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Top 23 Window Open-Source Projects
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Project mention: 🚀 iOS vs Android Development: Which One Should You Learn First? (The Truth No One Tells You!) | dev.to | 2025-03-16
🎯 Still confused? Start with Flutter, which lets you build both iOS & Android apps with one codebase! Check it out here
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1️⃣7️⃣ The Art of Command Line 🖥️ 📌 https://github.com/jlevy/the-art-of-command-line Master the Linux command line with this detailed guide.
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Project mention: Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Meets Subpar Software | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-03
It's not just the OS itself, where some of the slowness can at least be explained by the silo-ed nature of development and the large amount of moving parts. But even when MS gives a small-ish team free reign and a fresh start, the software is just agonizingly slow and buggy.
Example 1: new PowerToys https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/
The FancyZones "window snap" UI takes upwards of half a second to activate when dragging a window and the Zone Editor is at around 5s. All in all it is only very slightly less buggy than 3rd party tiling WMs like komorebic.
The PowerToysRun utility input is extremely variable, takes between 1 and 20(!) seconds. A lot of the plugins shipped with it simply don't work or have no suggestions/hints once you enter their prefix. The search relies on WindowsSearch, which is about 500x slower than https://github.com/sharkdp/fd and has not improved since Win7. Who cares, nobody ever searches for files, right? As a whole, PTRun is simply worse than https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher which uses the same UI kit as far as I can see. WTF?
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Project mention: Implementing Secure Authentication & Authorization in Express.js with JWT, TypeScript, and Prisma. | dev.to | 2025-03-18
🔗 https://nodejs.org/
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Windows Terminal
The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!
Microsoft Terminal
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v2rayN
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Project mention: Netdata: 20% discount on all annual plans Promo code BF20241Y | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-04
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Link to installing: Ventoy
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Rust is one of the most appreciated programming languages, as highlighted in the GitHub Octoverse Survey. It offers memory safety, high performance, and strong tooling, making it a solid choice for both small utilities and large-scale applications. Many of the tools I use daily, like Alacritty and 1Password, benefit from Rust's speed and reliability.
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mkcert
A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like.
Project mention: Setting up a trusted, self-signed SSL/TLS certificate authority in Linux | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-17Interesting, just checked out if mkcert (the popular way of doing this) supports it and found two issues:
https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert/issues/131
https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert/pull/113
Hopefully Filippo revisits this now that it's broadly supported.
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clash-verge-rev
A modern GUI client based on Tauri, designed to run in Windows, macOS and Linux for tailored proxy experience
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Project mention: App Should Have Been a Website (and Probably Your Game Too) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-31
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ImHex
🔍 A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.
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x64dbg
An open-source user mode debugger for Windows. Optimized for reverse engineering and malware analysis.
Several months have passed since the last part was posted. Maintainers of x64dbg have continued to improve its functionality. They also opened a task to update the development tools. So in this post, we will continue the analysis based on commit f518e50 code and, where possible, we'll compare it with the commit 9785d1a, which is accurate at the time of writing.
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Project mention: How to switch Node.js version: A cross-platform guide for NVM and alternatives | dev.to | 2025-03-17
For Windows users, use nvm-windows. After running the Windows installer, use the following commands to install and switch the Node.js version. Those commands are the same as in the Linux environment:
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spotube
🎧 Open source Spotify client that doesn't require Premium nor uses Electron! Available for both desktop & mobile!
In my journey of trying to expand to different programming niches/languages and my love for listening to music as I do whatever task I'm currently doing, I discovered a trending repository called: Spotube which is an Open Source, Cross-Platform Client for both Spotify and YouTube that removes the need to subscribe to Spotify/YouTube Premium to listen to music without the interruption of ads and allows for downloading music for offline listening.
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Project mention: File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-18
Another file explorer option is Files [0], that looks a lot more like the built in Explorer in Windows but with some additional features.
[0] https://files.community/
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Project mention: How to Set Up Microsoft Office on Linux Mint 21.3: A Comprehensive Guide | dev.to | 2024-07-21
Use the default configurations, credentials, disk space, RAM, etc., provided in the compose.yaml file from the dockur/windows repo.
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Download and install Chatbox AI client.
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Windows discussion
Windows related posts
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How to switch Node.js version: A cross-platform guide for NVM and alternatives
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Is SimpleWall Firewall tool compromised?
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Google Being Forced to Sell Chrome Is Not Good for the Web
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Single source, 0 dependency cross platform audio library
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Rust for Windows
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Ask HN: Best way to simultaneously run multiple projects locally?
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I found 1000 GitHub repos with malware. Can we get them deleted?
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Window projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Flutter | 169,123 |
| 2 | the-art-of-command-line | 155,136 |
| 3 | PowerToys | 116,136 |
| 4 | node | 110,127 |
| 5 | Windows Terminal | 97,351 |
| 6 | v2rayN | 76,616 |
| 7 | Netdata | 73,782 |
| 8 | Ventoy | 65,486 |
| 9 | alacritty | 58,027 |
| 10 | tldr | 54,170 |
| 11 | ChatGPT | 53,647 |
| 12 | mkcert | 52,626 |
| 13 | clash-verge-rev | 50,833 |
| 14 | marktext | 48,895 |
| 15 | ImHex | 47,407 |
| 16 | Motrix | 46,904 |
| 17 | PowerShell | 46,747 |
| 18 | x64dbg | 45,586 |
| 19 | nvm for Windows | 39,965 |
| 20 | spotube | 37,965 |
| 21 | Files | 36,472 |
| 22 | windows | 33,637 |
| 23 | chatbox | 33,173 |
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