I am and all my life have been a Linux user, I have nothing against Windows or MacOS, I just like Linux, and lately I have been experimenting with Windows in a virtual machine and I don’t really know much open source software there apart from the one that is cross-platform like Firefox or Joplin.

At the moment I know:

Flow Launcher: It’s a typical rofi style launcher, although I’m not a TWM user I like to just press super and type the first letters of the program I’m looking for to open it.

Lively Wallpaper: A program to have animated wallpapers, in the style of Wallpaper Engine.

Edit: I want to clarify that I read all the comments, I only respond to some because many times I have nothing to contribute to many of them because I don’t know what to comment. Thanks to all of you for providing your lists of programs, I will be sure to try as many as I can because they are great, at least I know what to install if I use Windows one day!

  • gornius@lemmy.world
    15·
    1 year ago

    although I’m not a TWM user I like to just press super and type the first letters of the program I’m looking for to open it.

    It will never stop to amaze me how many people don’t know it’s a feature in every major DE and every Windows starting from Vista.

    Even on Windows 10/11, just tap windows key and start typing without clicking anywhere.

    My list of FOSS I use everywhere (these work in Win and Linux):

    • Open Tablet Driver - if you’ve got the drawing tablet it probably supports it. You can customize everything and has even built-in plugin manager.

    • Krita - GIMP alternative with non-destructive editing capabilities.

    • yt-dlp - download videos from almost any video sharing service, even TikTok, Instagram etc.

    • neovim - for quick file edits

    • vscode/vscodium with vim plugin - my IDE for everything

    • ffmpeg - forget handbrake - you can do even basic video editing here. Join two videos together? Done. Add audio to video? Done. Crop part of the video without reencoding it? Done. Loop a video to 10 hours without reencoding it? Done in matters of seconds.

    • kdenlive - an actual video editor that is 100% FOSS, doesn’t suck and works on Windows and Linux.

    • imagemagick - ffmpeg for images

  • thru_dangers_untold@lemmy.mlEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago
    • Firefox: best web browser out there
    • Bitwarden: password manager
    • ShareX: screenshot utility. Greenshot is also good, but I prefer ShareX
    • WinDirStat: disk usage utility
    • KDE Connect: connect Android phone to PC
    • Image Glass: image viewer
    • OBS: video & audio capture
    • Blender: 3D modeling, animation, video editing
    • Handbrake: video conversion
    • VLC: video/audio playback
    • Audacity: audio editing
    • SpeedCrunch: calculator
    • Notepad++: text editor
    • Spyder (via Anaconda): Python IDE
  • GreenMario@lemm.ee
    131·
    1 year ago

    1. GIMP (Image editor)

    2. putty (Secure shell/terminal emulator)

    3. WinSCP (Secure FTP client)

    4. QBittorrent (guess.)

    5. 7zip (All in one compressed archive manager)

    6. Firefox

    7. Notepad++ (text editor with syntax highlights)

    8. Handbrake (Video transcoder)

    9. VLC (all in one video player)

    These are my top must have installed. There are others but they’re situational

    Let’s not forget the various console emulators that are open source as well. All the good ones are.

    • grandel@lemmy.ml
      4·
      1 year ago

      That’s a good list!

      I use the same, except I use LibreWolf (privacy focused fork of FF) and VS Code instead of Firefox and Notepad++

      • GreenMario@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yeah VS Code definitely if ya doing programming. I’m just editing config/ini files once in a while so N++ is just right for me.

    • hogofwar@lemm.ee
      4·
      1 year ago

      I use Kitty instead of Putty recently, though I don’t know if the difference is worth it.

  • Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Playnite for launching games

    It will open up anything. Battlenet games, steam games, emulated games… you name it. Supports themes too!

    www.playnite.link

  • thejevans@lemmy.ml
    7·
    1 year ago

    BloatyNosy

    Universal Debloater and PC Manager for the most up-to-date version of the Redmond OS (Windows 11)

    https://github.com/builtbybel/BloatyNosy

    sleek

    an open-source (FOSS) todo manager based on the todo.txt syntax

    https://github.com/ransome1/sleek

    WinDirStat

    a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for various versions of Microsoft Windows

    https://github.com/windirstat/windirstat

    MacType

    Better font rendering for Windows

    https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype

  • ChiefSinner@lemm.ee
    4·
    1 year ago

    On most of my fresh installs, i usually install Tinywall, 7zip, and then a different browser like Firefox and chromium based browsers (like mull/brave)

  • vim_b@lemmy.mlEnglish
    41·
    1 year ago

    PowerToys: productivity utilities like window pinning, window management, accented character typing assistant, color picker, text extractor, etc.

  • ToNIX@lemm.ee
    2·
    1 year ago

    CudaText for text editing/programming
    MPV for playing videos
    7-zip
    Firefox + uBlock Origin + Bitwarden

  • mo_ztt ✅@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Disclaimer, haven’t used Windows in years, but back in the day when I did, I swore by cygwin to give me a sane environment to interact in. That and Firefox + GIMP + Libreoffice usually gave me a pretty happy day to day interaction.