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As a Windows user, the tools I've used for a long time include Search Everything, Process Explorer, FreeFileSync, Paint.net and David De Groot's PIXresizer, along with the usual suspects: Gmail, Word and Excel.
VLC. There have been so many times I thought "man it would be great if there were this crazy hypothetical feature in my media player" only to find out it's like a stable long-established feature that's a keypress away from activation after a quick google search or glance at a dropdown menu.
Or for folks like me: I just want to play my video files no fuss, no muss. Something other major media players seem to have more trouble with than they should. But not VLC! 100% of the time it works every time!
Windows: "Everything" (that's the name). A lightweight, fast and advanced (if you want it) file search engine. Linux: Most tools of course, as they are made with the Unix philosophy, but these days I'm most surprised by print drivers for Linux. Where in Windows the printer is always magically offline or slow, from Linux I can print and scan very reliably. Vim is also worth learning, it makes editing much more... rela…
FWIW, I used to use Notepad++ back around 2005 and it was a piece of crap stability-wise. Frequent crashes, and not-infrequent UI glitches like syntax highlighting just stopping working. This isn't a reflection on its state now , but I'm trying to make the point that good software takes time . They've had 13 years to clean it up now, and evidently it's gotten a lot better. But that's worth remembering when judging th…
Python. To a lesser extent, vim and tmux. ssh/scp. I used to think bash was on that list... it seems relatively responsive and predictable. I use it all the time. But then I realized how often bash has weird issues -- like completion hanging, or inexplicable inability to complete (this could be due to the distro though). Or it just seems easy to get it in a bad state by hitting the wrong keys, or dumping a binary fil…
My own programs written in Python... not so lucky. ;-)
Great thread. Important to keep perspective. So far the responses seem desktop-centric, but I'm going to throw out a few web apps that I have a lot of respect for: - Instapaper - Trello - Google Inbox And, on the desktop side I have to give credit to Garageband and Logic, which I honestly can't recall having crashed or let me down in recent memory. YMMV.
What is Logic? I'm having trouble performing a websearch on that one...
Windows: "Everything" (that's the name). A lightweight, fast and advanced (if you want it) file search engine. Linux: Most tools of course, as they are made with the Unix philosophy, but these days I'm most surprised by print drivers for Linux. Where in Windows the printer is always magically offline or slow, from Linux I can print and scan very reliably. Vim is also worth learning, it makes editing much more... rela…
FWIW, I used to use Notepad++ back around 2005 and it was a piece of crap stability-wise. Frequent crashes, and not-infrequent UI glitches like syntax highlighting just stopping working. This isn't a reflection on its state now , but I'm trying to make the point that good software takes time . They've had 13 years to clean it up now, and evidently it's gotten a lot better. But that's worth remembering when judging th…
I realize a lot of that is riding on the Debian team, but Canonical has done some fantastic work just testing the thing out on such a wide variety of configurations. It's the distribution I recommend to any of my friends looking to try Linux out for the first time.
VLC. There have been so many times I thought "man it would be great if there were this crazy hypothetical feature in my media player" only to find out it's like a stable long-established feature that's a keypress away from activation after a quick google search or glance at a dropdown menu.
Great thread. Important to keep perspective. So far the responses seem desktop-centric, but I'm going to throw out a few web apps that I have a lot of respect for: - Instapaper - Trello - Google Inbox And, on the desktop side I have to give credit to Garageband and Logic, which I honestly can't recall having crashed or let me down in recent memory. YMMV.
What is Logic? I'm having trouble performing a websearch on that one...
Your one stop shop to get a Windows PC back on its feet after a wipe. Ninite always works great for me. The application packages are a single click to install, and it really helps minimise the clammy, sticky feeling of using IE Explorer while you go download Chrome / Firefox / Opera.