Ask HN: Windows users, what software do you find essential to your workflow?

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  • sublime_text

    Issue tracker for Sublime Text

    • * Super lightweight and fast text-editor

    * Sublime Text 4 (https://www.sublimetext.com/)

  • Scoop

    A command-line installer for Windows.

    • Windows is by far my most used operating system, and even though I run Linux on my laptop and my work machine, my personal computer still runs Windows 10 LTSC and I often do my development work from it.

    Some pieces of software that I find essential:

    * scoop (https://scoop.sh/)

  • 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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  • notepad-plus-plus

    Notepad++ official repository

    • * Portable terminal emulator (essentially souped up ConEmu)

    * Notepad++ (https://notepad-plus-plus.org/)

  • cmder

    Lovely console emulator package for Windows

    • * Package Manager for Windows

    * Cmder (https://cmder.net/)

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