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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[–] NeryK@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

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

Barrier: KVM software
Calibre: e-book management
Jellyfin: Plex-like media center
Mumble: VoIP

[–] Never_Sm1le@lemdro.id 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 4 points 2 years ago (6 children)

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

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[–] mo_ztt@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] agrammatic@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Greenshot (GPLv3) is a powerful screenshot tool with its own basic image editor.

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[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Qclip

Bulk crap uninstaller

Vlc

Irfanview (is it proprietary?)

Gimp, Krita, Inkscape, KDEnLive, Blender, OBS

Nonfree: XNViewMP, Startisback++,

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Irfanview is proprietary yes

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] sonalder@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] meiko60 3 points 2 years ago

winget

[–] Sygheil@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

BC uninstaller

[–] iloverocks@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Too god to be real

[–] GullibleOyster@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] iloverocks@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] ToNIX@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] zeemyst@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

WinMerge, the best diffing tool out there.

[–] SteveDinn@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

puTTY, my favourite terminal program for windows.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

chocolatey to actually install things almost well.

[–] dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] murtaza64@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

I've been enjoying wezterm as a terminal emulator replacement for windows terminal. It offers nerdy fine grained customizability and an emoji/nerd font character picker. For most purposes WT seems to be fine though.

[–] hackris@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Adding to all the awesome software already mentioned here, WinCompose! You can have a compose key, for typing accented characters wothout changin your keyboard layout, for example.

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