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It's funny you mention tiling because honestly one of the biggest things preventing me from moving to linux full time is the lack of any decent window manager like https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/fancyzone... where I can arbitrarily draw/resize zones and drag and drop/snap windows on to them. Every window manager I've used in Linux, and gnome extension, all try and force you to have non resizable areas, areas of equal proportions, don't support snapping etc. And needed serious foo for moving a window about. If anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear it


Powertoys is amazing, it allows you to run your Windows machine more like Linux/Mac.

Awake is like Amphetamine on macOS.

FancyZones is like a tiling window manager.

Keyboard Manager allows you to easily rebind a key such as Caps Lock.

Power Rename allows you to rename based on regexp.

Powertoys Run is basically a light version of Alfred.

File Explorer addons allows you to for example preview Markdown (.md) files.

Color Picker saves me the hassle of making a screenshot and then uploading it to a website to figure out the hex value (or having to open up a bloated image editor). Useful for (even simple) image editing, web design, etc.

I'm sure I missed some utilities but these are the features I use.




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