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Must have software
    #26424603 - 01/09/20 12:44 PM (4 years, 20 days ago)

So after carrying the same faithful, reliable, now four year old laptop across and all around the world with me, she's got a bit long in the tooth so I stumped up for the latest and greatest. Taking a little while to get used to Windows 10 but I'm liking it thus far.

So in trying to get it mirrored closely to the setup I've had since I started relying on a laptop alone three years ago, and I've got to thinking about what essential applications/software I need.

I'd be really interested/grateful if you guys shared what you feel are indispensable applications in your computing world...

I'll start:

Chrome (cause a slick browser is #1)
Musicbee (cause it's the best music library IMO)
Soulseek (cause new tunes is a must)
MP3 Tag&Rename (cause I gotta sort all them tunes I download)
Dropbox (Cause the cloud is the future)


To get:

GOM Player (haven't found anything better for watching vids yet)
Office (haven't decided whether to stump for Microsoft yet, I know there's alternatives..)
Steam (cause I now have an inbuilt GPU and am gonna do a little gaming)
uTorrent (I think this is the lightest bittorrent client going)


So, I'd be welcome to hear any input at all on the 'To get' section, along with any software which really does it for you and which you consider indispensable.

Thanks for helping me with this modern age shit guys n gals!!!


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Re: Must have software [Re: Jokeshopbeard] * 2
    #26424629 - 01/09/20 12:58 PM (4 years, 20 days ago)

I like qBittorent better, I think it’s lighter yet and doesn’t have any advertisements. I can’t stand advertisements. I use Opera browser, it uses the chrome engine, but I prefer the GUI. Add ublock origin to whatever browser you choose, because ads are for weenies. Classic Shell is the tits because that Windows 10 start menu is absolute garbage, and it’s full of advertisements that nobody needs. Windows 10 is pretty solid from there, but I’d start with a fresh install of W10 enterprise, it knocks out the bloatware your laptop surely came with, because bloatware is a fancy way of saying they’ve built a bunch of advertisements into your OS. And only shmucks put up with advertisements in their OS.

We see the pattern here?

Alternatively there are Macs. Sure they are like 2.5 times more expensive, but they don’t have advertisements.


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Re: Must have software [Re: christopera]
    #26424683 - 01/09/20 01:21 PM (4 years, 20 days ago)

Oh yeah of course I clean installed the thing the moment I got my hands on it!! Bloatware fucking sucks.

I didn't bother stumping up for Pro or Enterprise mind you; I've always used hacked OS's until now but decided I'd just go with a properly licenced one this time and it came with Home. Any reason you suggest enterprise?

I'm gonna check out qtorrent and Opera, thanks for that man!!


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Re: Must have software [Re: Jokeshopbeard] * 3
    #26424689 - 01/09/20 01:23 PM (4 years, 20 days ago)

I like f.lux to dim my screen at night, removing blue light, which makes it easier to sleep :smile: it's simple software but works well. I also like open office for my word processing and spreadsheet needs, and it's free unlike MS Office. also Mozilla Firebird for my email needs and it doubles as a great scheduler when you add that add-on :laugh:


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Re: Must have software [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
    #26424699 - 01/09/20 01:35 PM (4 years, 20 days ago)

Enterprise because it’s easy to pirate, lol. Also because it does have some benefits... None of them likely all that important for a laptop.

Don’t forget to install iTunes. Joking of course. I’ve never tried those music apps you mention, I’ll have to give them a look. I run a Plex server out of my home, works a treat, but it’s a commitment.

MP3 tag is great, really solid stuff. Steam is the new iTune, I’m stuck for now.

Beyond office I can’t think of any other software I really use, outside of really job specific stuff anyways. Everything is so easily managed via browser these days.


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Re: Must have software [Re: deff]
    #26424708 - 01/09/20 01:38 PM (4 years, 20 days ago)

Move away from downloading torrents unless software or whatnot and get a seedbox... download movies and music on a server and just stream to wherever you want.

Saves up lots of space on local HD making laptop faster and less reading of the HDD increases life if not at SDD yet. I view via plex on pc and tvs


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Re: Must have software [Re: modern.shaman]
    #26424741 - 01/09/20 01:52 PM (4 years, 20 days ago)

I'm not a fan of keeping anything in the cloud only. I keep everything to be there for safety sake, but I hate to rely on having connectivity to access anything I might need. I go to some weird and wonderful places and high speed internet access is often not a thing.

Musicbee is the shiiiiiiit chris!! Seriously man, I did some proper digging when I moved away from iTunes years ago and this thing is just fucking epic. Customisable beyond belief.

Forgot to mention f.lux deff, always use it. What colour setting do you have it on?

What do you guys use for watching video files??


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Re: Must have software [Re: Jokeshopbeard] * 3
    #26424750 - 01/09/20 01:56 PM (4 years, 20 days ago)

I really love Audacity for manipulating audio, OpenOffice for manipulating text and GIMP for manipulating imagery.

All is free OpenSource software.


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Re: Must have software [Re: Asante] * 2
    #26424857 - 01/09/20 02:44 PM (4 years, 20 days ago)

For a browser I would recommend checking out https://brave.com/, it is built on the chromium engine so if you like Google Chrome you'll like brave. Additionally it bundles a few nice things like an ad blocker, https everywhere, noscript like blocking of third-party website scripts by default. Additionally it pays out cryptocurrency if you view the ads it suggests. In the last two months I've earned about $5 just by viewing adds a couple times a day.

