I use hexchat as well.

>>442
I like to use Irssi.

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/370418-ppixiv-for-pixiv
an extension for pixiv that completely changes the interface. I really like it and I really dislike how many clicks it took to navigate your favorites and little screen space images took in pixiv.
https://github.com/insin/control-panel-for-twitter/
an extension for twitter that let's you customize what you see on twitter and let's you change the ui.

Long list of Windows tools. Some I already use, some I don't.
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/scott-hanselmans-2021-ultimate-developer-and-power-users-tool-list-for-windows

For a bit of software nostalgia I'll point out he's got a bunch of previous versions of the list such as this one from 2007. Skype's on that one. Remember how revolutionary Skype was when it came out, and how much it started sucking when Microsoft bought it?

I am now using StartisBack++
https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/startisback.html
Its original purpose was to return Windows XP stuff to Windows 7, but new versions were made for 10 and then even 11 (although hopefully I won't need that one for years).
I found it by searching for a way to make the taskbar buttons bigger in Windows 10, as having a 1440p screen makes them quite small, but I don't want to do Windows' built-in scaling option because it scales up everything when I just wanted icons I could click without thinking.
It lets you change the visuals of the taskbar and start menu in some ways, too, like making the taskbar completely transparent except for the buttons. But, I won't make use of much of it since I have taskbar set to auto-hide to prevent burn-in.
It's not free, but I'm doing a 30 day free trial and it only costs $4 so I'll buy it if I like it.

>>449
It's already cracked so I'm just using it for free.

>>449
>>450
Oh, that looks nice. I'm currently using Explorer Patcher on Windows 11 to deal with the taskbar changes. If I could use that without changing the taskbar theme, I might start using that instead.

https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher

>>439
thunar bulk rename has a less intimidating ui, but is linux only

>>452
im thinking of getting a linux distro but im a complete noob, which one should i get?

>>453
How good is your computer? If you have an older one without an SSD use XFCE mint if you have a newer one Kubuntu

>>454
what is the current state of gaming on linux?

>>455
>>455
Better. Valve made a very good compatibility layer
https://www.protondb.com/
Lutris is a very good compliment to it
https://lutris.net/

>>456
nice! thanks, ill check out kubuntu and the valve thing since i just got a spare SSD

>>455
flatpak also has made it easier to get open-source games and emulators.
https://flathub.org/

>>458
i've heard that it only works on ubuntu, does it work on kubuntu aswell?

>>459
Flatpak works on all Linux distros, and the "flavors" of ubuntu just use different desktops, all programs for the same version of ubuntu will work.

>>456
Ah, yeah I remember Valve being pretty pro linux in recent years. Have they finally made it so that linux and windows are basically the same now? Or is there still a fair bit of work to go.

Also how's the steam deck's SteamOS doing in all of this? I know that is also linux, but is it somehow better than regular linux gaming?

>>461
Linux gaming has worked pretty well for me on both Steam and Lutris. The only issue is games with anti-cheat but anything else I've tried has worked quite well

>>461
>Have they finally made it so that linux and windows are basically the same now?
No. A lot of stuff still doesn't work, but most stuff will work after tweaks. Anti-cheat is a sore point and modding can be a pain.
>Also how's the steam deck's SteamOS doing in all of this? I know that is also linux, but is it somehow better than regular linux gaming?
SteamOS doesn't add anything to desktops that big picture doesn't, it's mostly for Steam Deck now.

Really, if you don't have an ideological opposition to non-free software, you should not switch fully if gaming is your 1st priority.

Games will work but not as good as they do on windows. Either in terms of temps or performance, sometimes both.
If you can be bothered I'd dual boot with win10, that's what I'm doing.

