What is an underrated computer program?

shanice · 2023-07-25T22:55:46+00:00

It can be open or closed source, just one that you found useful and one that isn't as popular as you think it should be. I'll go first: WinDirStat allows yo...

Ross_R

tables
Yea, I see. As I've said, it was the same thing for me.
My problem was that I've started to need sorting by genre to go with that as well. Artists alone finally ceased to cut it.
Like, hip-hop alone can go into the 80's, in the golden era or into the modern folder, with certain artists having tracks in all of aforementioned folders. And the sound is vastly different. Sometimes I do like to listen to them all together, but it is good to keep'em separated. For me, at least.
It's not like I insist or anything though.

Lumeinshin

Fantasy I use GIMP for all things nowadays. It is quite good although I do not know how to do everything I used to do via Photoshop. Now that i've got the hang of it though I enjoy GIMP and I use it for all graphics related to the forum that I make, although its not in a professional capacity at all.

tables CMUS is nice, I used to use it a lot on my old core2duo laptop! Nowadays I use Strawberry music player (a fork of clementine), it scratches that old 2009 itunes itch for me

Murderbunny

Winamp is still the best local-file music player there is.
ACDSee32 is the best image viewer there is.

Jon the slayer

Fantasy GIMP sucks :/

Keepass password database

Murderbunny Totally whips a lama's ass

Janny note: please stop double/triple posting, and please make them more substantive.

Theory_of_Everything

TagUtil is probably one of the best music tagging tools for *nix systems. Im one of those weird people who manually tag their music collection, so this is a super nice tool to have.
https://github.com/kaworu/tagutil

Lakitu64

Twinkle Tray for windows. Let's you control monitor brightness on the fly for desktops. I would not be able to use my PC without this and can't believe it's the only option for something thats standard on all other computers.

h8net

There's a few pieces of software that I've felt were pretty underrated while also being insanely useful
Quick Fix My Pic! - A very obscure piece of Windows only software. It's a stupid simple image converter that I've regularly used to convert webp files to pngs.
Lossless Cut - Trims videos. Nothing much to note about it; I've just found it really useful and don't hear about it that often.
QOwnNotes - Notetaking program that uses markdown. Not an electron app like most of its competitors. I use this one pretty much daily.

1996FordMondeo

h8net
God I hate webp files

Id mention inkscape
No idea if its really underrated
Hell I dont really use it
But its a vector based graphics editor.

Lumeinshin

h8net QOwnNotes is a great piece of software. I was using obsidian but swapped to it recently. I do all my markdown stuff in it (at least for site update drafts)

A good piece of software thats definitely underrated/unheard of is OpenAudible, its a paid piece of software that converts audible audiobooks into m4a files and other drm free formats. I should really enquire about getting some kind of discount code or affiliate link for the site 🤔 I do like it that much that i'd endorse it... inb4 some massive controversy where theyre actually evil

Comsat Rex

Lumeinshin

What made you switch off of Obsidian? I moved over from Joplin a month ago and have been really enjoying it, although getting it to sync with my phone was a pain.

For the question topic: I do a lot of audio related things and REAPER is the end-all of DAWs for me. It's smaller than 1GB, hyper customizable, and endlessly flexible. It has way more than you'd realize once you start right clicking everything, and was made by the same dude that did Winamp.
yt-dlp, ffmpeg, and mpv have all been really great to me as well. I ended up using mpv as a photo viewer due to it's borderless UI and opening speed.

Lumeinshin

Comsat Rex
There was nothing that forced me to move or anything, obsidian is a fine piece of software. I am very much someone who would rather use a FOSS version of something if it meets my needs, and QOwnNotes does everything i was using obsidian for.
I'll likely use obsidian on android if i ever end up using my android tablet for notes/blogposts etc. I currently dont sync the files, although I think i'd probably use rsync to do that

Williwizard

Foxit PDF Reader. I read a lot of eBooks as PDFs and I've found a lot of joy in using Foxit. It's nothing special, really. You can open multiple documents as tabs in the same app, search, overview of chapters, etc.. I read Dune on the app for Android, and as a WH40K players having a nice PDF reader helps me quickly build army lists. Also, ISO a decent PDF editor. I have Scribus now and enjoyed using Microsoft Publisher when I tried it at the library. Any suggestions?

LOWnHA

deadbeef is a good native alternative to running foobar2000 through Wine on Linux, which itself also works fine.

Plasmawiz

For me, probably Emacs.
Ages ago I decided to give it a shot for "a week" just to see why people meme on it, and it turned out to be one of the best damn programs I have ever used. There is just something so nice about having a set of software really tightly integrated together but also extremely hackable. Now I do most of my actual work in it.

Lumeinshin

Plasmawiz
I tried getting converted to the church of emacs, but I just couldnt get my head around it well enough to want to keep using it.
I tried Witchmacs which had a bunch of plugins and such to make it better (?) and I did like it, I just don't think it suits what I use really. no shade to the emacs guys though it seems like a comfy way to live

random_cabbage

Lumeinshin I've only briefly been tempted by and but decided shortly after I started learning it that it really wasn't worth my time.
I understand why people get fascinated by it, but it wasn't for me.

Earmouse

Lumeinshin

This is honestly very understandable. Emacs for me has been something that I've sort of crammed into my workflow, I think for the better, but it wasn't without a lot of trial and error. Something I've noticed is you either really love Emacs, or don't care for it at all, which is fine.

Baloney Pony

mGBA and it's predecessor Visual Boy Advanced have been mainstays on my systems since my second PC all the way back in 2004. Other than a handful of evergreen games there's been no other piece of software so prevalent.

Plasmawiz

Baloney Pony I always had a USB with VBA and a bunch of roms on me as a kid

abnormalcat

Fantasy preach! I use gimp almost every day, and I see no reason to switch to Photoshop, especially with Adobe's shitty decisions (like seriously, a cancellation fee?)

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