[majkinetor]

Its better then ever.

1. Use Chocolatey (winget is still new). You can setup everything via it, and I mean everything - node, postgre, docker, vscode, all browsers, selenium and drivers etc.

2. Learn Powershell, but learn it really good. Adopt PowerShell build system Invoke-Build

3. Install better terminal - ConEmu or Windows terminal

4. Enrich Windows using FOSS and cross platform tools: choco install copyq, flameshot, less, fzf, paint.net, git, tortoisegit, winscp, kitty, screentogif, sysinternals, wiztree, gsudo, lockhunter, signal, viber, slack

5. Disable Windows Defender and use some debloater (controversial, but I do it, and system is at least x2-x5 faster). I use https://github.com/W4RH4WK/Debloat-Windows-10 along with ShutUp10 tool.

6. Install the best search engine in the world: cinst everything

Enjoy, its awesome.

[noisem4ker]

Addendum to 2: use PowerShell 7, a newer major version than the one probably coming as default, and based on the modern Core lineage. You get niceties and the sanity you'd expect such as UTF-8 when writing to files with the > operator.

[majkinetor]

Indeed: cinst pwsh

Also set it as default in terminal/conemu.

[majkinetor]

BTW, here is my profile.d for PowerShell:

https://github.com/majkinetor/powershell_profile.d

[Jaruzel]

> Disable Windows Defender

And use what instead? Defender is pretty good at keeping you safe, so you definitely need a replacement.

[majkinetor]

No you don't. You are IT engineer, not a grandma (I guess).

[Jaruzel]

I could be both... ;)

[majkinetor]

In theory :)