funguscolander
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4 years ago Important:
- Deluge - Also qbittorent/transmission
- Diagrams.net - Draw.io
- Discord
- Disks - Like Disk Manager on Windows, format and partition drives easily.
- Docker - And Dockstation for remote usage. I don't know how this works, learn it.
- Flameshot - Comprehensive screenshotting tool, much better than Win+Shift+S (has crop adjustment).
- git - Should already be installed if the dotfiles were cloned, but may need to be installed if installing from a zip.
- GIMP w/ PhotoGIMP Plugin - Image manipulation program. Plugin makes it look like photoshop.
- LibreOffice Suite - Or OpenOffice, not sure which is better. Can also just use Office 365 in Wine or PlayOnLinux (which is just a Wine GUI).
- Microsoft To Do
- MPC-HC - Video playback, or some other version of MPC or VLC
- qBittorent - Also deluge/transmission
- Remmina - RDP client. Apparently the mRemoteNG of Linux. FreeRDP is another option?
- TLP - Prevents laptop overheating. It requires extra configuration on a Thinkpad (dialogue or can it be found automatically?)
- Tmux - Terminal multiplexer
- Transmission - Also qBittorent/Deluge
- UnGoogled Chromium - Chromium snas dependency on Google web services.
- URxvt - Terminal emulator
- Virtual Machine Manager - Or Webdads(?), not sure what the
- Visual Studio Code - For non-vim programming. There are two of these that sound similar, one is smallish and the other is massive.
- VLC - Video playback, also MPC-HC or some version of MPC
Other:
- Audacity - Multi track sound editor (and recorder?)
- Disk Usage Analyser - Or ncdu (both?)
- FFMpeg
- Homebank - Finances tracking. Maybe another app?
- OBS Studio - Or the other version of OBS, I don't know which is better
Games:
- Minesweeper
- Solitaire
- Steam
- Sudoku
Shell Extensions:
- Cdargs - Directory bookmarks
- navi - Interactive cheatsheet (This doesn't seem to be very comprehensive, maybe get another one?)
- ncdu - Windirstat-ish, Stack Exchange. Or Disk Usage Analyser (both?)
- ShellCheck - Syntax checking for shell scripts
- Vim
- x11-xserver-utils - Contains several X resources including Xmodmap
- xinit - Initialises X files (Required for URxvt)
Look at Harry's startup.sh for reference, he has a part 2 and some other stuff that might be used in his dotfiles too. Similar style/items to wingetinstall.ps1.