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(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about
A way to run Linux commandline software from a specialized console, similar to how a command prompt runs DOS or PowerShell.
It works well, but it’s imperfect.
Sometimes mis-named Bash on Ubuntu on Windows or Bash on Windows
See also:
XLaunch to run GUI Linux software.
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Software > Text editors >
(on Wikipedia)
Homebrew: geany
Chocolatey: geany
https://www.geany.org/
Geany is a GTK2 (GUI) text editor which is light and featureful. Here is a sampling of features from their about page:
Call tips
This is a editor that does such magical things as use control up/down to skip paragraphs. I love it for in-page bookmarking, code folding, search-replace, escaped-replaces and regular expressions for selections, documents and groups of documents.
geany-plugins is important..I also (sometimes) use Leafpad.
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Video conferencing / Linux softphones >
(on Wikipedia)
https://jitsi.org/
A nice and simple video conferencing program.
I use Push To Talk with it.
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Text editors >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.qownnotes.org/
A text editor / notes management thing.
While pretty awesome, it’s really really not for me because of some fundamental ways it thinks about data. I’ll continue to use Geany with a bunch of text files.
Software >
A really straightforward and damned-fast file synchronization tool.
It might have been great, but it was abandoned. Reproducibly nonfunctional.
Abandoned
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Software > Image editors, SVG viewers >
(on Wikipedia)
Chocolatey: gimp
https://www.gimp.org/
An incredibly capable (and therefore very convoluted) image editor.
I use this:
.svg files to .jpg or .png.png files which have transparency, since mspaint.exe can’t do that.Often called “The Gimp”.
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BitTorrent >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.qbittorrent.org/
A BitTorrent client.
Meant to be an open-source clone of uTorrent, it does do a very good job of mimicing it.
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Software > Computer security >
(on Wikipedia)
Chocolatey: clamwin
https://clamwin.com/
A virus scanner that uses the Clam AntiVirus (Cisco) database.
It does not have a real-time scanner and is used manually.
