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i preferred things that did not need to maintain an index. searching on an SSD/NVME is fast enough not to have yet another service running in background/eating disk.

In this case what would you suggest?

Decent? "Everything" is as close to a perfect piece of GUI software as I've ever seen - simple, extremely fast, unobtrusive, no ads, just works.

Whenever I need to live on a Windows system for any length of time, I install [notepad++](https://notepad-plus-plus.org)

Do you prefer Notepad3 over Notepad++, and can you share why if so?

I am an emacs user at heart, but when I was using Windows at work, I did use Notepad++ from time to time, it handled laaaaarge files much more smoothly than emacs.

Most people I know have moved to sublime text from notepad++

https://www.sublimetext.com/

i used NP++ for quite a while for coding. it was good. but i always _also_ replaced the built-in shitty windows notepad with Notepad3. there is less UI clutter than NP++, NP3 starts faster and felt like a better default editor. i think NP3 also kept up to date with recent Scintilla releases while NP++ could be on a 6mo old Scintilla version with various already-fixed bugs.

I actually went in the opposite direction. I replace notepad.exe with AkelPad[0], which perfectly satisfies all of my basic-text-editing needs. If I have to do anything more complex, Neovim is the end-all-be-all.

[0] https://akelpad.sourceforge.net/

Just started using Plasma. It really is very very nice. Quite a few handy-looking KRunner plugins are still on Plasma 5 though, which is a bit sad.

I've been on i3 for a while and have meant to do some rofi tooling but KRunner seems very nice.

What is your alternative to foobar2k on linux ;-;

xmms and qmms are Winamp-like players for Linux.

foobar2k works really well in wine. Alternatively deadbeef is quite similar to foobar but without the media library functionality.

deadbeef looks good!

foobar2000

I use it daily, runs great through WINE.

I use Audacious since it has a nice Qt interface and comes standard with my distro, but yes, the closest thing to foobar2000 in Linux would be DeadBeef.

foobar2000!

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