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https://sourceforge.net/projects/diffuse/
A GUI side-by-side difference program.
To solve the problem of file-comparisons, I need something far more visual than commandline tools can give me. Diffuse does its job spectacularly well.
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Storage > Software > smartmontools >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.smartmontools.org/
A suite of HDD tools.
I find it essential. I think.
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smartctl is the most important component for me.
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was http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/jpegoptim/
https://www.kokkonen.net/tjko/projects.html
https://github.com/tjko/jpegoptim
Optimizes JPEG images, performing magic to reduce size, or optionally stripping metadata for even further savings, or performing lossy re-compression for potentially extraordinary size reduction.
I like this idea, and it’s actually freed up a significant amount of space. Being able to take a 5MB file and knock it down to 1MB while maintaining excellent visual quality.. is astonishing
this needs to be cleaned up
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https://git-scm.com/
A version control system of some note.
I use it, not that I know what I’m doing.
See also:
- My git repository for git scripts
- Git on Windows
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tig (text-mode interface for git)
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(on Wikipedia)
Chocolatey: 7zip
https://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/7-zip_portable
https://www.7-zip.org/
An archival program.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://ffmpeg.org/
A suite of tools to diddle with multimedia stuff and things.
It’s mandatory to have in my toolkit.
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(on Wikipedia)
http://www.avidemux.org/
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/
I don’t really care about this, but I do use it occasionally to cut apart videos.
Quite straightforward to use for simple video editing and appending. It took me almost no time to learn.
Good for transcoding and merging audio into video.
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I use
avidemux_gtk- there is also
avidemux2_cli
- there is also
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Software > Text editors >
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https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nano.git/
https://nano-editor.org/
The license-unencumbered version of Pico.
Small, easy. Needs some basic functionality but is still quite useful.
- acronym: Nano’s ANOther editor
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formerly: TIP (TIP Isn’t Pico)
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(on Wikipedia)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/htop/
https://htop.dev/
A process viewer.
Utterly blows away top.
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https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
A boot loader.
This is one of the “big” boot loaders. I can’t fathom it (since it’s GNU), so I expect a distribution to be magic with it.
When GRUB breaks, I use boot-repair.
