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If you often find yourself renaming files I can highly recommend Flash Renamer. It's $20, but it must have saved me thousands of dollars in production time. Btw, does anybody know of a modern disk usage manager that uses bright, clear individual colors like Space Monger?
I wonder why the author recommend winget but not scoop. Scoop obviously has more community support and that's the most important part of a package manager (more packages, more frequent update, etc).
Scott Hanselman works for Microsoft and is a prominent advocate for the .NET/Microsoft ecosystem so his recommendations are likely to skew towards native MS tools in the first instance.
Nothing wrong with that as long as you consume his material through that lens!
That said, I'm quite surprised I hadn't heard of Scoop[0]. Looks interesting...
[0] https://scoop.sh
I'd add UELI[0] — probably the best alfred style launcher. Does almost everything including Everything integration. Also this script[1] for AHK to quckly jump from "Save as" window to folder currently opened in file explorer. [0] — https://ueli.app/#/ [1] — https://pastebin.com/cmLVFdbB
cat ubuntu.iso > /dev/sdb; reboot
I wonder why the author recommend winget but not scoop. Scoop obviously has more community support and that's the most important part of a package manager (more packages, more frequent update, etc).
Any upsides to scoop compared to chocolatey?
However I'm wary of all these tools (including brew on Mac) as they all feel like a pretty efficient way to main line your own personal supply chain attack into your dev machine!
For that reason I now try to use them sparingly and with a high degree of suspicion.
I wonder why the author recommend winget but not scoop. Scoop obviously has more community support and that's the most important part of a package manager (more packages, more frequent update, etc).
Any upsides to scoop compared to chocolatey?
https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop/wiki/Chocolatey-Compari...
One advantage is that scoop installs (most) tools into a common place and search path, and thus doesn't pollute environment variables as much.
Unfortunately due to a personal dispute with a Webroot employee and Microsoft its signature ended up in antivirus databases, so don't expect any love from Microsoft. They often look at the APIs PH uses and use signature checks and other ways to block/discourage PH from using them. Also expect having to whitelist it with anti-virus products, but the source code is open and you can build it yourself if you don't trust what you are getting. [2]
[0] https://wj32.org/processhacker/nightly.php
[1] https://github.com/processhacker/plugins-extra/
[2] https://github.com/processhacker/processhacker/issues/454#is...
Compared to Windows Terminal, I started to use Fluent Terminal (also on Microsoft store), and it is amazing! It crashed a few times at first, but it's customizable, has a settings UI, and is just as fast and nicer looking compared to Windows Terminal. X-Mouse button control is another app I absolutely love. It replaced my Logitech Options, and works quite nice, and quietly sits doing just that.
While Windows Terminal doesn't have a settings UI (yet[0]) it does allow for theming, this page[1] features a range of color schemes that you can define and set in your settings.json.
There's also a wrapper that allows for quake style drop down [2] until it's implemented by Windows Terminal itself[0].
[0] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/main/doc/terminal...
Then there's VcXrv[1] to share your clipboard between WSL and Windows, it also lets you run Linux GUI tools in WSL. Essential IMO, if only for clipboard sharing.
Sizer[2] is another great tool for quickly resizing and positioning windows programmatically. Amazingly useful for spinning up specific sets of apps quickly.
IrfanView[3] is IMO one of the best quick image viewers / editors. It also has handy dev features (batch processing, quickly getting a hex value from an image, etc.).
I keep a list of dev related tools I use on Windows too at https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/the-tools-i-use.
[0]: https://dexpot.de/?lang=en
[1]: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/