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Xirup Sep 8, 2023

What open source programs do you recommend for Windows? (Windows exclusive or not)

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/3638469

What open source programs do you recommend for Windows? (Windows exclusive or not) - Divisions by zero

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 [https://www.flowlauncher.com/]: 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 [https://www.rocksdanister.com/lively/]: A program to have animated wallpapers, in the style of Wallpaper Engine.

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jevans ⁂Sep 8, 2023

BloatyNosy

Universal Debloater and PC Manager for the most up-to-date version of the Redmond OS (Windows 11)

github.com/builtbybel/BloatyNosy

sleek

an open-source (FOSS) todo manager based on the todo.txt syntax

github.com/ransome1/sleek

WinDirStat

a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for various versions of Microsoft Windows

github.com/windirstat/windirstat

MacType

Better font rendering for Windows

github.com/snowie2000/mactype

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Pantherina

I dont get mactype there simply is no explanation what it does?

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jevans ⁂Sep 8, 2023

Yeah, the documentation is very sparse. I think it was originally all in Simplified Chinese, but some things have been translated to English. Basically it gives you tools to fix subpixel font rendering issues on windows. Using a rotated monitor? An OLED monitor? A TV? All of these are examples of screens that don’t have standard subpixel layouts, so fonts tend to have weird color fringing as a result. MacType allows for a lot of tweaks to how fonts are rendered, but I tend to just switch to grayscale rendering, which works well.

This reddit thread walks through the process with some specific configs and they have pictures to show how it changes things.

reddit.com/…/better_text_rendering_for_oled_displ…

Better Text Rendering for OLED displays (Getting rid of ClearType)

Posted in r/OLED_Gaming by u/thedemons0 • 100 points and 38 comments