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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?
[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/powerrena...
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Any upsides to scoop compared to chocolatey?
I'd not heard of Scoop before today but have used chocolatey extensively in the past. 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.
As for threat model it comes down to whether using package management poses larger risk than doing everything manually and risking running a range of outdated packages.
I would mention Total commander and Quick Access Popup as two well known ones, but two gems that I see are undiscovered are: - TouchCursor https://martin-stone.github.io/touchcursor/ the only one I found that allows you to use Space as modifier key, and works flawlesly (with other ahk scripts handling hotkeys running simultaneously). Praying it does not stop working with some Win10 update, as it is not being worked o…
Personally I prefer to use left alt key instead of space key, as I can hold down the left alt with minimal effort (right alt takes over the duty of left). For this to cause minimal conflict, I use Sharpkey to remap physical left alt to e.g. F16 at the OS level, then define the desired behavior for F16 in ahk.
I'm surprised Dexpot[0] isn't listed. It's a really great virtual desktop management tool and has a number of things included that's not included with the Windows 10 default virtual desktop feature. 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 pos…
I'm surprised Dexpot[0] isn't listed. It's a really great virtual desktop management tool and has a number of things included that's not included with the Windows 10 default virtual desktop feature. 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 pos…
For a command-line tool, I absolutely recommend Conemu ( https://conemu.github.io/ )
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I'd not heard of Scoop before today but have used chocolatey extensively in the past. 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.
With most package managers you can review package sources (e.g. "choco info" for chocolatey or "brew info" / "brew edit" for homebrew). As for threat model it comes down to whether using package management poses larger risk than doing everything manually and risking running a range of outdated packages.
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?
Sort of a side note: Exceptional Mac programs are often showcased and awarded. Either by Apple or others in the Mac “community”. Is there example from the Windows side? Programs that highlight the very best the Windows platform can deliver?