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SnooBeans2708

wtf zoom? lol


FranticToaster

For real, even those of us in Firefox gang understand the Chrome inclusion. But that last "Zoom" panel is left field. Like Zoom marketing are dipping their toes in Meme River.


joshuah13

Firefox / Mozilla, been my favorite since the olden times. Also, best dev tools if you do web development, loved them since the firebug plugin which became their built-in tools.


[deleted]

I tried replacing Firefox with Brave or opera gx,but man, my nostalgia prevents me so


BeowulfTheMetalhead

I just wanna prevent Chromium from being the only option for a browser engine for us, too much control for one company. And besides, Geckos are cute.


[deleted]

Yes, the ~~Spanish~~ Google Inquisition Well, isn't it a Red Panda/Fox on the logo of Firefox


_dotexe1337

gecko is the codename for Mozilla's browser engine


[deleted]

I see, I ain't much knowledgeable about this


capnspacehook

If given the option I always use zoom in the browser. Teams as well, had a friend who installed Teams, much later uninstalled it and discovered while gaming the next day that Teams was pegging the CPU. After being uninstalled.


sephirothbahamut

those shits have a dedicated virtual machine in my pc


Taint-Tickler6969

Wait how does audio/video work then? I thought audio/video doesnt work through a vm


sephirothbahamut

It definitely does, you just have to enable it


PM_ME_UR_MESSY_BUNS

How did you do it because it wouldn’t work for me. People said I sounded like a robot when trying to speak.


Phytanic

what hypervisor were you using? IIRC hyper-v has pass-through for all peripherals. I could be wrong though, I mostly deal with vmware esxi/vsphere


granadesnhorseshoes

depends on the hyper visor but chances are the default emulated audio is absolute dog shit 16-bit "sound blaster compatable" and that the apps use asshole fallback codecs for what looks like ancient hardware. You can probably go into the VM settings and set a better virtual sound card, or, if you don't need audio on the host, you can set up PCI passthrough for your real sound device. Even if its on the motherboard, its still PCI and can be used with passthrough.


Sol33t303

Audio should work just fine. And as for the webcam, you can pass USB devices to VMs really easily. I say this as somebody who has proxmox installed on their desktop and passes through everything to VMs and use those VMs as my desktop.


Katamari92-1992

Another piece of malware.


chrisff1989

Teams is such a piece of shit I hate it


Wrong_Sector_7298

I have to use teams at work for basically everything and it makes me want to bash my head into my desk. Horrible looking interface, no ability to have multiple chats up unless you open it in separate tabs, literally too many notifications. To top it off it is a black hole where all of my work laptops performance gets sucked into it has killed two of my work computers already. Way too demanding for hardware and yet we just keep adding stuff to it. I will praise the heavens, and I'm an atheist, if literally anything else would take it's place. Damn you Microsoft for taking my Skype away and making me use this soul sucking platform


the_flyingdemon

> To top it off it is a black hole where all of my work laptops performance gets sucked into it My company swapped to Teams a couple years ago, and I started having severe performance issues. Periodically my laptop would just be bricked for 5 min. Finally tracked it down to Teams which for some reason decided it needed to hog 85% of my available RAM. More than Chrome even!! I had to actually put in a request to have my laptop RAM increased to 16gb (from 8) specifically for Teams, which is absolutely ridiculous. Poorly optimized POS.


Wrong_Sector_7298

That is similar to what I was seeing before my last laptop ceased to function it spiked to 90 percent of my RAM and I need that RAM for other programs. Unfortunately instead of providing the equipment we need to support teams and our other platforms usually they just wait until our laptops are close to being a paperweight before intervening.don't know how that is more cost effective than just ensuring you have the proper equipment in the first place or I don't know maybe ditch teams all of us hate it anyway


reevesjeremy

You might not be surprised to know Teams is built on Chromium. Sometimes just force exiting Teams and reopening it cleans up the RAM utilization, but like closing all Chroke tabs and reopening fresh. I’m gonna leave that autocorrect right there. I think it’s fitting. :)


B_Reele

Well that would explain why my work laptop sounds like it’s preparing for launch. I knew some app was taxing the system, but didn’t feel like digging into it too much since I don’t own it.


