Windows-integrations

Just a collection of scripts and settings to make Windows tolerable

Required Software

• Emacs
• Windows Subsystem for Android
• Windows Subsystem for Linux

Quality of Life adjustments

Any shortcut on Windows can be set to respond to a Ctrl + Alt + hotkey, which is useful for launching programs or scripts quickly

Default Hotkeys

• Ctrl + Alt + T = PowerShell
• Ctrl + Alt + A = Admin PowerShell
• Ctrl + Alt + F = Firefox

Windows Subsystem for Android

This lets me use touch optimized applications that accomadate a FOSS ecosystem (such as CalDAV enabled calendars and F-Droid), light/dark mode, and touch gestures. Creating a local network between Windows and the WSA allows me to share things like audio files with Android.

Raw thoughts

The biggest quality of life change I made to Windows was through the installation of Emacs. Installing emacs to windows allows you the ability to have a handy and powerful text editor from within PowerShell. Installing powershell.el to emacs offers some compatibliity with writing PowerShell scripts, and thus you can feel more comfortable living on the command line in Windows.

I enabled the Windows Sybsystem for Linux (WSL) and I symbolically linked all of my working directories to a matching directory in my /home/ account, which allows me to fluidly move between Linux tools and Windows tools for development. This has been useful when I wanted precompiled binaries, but there weren't any made for Windows.