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Here are my favorite apps at the moment, I highly recommend all of them:

What are your favorite apps? Let me know in the comments! :)

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[–] Rooki 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

KeePassXC is a in place alternative for keepass ( they are interchangable )

Sandboxie-Plus only helps with "specific" malware. I recommend you the optional windows sandbox feature. ( Optional Features => "Sandbox" )

For those who dont want to get probably spied on. As Vivaldi is chromium and that is controlled from google. Go use Firefox, or rather Librefox its a real alternative to chromium. ( Its less creepier )

Codium as an de-microsofted Visual Studio Code alternative.

[–] Techie 2 points 1 year ago

Great tips, I'll check those out, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I absolutely couldn't be without SnagIt, especially the Editor for Screenshots makes my live so much easier.

https://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.html

[–] slazer2au 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Notepad++ - lightweight feature rich tabbed notepad

Wireshark - packet capture. Note for you programmers, it's not the network. Your app just has shit performance.

HyperV - general compute virtualisation free* with windows 10/11

GNS3/eve-ng - networking specific virtualisation

Putty - ssh to stuff

Winscp - SCP to servers for file transfer.

Windows subsystem for Linux - run a Linux kernel in windows for testing Linux stuff like Ansible.

Python - multiplatform scripting and the base for so many automation tools.

Those are just off the top of my head

Also Firefox. Because chromium based web browsers/webapps are basically spyware.

[–] Techie 2 points 1 year ago

All great ones here! PuTTY is a real classic. :)

[–] A32topsL 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
  • ACDSee 3.1 - old so non-unicode, but fastest picture explorer, viewer
  • Audacity - audio, sound editor
  • Avidemux - video editor
  • Console Emulator | ConEmu - cmd
  • ExifTool - mass picture tagger
  • FastCopy - batch file copier
  • FFmpeg - video, audio encoder
  • FileAssassin - unlocker
  • Firefox, add-ons (ex. uBlock Origin, Bitwarden, FoxyTab, etc.)
  • Icaros - file explorer thumbnailing
  • IObitUnlocker - unlocker
  • KickassUndelete - undelete, very fast scanning
  • MKVToolNix - for Matroska / MKV
  • Mp3tag - mass media file tagger with undo history, supports Matroska / MKV
  • MPC-HC - media player, supports auto-rotation of MKV during playback
  • MyDefrag - fastest defrag
  • OpenShell - successor to ClassicShell
  • ProcessHacker - powerful, very fast Task Manager alternative
  • RegCool - Registry editor with copy, cut, paste of actual whole Keys and Values
  • ReNamer (den4b) - mass renamer with undo history, presets
  • simplewall - firewall with outbound
  • Tixati - torrent
  • uGet - downloader
  • UltraEdit - text/code editor
  • WordWeb - offline dictionary, thesaurus
  • yt-dlp - downloader