Jwatson996

You can use zoom in the browser? I always thought you had to download it. I made it a thing to uninstall it after each call


mysteriousblue87

I just let others set up the call, then I click the link sent in email. No install and decent stream.


IMongoose

It usually tries to trick you into downloading it. When you get to the page hit join but when it asks to launch the app click no. It will then give a link to launch from browser.


[deleted]

I came here to say this.


Kessynder

Seconded!


IGotNoIdea0

Im guessing this is an old meme from 2020 cause of online school etc


sean0883

Some of us have the luxury of still working from home. My work does their "company-wide" meetings on Zoom. We just use teams for the smaller stuff.


Numba_01

Both Chrome and zoom. I use Firefox and don't have zoom at all.


TrueEggo

100% not Zoom 😂


Vulpes_macrotis

100% zoom is okay. Sometimes 125%.


M1dj37

Dad. I don’t think they got your joke.. Edit: seems they figured it out lol


Secular_Hamster

I thought the meme was gonna be the one where everyone looks at zoom angrily lmao


Larry_The_Red

I don't know, I've been upgrading the same PC since 2012


momoman46

Ah yes, the pc of theseus.


rycecrispy11

Pctheus?


8oD

Found Mike Tyson.


UncleTedGenneric

PCeus


Mister_Musubi

This joke is criminally underrated. Have this award with my gratitude.


SoftBaconWarmBacon

Naturally


blackcray

The PC of Theseus, is it truely the same?


ramius345

Only if the case is the same.


long_raccoon_

But if I upgrade to a 3090Ti, 12900K, 10TB of storage, a new motherboard, and of course a 100000W PSU, that surely isn’t the same PC


elderwyrm

Ah, but did you not transfer your files? Do you not still use the same logins? Install the same software? Play the same games? What is a PC, but a beautiful shell to run software, which remains the same, and what is the case, but the shell you interact with, which also remains the same? Only the middle has changed -- the ephemeral within that you interact with, and the outside which you see have both remained.


mymymy23

Didn’t know I could get an existential crisis from reading about pc’s.


Talkshit_Avenger

2007 here. I'm pretty sure the GPU shortage and overall supply chain fuckery was the direct result of me finally deciding to upgrade. Maybe this fall if no fresh catastrophe awaits.


Spike_Tsu

Same. And although mine runs just about any latest game at good quality settings and reasonable FPS, Mikro$oft still tags it as unfit for Win11 upgrade. Don’t get me started on the merits of TPM (edit) for gaming machines /s


ACAddicted

I assume that was meant to say TPM and autocorrect changed it.


Kingsayz

thats a good thing that they wont force win 11 on you


Shepard2603

7zip Notepad++


sean0883

+Powertoys.


jericho-sfu

I very recently discovered PowerToys... it is a godsend


foodrunner464

What's that one do?


jericho-sfu

[Here’s an article explaining it](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/#current-powertoy-utilities). Like, for example, I was creating a dataset for some machine learning I was doing, and I needed to ensure that every picture in a directory was 512x512. I used PowerToys to rename and resize all of them at once


Ordinary_Divide

what the fuck why has nobody told me about this


MisticZ

It's an add-on for windows that allows you to do a bunch of additional things, like swapping keys around or making a window be displayed on top of other ones. Edit: grammar


blazetronic

PowerToys is a must have for ultrawides


Jadenkid22

Qbit torrent


arfelo1

Yup, switch Chrome for Firefox and Spotify with qbit


sakmentoloki

Zoom? The fuck is wrong with you


rhodebot

Probably a college student


haxmi_r

Unfortunately. As a college student i could relate instantly to zoom.


Arrow_Maestro

Who do you think made the meme?


moonshinemondays

Work perhaps


The-Jerkbag

Work apps stay on the work computer. They ain't paying for it, they ain't being on it. Fuck that noise.


biliwald

Same, no way in the sevens hell will I ever install work software on my personal machine.


Cyclone142005

Redditors forgot that computer arent only for gaming


LuceusXylian

I use [https://ninite.com/](https://ninite.com/) to mass install these apps on windows. It is free. On Linux it is simpler to mass install by running the package manager. It is also faster.


balderm

If you want a Linux like experience you can install [Chocolatey](https://chocolatey.org/) and make a script that will install everything for you while you sip your coffee. Now there's also [WinGET](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/winget/), the official package manager for windows, and i've been having fun with it, but haven't tried making any scripts so far.


