"Why people pirate Microsoft Word" and the problems with everyday software like Microsoft Office being ridiculously expensive.

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Notepad++

Notepad++ is an excellent advanced text editor. If you set it to use a monospace font like Courier New, Ubuntu Mono, or Inconsolata, you can make plaintext checklists and other hand-aligned files much more easily with its rectangular multi-line selection via Shift+Alt+Up/Down/Left/Right. It also has the option of regex find and replace, which I've used before to convert plaintext lists into XML and JSON, and back. You can sort lines alphabetically or numerically, convert line break types, and change character encoding, as well.

#IDEs And Text Editors #Text Editors #IDE 169 social mentions

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Inkscape

Inkscape: I actually never end up using this, but it's an alternative to Adobe Illustrator for vector art.

#Graphic Design Software #Digital Drawing And Painting #Art Tools 482 social mentions

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Krita

Krita seems to be another great tool for raster painting.

#Concept Art #Art Tools #Illustrations 296 social mentions

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Apache OpenOffice

These people need openoffice.org lol. Most of the tools that micro$oft makes are easily found in open source elsewhere, if one just looks around a bit.

#Office Suites #Office & Productivity #Project Management 13 social mentions

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OBS Studio

[https://obsproject.com/] - a free and open source professional level software package for streaming and screen recording.

#Video Recording #Screen Recording #Live Streaming 1061 social mentions

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Obsidian.md

Obsidian is an extremely powerful WYSIWYG note taking application based on Markdown, LaTeX for math formatting, and internal hyperlinks. You can create a folder with tons of note files in it and then link between those files, and it will let you follow those links, create backreferences and clouds of connected subjects, etc. Basically it can turn your notes into a personal wiki.

#Knowledge Management #Knowledge Base #Markdown Editor 1454 social mentions

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Kate

Kate - a very powerful, very fearure-rich (including language server support for IDE-quality code completion and analysis and error checking for most mainstream languages) alternative to VS Code (has a very similar layout, git integration, and command pallette) that's much faster and lighter and isn't from Microsoft (it's FLOSS).

#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 44 social mentions