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Is 7zip really a good format for sharing data? I also use the program for unpacking and I like the context menu integration. However when I send files, I prefer zip because I feel like this is easiest for the recipient to open (no matter if they are using windows, linux, osx, Android...).
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The AutoHotKey programming language is quirky and weird, even when compared to Powershell's quirkiness, but there are classes of things that AutoHotKey can do that I don't know how you would do on Powershell: prepend or append selected text to what's already on the clipboard with Ctrl+[ or Ctrl+] find all windows with specific text in the title and resize them in a custom way (Window+]) insert custom strings or large…
This was a good list, just for fun i had a bash at #1 (an excuse to learn as much as anything...): prepend-selection.ps1: $before = Get-Clipboard [void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName('System.Windows.Forms') [System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys]::SendWait("%({TAB})") # when launched, a powershell.exe opens and steals focus, this alt+tab takes focus back to the app that has the text selection [System.Windo…
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Scoop installs all the files locally by default and doesn't need to be run through an elevated shell. In junction to this, there's also usually less trouble with leftover files after uninstalling programs. The official software repo might be smaller than chocolate's, but to my eye, as it is moderated through a single open github repo, it seems much simpler.
Tangentially related, but I wish that running elevated from the shell was more ergonomic. I want to just be able to have a sudo-like command to run elevated from an otherwise non-elevated shell. Instead I have to launch a new instance of the shell host that's elevated. ConEmu makes this feel more seamless by doing some window manipulation hacks to bring elevated and non-elevated into tabs of the same window, but Wind…
Something like RunAs? [0]
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Everything[0] search is a great file search utility on Windows. This is one sure productivity booster. [0] https://www.voidtools.com/
Everything[0] search is a great file search utility on Windows. This is one sure productivity booster. [0] https://www.voidtools.com/
Once Windows 10 supports linux GUI apps by default in WSL 2, that will be huge. At that point it should be easy to develop completely in Linux, only on Windows. I've gotten this working with some extra tools, and the experience is pretty good, but it is still a bit too fiddly for me to consider it as a primary solution for everyday development.
Then you could test the gui apps with xwindow forwarding over ssh. I use putty/xming for this.
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I've been using WSL and a lot of unix tools on Windows. I have a simple reason: Windows is a much better desktop environment. I tried to switch from macOS to Linux. I've found workarounds / alternatives to almost all of my issues on Linux. One issue seems to be unfixable though; I have a 4K monitor and pretty much required to use fractional scaling. Windows and macOS does it perfectly. I had good luck with Pop!_OS bu…
I actually switched to XFCE a couple years ago because I think it's a much better desktop environment than Windows with regards to activities that I do for work like running lots of Docker images. XFCE has features that you need 7+ Taskbar Tweaker for on Windows, like being able to middle-click a taskbar button to close it's window. Any feature XFCE didn't have such as "move a window to another monitor with a hotkey"…
Does anyone have a tool that can do "grep like" searches on a folder of text docs from windows explorer? Right click shelling out and using the FIND command is what I've resorted to so far. =(
https://pathcopycopy.github.io >Path Copy Copy is an add-on for Windows Explorer that adds contextual menu items on all files and folders allowing the user to copy the path(s) in various formats. And of course https://alternativeto.net