HACKER Q&A
📣 keb_

Windows users, what software do you find essential to your workflow?


Windows is by far my most used operating system, and even though I run Linux on my laptop and my work machine, my personal computer still runs Windows 10 LTSC and I often do my development work from it.

Some pieces of software that I find essential:

* scoop (https://scoop.sh/) * Package Manager for Windows

* Cmder (https://cmder.net/) * Portable terminal emulator (essentially souped up ConEmu)

* Notepad++ (https://notepad-plus-plus.org/) * Super lightweight and fast text-editor

* Sublime Text 4 (https://www.sublimetext.com/) * Fast text-editor made awesome with plugins (Sublime-LSP)

* JPEGView (https://sourceforge.net/projects/jpegview/) * Fast, FOSS image viewer

* MPC-HC (https://mpc-hc.org/) * Simple to use and excellent media player

* foobar2000 (https://www.foobar2000.org/) * My main music player since 2006. I have yet to find a superior player on any OS

  👤 phendrenad2 Accepted Answer ✓
My Windows machine is mostly for gaming. I do my work on a Macbook Pro and my personal projects on a Macbook Air.

So, my Windows 11 is incredibly vanilla. I use the default web browser (I also use Edge on Mac, so my bookmarks carry over).

The only 3rd party apps that are indispensable are 7-Zip (for game mods and occasional historical research) and VSCode (for making quick text file notes, game config editing, etc.)

I used to have WSL installed, but Mac has superseded it.

I also use VirtualBox for occasional Linux forays.

👤 kjellsbells
Disclaimer: I'm in sales.

WSL2 Outlook Excel PowerPoint

Of these, WSL2 might be the most surprising but it has replaced all the separate tool chain that I used to have (cygwin, vim, putty) with the Ubuntu distro. As to why I even need it, in sales you get to process a lot of crufty data, and sometimes it's just easier to dump it to a text file, vi or sed your way to a reasonable version of it, and suck it back into excel. Regex beats excel text formulas by a country mile.

👤 genericbrandx
My default installs in no particular order:

* Obsidian

* AutoHotKey

* Anki

* Notepad++

* Python, Pandas, NumPy, JupyterLab

* Git, GitHub

* ThinkOrSwim

* WSL, Cygwin, PuTTY, WinSCP

* Chocolatey

* RescueTime, Toggl

* LastPass, Authy

* Chrome, Chromium, Firefox

👤 CRConrad
1) Notepad++

2) DBeaver

3) PuTTY

4) Git -- for the shell (mainly grep), not Git itself.

👤 uberman
tools I use every day:

wsl docker vscode git slack office/libre zoom

I also regularly use:

gimp winmerge filezilla rstudio