• FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 months ago

      some new weird video format opens windows stock media player because it’s not yet associated with vlc

      “Hey… it looks like your going to have to buy a codec…”

      manually open in vlc where it runs seemlessly

        • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world
          1·
          3 months ago

          A variation happened to me last week that’s why it came to mind. Was opening an mp4 recorded on a digital camera on a new laptop. So the stock player had a go and gave a message similar to the above. vlc was installed moments later and of course had no issue…

    • AlpacaChariot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      I haven’t used windows in about 15 years on my personal machines but see 7zip referenced everywhere…why is it so popular? Can windows 10/11 or whatever we’re on now not compress/extract most things itself or do people prefer it for some reason (nice interface etc)?

      I’m always amazed when I’m following a tutorial written for windows and it says “download and install 7zip, then extract the file using 7zip”. I just right click the file and extract it…

  • viking@infosec.pub
    1·
    3 months ago
    • 7-zip
    • VLC
    • Signal
    • Currency
    • Handbrake
    • Fennec (in lieu of Firefox)

    Those are the free ones I use very frequently at least, I’m sure there’s more.

  • Nerandza@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 months ago

    New pipe, I didn’t see anyone mentioned it

    Besides, I use Linux, Organic maps, Signal, VLC, KDE on daily basis and THANK YOU good people on internet for making my life happier!

    • Letsdothis@lemmy.world
      03·
      3 months ago

      Wikipedia is free because it’s wrong a lot.

      People pay for facts, not opinion. When it comes to “news.”

      Well… that’s not true exactly…

      Besides… innit like 1 guy runnin’ all o’ Wikipedia?

  • tuna@discuss.tchncs.de
    1·
    3 months ago

    Linux, Firefox, virtualization, Blender, KDE Plasma, ffmpeg, Krita, Inkscape, yt-dlp, Godot, programming language toolchains

  • omxxi@feddit.orgEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    firefox

    considering the big monopoly of chrome based is not really free, it’s paid by google or microsoft mining user data

  • astrsk@fedia.io
    1·
    3 months ago

    Off the top of my head from daily use;

    • Borg backup, powerful backup software for self-hosted oriented users or enterprise automation.
    • proxmox, hypervisor that is performant and easy to setup for simple and complex virtualization needs.
    • bitwarden (combined with vaultwarden self-host), password management, secrets management, and available on basically all platforms and browsers. Self hosting your vault gives you peace of mind over who has your most sensitive data.
    • obsidian, a great notes app with polished cross platform applications that don’t do any funky proprietary storage shenanigans. Files are files and folders are folders.
    • kate (and most of the KDE suite), premiere Linux desktop environment suitable for customization and all the expected luxuries user would expect from windows or macOS. Kate specifically is a noticeable modern upgrade over notepad++ and rivals VSCode for programmers.
    • littletoolshed@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Could you expand on what you mean by ‘complex virtualization needs’ - I read this phrase sometimes but would appreciate an expert’s perspective 🙏

      • astrsk@fedia.io
        1·
        3 months ago

        My only point was to explain that proxmox is great free software because it supports both simple virtualization needs, such as having several different VMs or containers running on one headless system with very little overhead, and complex multi-system setups that include multiple machines running proxmox and clustered together for both reliability and redundancy with distributed services and applications.