Notepad++ - This piece of software is a very advanced form of Notepad. Fuck that basic Notepad shit that Windows or any other OS gives you. This one is all you’ll ever need for basic note-taking needs. But it does a hell of a lot more. One thing I love about it is that, if for any reason I put my PC to sleep, it crashes, power outage, I can run this again and everything I’ve ever written and no matter how many tabs - it’s all retained.

AIMP - The definitive media player that you’ll ever need for just playing stuff (music only, sorry if I mislead those thinking it can do video). Winamp and all the other software are just around for nostalgia (though Winamp has it’s uses where you need it to play specific formats like video game music such as SNES with .SPC). One feature that attracted me to it was, it used to infuriate me when I am playing something and something crashes in any other media player. And you boot up that media player and you have to play your playlist all over again or that song from the beginning.

Not AIMP, if I accidentally close it, crash or whatever, I can bring it back up and it’ll have the song or whatever on Pause so I can resume. Why isn’t shit like this more implemented in software?

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    Bitwarden

    It’s a FOSS password manager that you can self host, or use their cloud infrastructure. Their free plan is more than enough for basic users, and their paid personal plan is less than $1 a month and is packed with features.

    Runs in your browser, Android, iOS, Chrome and Firefox extensions, and has native desktop apps for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

    Super easy to set up and use, no BS, works damn near perfectly. I’ve been using it for years and I love it, it’s the only password manager I recommend to folks now days.

    • dubyakay@lemmy.ca
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      2 years ago

      Bitwarden’s recent licence “oopsie” has shaken folks trust in them a bit. Not that it’s not a good software currently, but now we know what may happen at a moment’s notice.

      • m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        Sadly Lemmy has gotten so much Reddit toxicity so I don’t get why you got downvotes. As a non native speaker I won’t mind if I got some downvotes too if I could get advice improving my english on my shitty comments instead

    • Zagorath@aussie.zone
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      2 years ago

      Note that there’s a severe vulnerability that was only patched very recently in 7zip. I’ve seen recommendations to fully uninstall it and then reinstall the latest version.

    • dormedas@lemmy.dormedas.com
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      2 years ago

      Paint.NET has filled a “I need an image editor with some packed in features that isn’t as complicated as Photoshop for some quick work” niche for me for years. From simple crops and edits to some layer-and-effects work.

      I did not know Aseprite was free if you compile it but they deserve the money anyway.

      • Joe Dyrt@lemmy.ml
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        2 years ago

        Paint dot net has layers, rotation, magic wand, and layers. The Editable Text plugin completes my amateur photo editing requirements. And no bloatware! No spyware!

      • .Donuts@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        Oh, I forgot one. If you actually need something a bit more like Photoshop, I can recommend Photopea as well. It’s online but it runs locally and it has some ads on the side, but it beats getting an Adobe Cloud license.

      • ovalofsand@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        Is a part of me that wants to go back to Linux just for Mplayer. That blows VLC and mpv out of the water. You could watch movies on a potato with that

    • coaxil@lemm.ee
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      2 years ago

      If vlc fails , ffplay via way of ffmpeg should, if THAT fails, you are going to have a tough time

        • sga@lemmy.world
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          2 years ago

          yes, both vlc and mpv use libffmpeg, but they sometimes have different support because of different version, or while compiling, they may enable/disable some optional bits

        • coaxil@lemm.ee
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          2 years ago

          Kinda, vlc uses libavcodec, which ffmpeg also exposes via CMD line, ffplay is a very very stripped down player, and handles a much wider scope of video than vlc does, for a multitude of reasons.

  • Err(()).unwrap()@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    KeePassXC, or any kind of KeePass-compatible client. It uses strong encryption to store passwords, passkeys, and arbitrary data. Also does TOTP. Not using a password manager in current year is stupid.

    QOwnNotes - a note-taking app that uses plain markdown files. None of that stupid metadata-inside-markdown-inside-database bullshit.

    • kurcatovium@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I can confirm both these. Although Qownnotes is a bit of mess in UI, it does its job well. I wanted something simple that will just load bunch of locally saved md files and this is the best I could find so far.

      • Err(()).unwrap()@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        If you want a similar markdown editor, Obsidian does much the same, but with a much nicer single-panel UI. The client is free (as in no-cost), but closed-source.

        • kurcatovium@lemm.eeEnglish
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          2 years ago

          I’m kind of hesitant with it since it’s not FOSS. To be honest I never really understood why anyone makes free (no $$) software but not open source it. I might give it a try though.

          • Err(()).unwrap()@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 years ago

            Obsidian also operates a paid cloud storage and public hosting service. Releasing the client for free is a way to gain good publicity and hook new customers, but making it open-source (or even nonfree source-available) would make adapting it to a different storage service trivial, which would hurt Obsidian’s business.

