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Favourite software that "sucks less" (feddit.org)

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I really like simple software that is built for a specific task which it then does extraordinary with a simple to understand codebase. Similar to the philosophy of suckless.org.

What are your favourite programs that "suck less"?

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[–] EugeneNine@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago

exiftool is one I use to tag my images and videos with my name and sort them. jq is another that does a quick export from json