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Name Your Favorite Bloat-Free Software

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the need-a-steady-diet-of-#-/*-and-// dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I prefer software that takes as little hard drive space and RAM as possible. I can't stand bloated software like iTunes, as compared to Foobar or classic Winamp; or Windows Media Player, as compared to VLC or Media Player Classic. What are some of your favorite applications which are a little less bloated?"

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  1. Re:MS Paint by p0tat03 · · Score: 0, Troll

    MS Paint for screenshots is the wrong tool for the job.

    On Mac: Cmd+Shift+3 takes a screenshot to your desktop in PNG format. Cmd+Shift+4 allows you to drag out a zone, which is then similarly dumped to a PNG file. Cmd+Shift+4 then Space allows you to click on any window to take a shot of just that window. Funny shortcuts to remember, but it's MUCH faster that PrntScrn, Open Paint, Paste, Crop, Save As.

  2. Re:Oh! by urbanriot · · Score: 0, Troll
    Your comment is ignorant and uninformed. Azureus is an extremely well programmed and efficient application, with considerably more advanced features (that might be over the average users head) than uTorrent. It's network programming has been very clean over the years while uTorrent has suffered through various network and CPU saturation issues. Regarding this "bloat" you speak of, you might be referring to the additional overhead of using a JRE, which is required for portability - in case you didn't know, Azureus works on practically any operating system, or at least those that have a JRE. This overhead can also be lowered from the default 64MB heap. If you really do have examples of "bloat", please cite the appropriate .java file.

    uTorrent is pretty nice, yeah. I wish more developers would follow its example (I'm looking at you, bloatware piece of shit Azureus).