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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[–] meiko60@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

winget

[–] Never_Sm1le@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago

I advocate for ImageGlass, a very good image viewer and editor. Mpc or vlc for videos.

[–] SteveDinn@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

puTTY, my favourite terminal program for windows.

[–] hackris@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Adding to all the awesome software already mentioned here, WinCompose! You can have a compose key, for typing accented characters wothout changin your keyboard layout, for example.

[–] murtaza64@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I've been enjoying wezterm as a terminal emulator replacement for windows terminal. It offers nerdy fine grained customizability and an emoji/nerd font character picker. For most purposes WT seems to be fine though.