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Windows needs a bunch of utility programs that nobody tells you which they are. After those are installed things are much more smooth. Directory management: 'D
by fsloth 7y ago
Windows needs a bunch of utility programs that nobody tells you which they are. After those are installed things are much more smooth.
Directory management: 'Directory Opus'
Fast search: 'Everything' and 'Agent Ransack'
Powershell is actually pretty neat once you get past the odd syntax.
But yeah, you can't turn it into a native unix env.
- chaostheory 7y ago> But yeah, you can't turn it into a native unix env. Has no one used WSL? It’s pretty close compared to the past. No need for powershell. You have bash now
- agumonkey 7y ago> No need for powershell. You have bash now honestly, powershell is a superb weapon. Yes the syntax is .net-ish and not my preference but really the functionality is high.
- meddlepal 7y agoWSL2?
- alexis_fr 7y ago10 years on Mac and I’m still missing the Windows Explorer. One feature only: The directory tree in the left handside.
- johnchristopher 7y agoNo worries, MS is actively trying to get rid of it (by hiding some folders, by mangling some shortcuts, by putting libraries and stupid things like that first so that you rarely actually have access to the tree).
- agumonkey 7y agosadly directory opus is for sale :)
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- ansgri 7y agoTrue enough. What is your favorite image viewer? The built-in in Win10 is basically unusable because it keeps trying to open files it doesn't understand (raw photos) and tells me to install a plugin (which probably doesn't exist). I mostly use Linux Mint Cinnamon and the window and workspace management just feels more consistent and snappy. Also Windows apps have a very annoying habit of showing windows for background tasks (file sync? software updates?) which I don't want to care about -- all they really accomplish is that sometimes the service gets stopped altogether just to forget about it.
- thrower123 7y agoIrfanView is nice, in that it can open nearly everything.
- iaml 7y agoXnView MP is another option.
- ansgri 7y agoEverybody recommends IrfanView, but is really the "desktop linux" (in tnat old derogatory sense when it was for nerds) of image viewers: endless configurability (with important things like color management off by default), strange navigation (How again do I switch images when zoomed in?), etc... It's like Total Commander: efficient and good in a way, but not in a way of modern streamlined UX that e.g. Apple software was once known for. /rant
- thrower123 7y agoI'll admit, I have no idea how to do anything advanced with it, but I like it because I can double click almost anything that is an image, from old Deluxe Paint files, PICs, RAWs, TIFFs, whatever, and it'll try to open it and put something on the screen, usually successfully.