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Linux-like terminal for Windows
I've been using Cygwin for some time now and it seems to do the job. It was very easy to install and I could choose from many different packages to install like vim, wget, etc.
Cygwin
Get that Linux ...
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Explorer-like FTP client for Windows, open source and well-maintained
WinSCP matches all your requirements.
Graphical: Yes – There are two alternative interfaces:
Commander interface:
Explorer interface:
Feels like a Windows explorer window: Yes – One of the ...
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Linux-like terminal for Windows
CMDer
It combines ConEmu, a Windows console emulator augmented with bash-like capabilities by Clink and msysgit. Some notable features include:
Bash shell, through msysGit
GNU C Compiler & GNU ...
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Simple program to edit screenshots (add texts and arrows, mark stuff) on Linux
Flameshot
Super easy to use. I mapped it to my PrtSc.
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Video player with backward frame by frame stepping for Linux
Development of mplayer has stopped (edit: resumed) and you should consider replacing it with mpv which supports this feature. Framestep forward with . and backwards with ,.
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Free alternative to step-by-step-solution feature of Wolfram|Alpha Pro?
Another great alternative is: https://www.symbolab.com/
It has also got a premium area, but its step-by-step solutions are free.
Example Screenshot:
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Linux-like terminal for Windows
Cygwin, already listed is a good solution.
However, there is another alternative: MSYS.
MSYS is much lighter weight than Cygwin, however it might not have everything you need. Obviously, you will ...
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Linux-like terminal for Windows
Babun
I'm surprised nobody mentioned Babun, "a windows shell you will love". It's a preconfigured Cygwin that "just works", generally quite awesome out of the box.
For a long time ...
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Linux-like terminal for Windows
Windows 10, with the 2016 anniversary update, now provides a Bash Linux binary running on Windows itself. It can be accessed through any command prompt and can run UNIX-style commands (like ls) as it ...
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Is there a non-awful free word processor for Windows?
You are not writing what you are using your word processor for.
For my needs, I have found that Atom (or any other modern text editor) and Markdown gets me almost everything I need, and I can easily ...
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Is there a non-awful free word processor for Windows?
You could just use Google Docs.
I've found that for 90% of features and 95% of people it has all the functionality that you'd find in Microsoft Office. (Obviously estimated numbers, but based on ...
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Free alternative to step-by-step-solution feature of Wolfram|Alpha Pro?
I know this isn't free, but the Wolfram Alpha mobile phone app has a one-time cost of $2.99 (at least on Android) and offers step-by-step solutions without needing a Pro account.
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Linux-like terminal for Windows
What I use is a combination of Git Bash, which comes when you install Git, and ConEmu. Git Bash uses MinGW, and ConEmu provides the option to have multiple tabs and good colour schemes, the option to ...
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Fake Virtual Camera and Microphone for Windows
open to using multiple pieces of software to accomplish this task.
I'm glad you allow this. For me, this combination of software does the job really well: Open Broadcaster Software plus OBS Virtual ...
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Is there a non-awful free word processor for Windows?
Consider learning, then using LaTeX. See https://www.latex-project.org/
It is an open source software and free of cost.
You need to read books about LaTeX before using it.
Budget a week of work, and ...
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Linux text editor that supports column manipulations/selections (like Notepad++ for Windows)
Geany is based on Scintilla like Notepad++.
By holding down the Control and Shift keys.
Column mode editing (rectangular selections)
There is basic support for column mode editing. To use it, create ...
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Is there a non-awful free word processor for Windows?
LibreOffice definitely has a dark mode, as well as support for dark themes. See here for the details. Example screenshots:
You can get the Dracula theme for LibreOffice (popular as a dark mode theme ...
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Linux-like terminal for Windows
MSYS2 is a fork of Cygwin created with the intention of being an updated environment to support building with MinGW. (That is, it's meant to serve as a better maintained alternative to the ever more ...
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Software to 'sketch' graphs
Python with numpy and matplotlib will let you rapidly draw a wide range of graphs and includes an xkcd plotting style, (based on XKCD cartoons).
All of the above are:
Free, Gratis & Open Source
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Linux alternative for Notepad++
I used to recommend Kate as the editor to use ... until it stopped working correctly in non-KDE environments (missing icons, etc)
Now I cheerfully recommend Geany - https://www.geany.org/Download/...
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Linux text editor that supports column manipulations/selections (like Notepad++ for Windows)
Emacs, of course. The concept is called rectangles and works cursor-based, similar to normal marks (you never required mouse involvement!).
So the idea is that you mark a region as usual (C-SPC and ...
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Diff tool for JSON files?
My open source online json diff tool should do the trick: http://json-diff.com
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Fake Virtual Camera and Microphone for Windows
Manycam is a virtual webcam, you can provide it with videos, images, audio and has many other features like flipping or mirroring footage, adding effects and so on. I have not used it recently but it ...
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Is there a non-awful free word processor for Windows?
There is SoftMaker FreeOffice.
This has both free and paid-for versions. The appearance and use are much closer to MS Office than the Free / Libre Office alternatives.
To run the free version ...
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Linux text editor that supports column manipulations/selections (like Notepad++ for Windows)
Vim does rectangular selection out of the box. GUI vim is available in repositories of many distros (e.g. gvim in Ubuntu and Arch).
In vim language, this operation is called 'visual block selection' ...
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Program to draw anywhere on screen on Linux
Gromit mpx Is also a possible choice. It works quite well under X, but I couldn't get it to work on Wayland.
Drawing is really smooth and the lines can be customised. I am using it together with a ...
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OCR for sheet music
This is really two steps...
1st -- "Sheet Music" >>into>> "Data" (i.e. Music XML)
Open Source!
https://audiveris.kenai.com/
Shareware/Trials/Commercial Software:
Capella Scan
Photoscore
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Linux alternative for Notepad++
You may try Sublime Text. It has all the features listed by you.
The UI is modern and quite fast, and supports mouse + configurable keyboard shortcuts:
As well it includes other features:
"Goto ...
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Converting a ADE document (Adobe Digital Editions, acsm) to PDF
You can use Calibre for this, which was already recommended multiple times for book conversion. An Article named DeDRM plugin for calibre describes a plugin to achieve exactly that:
The DeDRM ...
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Open source Firefox add-on to take screenshot of whole page
You can already do it with Firefox:
Press F12
Click on settings
Enable full-page screenshot
Now you can always click on that camera icon and the screenshot will be saved to your Downloads folder
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