Windows 11 Developer Setup

Windows package manager for software updates, requiring no registration, prioritizing privacy with no tracking, and featuring a command-line interface.

A command-line installer for Windows.

Repeatable, reboot resilient windows environment installations made easy using Chocolatey packages. Boxstarter can automate both trivial and highly complex installations.

Microsoft's open-source CLI packager manager for Windows.

npm is a package manager for Node.js that is run through the command line and manages dependencies for an application. It is the predominant package manager for Node.js.

NuGet is a Visual Studio extension that makes it easy to install and update open source libraries and tools in Visual Studio.

The .NET Framework is a software framework developed by Microsoft that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It includes a large library and provides language interoperability (each language can use code written in other languages) across several programming languages.

Efficient file archiver offering superior compression and encryption. Supports multiple formats such as TAR, ZIP, with a unique self-extracting feature.

Git is a free & open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

OpenSSH is a free version of the SSH connectivity tools that technical users rely on. OpenSSH encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other attacks.

OpenSSH implementation from the Microsoft PowerShell Developer Team

https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/wiki https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2015/10/19/openssh-for-windows-update/.

Multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility.

cURL is a computer software project providing a library and command-line tool for transferring data using various protocols with URL syntax: supporting FTP, FTPS, SCP, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS and FILE.

grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines matching a regular expression.

sed (stream editor) is a Unix utility that parses text and implements a programming language which can apply transformations to such text. It reads input line by line (sequentially), applying the operation which has been specified via the command line (or a sed script), and then...

This is a utility with a graphical user interface and a command line interface that can be used to view and extract the contents of an MSI file.

Millions of developers and teams around the world choose GitKraken Client to make Git more visual and accessible with an intuitive UI, the flexibility to switch between a GUI or a terminal, and a seamless experience across operating systems.

Git Extensions is a standalone UI tool for managing git repositories. It also integrates with Windows Explorer and Microsoft Visual Studio (2010/2012/2013/2015/2017). Linux is supported by 2.51 version with some issues.

GnuPG allows to encrypt and sign your data and communication, features a versatile key management system as well as access modules for all kinds of public key directories. GnuPG, also known as GPG, is a command line tool with features for easy integration with other applications.

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, extensible programming language. It provides an extraordinary combination of clarity and versatility, and is free and comprehensively ported.

Ruby is a dynamic, reflective, general purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features. Ruby originated in Japan during the mid-1990s and was initially developed and designed by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto.

RubyGems.org is the Ruby community's gem hosting service. Instantly publish your gems and install them. Use the API to interact and find out more information about available gems.

The PyPA recommended tool for installing Python packages.

Formats USB drives to various file systems and creates bootable USBs from ISOs. Supports MS-DOS/FreeDOS bootable sticks and offers BIOS or UEFI options.

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language with over 22 years of development.

Open-source programming language with C-style syntax, Google-backed. Features concurrency, automatic memory management, and a robust library for web and CLI apps.

The Chromium -based Microsoft Edge has four channels overall: Canary, Dev (short for Developer), Beta, and Stable. Microsoft collectively calls the Canary, Dev, and Beta channels the "Microsoft Edge Insider Channels", as these are...

The latest Windows update with a redesigned Start menu, Widgets integration, Xbox gaming features, and tighter security requirements, built with modern hardware in mind.

The Chromium -based Microsoft Edge has four channels overall: Canary, Dev (short for Developer), Beta, and Stable. Microsoft collectively calls the Canary, Dev, and Beta channels the "Microsoft Edge Insider Channels", as these are...

The Chromium -based Microsoft Edge has four channels overall: Canary, Dev (short for Developer), Beta, and Stable. Microsoft collectively calls the Canary, Dev, and Beta channels the "Microsoft Edge Insider Channels", as these are...

Chromium-based browser for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android, offering extension support, privacy features, smart security, and cloud sync across devices.

Microsoft Visual Studio is an IDE used to create programs, apps, websites, and web services using various frameworks. It supports multiple languages and offers tools for coding, debugging, and design.

Office suite offering productivity tools for document creation, collaboration, and AI-enhanced editing across various platforms and devices.

Set of open-source tools enhancing Windows with features like FancyZones, PowerRename, and Keyboard Manager. Lightweight and ad-free.

This package provides syntax highlighting for the shell zsh. It enables highlighting of commands whilst they are typed at a zsh prompt into an interactive terminal. This helps in reviewing commands before running them, particularly in catching syntax errors.

Alt-Tab Terminator is a powerful task management utility for Windows. It replaces the Alt-Tab with a box that shows a list of all tasks, their names and preview snapshots, and enables to take actions on them. It is the successor to VistaSwitcher.

Windows Terminal is a new, modern, feature-rich, productive terminal application for command-line users. It includes many of the features most frequently requested by the Windows command-line community including support for tabs, rich text, globalization, configurability...

Docker is an open-source engine that automates the deployment of any application as a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that will run virtually anywhere.

PowerShell (including Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core) is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language built on the .NET Framework.

The Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) is a host application for Windows PowerShell. In Windows PowerShell ISE, you can run commands and write, test, and debug scripts in a single Windows-based graphic user interface with multiline editing, tab completion...

Considering that most text editors are eather too heavy or look too old, the author came up with Notepads, designed to be a modern-looking UWP app.

winstall is powered by Windows Package Manager (aka "winget"), Microsoft's new package manager for Windows 10 and 11.

Free, extensible code editor with Git integration, AI-driven IntelliCode, and 30,000+ extensions, supporting various languages like Python, Java.

NuGet Package Explorer (NPE) is an application that makes it easy to create and explore NuGet packages. You can load a .nupkg or .snupkg file from disk or directly from a feed such as nuget.org.

The Azure cloud platform is more than 200 products and cloud services designed to help you bring new solutions to life—to solve today’s challenges and create the future. Build, run, and manage applications across multiple clouds, on-premises, and at the edge, with the tools and...

Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need - a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more.

The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a new Windows 10 feature that enables you to run native Linux command-line tools directly on Windows.

Gist is a simple way to share snippets and pastes with others. All gists are git repositories, so they are automatically versioned, forkable and usable as a git repository.

Take GitHub to the command line. Create pull requests and issues without leaving the command line. See the status of open issues and pull requests, and see what’s waiting for review. Filter issues and pull requests, and open them in your browser.

Web-based Git hosting service facilitating collaboration, with features like issue tracking, social networking, and wikis for project management.