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Late to the party but ... Google Maps. So buttery, extremely reliable, and so many form factors where the experience is the same: superb. I'm afraid it has become such a daily utility that perhaps people don't appreciate just how amazing Google Maps is.
/bin/true Without fail, it has always done exactly what I wanted it to do. Simple. Solid. Reliable.
Oh, and /bin/true is false.
I don't use it anymore because it's Windows only, but Foobar2000 was damn near perfect for a music player.
SunVox - Sequencer and tracker. The user interface is a big evolution from more traditional trackers because of how visual it is. This reduces the barrier to getting started, but it also make using the program simply more enjoyable. http://www.warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/
VirtualDub - Video processing. This is my go-to tool for simple video editing. It remains the quickest and easiest way I know of to make animated GIFs from video. http://www.virtualdub.org/
HxD - Hex editor. Handles GB scale files very well. https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/
Foxit Reader - PDF reader. There's some conflict in the past with bundling adware installers with the software, I hope that practice is long gone. This is the most full feature Adobe Reader alternative I know of. https://www.foxitsoftware.com/
Daemon Tools Lite - Virtual disc drive manager. Unfortunately limits to 4 drives. https://www.daemon-tools.cc/products/dtLite
Space Sniffer - Disc space visualization. The clean look and intuitive visual interface is why I prefer this over WinDirStat. http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/index.html
Other software I use, but which I expect is already well known: 7-Zip, Audacity, Blender, GIMP, ImgBurn, Inkscape, IntelliJ IDEA, Kodi, Libre Office, Notepad++, PuTTY, Unreal Engine 4, VLC
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Putty has some pretty strange design choices. They coupled the terminal emulator and the SSH client, and (at least used to have) really bad default configuration (blue color was unreadable, windows codepage instead of utf-8, etc. etc.). Now that Mintty exists, I prefer to use it + openssh on Windows.
And the config ux is really ...weird.
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Doesn't matter what filetype it is...it just runs them all, instantly, like magic. I have never missed Windows Media Player for even a moment.
"Doesn't matter what filetype it is...it just runs them all, instantly, like magic." Does it play DVD ISO files ? Can you use the menus, etc. ? Just curious ... XBMC back in 2004 could do this (navigate and use DVD menus in a DVD ISO) but then that feature actually went away in the following years, never to return ...
Keepass - been using that password manager for years. Nice search feature that always saves my *.
Vim - nice way to code on a laptop. Makes super efficient use of space and rarely requires me to use the track pad.
1Password on Mac - phenomenal UX, all around joy to use Not as pleased with the Windows version, but it's serviceable