Notepad++ - This is the definitive notepad-related software you’ll ever need. Multiple tabs, keeps tracks of lines, lots of features and preferences. 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.

  • chunes@lemmy.world
    4·
    3 hours ago

    most importantly, notepad++ has a proper gui and is written in C++ and uses… checks 6% of the ram that vscode does.

    • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      5 hours ago

      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

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    31·
    3 hours ago

    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.

  • kbal@fedia.io
    6·
    5 hours ago

    The linux kernel. All the software I need, I’ll just key in the syscalls I want to make in binary.

  • notabot@piefed.socialEnglish
    7·
    5 hours ago

    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!)

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6·
    5 hours ago

    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.

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
    31·
    5 hours ago

    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!

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      5·
      4 hours ago

      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

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    31·
    3 hours ago

    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.