I wasn't sure whether to put this in an AI thread or this thread, but I went with this one since it's a tool that isn't exactly related to generating new images.
I have installed the RemBG (or Remove Background) extension for Stable Diffusion. It can remove backgrounds using some sort of AI stuff and it works REALLY well. This is going to help my editing so much and I wish I had used it a few days ago when making the seasonal stream background. There's been online stuff out there, but I've never really been satisfied with those being online (no privacy) and you have more control here as there's different methods and settings and as you can see in the pic it took 6.4 seconds. (Precure screenshots were only taking 2 seconds)

It works flawlessly with Precure screenshots and other images with good solid lines, but understandably it has issues on hazy visuals like the overly post-processed Mushoku Tensei and Dark Gathering. Adjusting the settings does help a lot, though. I'm not going to tinker a bunch for this specific image, but it wasn't capturing Rudeus the Blur originally.

Anyway, doing this specific image by hand would have taken me a few minutes to manually cut them out of the frame because all the different colors means smart select wouldn't work too well. But it's not the time spent that bothers me about doing these edits- it's the tedium. You follow their outline and cut them out. It's awful.
Anyway, hopefully most of those days are behind me now!

aMule has an ability to set a SOCKS proxy server, which means you can download files over TOR! But you probably wont be able to get a High ID.
https://amule.org/

>>466
https://nicotine-plus.org/ There's also this, but I'm sure everyone knows about it already

>>466
There's not much of interest on it to be honest, but it's a cool tool to keep in mind should the clearnet get locked down.

There's a lot of sketchy files on it and most typically pirate-y things are not in English, but it may be of interest to find historical files?

>>391
microEmacs aka mg - a lightweight Emacs (and dired) clone. It's one of the default editors that come with OpenBSD. If you can run full GNU Emacs, then run it because it's better: https://github.com/hboetes/mg
CrystalDisk info - View SMART info (Windows-only): https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/
Nirsoft ProduKey & Product Key Scanner - get windows cd keys etc. from your PC: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_key_scanner.html
xfe (aka X File Explorer), a clone of old MS Windows file explorer for Linux: http://roland65.free.fr/xfe/
Midnight Commander - a traditional file manager, a clone of Norton Commander: https://midnight-commander.org (also read: https://linuxcommand.org/lc3_adv_mc.php)
Shattered Pixel Dungeon - roguelike for Android and Linux (get it from F-droid or Play Store or Flatpak/Flathub)
xpdf - a PDF reader for Linux: https://www.xpdfreader.com (also try mupdf)
CWM (also, see Hikari) - a lightweight and interesting old school WM for Linux and *BSD: https://github.com/leahneukirchen/cwm
Window Maker - ditto, also very stylish!: https://www.windowmaker.org
Quod Libet (and ex falso) - music player and/or tag editor: https://github.com/quodlibet/quodlibet/ (ex falso is just the tag editor while Quod Libet is a music player with ex falso integrated)
Bleachbit - cross-platform junk cleaner (similar to CCleaner but FLOSS and not a botnet): https://www.bleachbit.org
imv - lightweight image viewer for Linux with support for animated gif images: https://sr.ht/~exec64/imv/ (contributors needed!)
meld - GUI program that let's you compare and merge plain text/source code files: https://meldmerge.org
System Rescue CD - a Linux liveUSB distro that has a ton of system rescue tools preinstalled: https://www.system-rescue.org (use Rufus to copy it to a USB flash drive)


And a lot more: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications

>>442
>>446
Irssi and Hexchat are great.

>>459
You are thinking about Snap (but even it works on most Linux distros). But Flatpak is better than Snap.

Revo Uninstaller is good for deleting all traces (or most) of programs you're trying to eliminate off of Windows. It's been out there for years, but I hadn't used it again until recently. It does a more thorough job than using the regular Windows uninstall since it also goes into the registry and such.
Somehow it blocks my ability to take screenshots when it's the active window, but the context menu lets you do stuff like google search the name of the program or vendor or to be taken directly to the registry key in regedit. Pretty cool stuff. There's a 'professional' version, but it's unnecessary... probably.

>>470
is monochrome mobius good

>>469
>Window Maker - ditto, also very stylish!
I agree, it's my favorite window manager hands down. Apart from being lightweight and stylish it's also very easy to configure, though it's perfectly usable after running it for the first time. I've used it on spare computers for years, but only recently started using it on my main machine and I have zero complaints. I've also started making my own themes using its built-in settings GUI, I made this one inspired by the old Steam UI.

