What pieces of software can you recommend that's free, efficient and does not bullshit around? - eviltoast

Notepad++ - This piece of software is a very advanced form of Notepad. Fuck that basic Notepad shit that Windows or any other OS gives you. This one is all you’ll ever need for basic note-taking needs. But it does a hell of a lot more. One thing I love about it is that, if for any reason I put my PC to sleep, it crashes, power outage, I can run this again and everything I’ve ever written and no matter how many tabs - it’s all retained.

AIMP - The definitive media player that you’ll ever need for just playing stuff (music only, sorry if I mislead those thinking it can do video). Winamp and all the other software are just around for nostalgia (though Winamp has it’s uses where you need it to play specific formats like video game music such as SNES with .SPC). One feature that attracted me to it was, it used to infuriate me when I am playing something and something crashes in any other media player. And you boot up that media player and you have to play your playlist all over again or that song from the beginning.

Not AIMP, if I accidentally close it, crash or whatever, I can bring it back up and it’ll have the song or whatever on Pause so I can resume. Why isn’t shit like this more implemented in software?

      • ace_garp@lemmy.world
        4·
        16 days ago

        Sure is! It’s had so much work done since the early days.

        The single player campaign is huge and hilarious. Very satisfying to complete.

    • verdigris@lemmy.ml
      3·
      16 days ago

      Glaring omission: OpenTTD, still in contention for the greatest train (and other transport) game ever made.

      • ace_garp@lemmy.world
        1·
        16 days ago

        Looks so good. I haven’t tried city-sims in 30yrs.

        I just watched this drokkin excellent overview of what is possible in OpenTTD. Very polished.

        I am sure it can be played as a serious endeavor too.

      • ace_garp@lemmy.world
        2·
        16 days ago

        I tried for a day or 2 to get strafe-running, could not do it.

        Would love to play Xonotic though, it has lots of old-school FPS flavour.

        • uis@lemm.ee
          2·
          15 days ago

          Strafing and moving mouse will make you turn faster, strafing with forward and moving mouse will accelerate you faster. You can see it on strafing bar.

          Also read the guide: https://xonotic.org/guide/#bunny-hopping

          And I recommend you to join xonotic-relax.ru discord server. It is most active xonotic community, and we do speak English when needed.

    • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      16 days ago

      Shattered Pixel Dungeon

      This has been the only version of the game I’ve ever gotten close to beating. For that reason alone it’s worth mentioning.

      • ace_garp@lemmy.world
        2·
        16 days ago

        Yes, I also tried the original Pixel Dungeon one time. Crazy hard mode.

        For tips, hide behind doors for as many strikes as possible.

        Try to enhance a Glaive with speed, from the Stone of Augmentation(stay with staff for mage). Then upgrade and add a glyph. Plate armour up to +4-6.

        • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          16 days ago

          For tips, hide behind doors for as many strikes as possible.

          I’ve definitely ‘abused’ the hell out of that. But at a certain point with the original, it seems like all the little tricks I learned hit an upper limit to their usefulness.

          The original was just brutal.

          Try to enhance a Glaive with speed, from the Stone of Augmentation(stay with staff for mage). Then upgrade and add a glyph.

          I’ll definitely have to give that a try next time.