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Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by xaduha » Fri, Dec 25, 2020, 5:03 PM UTC

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by t00r » Fri, Dec 25, 2020, 5:10 PM UTC

idiocrat wrote: post #13

I like dnGrep. It searches inside archives, Excel files and other MS Office documents. Supports replace. [0]: http://dngrep.github.io/

Using dnGrep since years:

Killer features for me:

  - Right-click to search in File Explorer (complete directories w/t subdirectories
  - Open line results in a custom editor, like Notepad++
  - Whole-file preview
  - or: Show some lines before and after the grep finding (configurable)
  - Search-and-replace, including undo

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by veesahni » Fri, Dec 25, 2020, 5:10 PM UTC

khalilravanna wrote: post #106

Semi-related: Has WSL2 fixed the issue where trying to do anything in the host Windows filesystem is interminably slow? Running something like “git status” takes legitimately like 15 seconds if the repo is outside the linux filesystem.

VSCode+WSLRemote plugin works really well with code on linux. Full speed command line, full speed code search.

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by noisem4ker » Fri, Dec 25, 2020, 5:14 PM UTC

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #77

411111111111111 wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Best thing about scoop is that it doesn't need admin privileges. Everything is installed as portables in user directory

Everything is installed as portables in user directory Is that a good thing?

It's absolutely not, but it's being picked up industry-wide and even by Microsoft themselves. Basically any piece of Electron shitware can be found installing itself to %LOCALAPPDATA%, silently updating itself and leaving gigabytes of old copies around in subfolders. I think it's a lost battle and not worth getting angry about anymore.

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by WalterGR » Fri, Dec 25, 2020, 5:22 PM UTC

Osiris wrote: post #20

fomine3 wrote: post #3

I'll replace WinDirStat with WizTree. It loads immediately because of reading local disk MFT.

I used WinDirStat a lot but I've since switched to TreeSize (free edition). WinDirStat is single threaded so you can't really do anything while it's scanning. TreeSize let's you navigate the tree while the scan is still happening.

TreeSize is amazing. The free version doesn’t work on network shares, but that’s the only limitation I’ve found.

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by WalterGR » Fri, Dec 25, 2020, 5:25 PM UTC

rkagerer wrote: post #9

What do folks think of the recommended WinMerge and Perforce Visual Merge, over Beyond Compare? I've been using Beyond Compare for years and have yet to see anything I like better. Total Uninstall should also be on this list, to keep your machine clean if you're like me and try out dozens or hundreds of different software titles per year. SysInternals belongs up there with NirSoft. I used Teracopy for a while but fou…

WinMerge is the best diff tool I’ve found. I haven’t used it for merges, because I prefer four-pane merges (original, left, right, and final) and it doesn’t support that. For that I use kdiff3, though I’d love to find a replacement...

WinMerge is open source - maybe free software, I don’t know. Development halted for years but was picked back up. It’s so solid that I haven’t upgraded in a decade? or more.

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by boxmonster » Fri, Dec 25, 2020, 5:27 PM UTC

frankietaylr wrote: post #92

Everything[0] search is a great file search utility on Windows. This is one sure productivity booster. [0] https://www.voidtools.com/

I put this on my father's machine and he thinks it's magic because it finds his files instantly. He still comments on it every once in awhile.

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by WalterGR » Fri, Dec 25, 2020, 5:30 PM UTC

k4rli wrote: post #107

turing_complete wrote: post #73

VS Code is fine and I actually use it quite a bit. Whoever says, it is "hella fast" either never used a really fast text editor or only compares it to Atom.

VSCodium ( https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium ) is a better alternative. Same but no Microsoft branding and telemetry.

It’s highly improbable that telemetry slows Code down enough (or even by a perceptible amount) that a user would find it “slow” vs. VSCodium.

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by meibo » Fri, Dec 25, 2020, 5:30 PM UTC

867-5309 wrote: post #22

would like to have seen a debloater / unfudger on the list but am guessing they haven't progressed much

If you use a prosumer version of Win 10, debloating is maybe 10 clicks after a reinstall and a registry script if you want to get rid of telemetry altogether.

Re: Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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Post by boxmonster » Fri, Dec 25, 2020, 5:31 PM UTC

trm42 wrote: post #55

Funny, how big part of the list are Linux-origin projects or WSL. How about really making the switch to Linux instead of trying to make Windows function like Linux?

I prefer the Windows desktop over the various Linux desktops I've looked at. I've got Ubuntu 20 in a VMWare machine when I need it.