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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] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Greenshot

Irfanview

Audacity

OBS

Lab Chirp: simple but powerful sound effects generator

Stickies (zhorn software): Networkable sticky notes

Agent Ransack: File content search

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Audacity

You may want to switch to Tenacity. Audacity was purchased by a company in 2021 that super promises not to try to sneak telemetry into the program. Again. For the third time.

Tenacity is a fork of Audacity without any of that nonsense.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

qBittorrent

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Since you're saying "pieces of software" and not specifically apps I will mention Node.js, the programming framework for javascript apps that run outside of a browser. You can develop websites and services or standalone apps that just run locally. There's a whole universe of free packages people have created for it.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Not going to tell us what it is or why you like it?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Ddrescue

Hard to beat for working with dying drives, although it's a bit tricky to get it to just do used data areas instead of the whole drive.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Notepad++ is also great for searching text strings in many documents and collating the results in a single window.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

It's a niche thing, but if you play electric guitar and need a virtual amplifier and effects, you'll like Guitarix very much. Just thinking that is a community project blows me away every time

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

WinDirStat, Notepad++, Greenshot and Filelocator pro lite (aka agent ransack) are my default programs to install on windows machines.

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

kate is similar to npp.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks 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

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

EarTrumpet, Borderless Gaming, ClickMonitorDDC, Lenovo Legion Toolkit, FanControl, PEACE + Equalizer APO, Everything, TreeSize

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

OnShape for designing 3d objects. I've been using it for 3 or 4 years, after outgrowing TinkerCad (which is also good and beginner-friendly, but limited). It's an online app, nothing to download or install. The free version is fast and full-featured. The only difference between it and the paid version is that in the free version your designs are all public. So if I were doing 3d design for business I probably would use software that resides on my computer. But as a hobbyist IDGAF.

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

For keeping track of investments I recommend: Portfolio Performance

https://www.portfolio-performance.info/en/

Takes maybe 10min to learn the basics in the beginning, but it's worth it. Nice robust open source software which does its job flawless.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

LibreELEC, which is a minimalist 'Just enough OS' Linux distribution for running Kodi. You can use it to turn almost any (mini) pc into a full fledged media center.

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