The sort of program that once set up, just ticks along without fuss or bother forever.

For me, as I’m replacing the vms today which I set up five years ago and haven’t needed to touch since;

  • HAProxy
  • KeepaliveD

Not easy to learn, but once they’re running, they both go on forever.

    • nfms@lemmy.mlEnglish
      10·
      24 days ago

      My small selfhosted system appreciates this very much. Having Debian as my base OS makes everything easier.

    • Dingaling@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      4·
      24 days ago

      Total agreement. So many unsung heroes involved in Debian. Work has agreed with me - today’s job involved migrating those load balancers to Debian underneath.

    • JoYo@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      24 days ago

      It’s a blessing and a curse how stable it is. I think less bleeding edge is better but when shit like audio and GPU are fucked they’re pretty much always fucked until dist-upgrade time.

  • ElectricMachman@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    12·
    24 days ago

    Syncthing. Absolutely ace bit of software. I remember it being a little questionable in 2013, but today it performs exactly the same task, just more reliably. Love it.

    • Dingaling@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      23 days ago

      Good shout! I use syncthing myself to sync all my useful stuff between multiple devices seamlessly.

    • JillyB@beehaw.org
      1·
      24 days ago

      Yep I love it. It’s how I keep my password manager synced between devices. It can be finicky to set up but just works without thinking after that.

  • Eugenia@lemmy.mlEnglish
    101·
    24 days ago

    Anything from Debian. I even run Debian-Testing, and it’s rock solid. Also, Linux mint, on my other partition.

  • nfms@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    24 days ago

    Many have already mentioned tools that I also use and appreciate immensely.
    My pick is Steam. I’ve picked up on gaming in the past 2 years and it’s very stable right now. Every game that I have interest in just works, I can install games, including early access or demos without looking at the compatibility or the release date. The download speeds of games are high (imho at least where I’m located, and compared with a PS5). My partner is a heavy gamer and has to yet find a game that doesn’t work on her machine.

    • Jentu@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      23 days ago

      Rockbox

      I desperately wish my Rockbox consistently worked without crashing or freezing once a week.

  • Peasley@lemmy.world
    7·
    23 days ago

    Firefox + uBlock Origin + sponsorblock. Set it and forget it.

    I haven’t seen an advertisement or a sponsored segment on my desktop in over a decade, and same with my phone for several years. I’m astonished how willing most people are to put up with a constant barrage of ads coming from devices they own

  • PushButton@lemmy.world
    6·
    24 days ago

    I tried neovim for a while and I went back to vim for that reason: setup once, then forget about it.

    I have plugins that haven’t been touch for 5 years+ and they are working as intended.

    Rock solid.

    • JoYo@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      24 days ago

      I bounced off neovim because I am always on fresh boxes with minimal access to the internet. Helix is everything included and I can install with a single file.

    • All Ice In Chains@lemmy.ml
      2·
      24 days ago

      nvim is great and convenient in many ways, and a vast improvement over vim, and yet vim is so amazing on its own that I can’t even be arsed to add an extra letter to the command like 70% of the time.