Ask HN: Setting up a Windows PC after 15 yrs of Mac/Linux...

WSL2, Docker, vscode and your favourite Linux distribution.

Run git inside WSL2. Use vscode to edit with its server inside the WSL2 Env.

Couldn’t agree more. I’m the same as OP; years of OSX now back to Windows and this was the setup I went with. Everything (surprisingly) just worked.

What are you using Docker to do?

Scott Hanselman's 2021 ultimate developer and power users tool list for Windows:

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/scott-hanselmans-2021-ultimat...

Windows Terminal. And reminder, you can use winget on prompt to install apps

Winget > scoop ?

Yep, but it's inbox already! Although with winget it will require UAC permissions.

7-Zip. It does a lot more than just 7z archives. I don’t want to see adware naggy WinRAR ever again.

WinRAR still has a very useful feature/option that 7zip I don’t believe has. It has an auto-delete the archive after extraction option, which is great if you are bulk extracting a huge number of archives but are low on disk space.

And I don’t believe 7zip has an equivalent cli switch for that (last I looked), but I could be wrong..

Chocolatey, 100%

Windows Terminal

WsLv2

VLC.

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