>>472
I've always intended on trying Window Maker. It seems like a better FVWM with less timesink. I always used CWM out of laziness.

Score is pretty cool

Interesting OS concept. I've often thought about how a 3D imageboard might work that isn't copying minecraft

f.lux
https://justgetflux.com/

This is something I've been using for a few years and it just exists passively in the background so I forget about it. It's a simple program that automatically reduces the blueness of your screen dependent on your set sleep schedule and/or time of day. This is important for reducing eyestrain and supposedly it helps you sleep, but I can't confirm the latter. It's based on the reasoning that blue light is artificial and new whereas the sun in the evening and even fire is orange and that's what our eyes have adapted to process.
There are other programs that do it (and newer OS versions have their own version I think) but this is the one I've used. I wonder if there's better stuff out there, but this is free and it does exactly what it's supposed to do so I haven't bothered looking.

https://www.bluetoothgoodies.com/a2dp

Been thinking about this ever since I got my Bluetooth headphones. They support LDAC, but Windows has no real bluetooth codec support like Android does. Found this which replaces the Bluetooth driver and adds support for LDAC, AptX LL, AptX HD. It works too. I was skeptical at first, but I tried it out with my Fiio BTR3 which has a little LED indicator that changes color based on codec used, and it absolutely works. I seriously appreciate being able to use LDAC with granular settings. My headphones used to cut out whenever I would walk to the kitchen and stand near my fridge, but now it just cuts down to a lower bandwidth and maintains the connection.

It's paid, but with a week-long trial period. If you buy it before the trial expires, you get a discounted price. Only gripe is that the license is hardware-tied, meaning you need to buy additional licenses for any additional computers you have. The price is discounted for additional purchases, but it still is kind of annoying. Still, I think it's well worth the price.

Nice, a software thread.

Does anyone know any script that blocks users or tage on pixiv? Either that or filters posts based on region? I'm trying to block gaijin on my feed. Some bug man and worse koreans are okay I guess, but western posts I want them out of my feed for the most part. Too much crappy art from them.

somehow AG Grid has become more intuitive through their latest maj. vers update. Everything gets set through a single ```setGridOption``` function that uses a string key to act...

>>478
Oh, I didn't see this until now. I remember using a Pixiv Toolkit script thing, but I don't think it had anything like that. You're probably out of luck.

Liked LovelyXCation's ED so I searched for its BD or something where I can get a good quality audio and stumbled upon this software while trying to extract the BGM from its game files. You can extract .xp3 files with this: https://github.com/morkt/GARbro

I can't think of anywhere else to post this, but I finally found a blender script for retopology that clicks with me. It really takes the headache out of thinking of ways to patch holes while meeting the vert requirements. Manual touchups are still needed here or there and you really do need to know how to plan out topology, but this is making retopologizing a lot less painful for me. (It's kind of crazy it made a knee joint layout by chance) It feels closer to a creative process since you're drawing lines and letting the calculations be done by the script. If only AI stuff was actually going in this direction.

Anyway, it's called Easy Patch 2 and I actually spent the $15 to buy it just because I hate this whole process so much.

