- winrar
- truecrypt
there’s probably more, but most of it is pretty common these days or has already been mentioned.
Truecrypt has known vulnerabilities, meaning that your data may not be as safe as you think it is.
Veracrypt is the modern fork of Truecrypt.
You can upgrade your old data using a legacy version of Veracrypt: https://veracrypt.io/en/Converting TrueCrypt volumes and partitions.html
It’s been a while since I’ve used TrueCrypt because I switched over to Linux and used Luks. But I thought everyone had moved to Vera Crypt. Is that no longer the case? Just curious, Since I haven’t read much about that world for many years.
I have ancient crypts and I’m too lazy to move them.
I figure at some point they’ll be even more secure because nobody will be able to run the software as the hardware ages out.
security through obscurity. The best way to IT
that one [piece of] software that you are using
Zero-k, the successor to the Total Annihilation game from 1998.
I used emacs today, in bash, with a host of other commands like xargs and sort. None of it was fucking Systemd related, like systemctl, nor raging because network manager took a nap on my server, so it was a great day.
vim mutt tmux curl bash ksh WindowMaker Firefox OpenBSD Debian Krita Inkscape ffmpeg VLC git
mutt
You’re a braver person than I.
aerc is a very nice, a little less fiddly modern alternative for me nowadays
Yeah, that’s what I use, too, after years on Alpine.
jasc paintshop pro 7.0
xnview
vim
fvwm
seamonkey
midnight commander
Upvote for xnview, have you tried the MP version, or whatever it is. I think I run that now, but I have both installed still.
I actually just removed an old portable version that was just living rent free in my portable apps folder for years.
Vi/Vim. Is it intuitive? No. Is it user friendly? Heck no! What it is is everywhere. $20 Chinese travel routers? Yup. Wireless access points? It’s there. If it has a shell you can log into, it almost certainly has it.
vi is bloat. What’s wrong with using cat and echo?
vi is bloat. Back in my day we used ed. And we were happy with it.
Cat and echo are bloat. What’s wrong with programming the microchips each time you want to change a byte?
You’re thinking like a developer. “I can just add or remove this or that.” I have to think like an IT guy. I’m working on dozens or hundreds of machines that are not mine and that I can’t change. So I need to get comfy with the tools that are most likely to be there by default.
It’s a joke. I’m also an IT guy, so I’m comfortable with vi.
Although I use nano at home so I don’t have to think.Ah ok. whoosh I guess. I’m used to hearing “just write the drivers yourself” and the like.
I just use nano, but I’m not a developer or anything
Is it user friendly?
Isn’t vi designed to be navigate with a keyboard that looked like this? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/KB_Terminal_ADM3A.svg
Arrow keys were on HJKL.
Linux, Firefox, Thunderbird, vi/vim, VLC, Mutt (only occasionally), Irssi
WinRAR. And I paid for it.
the only reason to use winrar as far as im aware is ignorance
why are you using it
let him enjoy his WinRAR. after all, he is the one who paid for it.
Other than pc games of that vintage I don’t think there is a single piece of software I enjoy using these days, they all hog all the ram and fill your screen with login prompts and popups about how useless AI features can further ruin your day.
Only ten years?
KDE, better then ever.
Reaper (DAW)
How many negative days are logged on your free trial?
Definitely MediaMonkey, though I’ve had it for 16 years instead of 10 after paying $40 for a lifetime license. The license format changed once and I’ve misplaced my key a couple of times, but their support has always been great at getting me back on track.
7zip, notepad++, ScreenShotAssistant, git
There’s a “modern” fork of 7zip that works better on Windows 11 and it’s called NanaZip.
Skyrim, firefox, blender, libre office, heroes of might and magic 3
Is it stupid to say Linux
No it isn’t.
arch btw
Got 'em (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
Sublime Text. Used it to write web a year or two before VS Code was released (2015). I never started with VS Code because of that and still use Sublime Text for anything that does not require an IDE.
Fellow sublime enjoyer! Used it for typesetting LaTeX since 2014
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