I think the biggest problem with Chocolatey is that it's confusing in terms of how it works. Maybe I'm a noob but I've always found it confusing as to which tools will be available via path. And then, of course, you forget that you installed something via Chocolatey which makes life super confusing.
Notepad++ in my opinion is superior for the tasks I use it for. It's lightweight, extremely fast boot time, and has one killer feature: when you create a new file, you can keep it in a tab and it autosaves without actually saving. Eg. the file has no place in the file system but exists without failure in NP++
LICEcap has been my go to for screen recording...and yeah, Greenshot is dead but I did love that tool.
I'm currently using Bash/WSL for SSH which might sound weird but works for me. I tend to not use Putty/Pageant.
Definitely Chocolatey's worst part is that it's still so little used, so you always forget it exists and you've installed something via it.
when you create a new file, you can keep it in a tab and it autosaves without actually saving. Eg. the file has no place in the file system but exists without failure in NP++
Yea that's what I do in Sublime Text too - I just open a new "file" for temporary notes. They survive a reboot, without having to ever save anywhere.
I'm currently using Bash/WSL for SSH which might sound weird but works for me. I tend to not use Putty/Pageant.
I've been trying to get Gnome-Terminal to reliably launch via a simple shortcut in Windows to a X Server running locally, but for some reason that thing just regularly fails to launch .. if I could get that thing working, then I'd just SSH from the WSL as well.
Without something like Gnome-Terminal (or maybe LXTerm) working properly I don't find it a reasonable option.
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I think the biggest problem with Chocolatey is that it's confusing in terms of how it works. Maybe I'm a noob but I've always found it confusing as to which tools will be available via path. And then, of course, you forget that you installed something via Chocolatey which makes life super confusing.
Notepad++ in my opinion is superior for the tasks I use it for. It's lightweight, extremely fast boot time, and has one killer feature: when you create a new file, you can keep it in a tab and it autosaves without actually saving. Eg. the file has no place in the file system but exists without failure in NP++
LICEcap has been my go to for screen recording...and yeah, Greenshot is dead but I did love that tool.
I'm currently using Bash/WSL for SSH which might sound weird but works for me. I tend to not use Putty/Pageant.
Thanks for all the input! :)
Definitely Chocolatey's worst part is that it's still so little used, so you always forget it exists and you've installed something via it.
Yea that's what I do in Sublime Text too - I just open a new "file" for temporary notes. They survive a reboot, without having to ever save anywhere.
I've been trying to get Gnome-Terminal to reliably launch via a simple shortcut in Windows to a X Server running locally, but for some reason that thing just regularly fails to launch .. if I could get that thing working, then I'd just SSH from the WSL as well.
Without something like Gnome-Terminal (or maybe LXTerm) working properly I don't find it a reasonable option.