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.

  • bazzett@lemmy.world
    6·
    8 hours ago

    Obsidian. I can write notes, write papers, organize my time and ideas, and connect them with each other. I can make my workflow as simple or complex as I want. And the fact that every note is just a markdown file makes it even better: it’s a guarantee that I’ll never be locked in a proprietary ecosystem.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 hours ago

    Yep. Even as a Linux user from the word go, I appreciate Notepad++ as a formidable piece of software. There are text editors under Linux coming close, but I wish we had a native version of NP++ here.

    • Treczoks@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 hours ago

      Text editors are a key piece of software for so many applications. If you don’t need one, you obviously don’t need to care.

  • chunes@lemmy.world
    10·
    12 hours ago

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

    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      8 hours ago

      NP++ handles so many things well, but then struggles with others. Opening a 3gb text file? Fuck it no problem. Trying to do find on a file 1/10th the size? Nah. You’re waiting a minute for it to stop freezing.

    • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      14 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

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    12·
    14 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.

  • kbal@fedia.io
    7·
    14 hours ago

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

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    51·
    12 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.

  • notabot@piefed.socialEnglish
    82·
    14 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!)

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    51·
    12 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.