            • kurcatovium@lemm.eeEnglish
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              2 years ago

              I’ve tried both and did not like either. Logseq would be probably ok if it didn’t sort every note as a bullet list.

              Zettlr was veeery slow for me.

  • I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Ddrescue

    Hard to beat for working with dying drives, although it’s a bit tricky to get it to just do used data areas instead of the whole drive.

  • all_i_see@lemy.lol
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    2 years ago

    Davinci Resolve - Video Editing

    Blender - 3D Modelling

    Darktable - Photo Editing

    Keira - Digital Art

    Are some I use frequently.

    • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Not only is Resolve’s free version amazing, the paid version is even better. And it has a reasonable, one time, upfront cost that gives you lifetime access.

  • middlemanSI@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    X-Inkscape for vector graphics. It has a ton of functionality out of the box and it can be enhanced by coding your own plugins. I love it

  • AMoralNihilist@feddit.uk
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    2 years ago

    Lots of great software already posted, but with some complaints about windows inefficiencies I can’t believe no one has posted:

    Microsoft PowerToys https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/

    Basically, it’s a suite of tools that windows devs have made to make their lives easier while working in windows. Some features have made it into actual windows releases over the years, but most not.

    It has an always on top, batch rename, customisable window snapping, better search, keyboard key remapper, mouse across multiple devices, colour eyedropper, and many many more.

    Absolute must have for anyone that uses windows regularly.

    • verdigris@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      Literally how? If you’re talking about the toolbars, it looks like literally any text editor. If you’re talking about the text, that’s probably because you’re not used to looking at monospace rendered text. It’s much better when you’re editing anything technical. If you don’t need advanced features you don’t need N++.

      • Felling_High_Horses@endlesstalk.org
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        2 years ago

        LMFAO. You must be a troll?

        One literally looks like it’s from the 90s, the other respects modern design.

        Can you read my comment? Or are you one of those rabid FOSS enthusiasts who will stab themselves with a rusty nail if it’s free? I talked about the fucking appearance of the notepad.

        • verdigris@lemmy.ml
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          2 years ago

          As I said, if you don’t need advanced features you don’t need N++. If you’re happy with notepad you are definitely not the target audience lol.

            • verdigris@lemmy.ml
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              2 years ago

              I already addressed your complaints about the look; it’s all for functionality and technical features which you clearly do not need. You don’t get to expose a rich feature set without complicating the UI.

              • Felling_High_Horses@endlesstalk.org
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                2 years ago

                Again with the strawman. Why do you dislike the idea that your shitty software has shitty looks so much that you need to construct a whole-ass argument for me in your head?

                Oh that’s right, you’re a cretin.

                • verdigris@lemmy.ml
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                  2 years ago

                  I guess because it’s better than interfacing with your lack of an argument and ableist slurs?

      • Felling_High_Horses@endlesstalk.org
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        2 years ago

        Ah yes, the great determinant of whether someone knows their tech or not: an opinion on something’s appearance.

        Are you dense or just stupid?

  • RobotToaster@mander.xyz
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    2 years ago

    UniGetUI basically a package manager for windows, can auto update libre office.

    PosteRazor - cuts up images to print on multiple sheets.

    Krita - image editing

    Inkscape - vector graphics

  • geoma@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    If you want something efficient and free of bullshit you probably first need to change your OS to a GNU/Linux distro

    • everett@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      “Free, efficient, no bullshit” is kind of the default for Linux software.

      • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de
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        2 years ago

        not unless you count UX as partof the “efficiency”. A lot of oss software has top-notch functionality, but horrible ux

        • verdigris@lemmy.ml
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          2 years ago

          I don’t think this is generally true at a higher rate than for any other software. Multi-billion dollar companies will have more polished UX, but step outside of the major flagship apps and things quickly degrade. Even the best in the business have plenty of problems, you can’t design a perfect UX that will please all users.

        • kellenoffdagrid❓️@lemmy.sdf.org
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          2 years ago

          Yeah that front still needs improvement, but I will say things have gotten a lot better, especially in the past 5 years. Regardless of personal opinion on their approaches, projects like GNOME, Inkscape, GIMP, KDE (sort of, the settings app is still confusing as hell), even Blender’s recent UI updates have been pretty solid. There’s still a lot of room to improve though, and plenty of older software still hasn’t seen much of its UX addressed.

      • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        2 years ago

        I did consider posting a screenshot of just all the applications on my PC… 🙃

        But yeah, not much OP can do with hundreds of recommendations that don’t work on their OS.