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.

    • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      41 minutes 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
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    44 minutes 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, etc.

    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.

  • notabot@piefed.socialEnglish
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    1 hour 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!)

  • kbal@fedia.io
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    37 minutes ago

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

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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    39 minutes 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!

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 hour 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.