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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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[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Ah yes, gotta download "Linux" for myself.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

How do you know they don't refer to Alpine Linux?

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why are you interjecting to me?

[–] fjordbasa@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s a copypasta

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sure, but why are they pasting it to me?

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

If you must know, it's because I listed "Linux" rather than listing every distro by name, and your comment "oh I'll just download linux" as if you can't download a linux distro which is foss and based on the foss linux kernel, seemed just as pedantic to me as the copypasta, and so my immediate reaction, which I'd argue was natural and hilarious, was "haha copypasta time."

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But why male models?

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

I assume they hire them to advertise men's clothing mostly but I'm not sure how that relates to this.