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What's your favourite "just works, day after day" Linux software? (lemdro.id)

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[–] hoohoohoot@fedinsfw.app 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

MPV

Would change it for anything!

[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago

If I can't play it in MPV, I don't wanna play it.

Everything else feels like going back to the stone age. No offense to VLC fans. VLC is cool too, and I still recommend it because of its simpler GUI. But MPV is the MVP.