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69 | 713 | |
16,191 | 104,153 | |
2.0% | 1.5% | |
3.6 | 9.8 | |
12 days ago | 6 days ago | |
C# | C# | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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QuickLook
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IrfanView
Always have to install Quicklook on my windows machines, too used to it on Mac
https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook
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Powertoys Peek - does this feature need to be included natively in future version of Windows?
yes
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PowerToys Release 0.70 with Mouse Without Borders and PowerToys Peek
I meant this one
I hope you can look at the features of QuickLook because like the guy above said, it's currently vastly superior :)
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How do you all feel about Windows?
There is QuickLook for Windows although is not as good as the macOS one: https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook
- Preview exel and word without have it installed, like a pdf file, no edition, just to visualise.
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Whatever happened to Peek for Powertoys?
You can use QuickLook in the meantime.
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Lightweight, offline, documents viewer (mainly PDF, PPT, Word)
QuickLook is pretty useful. It is basically the Windows Version of MAC's QuickLook.
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File-Explorer that can display Readme.md files.
I've been using QuickLook for years, functions just like Preview in macOS (hitting the spacebar after selecting a file pops open a window with the content): https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook
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Photoshop shows different colors and my gradients are ruined, all of this happened overnight. But everywhere else, the file preview's colors are correct. Do you know any reason? Is this related to the Pantone thing?
Why does the Quicklook app show the correct colors and photoshop doesn't?
PowerToys
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Unlock Web Dev Superpowers with PowerToys
Windows PowerToys GitHub Repo
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We released a new powerful efficiency tool called RunFlow, which is similar to PowerToys and Alfred, welcome to try it
RunFlow is a cross-platform productivity tool which can launch apps and search files and more, that similar to Wox and PowerToys on Windows, and also similar like Alfred and Raycast on macOS. But we have differences with these tools, and we have our own unique new features. Right now, at the below, we will introduce you what features of RunFlow have been implemented in more details. It's an amazing journey, let's start.
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GTK: On fractional scales, fonts and hinting
I'm curious - when you were doing research into the mechanics of hinting options, did you stumble onto any relevant discussion around allowing custom pixel geometries to be defined, to enable hinting on modern OLED / WRBG displays? There's a good thread on the topic here[0], with some people referring to it as 'ClearType 2' on the MS side [1]. On the oss side I know FreeType theoretically supports this[2], but I can't quite figure out how relevant the FreeType backend is to this most recent work.
This is great work btw.
[0]: https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype/issues/932
[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/25595
[2]: https://freetype.org/freetype2/docs/reference/ft2-lcd_render...
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Ask HN: Cleanest way to manage Windows OS?
Thank you all for the informative advices. Here is the summary for those who are in the same situation:
1. Run Windows on Linux by using VM
for the applications you can’t run on Linux
Risks:
* some softwares may attempt to detect VMs and refuse running
* Anything what needs to touch hardware may not work.
2. separate "data" partition on D:
3. back up %APPDATA% and %USERPROFILE%
4. learn chocolatey, scoop or winget
Winget should be good enough
5. Don’t worry about C:\Program Files
6. (Mixed) Use/Don’t use Ansible (or saltstack/salt)
Use:
* Allows you to setup a new machine quickly and consistently when one breaks, get stolen, or lost in an inconvenient time.
* You can get a clean and consistent development environment so that you do not depend on anything accidentally installed on the machine.
* If you define specialised roles, create test playbooks for those individual roles, use these roles to compose more complex playbooks, and offload logic to custom ansible modules that are written in python, you won't wrestle with heavy logic in the template or playbook layer.
* installing software and pulling some configs and scripts down is fine
Don’t use:
* You will spend your days fighting a mix of yaml and Jinja.
* You will end up looking at Python errors because there are no static types.
* errors are cryptic.
7. Use WSL2
You need 32gb of ram, but ram is cheap so choose a good thinkpad
8. Debloat with Recommended Tweaks
Run
irm christitus.com/win | iex
from Administrator Terminal (Powershell)
The link leads to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil/mai...
VirusTotal
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/709834b0e003b6bb546cf16e...
9. Get [PowerToys](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys)
10. Use Devbox for containered environment
https://www.jetpack.io/devbox
11. Dual-Booting Linux and Windows
If you use physically separated drives, you don’t need partitioning.
12. Dedicated Windows machine for class
Yes it sure would be the cleanest solution but I prefer one device for everything
13. keep a git repository with all dot files in it
Many people suggested me to use virtualization, otherwise just let Windows be Windows.
Also, backing up seems to be a good practice.
I’m planning to write a blog about this, if it worked.
Again, thank you all for the helps!
- Ask HN: Best Hacks for a Ultrawide Monitor?
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Keypirinha: A fast launcher for keyboard ninjas on Windows
Powertoys Run (https://github.com/microsoft/powertoys) can do this. There are not that many plugins as Alfred but Window Switcher is built-in.
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LAN Mouse is a mouse and keyboard sharing software
For sharing a mouse/keyboard between Windows PCs, there is Mouse Without Borders. It's included in PowerToys nowadays.
https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys
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Hrvach/Deskhop: Fast Desktop Switching Device
- https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys
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How do I type letters with accent marks?
If you’re on Windows, download PowerToys. It’s an app published by Microsoft officially. Then enable Quick Accent in the settings of PowerToys. Now all you have to do is hold down the key you want accented until the switch shows up, then add an accent with your arrow keys.
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Microsoft's Powertoys Key Manager now can paste text and unicode by shortcuts
microsoft/PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity (github.com)
What are some alternatives?
SylphyHorn - Virtual Desktop Tools for Windows 10.
Wox - A cross-platform launcher that simply works
linux
AutoHotkey - AutoHotkey - macro-creation and automation-oriented scripting utility for Windows.
qView - Practical and minimal image viewer
sharpkeys - SharpKeys is a utility that manages a Registry key that allows Windows to remap one key to any other key.
AutoEq - Automatic headphone equalization from frequency responses
Flow.Launcher - :mag: Quick file search & app launcher for Windows with community-made plugins
Windows10Debloater - Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware.
Fluent-Search - Official repository for Fluent Search, use to report issues or ask for a new feature
sushi - Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/sushi
T-Clock - Highly configurable Windows taskbar clock