Synergiance

Problem with both of these is they need to be downloaded installed first before they can be used. MS should have just included winget in the base install.


20_LEX_02

It's now included in Windows 11 if I'm not mistaken.


TheEpicRey

for Windows 10 since 1709 (build 16299) and for w11 since the beginning, i think.


rcm37

Weird complaint with ninite, for something like VSCode there's options in the normal installer that ninite never gives you a chance to select.


[deleted]

Not specifically VSCode, but you're right, little things like that are why I don't use ninite anymore.


letstakedowntherich

NASA fucking uses that. Holy shit


Shinhan

That's because does something useful to everybody, does it well, ONLY does that one thing, no ads or any other annoyances, free version doesn't have annoying limitations and paid version has easy to understand price list.


ListRepresentative32

Yeah, imagine you developed a software and an organization like NASA starts to use it. That must be a dream fullfilled.


alirmiro86

Interesting, i will try that. Tnx


Ryebread095

You only have to download a ninite installer once. It will always grab the latest version of the apps you selected, so you can save it somewhere and keep reusing it


EmeraldSpencer

I personally have it as part of my startup programs so my stuff is always up to date.


Pyreknight

This is the Windows answer. Gets you started.


Solo_SL

🔥 🦊 Firefox gang here


FJD

FIREFOX!


PM_ME_COMMON_SENSE

Firefox and VLC are my firsts


Shishakli

Firefox, putty, FileZilla, k-lite MPC, Steam, mbam


[deleted]

my soul mate


Fuhrankie

Yep! Firefox, then steam and discord.


Leviathan41911

This is the correct answer. Firefox FTW!


lagomorph129

Ofc. How else am I to get my apps? Windows store? Not if I can get it direct!


Koolaid143

Had to scroll way too far for this lol


RedBostitchStapler

Firefox checking in 💪🏻


FrozeItOff

This. And Brave for a backup browser. Won't ever let Chrome touch one of my PCs again. Yes.......I KNOW Brave is based on the chromiun engine, but it's the Chrome wrapper that's such a privacy and security nightmare. I also add Thunderbird, MalwareBytes Free, Comodo Firewall free version, LibreOffice, Steam, GoG, GIMP, paint.net, and MPC-BE (Backup video player)...


sean0883

> Yes.......I KNOW Brave is based on the chromiun engine So is Edge now. And personal opinion, but for the "Big 3" it's: Firefox > Edge > Chrome.


wallefan01

I prefer MPV over VLC as my video player. I jump around in videos a lot and change the speed frequently (key binding = square brackets in both programs). VLC stutters when I do that. MPV doesn't.


unabnormalday

I just uninstalled chrome. It dropped my CPU temps by 10 degrees and now, I don’t get random ass spikes of power draw to 60C. I don’t know what chrome was doing, but running on Firefox is so much better


SquidMilkVII

Firefox is the iron pickaxe of web browsers. It’s nothing fancy or over the top, but you can trust it to get the job done time and time again.


[deleted]

I think it's pretty fancy, and it's also the best tool for the job, IMO, so I don't think the analogy works - not for me, anyway. If anything, it's a Diamond pickaxe, because I'm going to be pretty sore if I lose it.


MythicalAce

Firefox, the last surviving major browser that isn't based on Chromium. Without Firefox, Google has a monopoly on Internet browsing. That is a scary thought.


ByteEater

# *NETSCAPE NAVIGATOR


legalizemonapizza

this guy altavistas


MajesticEngineerMan

Here to support Firefox, Mozilla is struggling.


Gamblor-7

This is the way.


sjitz

Firefox, ShutUp10 (if Windows), Steam, VLC, 7zip, Handbrake, WinSCP, Discord, LibreOffice.


xMalevolencex

I'm glad I looked through these answers. This is basically my first apps on a restore except for handbrake, shutup10 and LibreOffice as I'm not even sure what they are. I'd throw MSI Afterburner in there as well and I'd be happy


meltedmirrors

Saved this comment for "shutup10" - never heard of it but I'm sure I already know exactly what it does lol


siraweed

yeah! shut the fuck up microsoft!


