Ask HN: Windows users, what software do you find essential to your workflow?

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4 years ago

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

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