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Re:Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with acc... by kakacik on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @09:15AM (#45966309)
> Foobar2k, Notepad++, IrfanView, TotalCommander

Without those, especially last one my productivity at my corporate work would be half at most. Editing a file in an archive within another archive directly, doing quick file comparisons of 2 files, syncing different dirs, fulltext recursive search... all with much better UI than Unix console counterparts (which I use too). And much more.

Simply the best tools on the whole market for me in given category, period.

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Re:Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with acc... by wolvesechoes on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @10:21AM (#45967411)
I forgot about 7zip as well.

There is something magical about those specialized, no nonsense tools using WINAPI, not chasing cross-platform, and maintained for decades, some of them since 90s. Snappiness, intuitiveness, stability, discoverability etc.

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