Here are some essential programs i have saved in a notepad for redownloading purposes.
>exactaudiocopy
I used it once for ripping a cd and it worked great.
>icaros
I dont know whats wrong with windows but multiple times when reinstalling my pc i would have issues with thumbnails. It just didnt work on most files and would sometimes lag when loading it all. Icaros did fix that very annoying problem but caused another. The thumbnails werent the same as usual so you would need to tinker it to your liking. Still a good alternative if your windows thumbnails are fucked.
>keepass
One of those password managers. Nothing more to say
>mediainfo
I usually use this to check bitrate of videos or music. It basically shows you every piece of information of a video file. Its pretty useful when you torrent something to verify that the file matches whatever it said and for making your own torrents and copy and pasting the information seen there. Im not sure about music files though. I can see bitrate of music files but i havent really checked beyond that.
>sumatrapdf
A pdf reader that works. I throw a epub or a pdf at it and it works. Doesnt feel like bloatware at all like what i would expect of a pdf reader.
>goldberg emulator
A steam emulator that is useful for when people share steam game folders. Does not work for games with DRM.
>ruffle
A swf flash player. I've only used it a couple of times but it seems to work well enough.
>makemkv
For ripping your movie discs to mkv or to make a backup folder of the disc. I dont use this very much but it can be useful if you download a iso or a bdmv folder if you just want to turn that into a quick mkv.
>veracrypt
I use this for encrypting my pc and drives. Works great.
>garbro
You can rip files from visual novels with it. I think i did this for some obscure japanese visual novel because i wanted the opening in its original quality. And it worked great.
>openrgb
I guess you use this to tune the rgb. I only downloaded it to turn off rgb but i came to find it pretty useless since you can turn off most of the pc rgb in your bios. I guess its usefull if you cant do that.
>trixx
I used this for turning off my gpu rgb
>thunderbird
A mail app. It just werks. Not sure what else to say. Originally i used the windows default mail app but they transitioned it into some sort of version with ads that looked like shit. So this is what i found as an alternative and it works great.
>openmsx
MSX emulator. I used this to emulate Metal Gear 1.
>screentogif
It does what it says. You can use it to record anywhere on your screen as a gif. I've only really used it a couple of times but it does what it says well.
>wincdemu
Great for mounting stuff like a cd/iso.
>scummvm,dosbox
I included two different programs here. But i used both for playing some old games like Full Throttle and it worked great.
>equalizer apo
You can basically change alot of the settings for headphone audio and microphone audio. I am however not knowledgable about it so i dont ever use it. It can be really helpful if you have a kuso mic or headset/headphones. I used to use it to boost my kuso mic.
>phisonnvmeflashid2
I had a issue with my ssd and i heard about the fact that i might have the wrong hardware on the inside and i couldnt check anywhere to see it but this program helped with it. Not really sure what its for or what it does but it worked. I guess its for if you have a ssd with phison stuff in it?
>mpv
A must have media player. It plays most things i throw at it and it just werks.
>crystaldiskinfo
For your hdd health. This is also good for buying hdds where you can ask the seller to send you a pic of these or pick only sellers that show it.
>crystaldiskmark
To see your ssd/hdd speeds. This is how i figured out that kingston sold me a kuso ssd. I didnt even get 10% of the speeds i was promised.
>eraser
It does what it says. It erases files. Not good to use on a ssd.
>wallpaper engine
I think i might have mentioned this before but well it does wallpappers. It does moving wallpapers and video wallpapers etc. You can either buy it from steam or pirate it. No drm so you can just copy the steam folder and move elsewhere.

>revo uninstaller
This is good if you somehow installed a kuso program that wont go away.
>rufus
This is very good for formatting usbs and hard drive. I use this to format my big hard drives to fat32 for use with the wii for example.
>wii backup manager
Just a simple thing to use to transfer games to your hard drive. You can do it manually but i prefer it this way.
>dban
Must have hdd wipe tool. Always use this on a hdd if you're going to sell it/throw it away. Do not use on a ssd.
>subtitle edit
I dont really make my own subtitles. I find it useful for the batch convert option it has. Usually when downloading subs there arent sometimes "non-hi" subs, hi meaning hearing impaired. These subs are really annoying because sound effects are shown in the subs or the name of the person speaking is also shown in the subs which can cause spoiler issues. Its just annoying because i only want subs. Im not fucking deaf. So what i do is just download the subs and then use the batch convert option and then tick the option to remove the hearing impaired parts from the subs.
>xdvdmulleter
Old software for creating hdd ready folders from iso rips of original xbox games. I find it pretty useful but newer software might do it better.
>fatxplorer
For formatting hard drives for use with the original xbox. I've also used it for unlocking a few drives. Sometimes its just simpler than using something like the chimp app on your softmodded xbox. I just dont want to do the whole process again. If you've nulled your eeprom on the xbox then you can just lock the new hard drive with your current drives eeprom. Then you can copy every of the old drives folders to the new one one by one. Its a good program.
>chocolate doom
For vanilla doom experience. I would recommend to use the konami code setup. And to download music packs beforehand. Music packs are much needed because the soundtrack sounds pretty shit otherwise. For the music packs just open the chocolate doom setup and go to the sounds section then press M or just press music packs on the bottom. Then paste all the songs corresponding to the game you are playing whether its doom 1 or doom 2. I have native midi and gs wavetable synth selected + music packs
https://www.chocolate-doom.org/wiki/index.php/Config_secrets#Konami_code
https://sc55.duke4.net/games.php#doom
>ffmpeg
Extremely good command line video,audio editor. A must have. It might seem complicated but you can look up most things.
>losslesscut
Sometimes i just want to cut something fast and with a gui. I just dont have the time nor the patience to do it manually in ffmpeg. This is a great tool for that. Just plug and play and cut.
>calibre
Ebook reader and editor. I personally only used it for converting pdf to epub and editing. Not a big fan of the reader itself, more so of the editing and conversion aspects.

