No.1274 [View All]
Link all of the obscure programs that other anons might not know about.
I'll start
https://justgetflux.com/rainmeter.net/
flacsquisher.sourceforge.net/
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No.6140
>>1274
inb4 wincuck, but win10 has a "Night light" program that isn't heavy at all
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No.6250
https://alternativeto.net/
Good site, I use it all the time.
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No.6251
>>2409
Favorite program of all time tbh.
Just installed linux mint and can't seem to get music bee working right though. Tried playonlinux and virtualbox. Virtualbox is almost working but the sound stutters and I gave it plenty of ram, which it isn't even using. Also tried all of the audio options in virtualbox. Guess I'll have to try another VM client or something.
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No.6257
Windows Privacy Tweaker
By Phrozensoft
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No.6349
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No.6350
>>6140
That's true but it's largely inferior to flux because it doesn't make everything incandescent
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No.6362
https://apps.ankiweb.net/
I highly recommend "Anki". It is a free (although there is a paid mobile app) flashcard service. Import card decks or make your own. Touch support for drawing foreign characters. Voice support. Etc....
Good program
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No.6423
If you're on windows, there's a neat minimalist firewall called Tinywall, opensource too
easy to blacklist/whitelist certain software from using network.
There's also Notepad++, it's a small editor that supports many language syntaxes, i use it for ruby, cool shit.
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No.6595
>>1437
Just use less shift and more screen dim by modifying config
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No.6617
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No.6652
I hate f.lux, it is too slow. Sunset screen is a viable alternative.
http://www.skytopia.com/software/sunsetscreen/
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No.6653
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No.6654
if you want to change your brightness by only at least 2 values(say from brightness 2% to 4%){on win7 it only changes by 7%} by scrolling the value in the tray, or simply change the volume by scrolling in the taskbar, this program will be helpful.
http://clickmonitorddc.bplaced.net/
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No.6655
say you have like 2500 songs with different formats(mp3/wma...) with different bitrates( from 48kbps to flac), and in there many songs are repeated. Similarity will find those songs by comparing waveform and you can delete the low quality ones and keep the best only. Also works for duplicate images. (works on %content_match not on filename_match only)
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No.6656
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No.6657
https://sourceforge.net/projects/renameit/
this program will help bulk rename your files
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No.6658
so you want to browse pdfs in fullscreen(see 1st image), press esc to exit, and browse the next pdf file from explorer in fullscreen too, then it is a good time to ditch the almighty adobe pdf reader and ally with the
>SUMATRA PDF READER.
https://sumatrapdfreader.org/
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No.6659
>>6658
also in sumatra, if you want pdf backgrounds to look yellowish red like epub files, copy "BackgroundColor"from FixedPageUI to EbookUI (see 4th picture )
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No.9638
>>1274
>>1308
>>3502
>>5175
>>1289
none of this is remotely obscure
are you new to computering?
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No.9678
>>1274
Sandboxie. Run programs inside their own sandbox.
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No.9683
Simple DNSCrypt
https://github.com/bitbeans/SimpleDnsCrypt
Easy to use program to encrypt your DNS connections with blacklist capabilities, you can log DNS queries and add them to a blacklist, to filter unwanted sites, etc. (you can also block IPV6 queries).
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No.9694
gotta love this thread
>most of this shit is very well known
>most of this shit is easily overshadowed by GNU tools or otherwise in any GNU/Linux install
>most of this software is Windows-only because see previous point
>some of this Windows-only shit is STILL overshadowed by Microsoft tools
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No.9695
>>9694
thanks for your contribution.
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No.9696
>>9695
you want one?
>learn lisp/perl/bash/python
>automate mundane tasks
>make programs/functions for common tasks
>actually get more productive
this works for 90% of tasks btw, enjoy
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No.9860
>>1274
Firejail. It allows you to run every program in a sandbox. Check the Arch wiki for more info.
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No.9905
>>2489
seconded, use it on the daily.
have you managed to get image previewing to work in tilda, anon?
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No.9907
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No.9927
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No.9939
Super underrated software: https://github.com/wacossusca34/glava
Not useful per se but it is cool
>>1438
More of a Shotcut guy myself. Nice lil AppImage file with support for kdenlive effects
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No.9983
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No.9986
>>1274
>obscure
>installing random software from the internet
Might as well start a toolbar thread OP
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No.9989
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No.10136
>>1680
Thank you for posting this, I had this program at an earlier time but I forgot what it was called and I wasn't sure how to reacquire it. Search engines are a bag of dildos.
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No.10143
>>9678
>$21 a year
>paying a yearly subscription fee
As if I don't already pay enough fees for things, if I were a professional using this for a job, I could see paying a yearly fee for this shit, but paying yearly fees for shit like this is bullshit.
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No.10154
>>10143
imagine paying for software you don't need
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No.10171
>>10143
it could be a monthly fee too. thats way more common than yearly
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No.10172
>>10171
also i thought that sandboxie is free. at least it was when i tried it on winxp a long time ago
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No.11083
You guys needs all these softwares to do such basic things?
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No.11526
>>1360
I remember it being slower than Qbittorrent.
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No.11924
>>9986
flux was obscure in 2015, ktranny
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No.12684
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No.12689
>>1274
i think it's an absolutely unnecessary program
>>1294
This is obviously a joke. BleachBit is better.
>>1303
winrar just works and that's why most normies use it, but it's hell annoying its "buy the program" window.
>>3502
LibreOffice is better. It even supports the ribbon ui from MS Office
>>1274
My recommendation is Claws Mail as a replacement for Thunderbird, which's bloated and full of webshit.
https://claws-mail.org/
>claws is secure. Only it and mutt passed the security test against the efail attack
>supports gpg
>lightweight and it has a clean UI
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No.13224
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No.13249
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No.13250
>>12689
Libreoffice still requires freedesktop garbage.
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No.13253
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No.13254
>>5164
>>1291
>Launchy, ahk
bloat use sxhkdrc
>>6658
zathura
>>3599
You high on gasoline?
>>1289
>>1303
tar
>>2439
sxiv
>>2440
transmission
>>3502
groff/troff
>>6657
I wrote a better replacement in 5 lines of vimscript
>>12689
>claws
>not bloated
neomutt
>>13224
mpd
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No.13299
swap-ctrl-alt
Not really a program, but a registry file to do as the name says: Alt and Ctrl are swapped around, which makes it more comfortable and "Mac-like" to enter most keyboard shortcuts.
https://github.com/denniskupec/swap-ctrl-alt
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No.13335
>>1303
>>12689
You morons should instead use PeaZip.
It's 1000x better than WinRAR ever was.
>>1305
It's Chinkware (I speak from experience). BleachBit does it all, but for 100% free.
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No.13336
Shotcut (Video Editing/Making Software)'
Basically Kdenlive, but it's not exclusive to Linux, and it comes with a ton of extra features.
https://www.shotcut.org/
Krita (Best Adobe Illustrator Alternative)
Unlike GIMP, Krita has an active and passionate userbase. Not only do they release updates frequently, the program is 100% compatible with .ai and .psd files.
https://krita.org/en/
DeaDBeeF (Music Player)
Unlike the others, this one isn't abandoned yet.
https://deadbeef.sourceforge.io/download.html
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