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?

      • ace_garp@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        I tried for a day or 2 to get strafe-running, could not do it.

        Would love to play Xonotic though, it has lots of old-school FPS flavour.

        • uis@lemm.ee
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          2 years ago

          Strafing and moving mouse will make you turn faster, strafing with forward and moving mouse will accelerate you faster. You can see it on strafing bar.

          Also read the guide: https://xonotic.org/guide/#bunny-hopping

          And I recommend you to join xonotic-relax.ru discord server. It is most active xonotic community, and we do speak English when needed.

    • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Shattered Pixel Dungeon

      This has been the only version of the game I’ve ever gotten close to beating. For that reason alone it’s worth mentioning.

      • ace_garp@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        Yes, I also tried the original Pixel Dungeon one time. Crazy hard mode.

        For tips, hide behind doors for as many strikes as possible.

        Try to enhance a Glaive with speed, from the Stone of Augmentation(stay with staff for mage). Then upgrade and add a glyph. Plate armour up to +4-6.

    • verdigris@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      Glaring omission: OpenTTD, still in contention for the greatest train (and other transport) game ever made.

      • ace_garp@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        Sure is! It’s had so much work done since the early days.

        The single player campaign is huge and hilarious. Very satisfying to complete.

  • Melllvar@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    2 years ago

    TestDisk and PhotoRec. TestDisk can recover broken drive partitions, PhotoRec can recover deleted files even if the partition table is borked.

  • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Actual - Accounting/budgeting/etc

    Wrote up a python script or three to handle parsing my bank CSV export files into an actually usable form, with automatic categorization, and so now I just do a periodic export and sync, and have all my financial records all in one place with some nice visualization, categorization, and budgeting features from Actual. It saves everything to a local sqlite db, so I can always jump ship to a different system if needed, and also itself provides a CSV export option.

    10/10 software, would recommend

  • uis@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    KiCad - electrical engieneering

    FreeCAD - mechanical engieneering

    Blender - 3d modeling, rendering, animation

    Krita - raster painting

    Kdenlive - video editing

    LMMS - music creation

    Ardour - sound processing

    Nheko - Matrix client

    Xonotic - FPS game

    KDE - K Desktop Enviroment

    Hotspot - GUI for perf sampling profiler

    KCachegrind - GUI for valgrind cache simulator

    QT Creator - C(++)/QML(and prob JS) IDE

    Graphvis - graph visualizer

    • monotremata@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Adding on:

      Inkscape - vector graphics program

      Meshrom - photogrammetry

      Handbrake - video transcoding

      MakeMKV - rips DVDs and Blu Ray into video files

      7zip - file compression and decompression

      Droid48 - Truly excellent HP48 emulator for android

      LibreOffice - free word processor & office suite (not without some recent drama though, I guess)

      I’m sure I’m forgetting plenty, but hey, more for additional commenters to name.

      Edit: Removed Audacity, apparently I’d missed privatization drama around that one too

      • uis@lemm.ee
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        2 years ago

        Handbrake - video transcoding

        FFmpeg.

        Edit: Removed Audacity, apparently I’d missed privatization drama around that one too

        Still GPL.

        Synfig Studio - 2d animation software

  • tias@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 years ago

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

    • shrodes@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Wizfile as an alternative to this which I prefer

      Also Wiztree from the same devs as a WinDirStat alternative

    • GreenAppleTree@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      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.

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

        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.

        • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          2 years ago

          Hey, to be fair, ‘/’ and the null character are the only illegal character for file names on Linux (which is a blessing AND a curse)

    • FelixMortane@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I find it almost criminal the amount of people who do not know about this. Absolute life saver for work.

    • Joe Dyrt@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      This my top-used non-windows-component bestest utility for finding info on my pc. It’s da bomb!

      • 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

        • 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.

        • 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

    • 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.

      • 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

  • 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.

          • ZeroOne@lemmy.world
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            2 years ago

            There’s Zettlr & Logseq Or… you use Org-Roam/Org-Agenda in Emacs to get a 2nd brain functionality

            • 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.

          • 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.