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Ask HN: What to do after installing windows

10 pointsohstopitu10 comments

A while back, I noticed that there was a massive list of stuff to do after installing windows (here on HN) -

Everything from installing code editors, to privacy tools and the like.

I tried searching but I'm unable to find that list.

The first thing I do when installing a fresh Windows 10 build is download Chocolatey [0] and use that to install a list [1] of programs that I find extremely useful or can't live without. After that I set up Cmder [2] as my default PowerShell and Bash terminal, install Nylas [3] as my default mail program, install Caprine [4] which I use constantly throughout the day to communicate with friends and family, and then I turn on the Windows Subsystem for Linux [5] for my native Bash terminal.

Somewhat related to this topic, I recently found this list of tips and tricks [6] for Windows 10 that I found pretty useful, even as a lifelong (by choice!) Windows user.

[0]: https://chocolatey.org

[1]: My Chocolatey install command is `cinst pscx firefox googlechrome 7zip vlc curl paint.net gimp cmder vim fiddler inkscape greenshot autohotkey nimbletext ffmpeg linqpad5 nugetpackageexplorer ilspy nvm yarn sudo visualstudiocode jq gow lockhunter openssh -y`

[2]: http://cmder.net/

[3]: https://nylas.com/

[4]: https://github.com/sindresorhus/caprine/

[5]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/install_gui...

[6]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/3f48kd/windows_1...

VirtualBox

http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-...

Then you can setup a great Linux VM and not have to worry about anything! (Sorta joking.)

# yum -y install epel-release xterm firefox

# yum -y install cinnamon*

# echo "exec /usr/bin/cinnamon-session" >> ~/.xinitrc

# startx

Oh yeah you mentioned code editors I recommend VIM, GEDIT, or Sublime Text 3 on Windows.

www.ninite.com is a great bundle installer for most used utilities

Now you can remove it and install linux

Probaby this thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13449966

Suspend the vm. :)

Try https://chocolatey.org/ , it's kind of apt-get for windows. Still didn't try it myself though.

Why you need a list? What if you don't need majority of tools?

Install just tools you need for work. No more, no less. If you don't know about related tools, you probably don't need them at all.

I presume you've done this already. But make sure you run all windows updates.

Uninstall it.

Disable spyware and adware. I don't think you can really disable all the spyware though. We're talking about a company that participated in the NSA PRISM program. That means that Microsoft has an agency within it that works closely with the government. I like to think of MS as an extension or a branch of the NSA.

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