Difference between revisions of "Windows"

Revision as of 03:09, 13 March 2021

Windows 10

I hardly use Windows these days, except to play games on Steam and arrange music in Sibelius. It can be made slightly more bearable by installing the Scoop command line installer. I tried to like Chocolatey but it's a bit bollocks.

To install Scoop, see the instructions on their site, but last time I checked, in Powershell:

iwr -useb get.scoop.sh | iex

Now we can have stuff installed without twelve different updater taskbar icons running. Scoop installs stuff under your User directory wherever possible, avoiding admin permissions. Here's a bunch of popular apps in the Scoop repos (called buckets) which can be enabled thus:

scoop bucket add extras nonportable
scoop install grep vim sudo wget dos2unix unzip
   openssl docker waypoint azure-cli terraform nomad go rustup
   atom windows-terminal powertoys wincompose greenshot
   ffmpeg k-lite-codec-pack-mega-np youtube-dl handbrake shotcut
   musescore audacity inkscape gimp sumatrapdf
   discord telegram whatsapp thunderbird keepassxc nextcloud

Some stuff needs to be installed globally:

sudo scoop install -g sshfs-np winfsp-np virtualbox-ng

Wincompose is an X-style compose key with wincompose which makes typing áàâåāčçöµ© much easier. KeepassXC is a password manager, with plugins for Firefox and Chrome.

Remove OneDrive

In a cmd window run these:

%SYSTEMROOT%\SysWOW64\OneDriveSetup.exe /uninstall
rd "%USERPROFILE%\OneDrive" /Q /S
rd "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\OneDrive" /Q /S
rd "%PROGRAMDATA%\Microsoft OneDrive" /Q /S
REG DELETE "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}" /f
REG DELETE "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}" /f

Reboot when you're good and ready, and not before

Change the UpdateOrchestrator Reboot task in the Task Scheduler to pop up a message instead of rebooting. See this comment on this Superuser answer.

Nifty Windows Terminal PowerShell prompt with git indicators

We can get this going using Windows Terminal and Powerline. Windows documentation for these are here and here, but essentially it is this:

Install Git (using choco, or the Windows installer).
Install the Cascadia Code PL font, which includes extra private-space glyphs that the Powerline prompt will use.
Add the font to the PowerShell profile in the Windows Terminal settings.json file: "fontFace": "Cascadia Code PL"
In Powershell, install these modules: Install-Module posh-git -Scope CurrentUser Install-Module oh-my-posh -Scope CurrentUser Install-Module -Name PSReadLine -Scope CurrentUser -Force -SkipPublisherCheck
Add this to your PowerShell profile, in your Documents\WindowsPowerShell folder: Import-Module posh-git Import-Module oh-my-posh Set-Theme Paradox

Connecting to network drives with SSH

Install sshfs-win with Scoop and map remote drives using SSH.

net use N: \\sshfs\me@myserver\path\to\mystuff

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 == Windows 10 ==
-I hardly use Windows these days, except to play games on Steam and arrange music in Sibelius. It can be made slightly more bearable by installing the [https://scoop.sh/ Scoop] command line installer, and [https://chocolatey.org/install Chocolatey] for bigger GUI apps.
+I hardly use Windows these days, except to play games on Steam and arrange music in Sibelius. It can be made slightly more bearable by installing the [https://scoop.sh/ Scoop] command line installer. I tried to like [https://chocolatey.org/install Chocolatey] but it's a bit bollocks.
 To install Scoop, see the instructions on their site, but last time I checked, in Powershell:
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   iwr -useb get.scoop.sh | iex
-And Chocolatey, seems to want you to type all this in:
+Now we can have stuff installed without twelve different updater taskbar icons running. Scoop installs stuff under your User directory wherever possible, avoiding admin permissions. Here's a bunch of popular apps in the Scoop repos (called ''buckets'') which can be enabled thus:
-  Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))
+  scoop bucket add extras nonportable
+ scoop install grep vim sudo wget dos2unix unzip
+    openssl docker waypoint azure-cli terraform nomad go rustup
+    atom windows-terminal powertoys wincompose greenshot
+    ffmpeg k-lite-codec-pack-mega-np youtube-dl handbrake shotcut
+    musescore audacity inkscape gimp sumatrapdf
+    discord telegram whatsapp thunderbird keepassxc nextcloud
-Now we can install useful stuff and get on with it, without having to have an entire Linux OS installed or use a VM:
+Some stuff needs to be installed globally:
-  scoop install wget youtube-dl git vim grep
+  sudo scoop install -g sshfs-np winfsp-np virtualbox-ng
- choco install keepassxc wincompose openssh gimp
+Wincompose is an X-style compose key with [https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose/releases/latest wincompose] which makes typing áàâåāčçöµ© much easier. KeepassXC is a password manager, with plugins for Firefox and Chrome.
-Keepass XC password manager, and an X-style compose key with [https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose/releases/latest wincompose] which makes typing áàâåāčçöµ© much easier.
 === Remove OneDrive ===
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 === Connecting to network drives with SSH ===
-For when group policy has denied SMB shares, use [https://github.com/billziss-gh/sshfs-win SSHFS for Windows] to map remote drives using SSH.
+Install sshfs-win with Scoop and map remote drives using SSH.
+ net use N: \\sshfs\me@myserver\path\to\mystuff