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What open source programs do you recommend for Windows? (Windows exclusive or not) (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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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!

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[-] beyond@linkage.ds8.zone 8 points 1 year ago

Mostly same list as for GNU/Linux:

Kate editor (Notepad++ and VSCodium are good here too)
KeePassXC or KeePass 2 password manager
Firefox or firefox derivative
Unison file synchronizer
Dolphin or Explorer++ file manager
VLC for audio/video
7zip file (un)archiver
Chocolatey package manager (would like to try alternatives)

[-] shadeless@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

have you tried the builtin "winget" as alternative to chocolatey?

[-] Sandbag@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'd recommend scoop!,

[-] beyond@linkage.ds8.zone 1 points 1 year ago

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.