it was a long and annoying process, and it's not quiiiite done yet, but i have windows 10 pro running and a couple games installed that i haven't actually tested yet oops

the last few bits and bobs are on the way and should arrive between this saturday and next saturday; im gonna dual boot with some flavor of linux and im gonna have a big storage drive and im gonna have a bunch of usb ports and stuff mounted in the drive bays and its gonna be great

so hey, does anyone have any suggestions for scripts and addons and stuff to make win10 more good and less bad? i already used MAS to activate it, so what other stuff is out there that i can do

@typhlosion our suggestions:
- OOSU10 (a control panel for some of windows's less desirable features)
- Openshell (gives you back the windows 7 style start menu and other stuff)
- Everything (search program that works way better than windows search)
- Core Temp (monitor your CPU temperature, can put the temperature in the system tray)
- Irfanview (basic no-frills image viewer that supports even some weird formats)
- notepad++ (it's notepad, but good)

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- VLC media player (it's VLC. you probably know it)
- Resilio Sync (peer-to-peer file syncing between computers)
- CPU-Z (get information on your hardware, good for if you need to troubleshoot something)
- ShareX (powerful, but simple and easy to use screenshot and screen recording tool, can bind to a hotkey)
- Wincompose (lets you set up compose sequences for arbitrary characters that you can actually remember, unlike alt codes)

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@typhlosion can offer more general utilities on request, these are just the ones we would think of as essentials
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@Hearth thanks, these are great recs

thank you for reminding me to grab vlc and wincompose, lmao. i prefer imageglass over irfanview, i dont remember why, ill probably end up grabbing both and comparing

resilio sync might be redundant because im already planning on turning my old pc into a SMB network fileserver but thats good to have in my back pocket

@typhlosion resilio is really useful because we have no idea how to set up network file servers

also, because it creates a copy of the files on each machine, it can be used for automatic backups as a bonus. we make sure anything we need backed up in multiple places (like our keepass database) is on there
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@Hearth i have no idea how to set up network file servers either but by god im gonna learn

worse comes to worst, i can just sftp into my old computer and get stuff that way

@typhlosion oh yeah i also forgot to remind you you should grab 7zip. everyone ought to have 7zip
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