Notepad++ - This is the definitive notepad-related software you’ll ever need. Multiple tabs, keeps tracks of lines, lots of features and preferences. One of the most invaluable parts of it, is that you can close it or a update happens or maybe your PC will get knocked offline. You can come back to Notepad++, open it, and everything will be retained.

      • potoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        17 days ago

        The most-helpful thing for me was to accept that just because it’s there, doesn’t mean I need it or have to use it. And if I ever do, it’ll be there waiting for me. It’s okay if you only need a handful of its features. I’m not sure there’s a person alive who can truly maximize Reaper, it can do so much.

  • notabot@piefed.socialEnglish
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    20 days ago

    Vim. I suppose, technically, I’d need a kernel and filesystem drivers to run it, but Vim is the one true way. (and none of that neovim heresy either!)

  • bazzett@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Obsidian. I can write notes, write papers, organize my time and ideas, and connect them with each other. I can make my workflow as simple or complex as I want. And the fact that every note is just a markdown file makes it even better: it’s a guarantee that I’ll never be locked in a proprietary ecosystem.

    • Ryoae@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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      19 days ago

      I’m kinda wondering myself why I’m reading so many recommendations for text-editors. But, I’m not gonna care because, there could be coders lurking and might want to grab some of those recommendations.

    • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
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      19 days ago

      It’s depressing that’s the only thing people think text editors are for, specially since people almost never code with mere text editors. org-mode is a way of life.

    • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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      19 days ago

      Text editors are a key piece of software for so many applications. If you don’t need one, you obviously don’t need to care.

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    20 days ago

    For Notepad++, make sure you’ve installed the latest version using a download from the official website. Their automatic update feature got hijacked to package in malware within the past few months and the only way to shift to the newer secure update “source” is a reinstall from the site, as far as I’m aware.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    20 days ago

    I don’t know about “all that you’ll need to use”, and this might arguably considered cheating, but I’d take emacs. I think that it’s safe to say that there isn’t another software package that has the same degree of coverage of functionality. I use it for doing statistics notepad work, as a word processor, as a spreadsheet, as an email client, could use it as a web browser if necessary, as a version control client, for interactive diff merging, can use it as an LLM chat client, IRC client, text editor, IDE, orthodox-file-manager-style file manager, media player frontend, agenda manager, outliner etc. If I run M-x list-packages on my copy to run the package manager, it looks like I have 6,794 emacs software packages available in it.

    Unless you’re going to take a broader sense of “piece of software” that would let, say, a Linux distro be taken, I think that it’s pretty hard to compete with.

    EDIT: Maybe in the present-day world, you could manage with a Web browser, if you treat that as being a frontend to essentially all SaaS software, count that as being bundled with the Web browser. I guess you could argue that that might be broader, and you could probably function with basically nothing other than a Web browser on a thin client and get by.

    EDIT2: I guess you could also make an argument that the kernel is more-essential, because without that, nothing else can run, but I assume that you’re basically treating the kernel as a given and just asking about userspace software.

  • kbal@fedia.io
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    20 days ago

    The linux kernel. All the software I need, I’ll just key in the syscalls I want to make in binary.

  • AstroLightz@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    ffmpeg. It can extract video streams, audio, images. It can encode and decode video and audio, can split video files by chapters, can encode subtitles, etc.

    There’s very little that ffmpeg can’t do with video and audio. It also has one of the largest man pages on Linux.

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    PowerPoint.

    My work won’t pay for fancy graphic editing software, so I’ve learned how to make some impressive graphics and signs using only PowerPoint. It’s surprising good at it!

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      20 days ago

      My work won’t pay for fancy graphic editing software

      If cost is the barrier, some FOSS analogs to commercial software packages that you might be interested in. These can all be freely downloaded.

      Adobe Illustrator (vector graphics): Inkscape

      Adobe Photoshop (image manipulation): GIMP

      Corel Painter (natural-media-looking digital painting): Krita

      3DS Max (3D modeling): Blender

      • noughtnaut@lemmy.world
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        19 days ago

        Krita is such a horrible crashy mess - most of the time all I need is good old MS Paint (plus free rotate) but I after two decades of Linux I’ve yet to find a paint app that doesn’t overcomplicate everything with layers and selectors and modes. 😭