Rufus and Etcher always seem to choke one something eventually. Furthermore I am afraid of change and don’t have much time for that shit anyways so I spend my software days angry and full of loathing.įedora Meda Writer is the only fucking USB iso writer that’s easy to use in both linux and windows, and also seems to work every time. I just want to let that one other contrarian out there know he isn’t alone!Ī good portion of these are proprietary software I wish I could quit, but the open source alternatives had/have a variety of failings that prevent them from actually being alternatives for my use and ability. I say this, because I’ve never seen anything but glowing opinions of it. The base program is ok, but it’s got a 3rd party quality problem. It’s been a year or two so I don’t recall the details or if anything has improved, but I’m not keen to go back. Past the initial setup, I don’t really add or remove programs much, so it’s not like it even really saved me time either. There were also some usability annoyances I don’t specifically recall as well. While unix’s have spent all sorts of effort whitewashing that issue with their package managers, on windows it’s openly ugly. There’s also my strong hatred of dumping programs that have nothing to do with each other into one big stupid folder. I tried using chocolatey as it’s a neat idea, but ended up hating it in practice due to the retarded way certain program repositories were configured to install, causing issues with missing config files (notepad++?), strangely slow program startups, and needless command prompts having to be open (sumatraPDF?). Why do you use MPC? It’s discontinued afaik.
I prefer having all my accounts viewable in one place.ĭiscord, my #1 choice for “no internet connection” alarm.Īfter that I add some programs I use less often, like Photoscape, WinDirStat, LibreOffice, etc. ICue, for keyboard+mouse (until recently I used the thumb buttons on my mouse a lot, so macros were a must). HDD as portable version so I can just copy paste it over and don’t have to set it up again from zero), Calibre. VLC, Foobar2000 (the latter I keep backed up on a flash drive/ext. I refuse to install any more launchers, especially when they’re exclusive to one publisher. I also adjust the settings.ĭrivers, the newest ones from the manufacturer’s website, and also MSI Afterburner and hardware monitoring software (HWinfo64, etc). First I uninstall everything I can from the fucking bloody mess that is Microsoft’s degenerate bloatware.
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