The amount of times I have accidentally done this...

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  • thefuck

    Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.

  • Or you can use fuck to just fix the last command automatically.

  • Windows Terminal

    The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!

  • You can download the installer (I think it's MSIX, but don't let that stop you!) from GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/releases

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • busybox

    Docker Official Image packaging for Busybox (by docker-library)

  • ConEmu

    Customizable Windows terminal with tabs, splits, quake-style, hotkeys and more

  • On my work system I have local admin but Windows Store is blocked by policy. One of my coworkers over on the DBA team had me install ConEmu which has some nice features similar to to Windows Terminal. Also, Posh-Git is a nice addition to have on top.

    https://github.com/dyniper/clink-plugins (as an example)

  • busybox-w32

    WIN32 native port of BusyBox.

  • Win32 port is here: https://frippery.org/busybox/

  • SaaSHub

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  • Scoop

    A command-line installer for Windows.

  • And install the rest of the Linux commands with Scoop too.

  • gti

    a git launcher :-)

  • The second thing I do is install gti

  • winget-cli

    WinGet is the Windows Package Manager. This project includes a CLI (Command Line Interface), PowerShell modules, and a COM (Component Object Model) API (Application Programming Interface).

  • winget is nice too!

  • cmder

    Lovely console emulator package for Windows

  • If you haven't tried Cmder yet you definitely should.

  • dotdrop

    Save your dotfiles once, deploy them everywhere

  • Oh! You should also check out dotdrop too! 😂

  • Windows UI Library

    Windows UI Library: the latest Windows 10 native controls and Fluent styles for your applications

  • 2) Go here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.UI.Xaml/ Click the "Versions" tab and find version 2.7.0 Open the version page and download the microsoft.ui.xaml.2.7.0.nupkg package. This should be a direct link to the file: https://www.nuget.org/api/v2/package/Microsoft.UI.Xaml/2.7.0

  • Cronux

    Handy commands, utilities to perform simple and complex tasks with Powershell. Windows, Linux and maybe MacOS

  • gsudo

    Sudo for Windows

  • Sudo works perfectly fine on Windows as well using gsudo.

  • sl

    SL(1): Cure your bad habit of mistyping

  • lsd

    The next gen ls command

  • lolcat

    Rainbows and unicorns!

  • If you install lolcat first, you can also get some lsd into your terminal with

  • gow

    Unix command line utilities installer for Windows.

  • I’m honestly shocked no comment I’ve seen here has talked about ‘gnu on windows’ nor Windows Subsystem for Linux. I use both, because I prefer the windows environment but also like linux command lone.

  • SaaSHub

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