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Netbeans IDE. Cannot remember one serious crash. Have emptied the cache twice that I can think of over the years I have used it. (And most importantly: I have less problems than my colleague who uses IntelliJ.)

Also as others have mentioned I've had major stability problems with eclipse, mostly in connection with the perforce plugin.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had forgotten about this tool, and having worked mostly on Apple hardware for the last 5 years didn't realize they had a macOS version. But when I used it on Windows, it was phenomenal.

It's SFTP support in the late 90's was perfect. I had to add this to wine so I can continue to use it on Linux and OS X.

There's a Native Linux version!

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I'm absolutely amazed I haven't seen Photoshop on the list yet. Incredibly powerful, very reliable, thoroughly worth the pricetag - and I don't love subscription software. It's generally a joy to use. And I can't think of another piece of powerful visual creation software that is.

Photoshop is incredibly glitchy, at least its Windows version is. It manages to crash even while initializing.

I'm on Windows and I honestly can't recall the last time I saw a PS crash - and I've used it more or less daily for the last half-decade or so.

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Alfred ( https://www.alfredapp.com ) Alfred is absolutely the most game-changing app I've ever been introduced to. I only use it for finding files, searching, opening a page by direct URL, defining words, calculator, translation (via Google), launching apps, and quickly jumping to apps that are already open. It's probably saved me hundreds of hours in clicking around, etc. I've never purchased the paid version (been…

I've installed Alfred before but just kept using Spotlight. I never saw why it amazes so many people.

What does it do that Spotlight can't?

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Alfred ( https://www.alfredapp.com ) Alfred is absolutely the most game-changing app I've ever been introduced to. I only use it for finding files, searching, opening a page by direct URL, defining words, calculator, translation (via Google), launching apps, and quickly jumping to apps that are already open. It's probably saved me hundreds of hours in clicking around, etc. I've never purchased the paid version (been…

+1 for Alfred. I have Spotlight completely disabled/hidden because Alfred is just faster and more full-featured.

The paid version is totally worth it for how much time it saves me. I also really enjoy the theming and file management features (which are paid only).

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