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!

Send_me_nude_girls,
@Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de avatar

VLC player, 7zip, translucent bar, greenshot, irfanview,

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

anguo,

AltSnap github.com/RamonUnch/AltSnap

Xirup,
@Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Oof, just actually installed AltDrag, I can’t live without being able to grab my windows with the super key from anywhere (although in this case the alt).

Thanks for letting me know that there is a fork still maintained.

anguo,

You can also change it to use the super key, (which I did too).

NeryK,
@NeryK@sh.itjust.works avatar

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

Never_Sm1le,
@Never_Sm1le@lemdro.id avatar

I advocate for ImageGlass, a very good image viewer and editor. Mpc or vlc for videos.

TheFonz,

I’ll check it out. How does it compare to Irfan viewer?

INHALE_VEGETABLES,

Can anyone recommend me something that falls somewhere between Paint and GIMP?

<3

DearAll,
@DearAll@beehaw.org avatar

Krita!

INHALE_VEGETABLES,

Downloaded! Thanks heaps I’ll try it out

s20,

On Windows, Paint(dot)net. On Linux, Pinta!

eighthourlunch,
@eighthourlunch@kbin.social avatar

Krita is amazing.

andrew1412,
@andrew1412@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

You can use photopea as a webapp using ublock

8orange8,

PhotoDemon is close to what you’re asking for. It has the basic functionality the average user needs yet is still lightweight and fast to start.

mo_ztt,
@mo_ztt@lemmy.world avatar

Disclaimer, haven’t used Windows in years, but back in the day when I did, I swore by cygwin to give me a sane environment to interact in. That and Firefox + GIMP + Libreoffice usually gave me a pretty happy day to day interaction.

520,

Nowadays I would swap out cygwin for WSL; the latter gives you a full Linux environment.

klangcola,

Git Bash also works quite well without WSL (but I think it just uses Cygwin under the hood)

520,

Bash also has a native Windows port these days, but it is far from a full posix environment.

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.

Sygheil,
@Sygheil@lemmy.world avatar

BC uninstaller

iloverocks,

Too god to be real

meiko60,
@meiko60@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

winget

sonalder,

This isn’t a FOSS apps list but a Free (as free beer) software list for Windows with a bunch of cool FOSS apps alternativeto.net/list/29653/my-windows-setup/

Pantherina,
@Pantherina@feddit.de avatar

Qclip

Bulk crap uninstaller

Vlc

Irfanview (is it proprietary?)

Gimp, Krita, Inkscape, KDEnLive, Blender, OBS

Nonfree: XNViewMP, Startisback++,

db0,
@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Irfanview is proprietary yes

Pantherina,
@Pantherina@feddit.de avatar

Damn, it blew my mind that both Irfanview and XNView are proprietary, so there seems to be no actually maintained FOSS image viewer and light editor especially for Linux. Gwenview is a mediocre alternative but really smooth, maybe it should get all the features and replace these programs.

Bahais_Mexicali,
@Bahais_Mexicali@mastodon.social avatar

@Pantherina @db0 i was going to say https://www.darktable.org/about/ but i think this thread is about Windoze programs. Upppsss, sorry.

Pantherina,
@Pantherina@feddit.de avatar

Darktable doesnt run on Winbloats? Also its a raw editing tool right?

Bahais_Mexicali,
@Bahais_Mexicali@mastodon.social avatar

@Pantherina

This might be of more help...

https://www.darktable.org/about/features/

or

https://docs.darktable.org/usermanual/4.0/en/darktable_user_manual.pdf

Pantherina,
@Pantherina@feddit.de avatar

Nice links, thanks! But Darktable is for raw. Maybe thats some crazy lossless rabbithole I have to go in, but I was talking about plain old JPEG editing, conversion, color adaption, quick cutting etc.

Tried Darktable and that other one and both were very unintuitive.

Plus, XNView also works as an Image viewer. XNConvert is also great for batch processing.

TheAnonymouseJoker,
@TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml avatar

+1 for XNViewMP, the GOAT program. It is the only proper program that can batch convert WEBPs with their timestamps and metadata preserved, among hundreds of other functions it can do.

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