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Software >
(on Wikipedia)
https://obsproject.com/
I use this for video creation, and streaming on YouTube and Twitch.
Requires a hell of a lot of fiddling, and is missing some incredibly basic things.
Linux software
All posts tagged Linux software
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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.
- The default web browser on Windows 11
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You gain access to an artificial intelligence if you use it.
This is regarding “version one” You probably want Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.
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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.
- aka wsl
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Sometimes mis-named Bash on Ubuntu on Windows or Bash on Windows
- Not related to Git on Windows.
See also:
- Virtualization
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XLaunch to run GUI Linux software.
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Software >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.yacy.net/
A self-hosted peer-to-peer search engine.
Aborted because openjdk-8 is not available to me.
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Software >
https://bitbucket.org/zxtune/zxtune
https://zxtune.bitbucket.io/
Oldschool as fuck, but does everything just right™.
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Software > Oldschool music players >
https://www.bannister.org/software/ao.htm
An oldschool music player.
Has potential, but is missing critical features and its development appears to have ceased. Only good for playing ASMA (Atar) .mus, .str, and .wds files.
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Software >
(on Wikipedia)
Chocolatey: Ghostscript
https://ghostscript.com/
A suite of software for dealing with PDFs.
It’s a requirement for other software, and I only care about actually using it for repairing PDFs.
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Software >
Pale Moon > Pale Moon extensions >
was https://github.com/wsdfhjxc/expose-noisy-tabs, but I found a copy at https://github.com/adisib/expose-noisy-tabs
https://addons.palemoon.org/addon/expose-noisy-tabs/
Adds an icon to tabs to indicate which emanates sound and allow one to easily mute them.
- 2019-01-15 – Obsoleted when its functionality was implemented in Pale Moon 28.3.0.
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2018-03-31 – 1.1.0
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Software > Text editors >
https://github.com/gottcode/focuswriter
https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/
A beautified text editor with the widgets around the edges removed (“distraction-free”).
I started using it because I couldn’t trivially get Geany spell checking working. Once I did get it working I stopped.
Although I’ve used this on Linux a bit, it merely idles in my Windows kit.
