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Yes! When I started using Kate on Linux ca. 2005, I was coming from Notepad on Windows and couldn’t believe how nice it was. I believe it was my first experienc

Yes! When I started using Kate on Linux ca. 2005, I was coming from Notepad on Windows and couldn’t believe how nice it was. I believe it was my first experience of syntax highlighting. And Amarok! I haven’t thought of that in a while. Losing Amarok was my single biggest regret when I became a Max user. I’ve not used anything since that came close.

doubled112 2y ago
What about Clementine or Strawberry? Clementine was a fork of Amarok 1.4, and Strawberry a fork of Clementine. I recently discovered Strawberry would play music off of my Subsonic server (Navidrome really) and was thrilled to have something for music that didn't feel like a web app.
bluGill 2y ago
Amarok is preparing for another release. I wonder if it will come to mac.
- tvshtr 2y ago
  Yeah, that's a surprising revival. I thought it died for good this time.
  - bluGill 2y ago
    I think people who got excited about streaming (one low price and you get whatever music you want on tap) have started to realize it isn't as nice as it seems (music disappears, they push music you don't want, and don't support artists like CDs do) and so developers are coming back to local clients that you control managing music you own.
jraph 2y ago
> I was coming from Notepad on Windows Ouch. You didn't use Notepad++?
- Symbiote 2y ago
  Notepad++ would have been very new at that time. I don't know what those early releases were like. But there were similar editors. I remember using SCIte which was similar to Notepad++. SCIte was first released in 1999.
  - distances 2y ago
    My editor of choice back in the Windows days was EditPlus, from 1998 (and looks like it's still maintained). I think it had syntax highlighting from the start too.
  - lproven 2y ago
    Notepad++ is based on Scintilla, for which Scite is sort of the demo program. Scintilla is also the basis of Geany. I explained this recently on the Reg. Read the Reg. ;-) https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/06/veteran_editors_notepad_and_geany/ https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/06/veteran_editors_notep...

doubled112 2y ago

What about Clementine or Strawberry? Clementine was a fork of Amarok 1.4, and Strawberry a fork of Clementine. I recently discovered Strawberry would play music off of my Subsonic server (Navidrome really) and was thrilled to have something for music that didn't feel like a web app.

bluGill 2y ago

Amarok is preparing for another release. I wonder if it will come to mac.

tvshtr 2y ago
Yeah, that's a surprising revival. I thought it died for good this time.
- bluGill 2y ago
  I think people who got excited about streaming (one low price and you get whatever music you want on tap) have started to realize it isn't as nice as it seems (music disappears, they push music you don't want, and don't support artists like CDs do) and so developers are coming back to local clients that you control managing music you own.

jraph 2y ago

> I was coming from Notepad on Windows Ouch. You didn't use Notepad++?

Symbiote 2y ago
Notepad++ would have been very new at that time. I don't know what those early releases were like. But there were similar editors. I remember using SCIte which was similar to Notepad++. SCIte was first released in 1999.
- distances 2y ago
  My editor of choice back in the Windows days was EditPlus, from 1998 (and looks like it's still maintained). I think it had syntax highlighting from the start too.
- lproven 2y ago
  Notepad++ is based on Scintilla, for which Scite is sort of the demo program. Scintilla is also the basis of Geany. I explained this recently on the Reg. Read the Reg. ;-) https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/06/veteran_editors_notepad_and_geany/ https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/06/veteran_editors_notep...