-11-15 -lastMod: 2023-12-06 +lastMod: 2023-12-22 tags: ["recommendations","software","free software"] draft: false thumbnail: /other/img/swrecommendations.svg @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ These recommendations are organized in these categories and don't have any parti - Creative software - Multimedia software - Torrenting and P2P software +- Gaming - Miscellaneous ## Linux distros @@ -60,6 +61,14 @@ The shiny new (not really, it's as old as me) thing everyone is talking about. I [Website](https://nixos.org/) +### Q4OS + +![The Q4OS logo](../img/sw/q4os.png) + +A user friendly Debian-based distro that comes with either Plasma or the Trinity desktop preinstalled. The latter is especially lightweight and well suited for very old computers (although I've heard Debian wants to drop 32-bit support, so I don't know if Q4OS will keep supporting it or not) and it also comes with oldschool themes that resemble old versions of Windows. For more info about the Trinity desktop, scroll down a bit. + +[Website](https://q4os.org/) + ## Android ROMs ### GrapheneOS @@ -96,6 +105,14 @@ I already mentioned this when talking about Linux Mint, it's their flagship [GTK [GitHub repo](https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon) +### Trinity Desktop Environment (X11) + +![The Trinity logo](../img/sw/tde.png) + +This is a fork of the old KDE 3.5 desktop from the mid 2000's (kinda like how MATE is a hard fork of GNOME 2) and it keeps that delightfully Windows XP-like retro aesthetic. Despite its old codebase, it still works very well on modern systems, but especially on older ones, and has many features that are similar to or, sometimes, even better than modern KDE Plasma. The ultimate challenge would be to try running this as a daily driver and see how well it does with the right configurations (e.g. KDE Connect, proper themeing of modern GTK and Qt apps, etc.) I wish it had Wayland support, but due to the reliance on ancient libraries and the fact that the whole project is very small and underfunded, we'll probably not see this anytime soon. + +[Website](https://www.trinitydesktop.org/) + ### Hyprland (Wayland) ![The Hyprland logo](../img/sw/hyprland.png) @@ -585,6 +602,40 @@ Nicotine+ is a GTK 3 client for Soulseek, a peer-to-peer file sharing network. Y [Website](https://nicotine-plus.org/) +## Gaming + +### Prism Launcher (Windows, macOS, Linux) + +![The Prism Launcher logo](../img/sw/prismlauncher.svg) + +The best and cleanest Minecraft launcher in existence, forked from the PolyMC project, it's made with Qt and it has a very nice UI to manage all of your game versions, settings, shaders, resource packs and mods with built-in search for Modrinth and CurseForge. + +[Website](https://prismlauncher.org/) + +### Xonotic (Windows, macOS, Linux) + +![The Xonotic logo](../img/sw/xonotic.svg) + +Xonotic is an oldschool arena shooter derived from Nexuiz (based on the Quake 3 engine) with a space man/robot/alien theme and many different gamemodes that are familiar to seasoned arena players such as deathmatch, team deathmatch, duel, capture the flag, clan arena, vehicle warfare, etc. It's very fast paced and has pretty decent graphics that are lightweight enough for older computers. There's also many customization options for the crosshair, HUD, player view and UI themes. + +[Website](https://xonotic.org/) + +### Warfork (Windows, macOS, Linux) + +![The Warforkw logo](../img/sw/warfork.png) + +Another similar arena shooter derived from Warsow (based on Qfusion, a fork of the Quake 2 engine) after its development was abandoned. It's got almost all the same gamemodes as Xonotic, some similar customizations and even lighter graphics with a nice cell shaded/cartoon style, but the general pace is truly insane: it takes the old bunny hopping and strafing techniques from Quake and elevates them further by allowing players to run extremely fast, make huge jumps against walls and change direction very quickly without losing speed, even quicker than what their brains can process, making the most intense battles extremely chaotic and involving a lot more skill and concentration. + +[Website](https://warfork.com/) + +### Super Tux Kart (Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, Nintendo Switch homebrew) + +![The Super Tux Kart logo](../img/sw/stk.png) + +A cute little Mario Kart clone featuring many mascots from the free and open source world. The graphics are kinda ugly, but the gameplay, while being not on par with Mario Kart in many respects, it's still very nice and fun with all the items, the drifting, the various tracks and the music, especially when playing with friends locally or online. + +[Website](https://supertuxkart.net/) + ## Miscellaneous ### QOwnNotes (Linux) @@ -595,14 +646,6 @@ A Qt note taking application designed to integrate directly with your Nextcloud [Website](https://qownnotes.org/) -### Prism Launcher (Windows, macOS, Linux) - -![The Prism Launcher logo](../img/sw/prismlauncher.svg) - -The best and cleanest Minecraft launcher in existence, forked from the PolyMC project, it's made with Qt and it has a very nice UI to manage all of your game versions, settings, shaders, resource packs and mods with built-in search for Modrinth and CurseForge. - -[Website](https://prismlauncher.org/) - ### RSSGuard (Windows, macOS, Linux) ![The RSSGuard logo](../img/sw/rssguard.webp) @@ -641,6 +684,6 @@ Contribute to OpenStreetMap when you're outside by completing surveys and tasks ~~This is a collection of basic applications for Android that are, of course, free software and quite polished. For example they have a music player, a calendar, a contacts app, a file manager, a voice recording app, a dialer app, a camera app, a gallery app, etc.~~ -SMT was recently sold to ZipoApps, a company known to make proprietary mobile apps that contain deceptive advertisements for overpriced subscriptions. A fork of all the apps is currently being developed, it's called Fossify. +SMT was recently sold to ZipoApps, a company known to make proprietary mobile apps that contain deceptive advertisements for overpriced subscriptions. A fork of all the apps is currently being developed, it's called Fossify. Currently the F-Droid versions of these apps won't recieve any more updates and will stay at the last "safe" versions, however if you got them from Google Play, you might consider to get rid of them as they may be updated to any future proprietary versions that contain ads and stupid subscriptions. 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