My super awesome Windows 11 😎

Enter my digital temple, where I weave my aetherial creations.

Applications

I use ChezMoi in order to automate the installation of most of my applications. The process usually goes like this:

• Install ChezMoi with winget install twpayne.chezmoi
• Run Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned in order to allow execution of local scripts
• Run Set-ItemProperty 'HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem' -Name 'LongPathsEnabled' -Value 1 to fix issue with Windows long paths.
• Initialize ChezMoi using this repo.

The apps listed in this repo follow the following convention:

• ✅ The app is successfully automated with my ChezMoi script
• ⚠ The app needs to be installed manually from its website

You can get a more updated list of apps that I use in the packages file.

Productivity

✅ AutoHotKey - General automation

• AHK provides a scripting language that allows you to automate most of the things in Windows. From remapping keys, to moving the mouse, you can automate everything.
• Horrible as a programming language, extremely great as a tool.

✅ OneNote - Second Brain

• I use it as my second brain where I just dump all my thoughts, ideas, half baked projects, etc...
• The main reason for using it is that it works very well with my eInk tablet, Boox Tab Ultra C, for handwriting notes, and it supports OCR of my handwriting.
• I use the PARA method for organizing my notes.

✅ BitWarden - Password management

• Having the same password for all the sites is a very bad practice. I learnt this once a friend's Steam account got hacked, and with it, his email, Facebook, and everything.
• Thanks to passwords managers like this one, I don't even need to remember my passwords.

✅ Espanso - Text expansions

• I try to avoid typing the typical stuff, like my name, address, etc... Espanso helps me with this task
• Also, I don't like using acronyms, so I can automatically expand them.
• You can find the expansions here

✅ Link Shell Extension - Context menu entry to create symlinks

• Sometimes it is useful to create a symbolic link from a folder/file to another place. This is specially useful when dealing with configuration files that are checked in a version control system like Git.

⚠️ Minibin

• I like keeping my desktop clean, with no visible icons. So having the recycle bin available in the system tray is very useful.

Coding

✅ NeoVim - My main code editor

• I use LazyVim as the configuration framework, it is a great foundation for building my config on top of it, without spending days on figuring out the missing stuff.

✅ Visual Studio Code - Secondary code editor

• It is one of the most used text editors, so I always keep it nearby, especially when ensuring correct developer experience in NeoHaskell

✅ Alacritty - Terminal emulator

✅ Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 - Run Linux apps natively on Windows

• WSL allows running Linux apps on Windows, interoperating with your current files, etc... So it is a much better experience than a Virtual Box, or alike.

• Might give some problems in terms of installing the kernel update package, just follow the steps shown in the terminal.

• If you had bad experiences with WSL in the past, but you haven't tried the version 2, I highly recommend that you try it now. They fixed most of the issues.

• Remember to add the following to your /etc/wsl.conf and then restart WSL with wsl --shutdown:

  [boot]
  systemd=true
  

Social

✅ Discord - Chat

• Most of the communities I'm in use Discord. Either the NeoHaskell one, my server with friends, etc...

✅ Telegram

✅ WhatsApp

Music

✅ YouTube Music Desktop App - Music player

• An open-source app with loads of integrations like OBS. I use YouTube Music and not Spotify. This is a surprise for most people, but mainly it is because I prefer to pay for a single service, and with that I don't get ads on YouTube on my mobile phone.

Multimedia

✅ OBS - Recording and Streaming

• Great app for screen sharing and recording, really customizable.
• I use the following plugins:
  • Retro Effects
  • DroidCam - This one lets me use an old phone as a camera
  • Tuna - To display the song that is pl.

⚠️ DaVinci Resolve 19

• My main video editor. It is free, and one of the greatest video editing software. Used by studios like Marvel.
• Can look overwhelming at first, but by checking some tutorials, you get the tasks done very easily.

⚠️ Ableton Live 12 Lite

• Main digital audio workstation. It came with my Launchpad X, and it gives me more than enough features to make my music.

Internet

✅ Microsoft Edge

• It just works, comes with Windows, I can sync my bookmarks across all my devices, and the AI-based tab grouping feature is great

⚠️ Min Browser

• A minimalistic browser that I use for recording my videos. The distraction-free interface helps to focus my content on what I'm looking at.

✅ Transmission - Torrent client

• I use this client to share files from time to time, very minimal one, which I like.

Command Line Apps

I use most of my command line apps from WSL, apart from a few ones described here:

WSL CLI apps

⚠ nix - A purely functional package manager

• I install Nix by using the Determinate Systems Nix Installer. Basically running the following command in WSL2.

    curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf -L https://install.determinate.systems/nix | sh -s -- install