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Tools​

Fiery​

These tools go without saying. Via Fiery Software Manager download and install the following.

  • Fiery JobFlow with full license
  • Latest Command Workstation with at least Fiery Impose full license

System tools​

Tools that make your life a lot easier when managing libraries, programming environments, etc.

  • Winget The winget command line tool enables developers to discover, install, upgrade, remove and configure applications on Windows 10 computers. This tool is the client interface to the Windows Package Manager service. This tool replaces my previous recommendation Choco as Winget is part of the latest versions of Windows 10. Winget can be manually installed by downloading Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_{version}.msixbundle from Microsoft.

  • Topgrade Keeping your system up to date mostly involves invoking more than a single package manager. This usually results in big shell one-liners saved in your shell history. Topgrade tries to solve this problem by detecting which tools you use and run their appropriate package managers.

Script languages​

Whatever you feel comfortable with as your main programming language. Use Winget to install and maintain script interpreter releases.

  • Powershell 7, winget install Microsoft.PowerShell. Note Powershell 5 is pre-installed on most Windows OSs and can be called via powershell.exe. Powershell Core 7, a universal version of Powershell, can be called via pwsh.exe. Both versions can be installed on the same system.
  • NodeJS, winget install OpenJS.NodeJS.
  • Python, winget install Python.Python.3.

Bonus: same scripting languages can be installed on Mac OS via Brew

IDE​

  • Visual Studio Code is a freeware source-code editor made by Microsoft for Windows, Linux and macOS.[9] Features include support for debugging, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, code refactoring, and embedded Git.
    • winget install Microsoft.VisualStudioCode
  • Notepad++ is a text and source code editor for use with Microsoft Windows. It supports tabbed editing, which allows working with multiple open files in a single window.
    • winget install Notepad++.Notepad++
  • Postman, create and execute any REST, SOAP, and GraphQL queries. Very useful when testing API REST calls to other services.
    • winget install Postman.Postman

Utilities​

  • Github Desktop is a simple, easy to use and understand tool to manage git repositories. Install via winget install GitHub.GitHubDesktop.
  • Search my files is sooooo much better than Windows search. Download
  • BatCodeCheck is a simple tool that checks your batch files for common errors and "bad practices". Download
  • BulkRenameUtility Free, super powerful rename tool. Install via winget install BulkRenameUtility.
  • Bleachbit Clean your system and free disk space, unbloated and free. Install via winget install bleachbit.

OpenSSH​

Adding the ability to connect to a Windows 10 system using SSH can now be done without 3rd party tools. On Windows 10 1809 and newer, install SSH server using the following steps.

Add-WindowsCapability -Online -Name OpenSSH.Server~~~~0.0.1.0
Set-Service -Name sshd -StartupType 'Automatic'
Start-Service sshd
New-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\OpenSSH" -Name DefaultShell -Value "C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7\pwsh.exe" -PropertyType String -Force

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