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Ask HN: Setting up a Windows PC after 15 yrs of Mac/Linux...
What are the must-install tools/applications you’d recommend?
- ggm 6y agoWsLv2
- chokolad 6y agoWindows Terminal
- Decade 6y ago7-Zip. It does a lot more than just 7z archives. I don’t want to see adware naggy WinRAR ever again.
- indigodaddy 6y agoWinRAR still has a very useful feature/option that 7zip I don’t believe has. It has an auto-delete the archive after extraction option, which is great if you are bulk extracting a huge number of archives but are low on disk space.
- indigodaddy 6y agoAnd I don’t believe 7zip has an equivalent cli switch for that (last I looked), but I could be wrong..
- dalmo3 6y agoListary 6.
- xupybd 6y agoWSL2, Docker, vscode and your favourite Linux distribution. Run git inside WSL2. Use vscode to edit with its server inside the WSL2 Env.
- tcbasche 6y agoCouldn’t agree more. I’m the same as OP; years of OSX now back to Windows and this was the setup I went with. Everything (surprisingly) just worked.
- indigodaddy 6y agoWhat are you using Docker to do?
- vitorgrs 6y agoWindows Terminal. And reminder, you can use winget on prompt to install apps
- indigodaddy 6y agoWinget > scoop ?
- vitorgrs 6y agoYep, but it's inbox already! Although with winget it will require UAC permissions.
- nunez 6y agoChocolatey, 100%
- speedgoose 6y agoVLC.
- muterad_murilax 6y agoScott Hanselman's 2021 ultimate developer and power users tool list for Windows: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/scott-hanselmans-2021-ultimate-developer-and-power-users-tool-list-for-windows https://www.hanselman.com/blog/scott-hanselmans-2021-ultimat...