(Assuming Win 10) - If you have a HiDPI screen, you may run into problems with older programs looking blurry. The fix is to right click on the .exe, click 'Pro

(Assuming Win 10) - If you have a HiDPI screen, you may run into problems with older programs looking blurry. The fix is to right click on the .exe, click 'Properties', go to the 'Compatibility' tab, and check the box next to "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings". - File extensions are hidden by default in the file manager. To turn them on, open File Explorer, go to the 'View' tab, and check the box next to "File name extensions". - Use a text editor like Notepad++ or Visual Studio Code which lets you switch back and forth with your line endings and encodings; Some editors coughNotepadcough add a BOM to the front of your unicode documents. (As an aside, I've been using the FTP plugin for Notepad++ lately, and it is just a pleasure to use.) - Between Powershell and WSL, there's rarely anything you can't do on the command line as long as you're willing to code switch a little. In particular, WSL works great for SSH. Cmder is a wrapper around ConEmu (mentioned elsewhere in the thread) and makes for a great terminal environment. - Chocolatey is the closest thing Windows has to a package manager. (I'm still hoping that OneGet becomes a thing.) - Other recommended programs: Everything search (life changing, bind it to a hotkey and never look back), Sumatra PDF, Glasswire, CCleaner, either Irfanview or Xnview, WinDirStat.