Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Our favourite Open Source software”.
What is your favorite piece of freeware or open source utility software like ninite or something else, favorite piece of freeware? I mean we’re streaming on obs right now. Okay, i think it sort of has to be obs. Well, i wouldn’t say favorite. I don’t have an emotional attachment to obs there’s a lot of stuff. That’S not that perfect.
Imagine it didn’t exist. Obs uh i mean i was. I was using uh. You know i was using xsplit before and like it had some problems, but i i actually kind of want to try it again. To be perfectly honest, with you see where it’s going, yeah see where it’s at they’ve sponsored the show a couple of times, and it kind of made me think. Oh yeah xsplit, i mean i have a lifetime license for it. I might as well. Maybe i’ll do like a game stream at home or something like that fire up x-blitz see how it does play some play some uh obsidian when it worked well. For me, it worked great or divinity sorry. Yeah like there were things that xsplit didn’t detection. Yes, yeah and obs is still sucks. We also had a lot of problems with that was a long time ago and the wan pc had a lot of gremlins.
I don’t know how much of that was xsplit, that’s fair enough, honestly. So man favorite free utilities – i mean you can’t you can’t not mention your. You know your paint.nets of the world, paint.net no ped, plus plus yeah windowstat um back a putty, someone said: putty yeah, putty 7-zip, oh there’s, so many good ones. Vlc.
You already said: notepad plus plus right, yep, okay, heck, yeah, love, notepad, plus plus uh. I actually i used to do that thing. I think i told you about it way back in the day where you can overwrite all the like uh. You can essentially like regedit windows, so anytime you even try to open notepad.
It just opens notepad plus plus, that’s hilarious. I don’t remember exactly how it works, so i might have said something wrong there, but it was actually really nice because you should just never use notepad. You should use notepad plus plus, i thought about uh resurrecting lsd.
Remember, oh yeah, luke software discoveries, um chocolaty is apparently a nine-night alternative. That’S like way more powerful way more customizable. So i thought maybe we’d like check that out and then i found something really cool. Oh no did i misplace the name of it. Chocolatey.
Okay. I can’t find the name of it right now. I have it written down somewhere, but this is so.
This blew my mind. There’S this utility that lets you turn your usb drive, bootable, which i know won’t, impress you yet, but turn your usb drive bootable so that it just loads like a list of all the isos that you’ve dragged and dropped onto that usb, that’s cool! So it’s like the ultimate utility usb. Actually i really like just throw your you just literally drag and drop your mem test, iso, your windows install iso, and then you just plug this thing in and it just goes which one would you like this one? That reminds me a lot of like so cool the no it’s not rufus ventoy. That’S the one geek squad used to have this tool um.
That was actually really good um and i don’t i don’t remember the name of it, but this was back in the day when every computer had a cd drive, so they were on cds and you you could like burn the like g squad tool under these cds And uh um people used to effectively like sell them outside of geek squad because they were so good. They were actually valuable and, like local repair shops, would buy the updated versions of these, like geek squad cds that were bootable, and they had uh like mem tests and, like all these other types of things on them right, they were actually all arranged really nicely. Yes, yeah yeah, yeah nice like in one place but yeah ventoy, is what it’s called super super cool little tool.
Yeah, that’s sweet all right. What else we got from, i think we brought down fentoy’s website. Oh man, mri yeah geek squad mri. That way back in the day way way long ago, that used to be really genuinely good. I have no idea if it even exists anymore uh, but it was awesome back in the day. .