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?

  • tias
    66·
    7 days ago

    “Everything” - find any file on your machine instantly. No need to update an index, it uses the NTFS master file table directly.

    • GreenAppleTree@lemmy.world
      23·
      7 days ago

      It is my pet peeve that instead of using the MFT, they gave us the bloody abomination they call windows search.

      I mean, make it a hidden tool like regedit, for all I care. It’s really not that hard.

      • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
        221·
        7 days ago

        Microsoft made NTFS, but not even Windows uses it properly. For example, the : character is perfectly valid in NTFS file names, but not in Windows. If you mount an NTFS volume in Linux without specifying the windows_names option, you can very easily make it unusable in Windows. It’s a sick joke, but nobody’s laughing.

        • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          10·
          7 days ago

          Hey, to be fair, ‘/’ and the null character are the only illegal character for file names on Linux (which is a blessing AND a curse)

    • Joe Dyrt@lemmy.ml
      6·
      6 days ago

      This my top-used non-windows-component bestest utility for finding info on my pc. It’s da bomb!

    • FelixMortane@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      6 days ago

      I find it almost criminal the amount of people who do not know about this. Absolute life saver for work.

    • shrodes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      6 days ago

      Wizfile as an alternative to this which I prefer

      Also Wiztree from the same devs as a WinDirStat alternative

      • wild@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 days ago

        Love them. Though, WizFile occasionally starts eating up a lot of CPU on my machine until I force close it.