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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

keyboard key remapper

Specific example: the caps lock key is useless and only ever activated on accident when I fat-fingered the A key. Remapped it to F-13 which exists as a kind of place holder with no function since keyboards stop at F-12; then set F-13 as my push-to-talk key in Discord, so now I've got a super conveniently located PTT that won't disrupt anything (like switching to aLL CAPS WHEN I INEVITABLY MISS THE A KEY).

Small change, absolutely love it. 10/10

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I can tell you aren't a vi user because you would've remapped it to ctrl.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm a vi user that maps it to Esc

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ah, right.

I'm an emacs user, so that's why I didn't remember the vi bindings accurately.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'm a vi user that maps it to backspace (also the Colemak-DH default)

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I used caps as escape for a while, but then I switched to the Colemak-DH layout which uses it as backspace and I like that even more.