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There is a better terminal coming out, but I use Cmder in the meantime. Taking screenshots has a shortcut key. Alt + Shift + S. I use a screen manager called

by jamra 7y ago

There is a better terminal coming out, but I use Cmder in the meantime. Taking screenshots has a shortcut key. Alt + Shift + S. I use a screen manager called Aqua Snap. It's great. I turned off notifications. They are awful. I use Windows and OSX, but I understand how you feel. I still prefer OSX.

dijit 7y ago
These are good tips, I'm not a windows user and would have never found that hotkey or aqua snap. Do you have any more tips? It might be asking too much but perhaps you could write something up?
- jamra 7y ago
  Ok. I don't have the mental capacity to write something up at the moment, but here's another one. In Windows, you now have a Spaces alternative (It hasn't been called Spaces for a while). It's super cool. You hit WindowsKey + Tab and up top there are desktops. You can use the plus sign to create a new one and continue to use that expose like feature to drag apps between desktops. Next, you can either navigate via expose or you can Ctrl + Windows + [Left | Right] to change between them. If you're doing any kind of javascript development, there is NVM, which will allow you to change node versions. That's a nice tool. For installing software, some people use Chocolatey. There is some danger because there isn't any code signing as far as I know so I don't use it. But basically, that is a tool that allows you to install apps into windows with a config file. For MITM proxy, Fiddler2 is pretty great. For process management, there is a whole suite of tools called SysInternals. They allow you to see which processes are open and the files they are accessing. That can help tremendously in certain scenarios. Rainmeter is a cool desktop customization tool that you don't have as good alternatives on OSX. 7zip is a must have for compression. Deluge is a decent torrent client. Some of the console commands you want to learn are ipconfig [/all] to check your IP address. On Task Manager, you can set affinity to certain CPUs so that processes don't eat up all of your CPUs. That's a neat trick. I'd have to get a good night's sleep before I can think of anything else, but I hope it was helpful. Edit: Oh and I almost forgot.. You do have a Unix shell on windows. You can google how to turn on "bash subsystem for windows". Then you can install Ubuntu. I don't think it's virtualized. But I still currently prefer Cmder since I can copy and paste on it. But yes it's linux and you can mount your C drive and just linux away at your windows. Pretty soon, their new terminal with better font rendering should be a show stopper. It's currently on some kind of preview that can only be run on pre release versions of Windows 10 so I wouldn't hold my breath waiting.

by jamra 7y ago

dijit 7y ago

These are good tips, I'm not a windows user and would have never found that hotkey or aqua snap. Do you have any more tips? It might be asking too much but perhaps you could write something up?

jamra 7y ago
Ok. I don't have the mental capacity to write something up at the moment, but here's another one. In Windows, you now have a Spaces alternative (It hasn't been called Spaces for a while). It's super cool. You hit WindowsKey + Tab and up top there are desktops. You can use the plus sign to create a new one and continue to use that expose like feature to drag apps between desktops. Next, you can either navigate via expose or you can Ctrl + Windows + [Left | Right] to change between them. If you're doing any kind of javascript development, there is NVM, which will allow you to change node versions. That's a nice tool. For installing software, some people use Chocolatey. There is some danger because there isn't any code signing as far as I know so I don't use it. But basically, that is a tool that allows you to install apps into windows with a config file. For MITM proxy, Fiddler2 is pretty great. For process management, there is a whole suite of tools called SysInternals. They allow you to see which processes are open and the files they are accessing. That can help tremendously in certain scenarios. Rainmeter is a cool desktop customization tool that you don't have as good alternatives on OSX. 7zip is a must have for compression. Deluge is a decent torrent client. Some of the console commands you want to learn are ipconfig [/all] to check your IP address. On Task Manager, you can set affinity to certain CPUs so that processes don't eat up all of your CPUs. That's a neat trick. I'd have to get a good night's sleep before I can think of anything else, but I hope it was helpful. Edit: Oh and I almost forgot.. You do have a Unix shell on windows. You can google how to turn on "bash subsystem for windows". Then you can install Ubuntu. I don't think it's virtualized. But I still currently prefer Cmder since I can copy and paste on it. But yes it's linux and you can mount your C drive and just linux away at your windows. Pretty soon, their new terminal with better font rendering should be a show stopper. It's currently on some kind of preview that can only be run on pre release versions of Windows 10 so I wouldn't hold my breath waiting.