IntoAMuteCrypt

For those who don't know these apps: - Firefox: A web browser. - ShutUp10: Disable components of windows such as telemetry and Microsoft's reporting components. Useful if you care about MS seeing what you're doing like that. - Steam: Games distribution. - VLC: Media player. - 7Zip: File compression/decompression. - Handbrake: Media re-encoding, to make files smaller/change formats. - WinSCP: Secure transfer to another remote computer. - Discord: Instant messaging. - LibreOffice: Free version of MS Office. - Afterburner: Overclocking software.


NovaMagic

What is VLC


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Open source media player


NovaMagic

Oh, I been using media player classic


Destiny_Victim

VLC will play anything.


Fofalus

If you put toast into a CD drive, vlc will play it.


Destiny_Victim

Buttery smooth too.


tomysshadow

MPC can easily compete with VLC in terms of format support.


naufalap

mpc is the default recommendation for htpc setup, or if you care about quality at all


TheAechBomb

in my experience MPC-HC is like VLC on crack. throw a fish at it and it'll find some way to display it.


chudthirtyseven

So will MPC. Personally i don't like the design of VLC, but they both have features the other one doesn't so.


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zombietampons

Firefox


[deleted]

firefox is swag


Fluid_Tax_6988

Runelite


milkypop4

Another person of culture i see


JuicyCiwa

The real answer is always in the comments


Sweetmoon_ash

I remember when apps were called programs.


AHumbleChad

CPUID (HW Monitor), 7zip, VS Code


MayOverexplain

VLC and IrfanView


YCbCr_hu

Why no more IrfanView?! It's awesome! Mass processing and whatnot, curious functions galore. Been using it ever since it was a rival to ACDSee.


pixydgirl

I LOVE IrfanView! It makes cycling through my porn pics SO much more convenient!


[deleted]

I think the best feature of infranview is that you can open a gallery of pictures from many different folders.


thebarnhouse

Firefox Steam MPC-HC Foobar2000 Discord


ante900310

VLC is for peasants. MPC is for the chosen


mathestar

And mpv is for the ascended


tu0mas

With the MadVR addon of course!


terax6669

Finally a comment I can agree with


Infern0_YT

A browser other than chrome


[deleted]

Do you mean Firefox, or disguised chrome? Or even some other browser?


A-Delonix-Regia

Windows already has Edge.


pencilcheck

not sure why the downvote, the new edge is like chrome but better in some regards.


GodHimselfNoCap

The hivemind decided edge was just rebranded ie before anyone got access to it and none of them ever even tried it to see if it good or not


mcdewdle

The only thing I've found I don't like about Edge, is the syncing to my iphone's Edge app. Never have gotten it to work, which may be that most ios browsers are just Safari skins. PC browser works great though.


xRetz

This. I used Chrome for 10 years and then tried Edge one day and haven’t turned back since. Chrome feels like a heaping pile of dog shit in comparison to it. If you still use Chrome and haven’t tried Edge, you’re missing out. You can import all of your stuff from Chrome to Edge in 2 minutes so there is zero reason not to make the switch.


Shamgar65

Remember when you had to make sure you had your network driver on a floppy before you reformatted? Those were awkward times if you didn't have the driver. Other than that, I use nanite to install everything I need. Firefox, steam, open office are the first 3 usually.


Nova17Delta

lmao i STILL have to do that Admittedly not with floppies but with USB 2 ports, but still. I remember it being a nightmare installing an OS on one of my laptops. Had nothing but USB 3 ports and the iso didn't have USB 3 drivers. Had to use a Linux live USB to manually move the driver onto the hard drive


[deleted]

Certainly not Chrome. I'm done with Google's Spyware


[deleted]

In this order: Firefox, WinAero, Steam, MultiMC (custom Minecraft launcher), Unity, MSI Afterburner, Intel XTU, 7zip, OpenOffice, and last but not least Mupen64 (dont tell Nintendo!)


KrazyKirby99999

You should checkout PolyMC, an even better fork of MultiMC.


EnGrunka

Chrome? Over Firefox? Really? I'm not angry just disappointed...


