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working most of the time with under Linux / GNOME I have grown accustom to some features which are still missing in Windows - and which I can't work without anymore. For example: why on earth does the Windows File Explorer (which is almost as old as I am) not support tabbed working? I know no other file manager which lacks this feature. And the Windows file explorer ist the most used in the world! Next thing, the default Editor ist still Garbage and still looks and works like 1995. Okay, here are the apps which I use to almost enjoy working in Windows 10:
Clover adds tabbed browsing to the File Explorer. You could also use Explorer++ which ist Open Source, but hasn't been updated for a while. Clover has one big backdraw: it's installer is available in chinese only - but simply pressing the big white button gets the process done.
Download Clover
Why should anyone search the web to get a simple music player installed? I guess no one has a reasonable answer to this question. Acutally no average user should do that - it's the best way to get you a virus or something else undesirable. In Linux you would do sudo apt install gimp to install the popular Open Source photo editor. Mac users know brew install gimp - and Windows user? Okay, search for GIMP at Google, find the Chip.de site for german users, download the stupid installer which installs tons of unwanted garbage and look for a newer version from time to time. What stupidity! Chocolatey brings a (not perfect but better than anything else) package manager to windows, which lets you install, remove and update packages and apps.
This simplifies install and updating to:
Download Chocolatey
Well, here you probably need two: one for simply tasks, one for more sophisticated work like Markdown editing or simple programming tasks. Atom is a great editor but rather slow. Notepad++ is fast, but has less features - install both!
Download Atom
Download Notepad++
or
Enjoy! :)
working most of the time with under Linux / GNOME I have grown accustom to some features which are still missing in Windows - and which I can't work without anymore. For example: why on earth does the Windows File Explorer (which is almost as old as I am) not support tabbed working? I know no other file manager which lacks this feature. And the Windows file explorer ist the most used in the world! Next thing, the default Editor ist still Garbage and still looks and works like 1995. Okay, here are the apps which I use to almost enjoy working in Windows 10:
1. Tabbed Filed Explorer
Clover adds tabbed browsing to the File Explorer. You could also use Explorer++ which ist Open Source, but hasn't been updated for a while. Clover has one big backdraw: it's installer is available in chinese only - but simply pressing the big white button gets the process done.
Download Clover
2. Package Management
Why should anyone search the web to get a simple music player installed? I guess no one has a reasonable answer to this question. Acutally no average user should do that - it's the best way to get you a virus or something else undesirable. In Linux you would do sudo apt install gimp to install the popular Open Source photo editor. Mac users know brew install gimp - and Windows user? Okay, search for GIMP at Google, find the Chip.de site for german users, download the stupid installer which installs tons of unwanted garbage and look for a newer version from time to time. What stupidity! Chocolatey brings a (not perfect but better than anything else) package manager to windows, which lets you install, remove and update packages and apps.
This simplifies install and updating to:
choco install gimp
choco upgrade gimp
Download Chocolatey
3. Text Editor
Well, here you probably need two: one for simply tasks, one for more sophisticated work like Markdown editing or simple programming tasks. Atom is a great editor but rather slow. Notepad++ is fast, but has less features - install both!
Download Atom
Download Notepad++
or
choco install atom
choco install notepadplusplus
Enjoy! :)
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