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?

  • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    17 days ago

    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.

  • sith@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    17 days ago

    Micro or NeoVim if you’re a minimalist. Emacs or VS Code otherwise (a little bit of BS maybe). And Windows terminal plus WSL if you’re on Windows.

    Interesting that people still use Notepad++. Haven’t touched it in 15+ years.

    And Python of course.

    • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      17 days ago

      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

  • geoma@lemmy.ml
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    18 days ago

    If you want something efficient and free of bullshit you probably first need to change your OS to a GNU/Linux distro

    • everett@lemmy.ml
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      18 days ago

      “Free, efficient, no bullshit” is kind of the default for Linux software.

      • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de
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        18 days ago

        not unless you count UX as partof the “efficiency”. A lot of oss software has top-notch functionality, but horrible ux

          • DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz
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            17 days ago

            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.

            • Stovetop@lemmy.world
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              17 days ago

              They just get statistical data instead, then. I know some folks don’t care about companies knowing your activity and other telemetry data, but I’d probably still count that within the “bullshit around” exclusion criteria that OP defined.

              • _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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                17 days ago

                To be fair, you can just refuse to take part in that. They’ll keep asking, every now and then, and you can keep saying no.