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
@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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@typhlosion
- 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
more utilities we find useful, but not essential
@typhlosion
- qbittorrent (it's a torrent client, enough said. has all the features of μtorrent without being μtorrent)
- yt-dlp gui (click a button and download the video at the youtube url currently in your clipboard. works on some non-youtube things too)
- freac (convert audio between formats and bitrates, and rip CDs)
- mp3tag (manage ID3 tags on your mp3 files. Make that one track show up on your phone as its name and not "track 27.mp3")
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@typhlosion honestly we just forgot about it! thought we recommend wiztree over windirstat unless you're running it on a disk you suspect is damaged or has malformed data on it--wiztree runs way faster because it just looks at what the filesystem says is there, not what's actually there
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