>>2538
>Usually when downloading subs there arent sometimes "non-hi" subs
With the correct regex you can remove all these bracketed SDH.
MPV and MPV-based video players has some functions function for this.
https://mpv.io/manual/stable/#options-sub-filter-sdh
If you set this up it should save you the hassle.

>>2539
Oh cool. I will test that out later.

Handbrake - A very easy to use program that lets you massively optimize videos and convert them to other formats.
https://handbrake.fr/

Hydrus - Basically an offline booru on your PC that lets you make custom tags and also mass download images from websites using tags or just simply a URL. You can also set up auto downloaders too, typically I set them to artists I like. It also has a browser extension to easily send images to it.
https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/

>>391
On windows there's a (live) screen painting and recording tool (including recording sections of the screen) called zoomit. It's also now embedded in Powertoys if you have that. It's quite nice

>>2896
Hydrus was something I was looking at doing alongside something like Everything were I was on the fence about a file explorer replacement. But if it's easy to download and sort to I'll quit procrastinating and just get it.

Hydrus is something I've been procrastinating trying for quite a long time now. I've heard talk of people AI tagging images and then sorting them with Hydrus so that's probably the efficient way to do things now if you have tens of thousands or more images to tag and organize.

>>391
THAT'S MY WIFE!!!!! (Deleted my previous post because it was low effort and spammy)
The only software I use that I haven't heard of anyone else using is Imagepipe from the F-Droid app store. Gonna be honest, it's a pain in the ass but it does work.

>>2909
You have a cute wife friend.

>https://github.com/horsicq/Detect-It-Easy
Swiss army knife thing for executable files.

>https://hostsfileeditor.com/
GUI program to enable/disable or add/remove hosts file entries.

>https://www.kovaak.com/sensitivity-matcher/
Program for matching your sensitivity between games. Helpful for when you can't find a conversion online or when the mouse sensitivity slider values aren't granular enough but there's a config file with an exact value that you can tweak to get it exact.

>https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
Tool for disabling a bunch of windows bloat features and telemetry datamining. Definitely back your shit up before using this, I had to reinstall because I was ticking things willy nilly.

>https://archive.org/details/flashplayer_32_sa_20210130
Legacy flash desktop player for when ruffle doesn't work. Was an official adobe product that they discontinued in like 2020 but still works fine.

>https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc
Count lines of code

>https://fearless-assassins.com/files/file/1656-rinput/
Forces raw mouse input for when games don't have it. Useful for older games especially call of duty titles.

>https://www.special-k.info/
I can't live without this one, it's a videogame optimization toolkit thing that injects into your game and lets you do all sorts of shit like cap your frames and monitor latency. Useful for basically all games imo. DON'T USE ON MULTIPLAYER GAMES.

>>2536
>icaros
+rep

>>2538
>subtitle edit
+rep i use this for OCRing image-based subtitles so I don't have to reencode when uploading anime scenes to youtube

Flashpoint Archive is an easy way to play old flash games. They have a very good selection and I don't think they use ruffle so it's less buggy.