What software/tools should every sysadmin have on their desktop?

• greenshot

  304 3,757 2.9 C#

  Greenshot for Windows - Report bugs & features go here: https://greenshot.atlassian.net or look for information on:

  

  This is pretty handy if your working on live log files: https://www.baremetalsoft.com/baretail/ Greenshot for documentation (a lot better than snippet tool): https://getgreenshot.org/

• obs-studio

  2,361 55,295 9.8 C

  OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording

  

  Obsproject

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com

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• NETworkManager

  20 4,459 9.6 C#

  A powerful tool for managing networks and troubleshoot network problems!

• sso-wall-of-shame

  200 574 8.5 JavaScript

  A list of vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature, not a core security requirement.

  Anyone know how you get something added to the https://sso.tax website?

• Visual Studio Code

  2,831 157,893 10.0 TypeScript

  Visual Studio Code

  

• ShareX

  578 27,506 9.3 C#

  ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.

  

  Lots of good stuff on the list already, but I really like ShareX. It's a screenshot/screenshot automation tool.

• ScreenToGif

  151 22,572 7.6 C#

  🎬 ScreenToGif allows you to record a selected area of your screen, edit and save it as a gif or video.

  screentogif :)

• WorkOS

  workos.com

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• ValliStart

  7 385 0.0 C++

  A start menu to replace the un-customizable one that you have right now.

  

  I believe ValliStart can replace the Windows key without breaking any of the winkey shortcuts.

• vmPing

  8 391 0.0 C#

  Visual Multi Ping. Color-coded ping utility for monitoring multiple hosts.

  Absolutely love VMPing https://github.com/R-Smith/vmPing

• meld

  38 17 4.3 Python

  Meld (by noamraph)

  No love for Meld?

• firefox-container-proxy

  15 130 0.0 TypeScript

  [Firefox extension] Assign a proxy to a Firefox container

• Tabby

  91 54,933 9.5 TypeScript

  A terminal for a more modern age

  I use tabby terminal ( https://tabby.sh/ ) as an alternative terminal on Windows. It support tabs, power shell, wsl shell, ssh connection, use windows creds manager for storing password etc... Definitively one of the best terminal app.

• obsidian-releases

  1,650 7,901 9.9 JavaScript

  Community plugins list, theme list, and releases of Obsidian.

  

  Sorry I'll probably sound ignorant right now, but I've never heard of Obsidian. Do you mean this application? It seems to be a note taking app, how can you utilize this for writing shell commands?

• Chocolatey

  393 9,849 8.4 C#

  Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows

  

  Not in use everywhere but I find this package manager a great way to setup a box quickly…especially for RAdmin tools… Chocolatey https://chocolatey.org

• mtr

  22 2,515 6.3 C

  Official repository for mtr, a network diagnostic tool

  Lot of great stuff here, haven’t seen MTR yet: https://github.com/traviscross/mtr

• sccmclictr

  19 305 4.6 C#

  Client Center for Configuration Manager

• pingtracer

  13 253 6.3 C#

  Graphical pinging and traceroute application. Ping Tracer continuously pings each network host between your computer and a given destination, helping identify the source of connectivity problems.

  Oof, that is some steep pricing. PingTracer is open source and gets the job done for me.

• clash-verge

  4 16,354 0.0 TypeScript

  Discontinued A Clash GUI based on tauri. Supports Windows, macOS and Linux.

• winstall

  33 1,057 7.8 JavaScript

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

  

• vscodium

  535 23,562 9.5 Shell

  binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing

  

• rustdesk

  484 62,226 9.9 Rust

  An open-source remote desktop, and alternative to TeamViewer.

  You are thinking of RustDesk: https://rustdesk.com/ (written in Rust)

• fping

  6 963 7.5 C

  High performance ping tool

• Windows Terminal

  506 93,402 9.7 C++

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

  

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com

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