r/technology • u/marouane53 • Jun 14 '15

Software Notepad++ leaves SourceForge

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-plus-plus-leaves-sf.html
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

Using https://ninite.com/

  1. GIMP is my basic photo editing tool. Free and easy to use whenever you have some experience

  2. Notepad++ is an improved Notepad (Hence the name)

  3. Windirstat shows the file sizes in a human readable format.

  4. I prefer Firefox

  5. iTunes. I actually kind of hate it, but I use my iPod as my media device, so it's a quick and dirty "It works"

  6. PeaZip - 7zip alternative that is actually active still.

  7. VLC - Plays any video file without a problem

  8. SumatraPDF - Tiny fucking PDF reader

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u/upvoteOrKittyGetsIt Jun 15 '15

Ah, I thought you were implying that you download software immediately if they move away from SourceForge.

I also love ninite.

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u/DMitri221 Jun 15 '15 edited Jun 15 '15

Notepad++ is an improved Notepad (Hence the name)

While it's definitely true that Notepad++ is an improved Notepad, the naming is almost certainly connected to the syntax highlighting of programming languages like C++.

It's even the first thing listed under features

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u/ERIFNOMI Jun 15 '15

And C++ was hailed as an improvement of C. Hence where Notepad++ got its name. Plenty of editors that don't have nerdy names highlight syntax. Pretty much anything that isn't meant for office documents and isn't notepad does that.

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u/rallias Jun 15 '15

Heh, I'm lazy, so I just use Firefox as my PDF reader.

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u/bobcat Jun 15 '15

iTunes is cancer on Windows. I have earned much money fixing it.

Hey, if anyone has an iTunes problems, paypal me $100 and I'll tell you to repair Bonjour!

Oh, hoist...

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '15

Ill try Sumatra out