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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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[–] mo_ztt@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Disclaimer, haven't used Windows in years, but back in the day when I did, I swore by cygwin to give me a sane environment to interact in. That and Firefox + GIMP + Libreoffice usually gave me a pretty happy day to day interaction.

[–] 520@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nowadays I would swap out cygwin for WSL; the latter gives you a full Linux environment.

[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Git Bash also works quite well without WSL (but I think it just uses Cygwin under the hood)

[–] 520@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bash also has a native Windows port these days, but it is far from a full posix environment.