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Software > SVG viewers >
https://github.com/woelper/oculante
A straightforward and capable cross-platform image viewer.
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Can only display SVG files.
Linux software
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Software >
(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/Alexey-T/CudaText
https://cudatext.github.io/
A capable and fast programmer’s editor.
It’s capable and fast, but not being able to disable the recent files list is a killer for me.
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Portable only, but it has an installer so you can easily
right-clickand open files in it.
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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.
- A fork and improvement of youtube-dl
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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.
- 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 > 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:
- Syntax highlighting
- Code folding
- Symbol name auto-completion
- Construct completion/snippets
- Auto-closing of XML and HTML tags
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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.
- The package
geany-pluginsis 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.
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I use Push To Talk with it.
Software >
Text editors >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.qownnotes.org/
A text editor / notes management thing.
While pretty awesome, it’s really really not for me because of some fundamental ways it thinks about data. I’ll continue to use Geany with a bunch of text files.
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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:
- For converting
.svgfiles to.jpgor.png - (On Windows For editing
.pngfiles which have transparency, sincemspaint.execan’t do that. - For importing a page from a PDF, as an image.
- For transparent backgrounds
- GNU Image Manipulation Program
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Often called “The Gimp”.
