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Software > Text editors >
https://github.com/rizonesoft/Notepad3
https://rizonesoft.com/downloads/notepad3/
A straightforward and capable Windows text editor which also has a portable version.
This seems like a nice daily driver for little things. I shouldn’t replace Geany with it though since I want something cross-platform.
It’s really stupid that it doesn’t have configurable shortcuts unless I want to compile it from source.
Software >
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
A downloader for YouTube and many other places.
Has it’s own YouTube comment scraper, obsoleting youtube-comment-scraper
https://www.shellcheck.net/
https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck
A linter for shell scripts.
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(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.
Sometimes mis-named Bash on Ubuntu on Windows or Bash on Windows
See also:
XLaunch to run GUI Linux software.
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Software > Text editors >
(on Wikipedia)
Homebrew: geany
Chocolatey: geany
https://www.geany.org/
Geany is a GTK2 (GUI) text editor which is light and featureful. Here is a sampling of features from their about page:
Call tips
This is a editor that does such magical things as use control up/down to skip paragraphs. I love it for in-page bookmarking, code folding, search-replace, escaped-replaces and regular expressions for selections, documents and groups of documents.
geany-plugins is important..I also (sometimes) use Leafpad.
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Software >
Video conferencing / Linux softphones >
(on Wikipedia)
https://jitsi.org/
A nice and simple video conferencing program.
I use Push To Talk with it.
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Software > Image editors, SVG viewers >
(on Wikipedia)
Chocolatey: gimp
https://www.gimp.org/
An incredibly capable (and therefore very convoluted) image editor.
I use this:
.svg files to .jpg or .png.png files which have transparency, since mspaint.exe can’t do that.Often called “The Gimp”.
Software > YouTube >
Pale Moon > Pale Moon extensions >
https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/youtube-nonstop/
https://github.com/own3mall/YouTubeNonStop-Legacy-XUL-Extension
Auto-clicks “Video paused. Continue watching?” and the “Get the best YouTube experience” nag.
See also:
Software >
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/
Lets you run Linux GUI software on Windows Subsystem for Linux.
Part of “VcXsrv Windows X Server”, but I don’t use any other component.
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https://github.com/philbot9/youtube-comment-scraper/
Downloads the comments on YouTube videos.
Used to be available at ytcomments.klostermann.ca but that IP got banned because of overuse.
See my youtube-comment-scraper.sh script for how I use it.
