Lemmy seems like the right place to ask this. Personally I’ve really enjoyed Gurgle, which is a FOSS Wordle clone app.

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    Libre office, a great office option. I’ve been using it for 15 years. Foreshadowing

    VLC, Plays media. It’s a tank. Also Highways use VLC to mark many winter potholes.

    Linux, It’s not that hard to use anymore.( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

    WINE, not just for one night stands! it’s great for running Windows Stuff on Linux.

    Also, and my personal favorite, your mom is free and open source. Mic Drop going to bed. With your mom. Wasn’t expecting that twice were you? Well, neither was your mom. Got 'em.

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      Also Highways use VLC to mark many winter potholes

      I was searching for some kind of VLC based image / video processing algorithm to detect potholes

      Was this a joke about how the logo is a traffic cone

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          Yes. If I remember correctly VLC was originally configured (maybe still is) to network streams and prioritize no lag. That’s why you get weird artifacts in VLC sometimes that’s not present in mpv.

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        I use celluloid, because I absolutely hate the mpv interface. Seriously, how unexplorable and unintuitive can you make it?

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            Yes, that is deeply connected with being unexplorable.

            Celluloid is also keyboard driven. But in celluloid there are clearly marked buttons for the most used functions and I can open the menu to check the keyboard shortcuts. Not so in mpv.

            For what it’s worth, I think celluloid is a thin wrapper around mpv with the only purpose to provide a better UI. And I’m very thankful for and happy with that.

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              I really like the idea of Celluloid. However, last time I tried, it somehow felt less performant than pure mpv. Colors a bit washed out and not perfectly smooth playback. Should try it again soon.

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                Yeah, it does have some hickups when playing a movie from my HDD. I think it doesn’t prefetch enough data, because I didn’t have any issues after copying the movie to a tmpfs.

                I still use it over mpv, because I truly cannot stand mpvs UX. But a valid point.

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          I used to feel the same way, but the interface is actually super customizable if you are ok with editing config files!

          Here is the manual.

          There is also a huge variety of third party scripts, like this one shows thumbnail previews when hovering over the seek bar.

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        MPV cannot fulfill the playlist needs. So I regularly use MPV to play standalone videos, since it is superior, but I use VLC to play video playlists and to be able to rotate/flip and play a weird video.

        SMPlayer frontend for MPV is just not the same as VLC.

        VLC is the Swiss Army knife of media playback, while MPV is the superior standalone video player. Use both.

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      I will say that on Windows at least I prefer MPC-HC because of how much smaller and snappier it is compared to VLC.

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        MPC-HC has an amazing function of video thumbnail on position seekbar, like YouTube and most online video sites. I really would want something like that for Linux.

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      MPC-HC instead of VLC https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc (the still maintained one) (windows only)

      For me VLC had issues to stream very high bitrate content on my pc. MPC-HC used less resources while being smooth too.

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      Libre office, a great office option. I’ve been using it for 15 years. Foreshadowing

      I love LO as well, it’s perfect if you’re used to old versions of MS Office and like to be in control of everything. A good open-source alternative for the new releases of MS Office is Onlyoffice.