GUI software

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Google > Chrome >
Software > Web browsers >

(on Wikipedia)
https://dissenter.com/

A web browser that uses components from Chrome to build a more security-conscious browser which also has a server-independent commenting mechanism like an old ICQ project had.

Like Chrome, it’s missing fundamental things.

  • Abandoned – As of 2022-02-18 – The project was to be reworked to be based on Firefox instead of Brave, but that didn’t seem to get off the ground.



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Software >

https://github.com/maxrd2/subtitlecomposer
https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/subtitlecomposer [ 1 ] was https://invent.kde.org/kde/subtitlecomposer

KF5/Qt Video Subtitle Editor

Doesn’t work.

  • There is supposedly a Windows version, but I can’t see how to get it.

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Google > Chrome >
Software > Web browsers, SVG viewers >

(on Wikipedia)
offline installers
https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge?ep=0&form=MA13T3&es=176&ch=1

Yet another Chrome derivative, but Microsoft took it seriously and made improvements.



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This is regarding “version one” You probably want Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.

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Software >
Windows, Linux >

(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about

A way to run Linux commandline software from a specialized console, similar to how a command prompt runs DOS or PowerShell.

It works well, but it’s imperfect.

  • aka wsl
  • Sometimes mis-named Bash on Ubuntu on Windows or Bash on Windows

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