I replaced PuTTY, Notepad++, and WinSCP with modern tools, and I wish I had sooner
…Back when I installed these tools, they were the best available, but that was a long time ago. I spent a weekend swapping out each of these tools, and now that they…
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I installed Immich Power Tools to fix my 170,000-photo library, and it saved me weeks of work
…Solving that problem led me to install Immich Power Tools . Immich itself is great for browsing and viewing, but it's not really meant for fixing large-scale metadata issues. Not at…
I rebuilt my Windows install around Winget and dotfiles, and it feels like Linux (in a good way)
…With a few keystrokes, a freshly installed copy of Windows has all the tools and settings that I need. As an added bonus, I don't rack my brain trying to remember…
I installed Nano11 and watched Windows 11 shrink to 9GB, but the trade-offs are brutal
…Fortunately, Nano11 retains useful CLI tools like Winget , a package manager tool that can help install a browser. I quickly added Chrome, and that reduced the storage space by 800MB. Still, the…
Windows 11 on a USB drive works, but the driver nightmare isn't worth it
…It was fascinating to try out the OS and available tools without even installing it on the system drive. Windows didn't support such a feature, and the concept of creating a…
Archinstall 4.0 finally makes installing Arch Linux bearable for normal people
…Have you ever had to pull up a YouTube tutorial on your phone on how to install your OS? If not, then I'd recommend giving installing Arch Linux without tools a…
A persistent Windows 11 USB keeps your whole setup on a drive, and it's more useful than a recovery disk
…I solved that problem with a persistent Ventoy USB drive that remembers all these changes and treats the demo like a permanent OS installation. So, I can use the apps, tools, and…
PowerToys finally has a launcher that's just as good as Wox or Flow
…I installed Everything 1.5a, and then my Command Palette search experience improved. Even Flow launcher supports Everything integration, so the two tools aren't wildly different. Related 8 reasons you should…
My local LLM is the best productivity tool I've installed in years, and it costs nothing to run
My local LLM is the best productivity tool I've installed in years, and it costs nothing to run
I switched from Ubuntu to Fedora after 10 years, and I didn't expect to miss this
…that I was actually installing what I wanted. It made me miss the human-readable names that Ubuntu's Additional Drivers list gave me. Ubuntu uses a tool called ubuntu-drivers, which…