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?

  • monotremata@lemmy.caEnglish
    6·
    12 days 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
      2·
      11 days 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

      • monotremata@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        11 days ago

        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.