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...

Somnolence

Just heard about this the other day: "0patch".
If you want an extra layer of security for your Windows machine, and you're using an unsupported OS like Windows 10 will soon be, or if you're still a fellow 7 Omega Chad, the guys that run this service are a team that provide private patches to keep your computer secure. They seem to go after all sorts of problems that Microsoft also labels "won't fix" or are dragging their feet in releasing fixes for.
It's not just the OS, too, but tons of exploits in common programs that don't get regular support anymore. You have to pay a subscription for anything more than just the basic Windows zero-day patches, but the price is not too shabby for just an individual machine. https://0patch.com/

Olifromsolly

Lumeinshin linux is for neeeeeeeeeeerds

celery

plan9 is a good computer program. it’s an operating system for distributed resources

Pedestrian

For people looking for winamp but better and modern there is AIMP it is surprising that people do not know about it considering for how long its been around and how good it is
It is a pmuch fully featured spiritual successor for winamp (as i see it anyway), it has amazing theming abilities and has maintained backwards compatibly with older themes so you can pmuch make it look like anything there themes that make it look like old school IRL audio systems like hitachi DA-1000
my fav themes are onyx black, aurora white and "cd-box" which makes it look like a cd-box

it works on both windows and android(theming works on android too) no linux version though sadly and its proprietary
but the biggest reason why i like it is coz it structures its playlists based on folder structure: it flattens the tree to its leaves so it only shows folders that contain music files in them. None of that stupid "artist genres albums" categorization systems that never work and have to be fixed with audio file tag editors (that AIMP ships with by default so you can embed custom album covers to your mp3s if you want)

Space Banana

micro: Really good TUI-based code editor with actual sensible keybinds. Very intuitive, I wish it was more popular but all the hype is on vim-like editors

geany: Lightweight IDE, I use it as my personal code editor. It's really good once you enable the file browser plugin and ignore the projects feature. LSP support coming soon

kate: Basically the QT alternative to geany, also a great code editor and has LSP support already for a long while, but not so great if you are on a GTK desktop because the UI will look very different

ffmpeg: It's decently popular but it should be even more popular. Our lives would be harder directly or indirectly if ffmpeg didn't exist

gimp: It's very popular in the linux and unix world, but it's underrated in the sense that everyone for some reason says the interface is atrocious etc and many people also consider gimp to be very weak or bad. Even when i was using windows years ago I ditched photoshop for
gimp and I was not hindered at all and didn't think the interface was bad, and now that gimp has non-destructive editing it's an absolute beast. You can do very complex and beautiful image manipulation on gimp. It does require skill of course as you don't have content-aware features and AI features, but if you are experienced with advanced image manipulation then you will make amazing things on gimp as you would with photoshop or krita

qemu: Almost everyone on linux uses virt-manager for running virtual machines, but I think more people should give a try to the barebones qemu CLI. Yeah the help screen could have been better and yeah the defaults are very minimal to the point where it doesn't specify memory use, audio, etc. But with a reasonable command you can get a virtual machine up and running with a cpu setup, memory size, graphical backend, usb, audio, networking, etc.

kdenlive and shotcut: 2 great video editors and kdenlive is especially comparable to premiere for a lot of things. Need VFX and compositing? You can use blender

ncdu: TUI application, great for analyzing the disk usage of a directory

WalkTheEarth

for android so yeah ig:
Phocid for music, i also used to use Auxio so yeah

damas

https://github.com/mat1jaczyyy/Keyboard-Inspector for measuring a keyboard's polling rate.

kyga

Pelles C: A C compiler and IDE written by one dude. He's kinda MIA right now though, so, not sure how much is being updated.

Notepad++: Tabbed notepad with syntax highlighting for multiple languages. Best part is it saves your stuff so you don't lose anything. The guy who wrote it is a complete wackadoodle though...

Calcpad: Its an open source copy of MathCad. If you do any sort of engineering it's the best thing ever.

Kaper

Filebot by far, you run a mediaserver and you'll know as this software alone saves so much time in correctly renaming awkward file names so Plex and Jellyfin actually know the movie/films/animes they are looking at and can scan them into your library properly, 100% worth the very cheap yearly license and will renew with the massive help its been.

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