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Can I suggest my own tool? pulltherope.app - Nothing even comes close to how productive this makes me.
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
a browser for an app launcher, we reached new highs, or lows depending on people's taste
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You might want to checkout the new Windows Terminal app too for it. You can basically keep your unix/zsh env for windows, I even make aliases for things like open = explorer.exe, ls = dir, etc...
A nice chunk of unix tools get installed with git (if you select the option to) - you could just add it to your path and it saves on a fair chunk of that aliasing work I think my biggest annoyance with powershell in particular is that curl is aliased into this awkward powershell function by default
Not since August 2016 and the release of PowerShell Core 6. "PowerShell" now refers to the cross-platform branch, currently PowerShell 7.1.
The older one with that alias is now "Windows PowerShell", and is legacy and no longer developed.
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A nice chunk of unix tools get installed with git (if you select the option to) - you could just add it to your path and it saves on a fair chunk of that aliasing work I think my biggest annoyance with powershell in particular is that curl is aliased into this awkward powershell function by default
> " I think my biggest annoyance with powershell in particular is that curl is aliased into this awkward powershell function by default " Not since August 2016 and the release of PowerShell Core 6. "PowerShell" now refers to the cross-platform branch, currently PowerShell 7.1. The older one with that alias is now "Windows PowerShell", and is legacy and no longer developed.
It's still distributed by default with all versions of Windows where it is labelled “Powershell” with no qualifier.
Microsoft’s branding isn’t particularly internally consistent, so being ultrapedantic about one particular presentation of it, and one that itself conflicts with the one pushed most immediately in front of the largest set of customers by Microsoft, isn't necessarily a great approach.
Perfect timing. After having used Linux full-time in private and at work for the past 13 years, I had to switch to Windows 10 at my new job. I miss the hell out of my shell, my .zshrc file, and the general "easy" customization of Linux, but I'll be more than happy to see how I'll better adapt to Windows 10 thanks to this list and the tools provided in the comments here. Edit: First thing I'll install is most probably…
https://medium.com/@borekb/zsh-via-msys2-on-windows-3964a943...
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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"…
Middle click on a taskbar window preview popup closes the window on Windows without having any taskbar tweakers installed.
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> " I think my biggest annoyance with powershell in particular is that curl is aliased into this awkward powershell function by default " Not since August 2016 and the release of PowerShell Core 6. "PowerShell" now refers to the cross-platform branch, currently PowerShell 7.1. The older one with that alias is now "Windows PowerShell", and is legacy and no longer developed.
> The older one with that alias is now "Windows PowerShell", and is legacy and no longer developed. It's still distributed by default with all versions of Windows where it is labelled “Powershell” with no qualifier. Microsoft’s branding isn’t particularly internally consistent, so being ultrapedantic about one particular presentation of it, and one that itself conflicts with the one pushed most immediately in front o…
No, it's called "Windows PowerShell", look: https://i.imgur.com/119yPbK.png
> "so being ultrapedantic about one particular presentation of it, isn't necessarily a great approach."
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/ - official documentation has sections for "PowerShell" and "Windows PowerShell 5.1".
You have outdated information. You can either update your information and use the current names, or you can pretend a tool from 4 years ago which has been deprecated and superceded at least twice, is the current one, the same way you can pretend that Windows 8 is the current desktop and be angry about the full screen start menu that "Windows has".
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I recommend WizFile [0] as an alternative (same developer of WizTree, which is a far better WinDirStat alternative). [0] https://antibody-software.com/wizfile/
Are there features in WizFile that make it better than Everything?
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Just saw Ueli from the article. Looks really interesting but it seems to be built in Electron. What's its footprint like? I'm currently very happy using the nice lightweight Launchy but it hasn't been updated in a long time. Still works great but requires a bit of tinkering to get it going in Win10, last time I tried.
Performance wise it's fine for me but it does have some rough edges like: - Moves across the screen for a while when using custom scaling - Doesn't sort by most used result hits (always shows same order) - Hangs for me when I click on results instead of navigating by keyboard - Doesn't have an option to kill apps like Wox But apart from these it does a lot of things quite well.
