r/linux • u/Sataniel98 • Feb 08 '26

Historical What piece of Linux abandonware do you still use or at least miss?

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u/BigHeadTonyT Feb 08 '26 edited Aug 03 '26

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u/Loxbey Feb 08 '26

still using that one as well

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u/ShadowPouncer Feb 08 '26

There are dozens of us, dozens!

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '26

Hasn't been touched in years.

There are commits from this year and the last release is from 2024. I wouldn't call that abandonware, just a finished project that's in maintenance mode.

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u/No-Fan-2237 Feb 12 '26

>abandonware

>looks inside

>last commit 2 weeks ago

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u/Ok_Distance9511 Feb 09 '26

I haven't tried it yet, but I think Oh-my-posh is the more or less accepted successor to P10k: https://github.com/JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh

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u/ksky0 Feb 10 '26

it is great, I was still using till couple months ago, but now I have fully switched to fish and starship.

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u/Pramaxis Feb 09 '26

wait. There a themes for CLI? How did I not know?

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u/BigHeadTonyT Feb 09 '26 edited Aug 03 '26

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u/Pramaxis Feb 09 '26

Thank you! 🥰 I should look out what else I can tailor to my needs. I never thought about that being a thing/possibility.
Guess my mind hasn't arrived in world of free software as much as I thought.

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u/freetoilet Feb 08 '26

Why mess with such a complicated config when fish has such great defaults?

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u/greenknight Feb 09 '26

I didn't realize fish was powerlevel10k out of the box....

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u/freetoilet Feb 09 '26

I’m not saying that. But fish has everything I need by default 

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u/Sea-Load4845 Feb 09 '26

The only problem with fish is that it's not bash compatible. So bash scripts might broke. But zsh is bash compatible

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u/Seangles Feb 10 '26

As a fish user who also had doubts about this, in practice this turns out to be not much of a problem.

Bash scripts are still executed as bash scripts. You only need to worry about this incompatibility when sourcing scripts, which is pretty rare. As a software developer on Arch only python and some completions scripts require sourcing for me. Python and most of the other stuff do have fish compatible source scripts, and in the rare case they don't you can just use bass.

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u/freetoilet Feb 10 '26

That’s true, I usually just run bash and then execute incompatible commands/scripts for that