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Favorite apps for Windows (lemmy.world)

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Here are my favorite apps at the moment, I highly recommend all of them:

Directory Opus - file manager
Beyond Compare - file comparison
Sandboxie-Plus - app sandbox
Portmaster - firewall
KeePass - password manager
Vivaldi - browser
VMware Workstation - virtual machine hypervisor
Houdini - 3D modelling, animation and tool development
Affinity Photo/Designer/Publisher) - photo editing etc.
Visual Studio Code - coding
Joplin - note taking
PowerShell - command-line shell and scripting language
PowerToys - various utilities

What are your favorite apps? Let me know in the comments! :)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Notepad++ - lightweight feature rich tabbed notepad

Wireshark - packet capture. Note for you programmers, it's not the network. Your app just has shit performance.

HyperV - general compute virtualisation free* with windows 10/11

GNS3/eve-ng - networking specific virtualisation

Putty - ssh to stuff

Winscp - SCP to servers for file transfer.

Windows subsystem for Linux - run a Linux kernel in windows for testing Linux stuff like Ansible.

Python - multiplatform scripting and the base for so many automation tools.

Those are just off the top of my head

Also Firefox. Because chromium based web browsers/webapps are basically spyware.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

All great ones here! PuTTY is a real classic. :)