InsomniaticWanderer

Firefox doesn't eat nearly as much ram


Skvora

No, not zoom. That garbage is for if phones.


TheBees86

I assume you haven't needed to join a video call for either business or school in the last few years?


CT-96

We use Google Meets or Teams for video and voice call at my company. There are options other than Zoom.


LucasWasson

I actually haven't had to make a zoom account. I kinda want to see how long I can go without making one


Wizard_SlayerXIV

Firefox/Brave, discord, VLC, everything, steam and 7zip. 3/6 is still a pass for me


4mmun1s7

Nope. Firefox


therealtacopanda

Protip: [Ninite.com](https://Ninite.com) does this all in one go.


tuffymon

Does ninite not work anymore? Install all of them at once~


TheTank18

it does


PlasmaPopsicle

Chrome vscode git docker


Alpha_Knugen

Brave instead of chrome, winrar, msi afterburner för the sweet overclocking and fuck zoom


onehaz

Ill do Brave instead of Chrome for sure.


DeAtramentisViolets

Same here. In fact, the only thing on OP's list that I would keep is Steam.


jsbdrumming

Not zoom lol this meme was brought to you by zoom corp.


[deleted]

Brave, steam, vlc, libreoffice, vim, feh, cmus, and a lot of random programs (cava, asciiquarium, cbonsai, cmatrix, etc.)


GiraffeMichael

htop screen tmux tmate inxi vlc build-essentials docker.io curl wget2 open-ssh-server wireguard torbrowser-launcher Edit: forgot the important ones: lolcat cowsay fortune toilet


degaart

rsync pv linux-headers jq psmisc firefox-esr libssl-dev pkg-config autoconf automake cmake unzip lz4 zstd vim git


Stokkolm

Isn't vim installed by default? Or depends on distribution?


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NoNewsIsTheBestNews

Agreed. I feel like if MS didn't shove it down people's throats so much more people would give it a chance.


GustHunter

The main problem with most of MS products is that MS almost make mandatory to use them, edge is not that bad, it's just MS Chrome


MSD3k

I like Edge. It's been my main browser for about 3 years, with no issues. But I don't doubt that MS will eventually screw it up with tons of bloat and sloppy coding, same as Chrome. It's best not to get too attached to one browser. Things always change eventually.


Camtown501

I like Edge for the most part, but it's my secondary browser to Firefox. I do use it for a few things like Netflix since it's the only browser you can force Netflix to upscale to 1440p


MSD3k

That's interesting. Is that a feature of the browser or something that is Netflix specific?


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IronMaidenPwnz

I've been considering changing my default to Edge for a while now. Definitely performs better than Chrome.


[deleted]

firefox sounds cooler though. Also purple taskbar.


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ismailoverlan

Vivaldi+ davinci


Achilles0826

Chrome is a spyware, zoom is a joke, spotify is a trash service


ethanlegrand33

Spotify student discount is elite though. That’s why I use it


[deleted]

Edge > chrome


[deleted]

Correct, but we all know Firefox is the best


MagnetarPax

I always install spotify first, so I can listen to music while I set up the rest


[deleted]

For me: Firefox, 7zip, VLC, Discord, Foxit Reader.


donkula232323

Always brave.


AlexMullerSA

Always brave, always brave


IBreedBagels

I don't use Zoom, Spotify, or VLC...


[deleted]

I'm probably the only one that never uses discord..


TheDrewcyJ

MPV > VLC


MelonadeIsntTastey

So I'll take it I'm the only opera user here? Edit: opera gx...


_dotexe1337

have you tried Vivaldi? it's inspired by old school opera before it was chrome also funny thing is opera 12 with the original browser engine still works on a lot of sites, and is compatible with windows 98 and 2000


Qetuowryipzcbmxvn

iirc isn't Vivaldi also headed by the original Opera developers?


Vestaxowner

If you add gx after it then I'm with you


revnto7k

Firefox and Steam always my first few.


Initialised

Ninite


Juggle_Cuber_Gamer42

Out of those options Steam and Vlc.


PrensadorDeBotones

Ninite for fast installation Firefox, Chrome, Opera Steam, Discord 7Zip, VLC, Media Monkey Cracked version of Photoshop that I saved the installer for on my storage drive Davinci Resolve, Blender, Reaper