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  • Open-Shell-Menu

    Classic Shell Reborn.

    • If you find yourself strongly preferring UI aspects of earlier versions of Windows, OpenShell lets you reconfigure many aspects of the Start menu and Windows Explorer accordingly.

  • Classic-Start

    Renamed to NeoClassic-UI then renamed to Open-Shell - https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu

  • 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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  • ExplorerPatcher

    This project aims to enhance the working environment on Windows

  • yabai

    A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning

    • How the hell is there still not a decent tiling window manager for Windows as far as I can tell? Linux has uhh, a thousand of them, macOS has yabai, amethyst and chunkwm, but Windows has...fancyzones? Which was a great improvement but lacks most of the functionality of a automatic tiling window manager.

  • Amethyst

    Automatic tiling window manager for macOS à la xmonad.

    • How the hell is there still not a decent tiling window manager for Windows as far as I can tell? Linux has uhh, a thousand of them, macOS has yabai, amethyst and chunkwm, but Windows has...fancyzones? Which was a great improvement but lacks most of the functionality of a automatic tiling window manager.

  • chunkwm

    Tiling window manager for MacOS based on plugin architecture

    • How the hell is there still not a decent tiling window manager for Windows as far as I can tell? Linux has uhh, a thousand of them, macOS has yabai, amethyst and chunkwm, but Windows has...fancyzones? Which was a great improvement but lacks most of the functionality of a automatic tiling window manager.

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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