Switching to Windows

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  • onedrive

    OneDrive Client for Linux

  • For when you do, abraunegg's OneDrive is useful: https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive

    Office 365 in wine is still hit-or-miss, I will admit. I got it working but only with a great deal of pain, and apparently setup is broken for a lot of people right now.

    (I use arch btw)

  • Rectangle

    Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas

  • WorkOS

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  • yatta

    Discontinued A tiling window manager for Windows 10 based on binary space partitioning

  • I started working on yatta for Windows 10 because I was missing yabai and bspwm after I started working from a Windows 10 desktop last year.

    I made a post about it on the Rust subreddit yesterday looking for more contributors: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/lh4uyq/yatta_bsp_tili...

    It's still early days, but it has automatic tiling, gap control, focus switching, directional moving and tree orientation toggling and you can use AHK or any other hotkey daemon to manage your keybindings.

    You still have to build it from source at the moment, but I'm hoping to have it installable via the Scoop package manager in a month or two.

    https://github.com/LGUG2Z/yatta

  • Scoop

    A command-line installer for Windows.

  • Just use scoop: https://scoop.sh/

    Another way I prevent such pollution is use portable versions of software and store them in a singular Software directory.

    And to cleanly remove such "polluting" software, use Revo Uninstaller: https://www.revouninstaller.com/products/revo-uninstaller-pr...

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