which app will you install first?

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  • Chocolatey

    Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows

  • If you want a Linux like experience you can install Chocolatey and make a script that will install everything for you while you sip your coffee.

  • winstall

    A web app for browsing and installing Windows Package Manager apps.

  • wininstall.app let's you create custom packages for your favorite programs for winGET. Its pretty simple to use and has a lot more programs than ninite (3400+ is what it says on their site)

  • 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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  • VideoLAN Client (VLC)

    VLC media player - All pull requests are ignored, please follow https://wiki.videolan.org/Sending_Patches_VLC/

  • VLC

  • Windows10Debloater

    Discontinued Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware.

  • The first thing to do on a new windows pc is download Windows10Debloater from Sycnex and let that do its thing. Then I’ll start installing what I actually want on my pc

  • ungoogled-chromium

    Google Chromium, sans integration with Google

  • Ungoogled Chromium is a thing if anyone is looking for a Google Chrome alternative.

  • Cider

    A new cross-platform Apple Music experience based on Electron and Vue.js written from scratch with performance in mind. 🚀

  • For Apple Music you can use Cider. https://cider.sh

  • mpc-hc

    Media Player Classic

  • There are a few forks, this is one of the better ones: https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • LibVLCSharp

    Cross-platform .NET/Mono bindings for LibVLC

  • A media player

  • git clone https://github.com/Booo3/windowsfreshinstall.git

  • winget-pkgs

    The Microsoft community Windows Package Manager manifest repository

  • Yes, here LINK

  • uwufetch

    A meme system info tool for Linux, based on nyan/uwu trend on r/linuxmasterrace.

  • Friendship ended with Neofetch, now uwufetch is my best friend.

  • dotfiles-windows

    dotfiles for Windows, including Developer-minded system defaults. Built in PowerShell (by jayharris)

  • this is the example repo I forked from originally https://github.com/jayharris/dotfiles-windows

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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