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What pieces of software can you recommend that's free, efficient and does not bullshit around? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Steam
Free

what?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Do you pay for steam?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yes, about 30% of the purchase price of every game.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Lots of free games on there. Valve themselves just recently gave away half life 2 for free.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

I can tell Dr steve doesn't game!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Buying games through steam is optional. Steam itself is the game manager. I run many of my non steam games through it and don't pay a dime for it. Alternatively I can buy steam games through 3rd party stores. The steam client on your machine is free.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They just get statistical data instead, then. I know some folks don't care about companies knowing your activity and other telemetry data, but I'd probably still count that within the "bullshit around" exclusion criteria that OP defined.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

To be fair, you can just refuse to take part in that. They'll keep asking, every now and then, and you can keep saying no.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Not the optional hardware survey, but they automatically collect other data just through usage of Steam and applications run through Steam.