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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LocalSend is just so effortless and good! I love it.
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
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
Handbrake - video transcoding
FFmpeg.
Edit: Removed Audacity, apparently I’d missed privatization drama around that one too
Still GPL.
Synfig Studio - 2d animation software
I definitely considered FFmpeg (I mean, it does everything, and pretty much as fast as possible), but the sense I had was that people were mostly posting about tools that were reasonably accessible to novice users, with nice-ish interfaces. FFmpeg is pretty daunting to newcomers.
OpenSCAD (CAD, but with a programming language-style interface) is kind of in a similar category. It’s pretty powerful, and for someone who thinks like a programmer it can be relatively easy to learn, but if you don’t already understand 3d transformations on a pretty intuitive level, the program doesn’t have a lot of features to ease you into that.
Obsidian and VLC.
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Bitwarden, Kdenlive, Firefox, OBS, Steam.
Steam
Freewhat?
Do you pay for steam?
Yes, about 30% of the purchase price of every game.
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.
Lots of free games on there. Valve themselves just recently gave away half life 2 for free.
I can tell Dr steve doesn’t game!
“Everything” - find any file on your machine instantly. No need to update an index, it uses the NTFS master file table directly.
yt-dlp can download videos from most sites. Comes with a lot of advanced features if you need them.
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.
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.
Micro-team checking in!
Terminal based text editors are garbage in the eyes of most people
Notepad++ is the simplicity of notepad with a few extra features to make it exactly what most people neef
If you want something efficient and free of bullshit you probably first need to change your OS to a GNU/Linux distro
“Free, efficient, no bullshit” is kind of the default for Linux software.
not unless you count UX as partof the “efficiency”. A lot of oss software has top-notch functionality, but horrible ux
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.
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.
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I use Libre Office as a word and excel replacement. Might not be a replacement for everyone if perfect compatibility/formatting is needed for work, but for personal use it’s been great.
I logged in just to answer this:
Stellarium
When it comes to stargazing and learning more about the night sky, there is hands-down no better program. It’s available on PC (windows/Mac/Linux) as well as mobile platforms. I used it for months for free before I paid for the premium sub, and the premium sub actually feels additive rather than just gatekeeping essential features. Plus, it’s pretty cheap and you can choose to just buy a lifetime pass for $20 and skip the sub. It’s the only app I’ve ever been happy to subscribe to.
EarTrumpet, Borderless Gaming, ClickMonitorDDC, Lenovo Legion Toolkit, FanControl, PEACE + Equalizer APO, Everything, TreeSize
I see EarTrumpet, I upvote.
Also, QuickLook.
Wireguard, I find it both simpler and easier to use than OpenVPN.
dd. No other iso writing utility has worked as consistently, even if my usb devices would gain weird glitches after using it.
Believe it or not I am a person who goes out of their way to avoid using the terminal, so this is very much vouching for the software itself rather than the ux it’s based on.
Yeah but Notepad++ looks like camel shit.
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++.
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.
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.
What a cool strawman. Good thing I didn’t mention functionality then, you mongoloidian troglodyte.
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.
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.
I guess because it’s better than interfacing with your lack of an argument and ableist slurs?
tech illiteracy 👆
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?
