(FreeBSD Specific) What are your most frequently used programs?

blackbird9 · 2026-05-23T20:45:19+0100

I forgot yt_dlp... https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp Very useful...

LibreQuest · 2026-05-23T20:48:24+0100

blackbird9 said:
I forgot yt_dlp... https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Very useful...

Thanks for that. Last time I tried youtube-dl it was failing to work. I had installed it with py311-pip. I'll give yt-dlp a try instead.

blackbird9 · 2026-05-23T20:53:22+0100

There's a yt_dlp package you can install. If you want the very latest version, clone the git repository and run 'make install' as root in that directory, and it will overwrite the version installed by the package.

waym0re · 2026-05-23T21:16:57+0100

lycus, micro, ssh and rsync. In that order.

bgavin · 2026-05-23T23:52:40+0100

In order:
Firefox, Excel, Photoshop, SONAR, VLC media player

LibreQuest · 2026-05-24T00:18:14+0100

bgavin said:
In order:
Firefox, Excel, Photoshop, SONAR, VLC media player

How do you run these programs on FreeBSD?

wolffnx · 2026-05-24T00:22:28+0100

Librewolf,thunar,leafpad,geany,lilyterm+tmux
qbittorrent,vlc,audacious(31 eq bands like the old xmms2)
In the base of fvwm3

kent_dorfman766 · 2026-05-24T00:42:09+0100

Since we are getting nostalgic, I miss xroach. Something satisfying about swatting a 2d roach before it can hide under a window...I'm guessing it will never be able to run under a wayland compositor...how shortsighted...lol

MG · 2026-05-24T00:43:08+0100

wolffnx said:
Librewolf,thunar,leafpad,geany,lilyterm+tmux
qbittorrent,vlc,audacious(31 eq bands like the old xmms2)
In the base of fvwm3

Added Librewolf to a live system. It works on all sides but what do I need for safe password management? It seems it doesn't have its own. I'm considering a site login system based on pushing keyboard characters to webpages but that's ugly...

bgavin · 2026-05-24T01:41:29+0100

I don’t.
I only use FBSD for what it does well.

LibreQuest · 2026-05-24T04:08:04+0100

bgavin said:
I don’t.
I only use FBSD for what it does well.

I'll fix the title, sorry for the confusion. My intent was to inquire on frequent programs used by forum members on FreeBSD specifically.

LibreQuest · 2026-05-24T04:16:59+0100

blackbird9 said:
I forgot yt_dlp... https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp Very useful...

Yeah, nice, works great. I just downloaded this epic new song by ruby R53

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjfiQphkgZI

blackbird9 · 2026-05-24T13:09:40+0100

kent_dorfman766 said:
Since we are getting nostalgic, I miss xroach. Something satisfying about swatting a 2d roach before it can hide under a window...I'm guessing it will never be able to run under a wayland compositor...how shortsighted...lol

Don't forget xteddy! https://xteddy.org/
It seems there's a package for him too https://www.freshports.org/games/xteddy/

ruby R53 · 2026-05-24T14:58:27+0100

LibreQuest said:
Yeah, nice, works great. I just downloaded this epic new song by ruby R53

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjfiQphkgZI

no fucking way twin, i don't even know how to react further

hruodr · 2026-05-24T21:06:30+0100

Mmost of the tme simple use:

As 'internet surfing' box: firefox, chrome, w3m, alpine.
As typewriter: fossil, emacs, vi, tex, xdvi, dvips.
As programmable box: fossil, emacs, vi, tcl, tk, sqlite3, cc, lex.
Tools: calendar, cal, bc, sqlite3.

Well a lot more programs, but that comes first to mind.

hruodr · 2026-05-24T21:18:09+0100

cracauer@ said:
Xterm, emacs, git, roux, ssh w/mosh, chrome

What is roux?

ArgentoSoma · 2026-05-24T21:25:05+0100

sway, kitty, chrome, firefox, emacs

hruodr · 2026-05-24T21:43:01+0100

LibreQuest said:
Essentially, yes. I just know there are so many points of view and use cases among the forum users.

You see that people seems to be answering to different questions.

Your answer seems to incompletely respond: what do you install. Of course I use also dd, du, etc.
And I have a big list of programs to install if I have to install again an unixoid OS.

My answer was more, for what I use the computer and what programs I mainly use for it.
Fast answer, there is more to reflect.

Other people include window manager, xterm, tmux, namely the working environment. That is for me very
important, but secondary.

The question if the kernel is a program is correct, then one should answer what OS one uses.

LibreQuest · 2026-05-24T22:26:24+0100

hruodr said:
You see that people seems to be answering to different questions.

Your answer seems to incompletely respond: what do you install. Of course I use also dd, du, etc.
And I have a big list of programs to install if I have to install again an unixoid OS.

My answer was more, for what I use the computer and what programs I mainly use for it.
Fast answer, there is more to reflect.

Other people include window manager, xterm, tmux, namely the working environment. That is for me very
important, but secondary.

The question if the kernel is a program is correct, then one should answer what OS one uses.

The question wasn't meant to be complex but simple. For users of FreeBSD, I am curious about what programs they most frequently utilize. If someone responds with the kernel that is alright with me as long as it can provide an idea of what programs people are using most frequently.

If a user of FreeBSD simply boots a machine and never interacts with it beyond the initial boot I guess they could answer with boot loader, different stages of the boot process and associated programs. This would still provide insight into how they are using the system.