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I prefer sublime but n++ is not bad.

ffmpeg. It can extract video streams, audio, images. It can encode and decode video and audio, can split video files by chapters, can encode subtitles, etc.

There's very little that ffmpeg can't do with video and audio. It also has one of the largest man pages on Linux.

Reaper

Obsidian. I can write notes, write papers, organize my time and ideas, and connect them with each other. I can make my workflow as simple or complex as I want. And the fact that every note is just a markdown file makes it even better: it's a guarantee that I'll never be locked in a proprietary ecosystem.

Vim or NeoVim

Yep. Even as a Linux user from the word go, I appreciate Notepad++ as a formidable piece of software. There are text editors under Linux coming close, but I wish we had a native version of NP++ here.

most importantly, notepad++ has a proper gui and is written in C++ and uses.. checks 6% of the ram that vscode does.

Kate: https://kate-editor.org/

For Notepad++, make sure you've installed the latest version using a download from the official website. Their automatic update feature got hijacked to package in malware within the past few months and the only way to shift to the newer secure update "source" is a reinstall from the site, as far as I'm aware.

The linux kernel. All the software I need, I'll just key in the syscalls I want to make in binary.

Emacs. Emacs is the true answer

Is this question only aimed at people who write code? Everyone seems fixated on text editors.

notepadd++ is very impressive in windows but kinda par for the course in linux land.

Vim. I suppose, technically, I'd need a kernel and filesystem drivers to run it, but Vim is the one true way. (and none of that neovim heresy either!)

Probably the terminal. Im cheating a bit.

I don't know about "all that you'll need to use", and this might arguably considered cheating, but I'd take emacs. I think that it's safe to say that there isn't another software package that has the same degree of coverage of functionality. I use it for doing statistics notepad work, as a word processor, as a spreadsheet, as an email client, could use it as a web browser if necessary, as a version control client, for interactive diff merging, can use it as an LLM chat client, IRC client, text editor, IDE, orthodox-file-manager-style file manager, media player frontend, agenda manager, outliner etc. If I run M-x list-packages on my copy to run the package manager, it looks like I have 6,794 emacs software packages available in it.

Unless you're going to take a broader sense of "piece of software" that would let, say, a Linux distro be taken, I think that it's pretty hard to compete with.

EDIT: Maybe in the present-day world, you could manage with a Web browser, if you treat that as being a frontend to essentially all SaaS software, count that as being bundled with the Web browser. I guess you could argue that that might be broader, and you could probably function with basically nothing other than a Web browser on a thin client and get by.

EDIT2: I guess you could also make an argument that the kernel is more-essential, because without that, nothing else can run, but I assume that you're basically treating the kernel as a given and just asking about userspace software.

Multiple tabs

Emacs has various ways to display tabs, but I don't use tabs in emacs, because it doesn't scale well to, say, dozens of tabs; normally, each additional buffer I have doesn't normally have any visual indication onscreen that it exists. I use a couple of other buffer-switching software packages.

keeps track of lines

Defaults to being shown in the modeline.

One of the most invaluable parts of it, is that you can close it or a update happens or maybe your PC will get knocked offline. You can come back to Notepad++, open it, and everything will be retained.

This is called desktop-save-mode in emacs. C-h f desktop-save-mode will show documentation. You can have a single global saved instance, or multiple concurrent instances of emacs saving desktop state for separate projects.

rustup

PowerPoint.

My work won't pay for fancy graphic editing software, so I've learned how to make some impressive graphics and signs using only PowerPoint. It's surprising good at it!