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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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[-] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] andrew1412@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

You can use photopea as a webapp using ublock

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[-] agrammatic@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Qclip

Bulk crap uninstaller

Vlc

Irfanview (is it proprietary?)

Gimp, Krita, Inkscape, KDEnLive, Blender, OBS

Nonfree: XNViewMP, Startisback++,

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Irfanview is proprietary yes

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[-] GullibleOyster@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] iloverocks@feddit.de 3 points 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] sonalder@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year 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/

[-] Sygheil@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

BC uninstaller

[-] iloverocks@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Too god to be real

[-] meiko60@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

winget

[-] SteveDinn@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

puTTY, my favourite terminal program for windows.

[-] hackris@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year 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.

[-] murtaza64@programming.dev 2 points 1 year 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.

[-] zeemyst@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

WinMerge, the best diffing tool out there.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

chocolatey to actually install things almost well.

[-] dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

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

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

What about scoop?

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

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.

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