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Reaper. Its simple, fast, and no licensing bull.

Steam. Just works, simple and easy to use. Copy-Paste the Steam folder to your new system to move your entire game library.

ZoomIt by Sysinternals - excellent, excellent tool that has improved all my presentations/screen-share sessions.

Everything by David Carpenter - super fast system wide search for files that has bookmarks and other features like match using file name/file path/regex etc.

ShareX - Very useful screenshoting/screenrecording + more tool with automation capabilities like auto upload to imgur, etc.

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When Steam first started being a thing, I decried it as the death of physical media and fun game inserts. I vowed never to use it, because of what I perceived as the locked down steam launcher controlling access/ability to shut off access to games that I purchased with my own money. It seemed like too close to a 'license' to play.

Then I used it for the first time and realized how stupid easy it was compared to managing all of the physical disks and keys and what-not.

I mean, I wasn't wrong. But it is easier to use.

Years ago, when MS Flight Simulator X came to Steam, I bought it even though I had MSFSX on DVD.

Eliminating the need for the discs as well as removing the silly DRM in favor of Steam's far more sane DRM was worth the $10.

I also hated steam on day 1. I just wanted to play counterstrike! But obviously Gabe was right!

Reaper also came to my mind. The “everything is a track“ philosophy feels so natural to me now while other DAWs seem convoluted. I look back to my early Cubase and Samplitude days with amusement.

Also, Reaper basically never crashes for me.

> Steam. Just works, simple and easy to use. Copy-Paste the Steam folder to your new system to move your entire game library.

I use Steam, GOG, Epic, Battle.NET, Origin, Uplay/Ubisoft Connect. Steam and B.Net are only ones that can handle this smoothly and it's INFURIATING.

I've never used a more stable, feature-filled, and affordable DAW than Reaper. Making music with it is a lot of fun

Sysinternals never ceases to amaze me.

I've been deploying Everything to anyone who loses their documents on our employee workstations. It's a wonderful tool; how Windows search should work.

> Copy-Paste the Steam folder to your new system to move your entire game library.

Can't do that. I don't own a hard disk big enough to hold my entire game library.

So I have the most frequent games in an SSD, other games in several HDDs, and so on.

shareX is a godsend, I wish MacOS had as good as it

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