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I would add ClipX ( https://bluemars.org/clipx/ ) to that list, its extremely handy to bring up a small window of my past clipboards with a hotkey. It's also extremely lightweight
https://www.stardock.com/products/fences/
It is an amazing feature, I still can’t believe no major OS includes something similar as default.
For a command-line tool, I absolutely recommend Conemu ( https://conemu.github.io/ )
I used to be a big fan of conemu back when Windows had no terminal support and "console emulation" was the best that could be done. But what advantages does this have over Windows Terminal these days?
(If you're on Linux, there's also guake, which I used to use)
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.
What I'd prefer is an open-source tiling window manager like i3. I've tried bug.n [3], but couldn't get it to work consistently for some reason.
[1] https://www.nurgo-software.com/products/tidytabs
I like TidyTabs [1] and AquaSnap [2] (both by Nurgo Software). They both make window management so much easier. What I'd prefer is an open-source tiling window manager like i3. I've tried bug.n [3], but couldn't get it to work consistently for some reason. [1] https://www.nurgo-software.com/products/tidytabs [2] https://www.nurgo-software.com/products/aquasnap [3] https://github.com/fuhsjr00/bug.n
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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…
Won't the runas command (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/i...) let you do this - run a command as Administrator without opening another command/powershell prompt?
But I think MSYS2 [0] still deserves a mention in the age of Windows Subsystem for Linux. It's a complete mingw-w64 distribution with a friendly package manager (ArchLinux's pacman). If you suddenly need to use some CLI tools on a Windows machine, MSYS2 can be quicker - no need to enable virtualization or upgrade Windows 10, just download a 91 MB installer and you can start right away. I recently needed to use wget on Windows to solve a problem for someone, instead of MSYS2, I made the mistake of downloading a random Windows build at SourceForge, later I was hit by a bug...
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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?
I have a remote access to a ubuntu server, and I tried to use my zshrc but there is no zsh installed. Maybe asking the admin of the server to install zsh is another way to do it, but I managed to compile zsh and use it as my default shell. Although it works, but I wish that there is a easier way to install software locally without having to resort to compiling.