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What pieces of software can you recommend that's free, efficient and does not bullshit around? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Pyrin@kbin.melroy.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] donuts@lemmy.world 55 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

HandBrake (video transcoder)
7-zip (file archiver)
Paint.net (image editor)
VLC (media player)
Aseprite (sprite editor / pixel art, only free if you compile it yourself. Some might say it's worth the 20 bucks to pay for it)

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Note that there's a severe vulnerability that was only patched very recently in 7zip. I've seen recommendations to fully uninstall it and then reinstall the latest version.

[–] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 15 points 2 weeks ago

Report: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-11612

7-zip doesn’t have an integrated installer so yes you have to uninstall the old version and install the new one.

[–] dormedas@lemmy.dormedas.com 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Paint.NET has filled a “I need an image editor with some packed in features that isn’t as complicated as Photoshop for some quick work” niche for me for years. From simple crops and edits to some layer-and-effects work.

I did not know Aseprite was free if you compile it but they deserve the money anyway.

[–] donuts@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, I forgot one. If you actually need something a bit more like Photoshop, I can recommend Photopea as well. It's online but it runs locally and it has some ads on the side, but it beats getting an Adobe Cloud license.

[–] JoeDyrt57@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago

Paint dot net has layers, rotation, magic wand, and layers. The Editable Text plugin completes my amateur photo editing requirements. And no bloatware! No spyware!

[–] flameguy21@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

Pixelorama is completely free and is a pretty good alternative to Aseprite