I am and all my life have been a Linux user, I have nothing against Windows or MacOS, I just like Linux, and lately I have been experimenting with Windows in a virtual machine and I don't really know much open source software there apart from the one that is cross-platform like Firefox or Joplin.

At the moment I know:

Flow Launcher: It's a typical rofi style launcher, although I'm not a TWM user I like to just press super and type the first letters of the program I'm looking for to open it.

Lively Wallpaper: A program to have animated wallpapers, in the style of Wallpaper Engine.

Edit: I want to clarify that I read all the comments, I only respond to some because many times I have nothing to contribute to many of them because I don't know what to comment. Thanks to all of you for providing your lists of programs, I will be sure to try as many as I can because they are great, at least I know what to install if I use Windows one day!

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[–] grandel@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's a good list!

I use the same, except I use LibreWolf (privacy focused fork of FF) and VS Code instead of Firefox and Notepad++

[–] cityboundforest@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Vs code

I would actually recommend VSCodium; it's the same product but without the Microsoft telemetry.

[–] HaggierRapscallier@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does it lose any MS connected features? Other than surveillance.

[–] beyond@linkage.ds8.zone 3 points 1 year ago

VSCodium can't use the official Microsoft extension marketplace, but there is an alternative. You can also install extensions manually.

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah VS Code definitely if ya doing programming. I'm just editing config/ini files once in a while so N++ is just right for me.