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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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: 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: A program to have animated wallpapers, in the style of Wallpaper Engine.

Edit: I want to clarify that I read all the comments, I only respond to some because many times I have nothing to contribute to many of them because I don't know what to comment. Thanks to all of you for providing your lists of programs, I will be sure to try as many as I can because they are great, at least I know what to install if I use Windows one day!

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[-] staticblanket@lemmy.ca 12 points 9 months ago

BalenaEtcher or Rufus for writing ISOs to usb.

[-] folak@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Or ventoy ? More useful, and so much faster than rufus.

[-] 520@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

dd works very well if it's a Linux ISO and you're using the USB solely as a livecd.

It can also byte-clone discs and partitions, including ripping CDs and DVDs.

[-] folak@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Don't know about dd, but I'll give an eye. https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html Ventoy has a ton of features.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

dd is a fairly ancient/standard file copy utility, if you dd an ISO file to a drive, it images that drive.

Ventoy is basically a clever use of GRUB, which allows booting multiple ISOs from the same USB stick.

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