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Software I’m thankful for (2021)

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Re: Software I’m thankful for (2021)

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Post by sleepycatgirl »

andrei_says_ wrote: post #100
mhb wrote: post #43

Davinci Resolve PyCharm Clion Audacity

Davinci Resolve is incredible. Using its fully functional version for free feels like cheating. One of the side effects being that it presents the tools and context for doing things properly - from editing to color correction.

Not only that, they also have proper linux binaries, which is really really awesome. (Even if, it has caveat of having to use specific formats... but storage space is cheap nowadays, so that is not that huge of an issue, thankfully)

Re: Software I’m thankful for (2021)

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Post by zeppelin101 »

mrpotato wrote: post #354
zeppelin101 wrote: post #310

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you able to compare scoop to Chocolatey? I've stuck with choco for years now, because it has so many packages that I haven't wanted to try out scoop or WinGet. Regarding PowerShell, I've found that it has become incredibly customizable these days. For example, I just enabled Emacs keybindings for it a couple days ago. So it feels almost like a bash terminal.

Use both! I think one of the main differences is that scoop will install for the local user. Which means you don't have to install stuff from an admin console (I think you can do that with choco but its not the default). I also just checked to see what apps I've used in scoop vs choco and the only one that choco doesn't have (that scoop does) is wsl-ssh-agent. scoop had all the apps I install through choco. I'm sure…

Interesting. I'll have to check it out comparison's sake.

Re: Software I’m thankful for (2021)

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Post by raverbashing »

shxdow wrote: post #97
raverbashing wrote: post #52

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Not sure which ones are that but I usually consider (some of) then plainer than vanilla They're the complete opposite of the "here's to the crazy ones", they have neither wish not curiosity in how to make things better

I personally wouldn't draw all these conclusions from the email footer alone and I'd refrain from speculation as well. It's a footer at the end of the day, but that's me I guess.

Of course. It's an inconsequential footer and people have different priorities.

My comment was more in the sense that instead of a lack of taste it's more apathy, but it's way less serious than people are taking it

Re: Software I’m thankful for (2021)

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Post by ziotom78 »

sleepycatgirl wrote: post #262

Let's see.. Software I am thankful for.. there is a fair amount of such. Anki - Software, that helped me build up habit, and made learning language an easier task Emacs - Wonderful text editor, made interacting with system a bliss. Nix/NixOS - Distro, that made updates a painless, and fearless task. I love it. ZFS - Filesystem that I love, for it has many wonderful features, and they all just work. (Also cute compres…

Thanks a lot for mentioning Anki! I was not aware of its existence, but it's exactly what I needed for myself and my children!

Re: Software I’m thankful for (2021)

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Post by ziotom78 »

_ink_ wrote: post #44

JetBrains IDEs. I need to work with three different languages and it is just a blessing that every IDE works exactly the same.

Absolutely! I teach a CS class in my university and encourage my students to try them out. (It's a class where students are free to pick the language to use, but they usually end up using C++, C#, or Kotlin.) They seem to love the many suggestions the IDE provides about code style, and the visual clues that suggest how to use some syntax. At the end of the semester, many of them have thanked me for that tip, saying that «I would have never imagined that an IDE could teach me how to write better code!».

Re: Software I’m thankful for (2021)

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Post by hiepph »

wan_ala wrote: post #266
dividedbyzero wrote: post #126

The fish shell, makes using the shell feel almost painless. Hammerspoon, I use it to automatically switch audio devices based on context, so every call uses the best microphone currently available, window management via keystrokes, limiting media keys to Spotify, tons of other things. Indispensable. Arduino, I don't think I would be able to tinker with microcontrollers as much if I had to write C and use obscure tool…

I use fish as my main shell and haven't seen anyone else that has. Honestly its really good, the autocomplete feature is my favorite.

Also Fish user here. Fish offers many superior features. I use it personally for quick scripting (compared to arcane Bash syntax).

But people just don't want to move away from Bash due to its widely usage. So: + In my company I still use Bash. + I switch all my personal shells to Fish.

Re: Software I’m thankful for (2021)

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Post by ziotom78 »

sigmaml wrote: post #401

Here is my quick list. - Linux + GNU: My servers would never have been the same without them. - Emacs: So many varied use cases over the years. I can type in Telugu (my mother tongue) and Devanagari so seamlessly ... bliss! - LaTeX: From papers to books to presentations. - Helix: A very recent discovery that replaced Vim for me in just a week! - Kitty terminal: I no longer use GNU screen or tmux locally. - Go, Ruby,…

Kitty and KDE are two real gems!
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