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ffmpeg. It can extract video streams, audio, images. It can encode and decode video and audio, can split video files by chapters, can encode subtitles, etc.
There's very little that ffmpeg can't do with video and audio. It also has one of the largest man pages on Linux.
Vim or NeoVim
It's funny how "at home" I feel with vim. Everything is where it should be. It works the way I expect. It's nice.
RIP Bram
For Notepad++, make sure you've installed the latest version using a download from the official website. Their automatic update feature got hijacked to package in malware within the past few months and the only way to shift to the newer secure update "source" is a reinstall from the site, as far as I'm aware.
Obsidian. I can write notes, write papers, organize my time and ideas, and connect them with each other. I can make my workflow as simple or complex as I want. And the fact that every note is just a markdown file makes it even better: it's a guarantee that I'll never be locked in a proprietary ecosystem.
Obsidian is dope.
Reaper
As in the DAW ?
Yep! I put off trying it for years, but it's a powerhouse. Can't say enough good about it. Something like $30 for a lifetime license (but you can use full version free forever without paying anything), it's so fast, it's so customizable, it's rock-solid, it's just the best. It's my ride-or-die DAW bitch now.
Any good tutorials? I want to get into it but all the features can be a bit daunting.
There are quite a few yt channels extensively showing of usage.
The most-helpful thing for me was to accept that just because it's there, doesn't mean I need it or have to use it. And if I ever do, it'll be there waiting for me. It's okay if you only need a handful of its features. I'm not sure there's a person alive who can truly maximize Reaper, it can do so much.
most importantly, notepad++ has a proper gui and is written in C++ and uses.. checks 6% of the ram that vscode does.
NP++ handles so many things well, but then struggles with others. Opening a 3gb text file? Fuck it no problem. Trying to do find on a file 1/10th the size? Nah. You’re waiting a minute for it to stop freezing.
I prefer sublime but n++ is not bad.
Emacs. Emacs is the true answer
Emacs is a great OS but lacks a decent text editor.
Evil mode for the win!
The linux kernel. All the software I need, I'll just key in the syscalls I want to make in binary.
notepadd++ is very impressive in windows but kinda par for the course in linux land.
Yep. Even as a Linux user from the word go, I appreciate Notepad++ as a formidable piece of software. There are text editors under Linux coming close, but I wish we had a native version of NP++ here.
I mostly use Kate for editing, but there are some things where NP++ is still better, like copying/pasting rectangular blocks.
I've seen NotepadQQ once, but the inactive maintainence was a no go for me.
Is this question only aimed at people who write code? Everyone seems fixated on text editors.
Text editors are a key piece of software for so many applications. If you don't need one, you obviously don't need to care.
I find somewhat funny how every time a text editor is mentioned everything else gets drowned or cast aside.
It's depressing that's the only thing people think text editors are for, specially since people almost never code with mere text editors. org-mode is a way of life.
I'm kinda wondering myself why I'm reading so many recommendations for text-editors. But, I'm not gonna care because, there could be coders lurking and might want to grab some of those recommendations.
If you don't have a use for a text editor, you're a user, and users... worry me.
Probably the terminal. Im cheating a bit.
It's a terminal emulator; you can do that in hardware! Don't waste your one wish.
I don't know about "all that you'll need to use", and this might arguably considered cheating, but I'd take emacs. I think that it's safe to say that there isn't another software package that has the same degree of coverage of functionality. I use it for doing statistics notepad work, as a word processor, as a spreadsheet, as an email client, could use it as a web browser if necessary, as a version control client, for interactive diff merging, can use it as an LLM chat client, IRC client, text editor, IDE, orthodox-file-manager-style file manager, media player frontend, agenda manager, outliner etc. If I run M-x list-packages on my copy to run the package manager, it looks like I have 6,794 emacs software packages available in it.
Unless you're going to take a broader sense of "piece of software" that would let, say, a Linux distro be taken, I think that it's pretty hard to compete with.
EDIT: Maybe in the present-day world, you could manage with a Web browser, if you treat that as being a frontend to essentially all SaaS software, count that as being bundled with the Web browser. I guess you could argue that that might be broader, and you could probably function with basically nothing other than a Web browser on a thin client and get by.
EDIT2: I guess you could also make an argument that the kernel is more-essential, because without that, nothing else can run, but I assume that you're basically treating the kernel as a given and just asking about userspace software.
Emacs is a pretty good operating system
I just wish it had a good text editor
Vim. I suppose, technically, I'd need a kernel and filesystem drivers to run it, but Vim is the one true way. (and none of that neovim heresy either!)
Multiple tabs
Emacs has various ways to display tabs, but I don't use tabs in emacs, because it doesn't scale well to, say, dozens of tabs; normally, each additional buffer I have doesn't normally have any visual indication onscreen that it exists. I use a couple of other buffer-switching software packages.
keeps track of lines
Defaults to being shown in the modeline.
One of the most invaluable parts of it, is that you can close it or a update happens or maybe your PC will get knocked offline. You can come back to Notepad++, open it, and everything will be retained.
This is called desktop-save-mode in emacs. C-h f desktop-save-mode will show documentation. You can have a single global saved instance, or multiple concurrent instances of emacs saving desktop state for separate projects.
PowerPoint.
My work won't pay for fancy graphic editing software, so I've learned how to make some impressive graphics and signs using only PowerPoint. It's surprising good at it!
My work won’t pay for fancy graphic editing software
If cost is the barrier, some FOSS analogs to commercial software packages that you might be interested in. These can all be freely downloaded.
Adobe Illustrator (vector graphics): Inkscape
Adobe Photoshop (image manipulation): GIMP
Corel Painter (natural-media-looking digital painting): Krita
3DS Max (3D modeling): Blender
Krita is such a horrible crashy mess - most of the time all I need is good old MS Paint (plus free rotate) but I after two decades of Linux I've yet to find a paint app that doesn't overcomplicate everything with layers and selectors and modes. 😭
fyi mspaint should run fine with WINE https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=373
So, Rhynoplaz was after "fancy" stuff, but okay, I suppose that there's an use case for a MacPaint/MS Paint analog, with a low barrier to just get going.
Maybe Drawing for GNOME or KolourPaint for KDE? It doesn't look like either of those support layers. Drawing looks like it lets one drag a rectangular selection to rotate to non-90-degree increments. KolourPaint doesn't, but it lets one choose to rotate and input an arbitrary number of degrees.
I haven't used either, myself, other than just to check now. They're both packaged in Debian, so they're probably also gonna be packaged in any Debian-family distro.
EDIT:
https://maoschanz.github.io/drawing/
https://apps.kde.org/kolourpaint/
Both describe themselves as being "simple" paint programs.
rustup
emacs if I can have two
Blender if I can have three