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Unfortunately, it really is for programmers. While I can muddle through everything, I’m not a programmer so it’s extremely time consuming for me to make anything.

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FreeCAD

2015-05-02

3d printing, disliked, drawing, freeware, GUI software, Linux software, macOS software, open-source software, reviews, software, Windows 10 software, Windows 8 software, Windows software

Software >

https://www.freecad.org/

A CAD program.

I couldn’t figure it out.

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Blender

2015-05-02

3d printing, animation software, dead, disliked, drawing, freeware, GUI software, Linux software, macOS software, open-source software, reviews, software, steam software, video editing software, Windows 10 software, Windows 8 software, Windows software

Software > Animation, Video editing >

(on Wikipedia)
(on Steam)
https://www.blender.org/

A Free and open source 3d creation suite and video editor.

3d editing: Said to be very difficult to use, and it is. There is an argument that in mastering it one gains a huge set of capabilities with one tool. I was unable to get that far.

Video editing: Defaults are stupid and features are missing. Maybe it’ll be passable in a few years.

It has a portable zip, with no install required. Yay!

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Open Cubic Player

2014-09-09

abandoned, audio playing software, audio software, commandline software, dead, DOS software, freeware, glances, Linux software, loved, media software, open-source software, reviews, SID software, software, todo

Software >

https://www.cubic.org/player/

Cubic Player, now Open Cubic Player, was my audio player of choice back in my DOS days. Officially abandoned under DOS, but renamed to “open cubic player” and further-developed to become multi-platform (Linux).

Rather old, but still awesome.

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Btrfs

2014-08-09

abandoned, commandline software, dead, file systems, freeware, Linux software, loved, misadventures, open-source software, reviews, software, utilities

I'm using this logo .. because reasons

(on Wikipedia)
was btrfs.docs.kernel.org ))

A filesystem I use because of checksumming and de-duplication.

Very good, although I’ve had a sketchy history with it. I’ve used multiple versions of it, sometimes mounting the same partition with different versions of it.

I stopped using it because I lost trust in its reliability.

B-tree file system
I have some btrfs scripts in git
Checksumming helps with The Chain of Trust.
Abandoned by it’s originators, and community-developed.

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SpaceFM

2014-08-08

desktop managers, file managers, freeware, GTK+ software, GUI software, liked, Linux software, live, open-source software, reviews, software, todo

Software > File managers >

(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/IgnorantGuru/spacefm
http://ignorantguru.github.io/spacefm/

The current god of file managers.

It’s bloody amazing, and does so much “just right”. I can tell that the author has his head on straight. It ought to be the default in every Linux distribution which uses GTK+.

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