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What open source programs do you recommend for Windows? (Windows exclusive or not) (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am and all my life have been a Linux user, I have nothing against Windows or MacOS, I just like Linux, and lately I have been experimenting with Windows in a virtual machine and I don't really know much open source software there apart from the one that is cross-platform like Firefox or Joplin.

At the moment I know:

Flow Launcher: It's a typical rofi style launcher, although I'm not a TWM user I like to just press super and type the first letters of the program I'm looking for to open it.

Lively Wallpaper: A program to have animated wallpapers, in the style of Wallpaper Engine.

Edit: I want to clarify that I read all the comments, I only respond to some because many times I have nothing to contribute to many of them because I don't know what to comment. Thanks to all of you for providing your lists of programs, I will be sure to try as many as I can because they are great, at least I know what to install if I use Windows one day!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (7 children)

I have to say it, Rufus.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ventoy is the easier answer these days IMO. Just drop ISOs on your Ventoy'd usb key and choose them from a menu at boot time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ventoy is easy, but not perfect. I tried multum of unique images and it struggled hard. From openwrt to freedos to reboot of Hiren's boot cd, it just couldn't load them correctly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Not to be argumentative, but in case you're interested:

According to the ventoy site it supports those images, though openwrt requires a plugin and freedos seems to require using memdisk mode, though I'm less clear on the limitations there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh, I didn't know that, but still, I don't expect to be truly universal. But as long as you are dealing with ISOs of LX server/desktop or WIN, it's an amazing tool.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

For sure. Nothing will ever be as reliable as writing the image to usb/cd/floppy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Well, there is an option of using multiple partitions and setting up grub

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