Notepad++ - This is the definitive notepad-related software you’ll ever need. Multiple tabs, keeps tracks of lines, lots of features and preferences. One of the most invaluable parts of it, is that you can close it or a update happens or maybe your PC will get knocked offline. You can come back to Notepad++, open it, and everything will be retained.

  • AstroLightz@lemmy.world
    1·
    32 minutes ago

    ffmpeg. It can extract video streams, audio, images. It can encode and decode video and audio, can split video files by chapters, can encode subtitles, etc.

    There’s very little that ffmpeg can’t do with video and audio. It also has one of the largest man pages on Linux.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    4·
    11 hours ago

    Yep. Even as a Linux user from the word go, I appreciate Notepad++ as a formidable piece of software. There are text editors under Linux coming close, but I wish we had a native version of NP++ here.

  • bazzett@lemmy.world
    7·
    12 hours ago

    Obsidian. I can write notes, write papers, organize my time and ideas, and connect them with each other. I can make my workflow as simple or complex as I want. And the fact that every note is just a markdown file makes it even better: it’s a guarantee that I’ll never be locked in a proprietary ecosystem.

    • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      It’s depressing that’s the only thing people think text editors are for, specially since people almost never code with mere text editors. org-mode is a way of life.

    • Ryoae@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      I’m kinda wondering myself why I’m reading so many recommendations for text-editors. But, I’m not gonna care because, there could be coders lurking and might want to grab some of those recommendations.

    • Treczoks@lemmy.world
      3·
      11 hours ago

      Text editors are a key piece of software for so many applications. If you don’t need one, you obviously don’t need to care.

  • chunes@lemmy.world
    11·
    16 hours ago

    most importantly, notepad++ has a proper gui and is written in C++ and uses… checks 6% of the ram that vscode does.

    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      13 hours ago

      NP++ handles so many things well, but then struggles with others. Opening a 3gb text file? Fuck it no problem. Trying to do find on a file 1/10th the size? Nah. You’re waiting a minute for it to stop freezing.

    • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      19 hours ago

      It’s funny how “at home” I feel with vim. Everything is where it should be. It works the way I expect. It’s nice.

      RIP Bram

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    13·
    19 hours ago

    For Notepad++, make sure you’ve installed the latest version using a download from the official website. Their automatic update feature got hijacked to package in malware within the past few months and the only way to shift to the newer secure update “source” is a reinstall from the site, as far as I’m aware.

  • kbal@fedia.io
    8·
    18 hours ago

    The linux kernel. All the software I need, I’ll just key in the syscalls I want to make in binary.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    51·
    17 hours ago

    Multiple tabs

    Emacs has various ways to display tabs, but I don’t use tabs in emacs, because it doesn’t scale well to, say, dozens of tabs; normally, each additional buffer I have doesn’t normally have any visual indication onscreen that it exists. I use a couple of other buffer-switching software packages.

    keeps track of lines

    Defaults to being shown in the minibuffer.

    One of the most invaluable parts of it, is that you can close it or a update happens or maybe your PC will get knocked offline. You can come back to Notepad++, open it, and everything will be retained.

    This is called desktop-save-mode in emacs. C-h f desktop-save-mode will show documentation. You can have a single global saved instance, or multiple concurrent instances of emacs saving desktop state for separate projects.

  • notabot@piefed.socialEnglish
    82·
    19 hours ago

    Vim. I suppose, technically, I’d need a kernel and filesystem drivers to run it, but Vim is the one true way. (and none of that neovim heresy either!)