Must have windows apps ?
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smalpierre
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@"retrever" I never tried it, I went with PHPStorm - not much more money and it's a real IDE, not a text editor. But if you're not getting too heavy into server side code, it's probably a good choice.
For me right now:
PHPStorm
MySql Workbench
wampServer
GIMP
Filezilla
For me right now:
PHPStorm
MySql Workbench
wampServer
GIMP
Filezilla
jbjenterprises
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When I do a fresh install, the first apps that I install are VLC for video playback, Gimp for image editing, Debut for screen recording, and Dropbox for cloud file management. I also install Microsoft Office. If I do not have access to Microsoft Office, I install Libre Office. Now, however, it is possible to edit Microsoft documents using online Microsoft tools.
dukesx said:which apps are a must have with windows users ? especially if they are into editing and coding , actually i am involved in both but i wonder which ones area mustLOL
You should have been more specific. There are tones of software out there and it all depends on what you really want to do.
For Web development as an example.
>> The standard Web Stack
> Apache 2.4.xx
> MySQL 5.x
> PHP 5.5 / 5.6 / 7
>> You can go with Node.js instead
> Nodejs 4.x.x / 5.x.x
> MySQL 5.x
> Mongodb
> Redis
> Memcached
>> Simple editor
> Notepad ++
....... and the list can go on and on and on if you also want to develop with Python or Ruby or even .NET.
PS: I didn't mention Java because I really don't like this language.
Peter said:
It's fine to have both of them installed but I don't do it anymore. I've decided a couple of years ago to remove Google's Chrome on my online machines and installed it only on the 'Off the Grid' ones. The reason why I have to have the latest iteration of it is for testing the latest Chrome's implementation of the JS APIs. But Chrome is not the browser you can count on for your daily browsing routines.
Two things makes Google's chrome a very bad choice as a routine web browser:
> The first one is that it's Google's browser: there is an inherent/fundamental conflict of interest between these 2 Google's businesses: 'browser maker' and search engine operator plus being an Omnipresent entity on the Web.
> The second one is that it's a rogue piece of soft in the sense that it will do everything to bypass your settings to prevent it from updating itself without your green light (it looks as if Google thinks that its browser is only used by retards... )
Last thought on this:
People who are so fond of Chrome are better off if they simply go for Chromium (its open source code base) instead... Chrome (on the other hand) is proprietary software as it adds significant portions of closed-source code to it.
The thing I want to make clear here is that a software is either OPEN-SOURCE (built upon 100% freely available source-code) or NOT. Thus the fact that Chrome relies on an open source project (chromium) doesn't mean anything if, in the end, they add closed (non-disclosed) code in it....
Don't get me wrong here, I like Google when it comes to its so many critical contributions that were essential to moving the Web foreword and in so many front (contributing to Web standards, countless open-source projects from language design like Go to improving Web protocols like the newly available HTTP/2.... etc. ) What I despise though is its snooping business part.
Peter
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I agree with much of what you say fouadChk. They use Windows 10 so they obvously don't care much about "open source" but you are of course right, I should have tried to install Chromium instead (or not install it at all and see if they say anything). The reason I installed Chrome in the first place was because they used a ChomeCast device that forced you to use Chrome to stream things, but it has been returned to the owner so Chrome is not needed for that reason any more.
I still have to figure out why people want to use Atom. When it really is a copy cat of Sublime's. I'm curious though, why would you be using both? For me Sublime's far better and simpler. Atom was a headache to get into, and I dropped it within a week of trying it. I'm not a high volume coder though, maybe there's a secret about Atom's functionality or features that still need to be discovered by me and that is known to your more productive coders out there. :unknown:tornado said:
dukesx said:which apps are a must have with windows users ? especially if they are into editing and coding , actually i am involved in both but i wonder which ones area must
Hi I'm new on this forum.
I think that the better way to code and build projects is to install Eclipse on your PC.
This IDE run under Windows and help you to develop on many languages.
myserver99
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Well my list is: Winrar, Vlc media player, notepad++, unity3D, Bittorent (research only ), BS player (because some movies just cant be watched with VLC), Mario (i love that game, lol) Firefox, and the list can continue on and on. For coding, depends on what you are coding, if you are using C then visual studio is great.
), BS player (because some movies just cant be watched with VLC), Mario (i love that game, lol) Firefox, and the list can continue on and on. For coding, depends on what you are coding, if you are using C then visual studio is great.