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!

  • thru_dangers_untold@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago
    • Firefox: best web browser out there
    • Bitwarden: password manager
    • ShareX: screenshot utility. Greenshot is also good, but I prefer ShareX
    • WinDirStat: disk usage utility
    • KDE Connect: connect Android phone to PC
    • Image Glass: image viewer
    • OBS: video & audio capture
    • Blender: 3D modeling, animation, video editing
    • Handbrake: video conversion
    • VLC: video/audio playback
    • Audacity: audio editing
    • SpeedCrunch: calculator
    • Notepad++: text editor
    • Spyder (via Anaconda): Python IDE
    • Yomope@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      If you liked windirstat i warmly recommend wiztree ( not sure if open source tho).it’s the same but faster. like FASTER faster

  • GreenMario@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    1. GIMP (Image editor)

    2. putty (Secure shell/terminal emulator)

    3. WinSCP (Secure FTP client)

    4. QBittorrent (guess.)

    5. 7zip (All in one compressed archive manager)

    6. Firefox

    7. Notepad++ (text editor with syntax highlights)

    8. Handbrake (Video transcoder)

    9. VLC (all in one video player)

    These are my top must have installed. There are others but they're situational

    Let's not forget the various console emulators that are open source as well. All the good ones are.

    • grandel@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      That's a good list!

      I use the same, except I use LibreWolf (privacy focused fork of FF) and VS Code instead of Firefox and Notepad++

      • GreenMario@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Yeah VS Code definitely if ya doing programming. I'm just editing config/ini files once in a while so N++ is just right for me.

    • hogofwar@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I use Kitty instead of Putty recently, though I don't know if the difference is worth it.

  • vim_b@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    PowerToys: productivity utilities like window pinning, window management, accented character typing assistant, color picker, text extractor, etc.

  • thejevans@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    BloatyNosy

    Universal Debloater and PC Manager for the most up-to-date version of the Redmond OS (Windows 11)

    https://github.com/builtbybel/BloatyNosy

    sleek

    an open-source (FOSS) todo manager based on the todo.txt syntax

    https://github.com/ransome1/sleek

    WinDirStat

    a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for various versions of Microsoft Windows

    https://github.com/windirstat/windirstat

    MacType

    Better font rendering for Windows

    https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype

  • Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Playnite for launching games

    It will open up anything. Battlenet games, steam games, emulated games.. you name it. Supports themes too!

    www.playnite.link

  • ChiefSinner@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    On most of my fresh installs, i usually install Tinywall, 7zip, and then a different browser like Firefox and chromium based browsers (like mull/brave)

  • Sonalder@lemmy.ml
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    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/

  • ToNIX@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

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

  • hackris@lemmy.ml
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    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.