Sublime Text Files auto save, so a crash, or even accidental close will not cause you to lose anything. Also handles massive files, which is nice. On top of being a nice, very configurable code editor,
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#452For something with a GUI: Gmail.
Don't know if this will help or not: http://gettingreal.37signals.com/
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#453moc - Music On Console, use mocp to spwan it and you can also detach again. Never used another music player afterwards. youtube-dl ack instead of grep, most instead of less tor GNOME stuff just works, from gnome-builder to gnome-disks to gscan2pdf
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#454Probably the most off the wall choice in this thread, but I say HP Scan and Capture: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/hp-scan-and-captu... It's a Metro app for Windows 8.1 and up to scan with HP scanners. I love it because it just works , which has never been my experience with scanning[0]. You press a button, it scans whatever's on the tray. You can tweak resolution if you want. And at the end you save it…
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#455Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's unfortunate that their browser extensions were an infrequently-upgraded, bloated mess (or at least they were before I stopped using it)
Their browser extensions are my favorite part of it! If you haven't used it in a while, you have missed a _lot_ of updates.
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#456I'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.
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#457Discord has been rock solid so far for VOIP, and actually has great UX. A refreshing change after years of using mumble/teamspeak and maintaining my own servers on flaky cheap VPS providers.
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#458FB's messenger - everyone should be using this instead of SMS
I liked having my phone battery last more than an hour on a full charge, so I will never install that POS again.
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#459Nobody has mentioned screen. This is unacceptable! screen is extremely reliable and useful. I'd like to say emacs, but it's not really that "reliable" in that it often goes crazy and eats up a CPU, and I must maintain separate .emacs files for slightly different computers and vintages of emacs. It does work very well though.
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#4601Password on Mac - phenomenal UX, all around joy to use Not as pleased with the Windows version, but it's serviceable
Starting from the top, I think you're the first person to mention user experience. Man, this topic has done nothing but remind me how far I am outside the "software development mainstream". Vim? Git? Are there seriously that many developers who enjoy using such unusable software?