Comments & Reviews
Reviewed FilenWorks on all devices. Straightforward. Fast.
Unfortunately they will accept crypto“currencies” as payment soon—read, pyramid Ponzi schemes.
Edit: their client has continuous upload/download traffic and disk write activity: https://github.com/FilenCloudDienste/filen-desktop/issues/108#issuecomment-2495252477
Reviewed CarbonioCarbonio is replete with bugs—hence not infrequently being referred to as "Craponio" by users. A prime example why vibe coding [AI generated code / AI slop *] by amateur programmers is irresponsible and should be avoided, especially for critical infrastructure. Support by Zextras is unimaginably unprofessional; during a support call the head representative was fellating an e-cigarette while communicating in a way that boils down to "f^&% you, pay me" even when one had paid, and pointing fingers...
Reviewed Phoenix CodePhoenix Code + Emmet finally made Microsoft based VSCodium redundant. At least for web development. Intuitive and powerful; surprisingly underrated.
Reviewed NamecheapWas a positive review before, but since they started accepting crypto"currencies" they are (unwittingly?) legitimizing greed-inducing pyramid schemes.
Reviewed Pear LauncherExtensive customization and speed.
Reviewed Zed EditorFast and easily customizable. I've been searching for VSCodium alternatives for years because it was my only remaining Microsoft product in use. Never found one that came close to its remarkably convenient shortcuts / key mappings until I stumbled upon Zed. It doesn't support all the shortcuts yet, but the few that it doesn't I easily replaced with simple AutoKey scripts, i.e.,"Emmet: wrap with abbreviation" [to simply wrap with a HTML tag], or commenting a selection.
Reviewed Kiwi BrowserSupports extensions, therefore it supports uBlock Origin. I don't surf the Web without it.
Reviewed Xfce Task ManagerYou know it's good if it's approved for Xfce. Also, as far as I know the only task manager with an "identify process by clicking a window" button.
- Reviewed Namecheap
Was a positive review before, but since they started accepting crypto"currencies" they are (unwittingly?) legitimizing greed-inducing pyramid schemes.
Reviewed Zen BrowserZen Browser is to Firefox what Vivaldi is to Chromium: a feature-rich powerhouse.
-- Don't sync settings between other Firefox-based browsers such as LibreWolf. Doing so breaks “Open previous windows and tabs” in Zen Browser. If one finds themselves to be experiencing other weird bugs: try creating a new profile and deleting the old one. Or try another installer. [Obviously I'm not subtracting stars for software that's in early development.]
- Reviewed Zen Browser
Zen Browser is to Firefox what Vivaldi is to Chromium: a feature-rich powerhouse.
-- Don't sync settings between other Firefox-based browsers such as LibreWolf. Doing so breaks “Open previous windows and tabs” in Zen Browser. If one finds themselves to be experiencing other weird bugs: try creating a new profile and deleting the old one. Or try another installer. [Obviously I'm not subtracting stars for software that's in early development.]
- Reviewed Zen Browser
Zen Browser is to Firefox what Vivaldi is to Chromium: a feature-rich powerhouse.
-- Don't sync settings between other Firefox-based browsers such as LibreWolf. Doing so breaks “Open previous windows and tabs” in Zen Browser. If one finds themselves to be experiencing other weird bugs: try creating a new profile and deleting the old one. Or try another installer. [Obviously I'm not subtracting stars for software that's in early development.]
Reviewed KMailKMail could be a feature-rich powerhouse that outshines the alternatives, however, the settings UI is overwhelming, impractical and illogical. There's also too many unexpected default behaviours such as after successfully adding and syncing to a new email account, the draft/sent/trash folders remain local, and aren't synced with the identical folders online. As far as I know all other email clients I've used before do sync correctly.
Reviewed LibreWolfSince LibreWolf ships with uBlock Origin by default I wouldn't be surprised if they take the world by storm once Manifest V3 renders uBlock Origin unusable on Chromium browsers.
LibreWolf is fast, private, secure, and up-to-date. The latter is required for all the extensions such as Gesturefy to work. [Some other also excellent FireFox forks such as Floorp and Waterfox use older versions which makes the aforementioned extension unusable.]
Reviewed Crow TranslateTranslation and text recognition all in one. Quite convenient. Too bad it is archived on GitHub.
Reviewed EvolutionPretty decent, but quite annoying it still can't live in the system tray natively. E.g., an option so minimizing/closing the window hides Evolution in the system tray.
Reviewed EndeavourOSTerse and helpful documentation. Quick to install. Pleasant to use. Active community. No two-week update lag such as Manjaro, and I feel it runs faster with less bugs. Don't get me wrong, I paid for Manjaro before, I do not dislike it, but EndeavourOS is my go-to choice.
Reviewed Anytime Podcast PlayerNo ads, intuitive UI, no Google services, no registration. This is the best app for minimalists. One downside, shared with other lightweight podcast apps, is that it only searches for podcast names, not podcast episode titles.
Reviewed BeeperIt says it supports the Matrix protocol, but actually there is no option to select a Matrix account other than the one Beeper assigns to the user by default on setup.
- Reviewed Beeper
It says it supports the Matrix protocol, but actually there is no option to select a Matrix account other than the one Beeper assigns to the user by default on setup.
Reviewed rsyncPowerful, fast, extensive and useful manual page.