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https://tuomov.iki.fi/software/ [ 1 ] was http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/

A keyboard-oriented window manager.

Clunky in places, and some things were non-obvious and needed some reading.

My hands hurt after using it for a little while, because the default hotkeys are Wrong. Heck, the defaults aren’t just “not for me”, the defaults are bad. Because of poor documentation, it’s too much work for me to figure out how to customize it the way I want.

  • Abandoned – No longer under development, forked into notion

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(on Wikipedia)
http://www.bittornado.com/

A hacker’s BitTorrent client.

I had used this for a while, but using something like it is a bit frustrating for me. It’s rarely updated and is lacking a number of convenience features.

I was thinking of hacking some solutions to my grievances when I just got frustrated and dumped it to try Deluge again.

  • Abandoned: As of 2019-11-21, version 0.3.18 was released on 2006-12-24.



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www.autofs.org [ 1 ] (archive)

Automatically mount stuff like CD-ROM disks when inserted.



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Footnotes

TODO – my LibriVox setup noteshttps://wiki.librivox.org/index.php/User:Spiralofhope/1-Minute_Test_redux

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(on Wikipedia)
Chocolatey: audacity
https://www.audacityteam.org/

A free audio recording / editing suite.

Very capable, but rather confusing.

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