Tools for Windows: 2019 edition

Despite never speaking very highly of it, Windows is still the OS of choice for my main machine at home, because it's mostly used for gaming and I still find it highly annoying to work on Windows.

I've written about what software I use in 2014 and 2016 and now, with the new computer and using Windows 10 for the first time, it makes sense to update the list.

I guess the overarching theme is that I need less specialized stuff as I have completely moved development off this platform.

• Browsers:
  • Firefox and Firefox Developer, only because the taskbar stacking/pinning makes it really annoying to just use two profiles at the same time
• E-Mail
  • Thunderbird for the main account
  • SylpheedPortable for testing stuff
• IRC
  • Quassel
• Audio/Video
  • foobar2000 for mp3s
  • VLC for Videos
  • Greenshot for screenshots
  • IrfanView for images, but it's a bit weird on Win10 so far
• Editors
  • Notepad++ for everything that's not code
• Voice
  • Discord
• Passwords and encryption
  • KeePassXC
  • VeraCrypt
• Networking stuff
  • PuTTY
  • FileZillaPortable
• Misc
  • CopyQ for clipboard management
  • SharpKeys to rebind CapsLock to F9
  • WinSplit Revolution for window tiling
  • 7ZipPortable
  • Launchy because Linux has spoiled me for launchers
• Game Launchers
  • Steam
  • Epic Games
  • GoG Galaxy
  • Twitch for free stuff and WoW addons

Then some things I have put off installing for now:

• Visual Studio Code when I really, really need to develop on this machine
• f.lux
• MP3Tag
• VirtualBox
• SumatraPDF
• cmder
• Audacity
• Spotify
• JuicePortable (writing my own replacement)

And stuff that I left out and don't plan on using in the near future:

• any jabber client
• Chrome
• CDEx (no drive anymore)
• InfraRecorder

So overall I still think that list is too long, but on the other hand compared to the old lists and the dozens of small tools I had installed these are kind of the essentials.