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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Qclip

Bulk crap uninstaller

Vlc

Irfanview (is it proprietary?)

Gimp, Krita, Inkscape, KDEnLive, Blender, OBS

Nonfree: XNViewMP, Startisback++,

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Irfanview is proprietary yes

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 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/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 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

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Too god to be real

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

chocolatey to actually install things almost well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

puTTY, my favourite terminal program for windows.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

WinMerge, the best diffing tool out there.

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