Landlord hands typed this.

Nice, excited to give it a shot. In my opinion CLion has always been one of the weaker JetBrains offerings (don't get me wrong though - I love using most of their tools). This will definitely help catch it up with the likes of Visual Studio.

Takes like this are so bizarre to me ngl. I highly respect developers of free software - especially those that give up their time without any compensation. However, at the end of the day people are going to use what they know works best for them. If that's the free alternative for you, then great! But digging your heels in the ground and only using certain software - not because it's better functionally or in any material way, but only because it's free, at the expensive of your own productivity (or worse, the productivity of your peers because now they have to deal with your broken shit) is incredibly childish. No one actually cares in real life. Being a smug open-source zealot, and belittling people who don't have the same narrow perspective isn't "making a stand," or really doing anything besides making you sound insufferable lol. Saying this as someone who's contributed to and maintained several FOSS projects, as well as commercial ones. (edit for clarity: I'm using free/open-source/FOSS interchangeably, not referring to freeware.)

“I believe in my heart of hearts that I have accomplished what I set out to do for West Virginia,” he said. “I have made one of the toughest decisions of my life and decided that I will not be running for re-election to the United States Senate, but what I will be doing is traveling the country and speaking out to see if there is an interest in creating a movement to mobilize the middle and bring Americans together.”

Sounds like he's probably gearing up for a 2024 Presidential run with No Labels. Doubt he has a chance, but he'll sap plenty of Biden voters.

or for people who don't have a week to dedicate to learning utterly deranged nonsense, just use sublime merge and never look back.

Beyond Compare 4 - various types of file comparison and merging operations.

WinDirStat - makes it easy to identify and clean up files taking up your drive space.

Everything - I resisted using this for a long time and wish I hadn't.

Joplin - note taking app with markdown editor.

QTranslate - discontinued freeware, most recent version that I'm aware of is 6.10.0. very useful translation app that supports Google, DeepL, Yandex and others.

RapidCRC (Unicode) - file hash creation and verification

also shout out to Windows Firewall, not really a new thing but many people don't bother learning how to use it properly.

I almost always use PowerShell (Core) for automation/scripting things that don't warrant an entire "application". It's as powerful as you need it to be, but I wouldn't recommend it if you aren't already familiar with .NET and its ecosystem.