Well Android is Linux based… so maybe this is a similar universe.

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yep, thanks!

I used to, but I need to get my job done, not play with configuring it for hours just to achieve what VSCode does out of the box. Plus settings sync is great.

Vs code

I would actually recommend VSCodium; it’s the same product but without the Microsoft telemetry.

Yeah VS Code definitely if ya doing programming. I’m just editing config/ini files once in a while so N++ is just right for me.

I just use Powershell, much easier imo

Good to know!

Ventoy is easy, but not perfect. I tried multum of unique images and it struggled hard. From openwrt to freedos to reboot of Hiren’s boot cd, it just couldn’t load them correctly.

dd works very well if it’s a Linux ISO and you’re using the USB solely as a livecd.

It can also byte-clone discs and partitions, including ripping CDs and DVDs.

FileLight from KDE also works on Windows

They’re both closed source.

gdu is in winget, and it’s extremely fast.

Yeah, the documentation is very sparse. I think it was originally all in Simplified Chinese, but some things have been translated to English. Basically it gives you tools to fix subpixel font rendering issues on windows. Using a rotated monitor? An OLED monitor? A TV? All of these are examples of screens that don’t have standard subpixel layouts, so fonts tend to have weird color fringing as a result. MacType allows for a lot of tweaks to how fonts are rendered, but I tend to just switch to grayscale rendering, which works well.

This reddit thread walks through the process with some specific configs and they have pictures to show how it changes things.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OLED_Gaming/comments/t30fi7/better_text_rendering_for_oled_displays_getting/

it doesn’t trigger UAC because the installation directory is different

Winget is from Microsoft for one (and already installed with Windows). It basically just downloads the regular windows installer and installs it like usual without the need to click user feedback prompts. Scoop is more of a package manager.

With winget, one nice thing is you can even update packages not installed with winget originally. You can see which apps on your computer have updates available with a single command.

It’s great when you’re updating someone else’s computer they haven’t updated random things in years (typical windows users).

Scoop essentially uses portable apps and everything is in your scoop folder which is great.

I use both. Scoop first and winget for everything else. I use winget to update Libreoffice on all our work computers (because the devs won’t work on auto updates).

I felt like winget was too limited. When I last used it it didn’t support installing multiple apps at the same time. scoop feels much more like traditional *nix package management to me, which I like.

Because it’s lightweight and portable. :)

Notepad2e is just a small exe file which doesn’t require installation. This allows me to run it on my work PC or random work VMs without filling out any paperwork. And on my personal machines, I can replace the OG Notepad with this by renaming notepad.exe in the Windows folder, so when I press Win+R -> and type “notepad”, it fires up Notepad2e. It launches just as quickly as the original Notepad, and doesn’t use much RAM either, and provides most of the features that I’d commonly use in Notepad++, such as text transformations, syntax highlighting, large file support and live monitoring (which makes is handy for viewing logs). With this, I don’t really have a need for Notepad++ - if I want more features, say I’m working on a proper coding project or something, I’d use a proper IDE like VSCode, but otherwise, Notepad2e satisfies most of my text editing needs.

Yes, Syncthing needs 2 diferents devices to sync, FreeFileSync syncronize whatever you want within 1 device, for example between 2 Disks or from a network disk to your computer disk.

Syncthing works great if there are 2 devices turned on and connected to a LAN or Internet, and FreeFileSync is totally disconected from the internet and only needs 1 device on (the one that execute it)

I use both, Syncthing to autosync all my devices and FreeFileSync to backup all those files to various disconected hard drives

Just started trying out Scoop recently and I’m finding it fits my taste more than chocolatey so far. I appreciate the fact that it keeps apps isolated in a standard user directory, doesn’t require admin, and uses plain git repos with json manifests instead of whatever chocolatey uses. In some ways it’s similar to some things guix does, although obviously they are extremely different in concept.