[dagw]

Chocolatey (basically apt for windows) will automatically download and install most apps I need (Browsers, media player, editors and IDEs, languages and compilers, various utilities etc.). Then Steam (installed by chocolatey) will automatically download and install all my games. I then download and install OSGeo4W which in turn will download and install a whole suite of GIS applications that I need. All my interesting files are in dropbox so they show up automatically.

Once that is done there are only a handful of other applications I need to download from respective vendors websites/git repos (Lightroom, Perfect Photo, Anaconda Python, the latest versions of Julia and Leiningen).