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Ask HN: 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
- genericbrandx 5y agoMy 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
- uberman 5y agotools I use every day: wsl docker vscode git slack office/libre zoom I also regularly use: gimp winmerge filezilla rstudio
- CRConrad 5y ago1) Notepad++ 2) DBeaver 3) PuTTY 4) Git -- for the shell (mainly grep), not Git itself.
- kjellsbells 5y agoDisclaimer: 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.
- phendrenad2 5y agoMy 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.