What's A Piece Of Software You Could Never Do Without?

ArtVandelay , 4 minutes ago

Python, Jupyter, Freetube

cabron_offsets , 18 minutes ago

Unfortunately, Excel. It’s the lingua franca of the business world. Absolute shyte program.

MerchantsOfMisery , 25 minutes ago

I’m bored so I’m just going to make a list:

• Lightroom Classic (I’ve tried Darktable, just not for me. I take a lot of photos on my DSLR and I’ve been using Lightroom since 2015 so for me it’s worth eating the awful monthly subscription that I split with someone else.)
• Anki (flashcard app, very popular among med school students and folks trying to learn new languages. Open source and tons of useful decks available. I’ve aced plenty of exams thanks to Anki.)
• Bitwarden (finally caved and got a password manager-- could not be happier)
• CHIRP (the best for programming handheld, mobile and base station radios)
• CrystalDiskInfo (great for checking the health of SSDs and HDDs)
• DaVinci Resolve (love using this for video editing-- pirated copy was easy to find)
• Deluge (great for torrenting)
• foobar2000 (I love it for music)
• Greenshot (useful screencapture software)
• inSSIDer (great for wifi analysis)
• IrfanView (very good for photo management)
• MusicBrainz Picard (amaaaaaaaaazing god tier music management software to get all the correct metadata/album art)
• reWASD ($7 but it’s so good for no BS macro’ing of keyboard/mouse/gamepad shortcuts and profiles. I have two PCs and two mice + gamepad attached to my PC and this software is very helpful. I think the license is for life.)
• WizTree (SSD/HDD visualization tool that is useful for figuring out what’s taking up too much space on your drive)

usa_suxxx , 37 minutes ago

Vim, curl, git, python, bash

comma_egomaniac , 46 minutes ago

Emacs, of course!!!

I can not imagine trying to get stuff done without it.

It makes organizing, programming, writing, just everything so much easier.

lichtmetzger , 56 minutes ago

KDE. Been using it since v3, tried various other systems like Gnome, Enlightenment, XFCE etc. and I’ve always been coming back to it. KDE just feels very intuitive and easy to use.

Paradachshund , 1 hour ago

I’ve gotten very used to this little free app called Audio Switcher that makes it way easier to switch back and forth between speakers and my headphones.

berryjam , 50 minutes ago

This is going to be very handy, thanks for the rec

Caligvla , 1 hour ago

Browser, I guess? Without one you’d be back to early 1990s home computing.

Taleya , 1 hour ago

Irfanview. Quick easy very low fuss image viewer / low level editor

Advanced renamer.

Chozo , 1 hour ago

Windows 11, Stable Diffusion, Twitter, Google Chrome, Facebook Messenger, ChatGPT, Epic Games Store, official Reddit app, YouTube Music

whoisearth , 56 minutes ago

Top notch

aaaaaaadjsf , 1 hour ago

Neutron Music Player for Android. Yes the UI is outdated, but the efficiency and feature set cannot be beat. It’s so efficient on battery life compared to both streaming music services like Spotify, or any other local music player Android app. And the feature set is incredible. The full parametric equalizer, built in frequency response correction for almost any headphone model you can name, volume normalisation, EQ presets, direct USB access to USB DACs to bypass Android volume or format limitations, crossfeed for headphones, and that’s just what I can think of now. I’m sure there are more features I haven’t even used yet.

BartyDeCanter , 1 hour ago

A compiler. I mean, yeah, I guess I could go back to writing asm, but I really don’t want to.

qprimed , 1 hour ago

asm? ha! back in my day we were hammering ones and zeros into clay tablets.

GooberEar , 2 hours ago

Encryption.

SubArcticTundra , 2 hours ago

KDE. My brain is hard-wired for Windows, so KDE is intuitive and just gets out of the way.

tortina_original , 2 hours ago

OpenSSH