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.

    • Elting@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      Cant get VLC working properly on my linux and I miss having it. Ive been thinking about switching to LMDE because of it.

      • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
        2·
        4 days ago

        I think ffmpeg imploded or something? And maybe VLC is maintaining their own fork? But it got split into a bunch of pieces or something, I don’t know, but maybe installing one of the alternate sources of the ffmpeg packages might work for you.

      • utopiah@lemmy.ml
        1·
        4 days ago

        Consider alternative ways to get it, e.g. static binary, other package managers e.g. am, AppImage, etc.

        • Elting@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          4 days ago

          Yeah, I only tried what I assume was the snap version, and then APT which I suspect redirects to installing the snap version (maybe not though since this is mint and not direct ubuntu?) In any case I have a few more tendencies towards LMDE which will probably make me end up there eventually.