While not a “Windows program,” Ninite allows you to queue up and download a lot of the most common software installs you’d make after a fresh install.
In terms of actual windows programs, I quite like “Everything.” It’s basically a database of all the files on your computer that allows for near instant searching.
“Space Sniffer” is an excellent utility for finding what takes up a lot of room on your drive.
“Unidentified flying raw” is a free program that allows the manipulation and conversion of raw picture files. I use it before editing in Gimp, but if you have Photoshop, it’s not necessary.
“Dark Table” is an acceptable free light room alternative if you have the patience. It’s pretty slow though.
VoidTools’ Everything. Indexes your whole filesystem (across all drives too) and allows you to search your whole filesystem for matching filenames, save search presets for later, and even allowing RegEx search queries if you need files of names matching some pattern.
Create bootable USB drives the easy way
You can use it to flash an ISO for a free operating system instead Microsoft Windows spyware. You could go Linux, or BSD, or Haiku, or whatever so long as your personal data & freedom are respected.
I’m fine with windows
📣 Folks, they say they’ll take the spyware!
And trusting with closed eyes and giving away control of their computers to that big tech co Having ads And enjoying updates at good moments And having to have an antivirus And paying licenses And having your children learn computing on an environment that they’ll get used to so they’ll have to buy their own when they get older and cope with all this sh*t
You’re implying I’m a boomer who doesn’t know about stuff like O&O ShutUp10++ which I use. I also use windscribe, pihole on my home network, extensions like ublock-origin and canvasblocker for Firefox, violent monkey with various scripts to not deal with trackers etc, nextDNS as well. And of course I pirate all sorts of shit using qbittorent tied to only work when my vpn is active. So sure, I’m stupid and don’t know anything because I use windows (that I pirated and activated for free).
Training the youth on proprietary software should be a sin. Rather than learning abstract skills or free software they can freely get, use, redistribute, inspect, students are taught a narrow, specialized task to where they think they need something proprietary. For instance, 90% of folks would be happy with a combo of darktable + GIMP + Krita for digital raster art/photography, but instead they want to pay Adobe a monthly subscription.
Lol paying for Adobe? Yeah right. You can easily patch the Cloud trials to be the full versions of the programs for free. Why use off brand versions of stuff when I can just pirate/crack the the used programs for free
Why use […] when I can just pirate/crack
Aside from the ethical reasons to choose free software over something built with lock-in in mind by a US-based, publicly-traded megacorporation… Sounds like you have never used Krita or darktable. These are best-in-class applications used by professionals. You also have been bitten into their propaganda that you need Adobe. Schools could even train on cheaper, decent software like Affinity (tho it’s not supported by Linux), but Adobe is funding indoctrination just like Microsoft does with Windows/Office/GitHub.
Considering most places use Microsoft office, Adobe suite, windows in general… I have no issue using them since I’m not even paying for them anyways
Ventoy’s an upgrade from Rufus cuz you can store multiple ISOs in 1usb drive. The limit is the USB storage so you could have 20+ distros.
Good to know. I’ve not used Windows in years.
WizTree is like WinDirStat but a lot faster.
Imma back you up on that one. Used the later for years until I found WizTree.
If you’re still using Windows 10 you should try out Powertools by Microsoft. It adds a lot of quality of life improvements, like adding a grid to snap your windows
Yeah I used power tools myself awesome little bit of kit m8 I hope someone comes round to making something like it on linux
Took me about 4 fucking seconds of scrolling to find someonr basically shouting “UsE lInUx” (using it myself and find this attitude highly annoying)
Keep to the question and let people use what they want, which leads me to:
Qbittorrent, best torrent client imo
Files app by yair, pretty nice looking file manager with tans and other goodies
This, people who use Linux will always let you know they use it especially if you didn’t ask
Got to mention Quicklook by Paddy Xu.
Just like the original functionality on mac, you press spacebar to inspect any highlighted file.
This was was one of those tiny things that a massive difference for me when I switched to windows.
I also use startisback to customize my taskbar and start menu.
If I would have been asked to choose one really useful piece of software on Windows it would be Agent Ransack. I use it to find strings in a bunch of files, even compressed ones. I believe it can do much more but I use it for this purpose on daily basis. There’s a paid version but the light one is free and does all I need. https://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/
A lot of great free and open source software works with windows. Librewolf web browser, kdenlive video editor, Gnu Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), Freetube is a great YouTube front end. Youtube-dlp is an excellent command line tool for downloading videos and music locally from lots of websites not just youtube For games freedoom, super tux, minetest with the mineclone2 game installed,
