Xah Windows Setup
My personal notes of setting up a Microsoft Windows machine.
essential pref setup
- Set USB drive autoplay to off
essential install
first, install, in order:
- Firefox
- Good Browser Extensions
- pwsh [see PowerShell Tutorial]
- emacs [see Practical Emacs Tutorial]
- git [see Practical git in 1 Hour]
other to install:
- chocolatey, software package manager
choco install zip
choco install unzip
choco install 7z
- findutils do not install. use pwsh instead. [see PowerShell vs Bash]
choco install findutils
(call with fullpathC:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin\find.exe
) choco install rsync
(local drive syntax is:/cygdrive/c/
)choco install exiftool
choco install optipng
choco install imagemagick
(syntax begins by:magick convert
)
- golang [see Golang Tutorial]
- deno [see JavaScript in Depth]
- python 3 [see Python by Example]
- python 2
See also