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

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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] 49 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

HandBrake (video transcoder)
7-zip (file archiver)
Paint.net (image editor)
VLC (media player)
Aseprite (sprite editor / pixel art, only free if you compile it yourself. Some might say it's worth the 20 bucks to pay for it)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

VLC. If it can't play it, nothing can.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Perhaps MPV can, if VLC can’t. I much prefer MPV over VLC.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

"Everything" - find any file on your machine instantly. No need to update an index, it uses the NTFS master file table directly.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

It is my pet peeve that instead of using the MFT, they gave us the bloody abomination they call windows search.

I mean, make it a hidden tool like regedit, for all I care. It's really not that hard.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Microsoft made NTFS, but not even Windows uses it properly. For example, the : character is perfectly valid in NTFS file names, but not in Windows. If you mount an NTFS volume in Linux without specifying the windows_names option, you can very easily make it unusable in Windows. It's a sick joke, but nobody's laughing.