Terminal application manager for windows. If you don't want to bother too much with the terminal
Go to winstall.app and add as many apps as you want.
Click generate script, select powershell, copy the code.
Open powershell and copy paste.
I have my script saved on a notepad incase I have to reset windows or set up a new PC, turns something that takes hours into something that takes minutes.
Open source, looks better, searches your apps, settings, control panel AND google instead of bing, gives better results and allows blacklisting and alot more.
qView for viewing any type of images, supports animated and static Webp is lightweight and very fast
Notepad++ is a must (alternative to Notepad)
Everything by voidtols as a better, faster and more poweful alternative to Windows Files search, you search as you type.
MPC-HC by clsid2, continuation of MPC as alternative to Windows Media Player and VLC. it's still being updated and it currently supports Youtube Streaming as VLC still hasn't updated their Youtube script for a year.
KDE Connect that I mentioned already has file sharing so I don't use LocalSend on my PC. But definitely great for when I need files from my iOS friends and my Android TV.
I have not used anything other than winget ... So I can't tell you about the differences but since winget is official and backed by Microsoft ... Most software should be there
The thing I love about ShareX is that you can configure it to take a screen shot, upload it to your favorite image host, then copy the resulting URL to the clipboard with just a click or two.
Thanks for the list, found a couple I didn't know of that look helpful! Couple more suggestions:
WizTree is another good disk usage tool, as an alternative to Filelight. I think it's visually closer to windirstat, but so much faster I can't honestly remember.
EarTrumpet is a better volume control app for the systray. I hide the default sound icon and set this to always show.
ExplorerPatcher lets you revert some annoying Windows 11 behaviors, like disallowing vertical taskbars
Windows is just wayyyy too bloated now, and privacy is also an attractor.
I understand data collection is part of the present and foreseeable future, and I don't do a whole lot to avoid it, but it's getting to points of absurdity over here.
Powertoys is great too but flow launcher has an unbeatable plugin library with integrations for all the popular apps and other nifty tools. If you don't use plugins power toys is great.