What open source programs do you recommend for Windows? (Windows exclusive or not)

I am and all my life have been a Linux user, I have nothing against Windows or MacOS, I just like Linux, and lately I have been experimenting with Windows in a virtual machine and I don’t really know much open source software there apart from the one that is cross-platform like Firefox or Joplin.

At the moment I know:

Flow Launcher: It’s a typical rofi style launcher, although I’m not a TWM user I like to just press super and type the first letters of the program I’m looking for to open it.

Lively Wallpaper: A program to have animated wallpapers, in the style of Wallpaper Engine.

Edit: I want to clarify that I read all the comments, I only respond to some because many times I have nothing to contribute to many of them because I don’t know what to comment. Thanks to all of you for providing your lists of programs, I will be sure to try as many as I can because they are great, at least I know what to install if I use Windows one day!

Andy, (edited )
@Andy@programming.dev avatar

I think I didn’t see these mentioned yet:

TheAnonymouseJoker,
@TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml avatar

lemmy.ml/post/511377?scrollToComments=true

See the recommended programs section for Linux and Windows.

ToNIX, (edited )

CudaText for text editing/programming
MPV for playing videos
7-zip
Firefox + uBlock Origin + Bitwarden

iloverocks,

Lite xl (ide) KDE connect (file transfaring) KDEnlive (video editing software) Mpv (media player) Librewolf(better out of the box experience than Firefox ) I don’t care about cookies add-on (Firefox addon) Gimp or paint.net Obs(video capture) libreoffice(office stuff) Nomacs(image viewer) BC uninstaller Alt drag (moving winows)

What I honestly miss the most is my window manager/compositor hyprland

GullibleOyster,

Shotcut is a great easy to learn video editor I have used a lot.

corsicanguppy,

chocolatey to actually install things almost well.

dingleberry,

Shouldn’t winget be the first choice, given it’s from Microsoft itself?

corsicanguppy, (edited )

If the same people whose shitty apps gave us email viruses and pop-ups want to drag out the crayons and make a packager, that’d be cool. This one isn’t sound or complete yet, from what I hear on the inside.

Sandbag,

What about scoop?

corsicanguppy,

scoop

Scoop looks cute, but if I’m reading it right the manifest (where the pre-install and hash is) isn’t itself signed. It presents some neat-o attack space in addition to the supply-chain attack (always, always cringe whenever installers go out and automatically find dependencies for you without you firmly specifying source) make me think this one has some work to do yet. By comparison, prior art for both of those existed in Linux land for about 2 decades, along with simple local repo caching.

I see there’s talk of merging or feeding into either choco or winget already, despite the loss of superior layout it has over choco or the superior packaging and management it has over winget .

Scoop is neat, but it could look to its counterparts for improvement potential.

AWittyUsername,

PowerToys

TheMadnessKing,

My list:

  • winget
  • CopyQ
  • InageGlass
  • ShareX
  • BitWarden
NeryK,
@NeryK@sh.itjust.works avatar

Here are some that I found very useful over the years.

zeemyst,

WinMerge, the best diffing tool out there.

thru_dangers_untold, (edited )
  • Firefox: best web browser out there
  • Bitwarden: password manager
  • ShareX: screenshot utility. Greenshot is also good, but I prefer ShareX
  • WinDirStat: disk usage utility
  • KDE Connect: connect Android phone to PC
  • Image Glass: image viewer
  • OBS: video & audio capture
  • Blender: 3D modeling, animation, video editing
  • Handbrake: video conversion
  • VLC: video/audio playback
  • Audacity: audio editing
  • SpeedCrunch: calculator
  • Notepad++: text editor
  • Spyder (via Anaconda): Python IDE
fetchezlavache,
@fetchezlavache@lemmy.world avatar

KCE KDE Connect?

thru_dangers_untold,

yep, thanks!

Yomope,

If you liked windirstat i warmly recommend wiztree ( not sure if open source tho).it’s the same but faster. like FASTER faster

Nioxic,

Playnite for launching games

It will open up anything. Battlenet games, steam games, emulated games… you name it. Supports themes too!

www.playnite.link

Sygheil,
@Sygheil@lemmy.world avatar

BC uninstaller

iloverocks,

Too god to be real

ChiefSinner,

On most of my fresh installs, i usually install Tinywall, 7zip, and then a different browser like Firefox and chromium based browsers (like mull/brave)

ChiefSinner,

tinywall.pados.hu

www.7-zip.org

mullvad.net/en/download/browser/windows

brave.com

0x00cl,

I prefer simplewall over tinywall. I can’t remember what I didn’t like about tinywall though.

cawifre,

I’m scratching my head trying to figure out why the built-in firewall is undesirable. It isn’t that I can’t speculate on some possible reasons, I just didn’t realize there were so many 3rd party alternatives.

MayonnaiseArch,
@MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org avatar

I think they both use the built in firewall, they just have a sane interface over it. And notifications

Redo11,

I have to say it, Rufus.

lunicoDee,

To install linux

1993_toyota_camry,
@1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org avatar

Ventoy is the easier answer these days IMO. Just drop ISOs on your Ventoy’d usb key and choose them from a menu at boot time.

Redo11,

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.

1993_toyota_camry,
@1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org avatar

Not to be argumentative, but in case you’re interested:

According to the ventoy site it supports those images, though openwrt requires a plugin and freedos seems to require using memdisk mode, though I’m less clear on the limitations there.

Redo11,

Oh, I didn’t know that, but still, I don’t expect to be truly universal. But as long as you are dealing with ISOs of LX server/desktop or WIN, it’s an amazing tool.

1993_toyota_camry,
@1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org avatar

For sure. Nothing will ever be as reliable as writing the image to usb/cd/floppy.

Redo11,

Well, there is an option of using multiple partitions and setting up grub

TodaviaTyler,

Came here to say this exactly!

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