You would also probably want to install VLC for playing movies, and something like LibreOffice for your office software, and a VPN if that's something you need. Additionally something like VirtualBox might be useful if you do virtualization.


Personally speaking this is a bulleted list of all the things I install on my new computers:

* Terminator
* docker, docker-machine, docker-compose
* OpenVPN
* Brave browser
* VLC
* Tor
* I2P
* VirtualBox
* VSCode
* Guake
* ClusterSSH
* plank
* ansible
* screen
* go-ipfs


Edited by deadwk (01/09/20 02:44 PM)


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Re: Must have software [Re: Jokeshopbeard] * 1
    #26424907 - 01/09/20 03:11 PM (4 years, 20 days ago)

Quote:

Jokeshopbeard said:
Forgot to mention f.lux deff, always use it. What colour setting do you have it on?




I have it on the lowest setting that my laptop allows, I don't remember which setting it is but it's quite low (I'm not on that laptop right now) - I really like it, I find the orange tint is very pleasant :laugh:

Quote:

Asante said:
I really love Audacity for manipulating audio, OpenOffice for manipulating text and GIMP for manipulating imagery.

All is free OpenSource software.




I used to use Audacity when I needed to manipulate audio - I loved it, it works great. Got to love open source software :awesome:


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Re: Must have software [Re: Jokeshopbeard] * 1
    #26425049 - 01/09/20 04:47 PM (4 years, 20 days ago)

Windirstat


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Re: Must have software [Re: Jokeshopbeard] * 1
    #26425087 - 01/09/20 05:06 PM (4 years, 20 days ago)

just checked now and I have it on "1900K Candle" mode which actually isn't the lowest. the lowest setting (Ember) is a bit too low for me :smile:


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Re: Must have software [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
    #26425095 - 01/09/20 05:11 PM (4 years, 20 days ago)

I don’t know how computer savvy you are but Windas 10 has a bunch of shit you gotta turn off so that the gubment don’t spy on you.  Make sure you got your levels correct homie.  You don’t want to go getting arrested for being a hitman due to some dumb setting you had turned on..:thumbup:


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Re: Must have software [Re: livingmagic]
    #26425132 - 01/09/20 05:32 PM (4 years, 20 days ago)

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444 said:
Windirstat



Fucking love that thing. I've always got several terabytes at my disposal these days though so haven't needed it for ages!


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Re: Must have software [Re: livingmagic] * 1
    #26425140 - 01/09/20 05:40 PM (4 years, 20 days ago)

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444 said:
Windirstat



^ Seconded.


JSB, I'd avoid uTorrent. There was some shenanigans a while back where they were using their software to use your processing power to run a cryptocurrency mining operation. They supposedly stopped after the backlash, but I'm distrustful in general with their software after that.


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Re: Must have software [Re: PatrickKn] * 1
    #26425942 - 01/10/20 04:13 AM (4 years, 19 days ago)

Thanks for the heads up on that Pat. qBittorent it is.

Did some reading and considered the switch to Opera but I'm gonna stick with Chrome on this - I'm integrated into it across many devices - so it would be a real hassle to switch.

Props on Classic Shell Chris, that new style Start menu fucking suuuuuuuuucked.


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Let it be seen that you are nothing. And in knowing that you are nothing... there is nothing to lose, there is nothing to gain. What can happen to you? Something can happen to the body, but it will either heal or it won't. What's the big deal? Let life knock you to bits. Let life take you apart. Let life destroy you. It will only destroy what you are not.
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Re: Must have software [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
    #26426147 - 01/10/20 08:11 AM (4 years, 19 days ago)

I also use qtorrent instead of uTorrent.  uTorrent got shady af real quick.

keypass for password mangement.


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Re: Must have software [Re: mndfreeze]
    #26426151 - 01/10/20 08:11 AM (4 years, 19 days ago)

Oh, and the windows media player classic pack with all the various codecs and stuff.


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Re: Must have software [Re: mndfreeze]
    #26426308 - 01/10/20 10:44 AM (4 years, 19 days ago)

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Re: Must have software [Re: Asante]
    #26426323 - 01/10/20 11:00 AM (4 years, 19 days ago)

Quote:

Asante said:
I really love Audacity for manipulating audio, OpenOffice for manipulating text and GIMP for manipulating imagery.

All is free OpenSource software.



Another open source program in this vein is Inkscape. Inkscape is to Gimp as Adobe Illustrator is to Photoshop.


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Re: Must have software [Re: psi]
    #26426468 - 01/10/20 12:52 PM (4 years, 19 days ago)

VLC player and BitDefender

I dont know man....Office?

Ow and Switch Sound File converter to make MP3s from losless


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Re: Must have software [Re: Tripsurfer]
    #26426475 - 01/10/20 12:54 PM (4 years, 19 days ago)

Mp3, yuck.


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Re: Must have software [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
    #26426640 - 01/10/20 02:11 PM (4 years, 19 days ago)

OpenVPN, VLC, dosbox, photoshop, MSVC, 7zip, that's about all I can think of off the top of my head.


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Re: Must have software [Re: nooneman]
    #26426874 - 01/10/20 04:35 PM (4 years, 19 days ago)

7zip is a great one I forgot.


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