I've been mostly on a mac for the past 6 years professionally and personally. I'm about to switch up my daily driver to a Windows box. I'm looking for any tips when it comes to a 'modern' development toolkit for someone who's been enveloped within the the mac/unix ecosystem for the past few years but is making a switch. I love my tools, and would love to hear what people's kits are comprised of and why.. I feel it'd be useful even if we work on completely different stuff.<p>More context:
I was a windows user and then developer from windows 95->10 and then went mac full-time when I wanted a nice laptop and began dabbling with iOS dev more seriously. Since then I've found myself accustomed to the unix terminal, homebrew, and a ton of other tools and things like that which I use on a daily basis for work and side-projects. Right now mostly node/javascript and other front-end/web stuff.<p>The new computer arrives later this week so I started googling "windows alternative to x", so figured I'd see if anyone on here recently switched from mac to PC... Any tips? Anything to be super happy about? Any things I'll need to work-around?<p>Things I'll be taking with me...
- VScode
- Creative Suite<p>Things I know I'll miss...
- homebrew (+ a ton of stuff that I manage w/ this)
- iTerm
- oh my zsh
- spotlight & alfred
- iStat Menus
- Spectacle
- rocket
- native git?<p>Things I've heard to use...
- powershell (how does this compare to how I use iTerm?)<p>ps. I don't want to use Linux on this computer, and pardon the formatting/braindump for this post. :-)
Look into Cmder (<a href="http://cmder.net/" rel="nofollow">http://cmder.net/</a>) for an alternative to iTerm/zsh. You can also try Babun (<a href="https://babun.github.io/" rel="nofollow">https://babun.github.io/</a>).<p>Try Wox (<a href="http://www.wox.one/" rel="nofollow">http://www.wox.one/</a>) as a replacement for Alfred.<p>And Chocolately (<a href="https://chocolatey.org/" rel="nofollow">https://chocolatey.org/</a>) and Scoop (<a href="https://scoop.sh/" rel="nofollow">https://scoop.sh/</a>) to replace Homebrew.