Looking for good/helpful software for windows to get. Stuff that offers QoL improvements etc
And no I don't care about Linux so don't bother suggesting I switch to it.
is great for making bootable USB drives.
to install linux with
If you have a huge media library, an organizer like Kodi or Jellyfin helps a lot.
Seeing lots of excellent suggestions for general (7-zip, Notepad++, etc).
Foobar2000 is a good music player
I don’t know if it’s good, but I guess there is now a Lemmy Desktop app https://webcatalog.io/en/apps/lemmy/
I saw you said you use Plex. I assume you use Steam for gaming?
Is there any specific feature/use you want QoL improvements for?
Foobar is the best ever forever. I still love you Winamp but FOOOOB
Gotcha.
I know Mental Outlaw had a video about powershell scripts to help reboot Windows 10
That might help speed it up and stop Windows from doing unnecessary background stuff and using resources
chocolatey
it's a far cry from a package manager on an actually good operating system like openbsd ( it's not linux ;) ), but it's leagues better than cavemanning software off webpages with cancer like auto-updates to get around the lack of package management (or no updates, at all).
Even though I rarely setup Windows machines nowadays, here's my usual Ninite package: https://ninite.com/7zip-everything-firefox-gimp-greenshot-inkscape-libreoffice-notepadplusplus-putty-qbittorrent-revo-steam-sumatrapdf-teracopy-thunderbird-vlc-winscp-wiztree
- 7zip is just the best archive tool on Windows
- Everything is insanely useful, specially if you get into the habit of triggering through a hotkey every time you need something.
- Revo Uninstaller used to be a must for properly uninstalling programs, not sure how useful it still is with Windows 10 and 11.
- Sumatra is an excellent and very fast PDF reader.
- TeraCopy has a bunch of nice utilities, though it's copying/move graph is no longer relevant afaik.
- WizTree is a faster and nicer version of the old venerable WinDirStat, also very very useful to manage disk space.
Sharex. The ultimate scree shotting utility. There are dozens of post capture tasks like upload to website, copy to clipboard, save to file, etc. You can do all of them at once, and it even caputes gifs!
