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OpenCore Legacy Patcher

2022-11-18
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https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/

Apple stops providing support and a download for old hardware. However, it is possible to force an install. The project that is responsible for this magic has achieved something truly spectacular, making it trivially easy using this GUI software.

WARNING: This is an extremely stupid and dangerous process to attempt without reading, understanding, and preparing the whole process up front. See #.spiralofhope.com/83891/opencore-legacy-patcher.html#plan. It really is very easy and works 100% for “only fairly ancient” hardware, but “very ancient” hardware might not be fully supported (yet?).

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CudaText

2022-09-08
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(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.

  • Portable only, but it has an installer so you can easily right-click and open files in it.



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Notepad3

2022-09-08
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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.

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Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

2022-07-06
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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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Geany

2022-06-30
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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

  • 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-plugins is important..

  • I also (sometimes) use Leafpad.



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