What software/tools should every sysadmin have on their desktop?

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  • greenshot

    Greenshot for Windows - Report bugs & features go here: https://greenshot.atlassian.net or look for information on:

  • This is pretty handy if your working on live log files: https://www.baremetalsoft.com/baretail/ Greenshot for documentation (a lot better than snippet tool): https://getgreenshot.org/

  • obs-studio

    OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording

  • Obsproject

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • NETworkManager

    A powerful tool for managing networks and troubleshoot network problems!

  • sso-wall-of-shame

    A list of vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature, not a core security requirement.

  • Anyone know how you get something added to the https://sso.tax website?

  • Visual Studio Code

    Visual Studio Code

  • ShareX

    ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose from.

  • Lots of good stuff on the list already, but I really like ShareX. It's a screenshot/screenshot automation tool.

  • ScreenToGif

    🎬 ScreenToGif allows you to record a selected area of your screen, edit and save it as a gif or video.

  • screentogif :)

  • SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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  • ValliStart

    A start menu to replace the un-customizable one that you have right now.

  • I believe ValliStart can replace the Windows key without breaking any of the winkey shortcuts.

  • vmPing

    Visual Multi Ping. Color-coded ping utility for monitoring multiple hosts.

  • Absolutely love VMPing https://github.com/R-Smith/vmPing

  • meld

    Meld (by noamraph)

  • No love for Meld?

  • firefox-container-proxy

    [Firefox extension] Assign a proxy to a Firefox container

  • Tabby

    A terminal for a more modern age

  • I use tabby terminal ( https://tabby.sh/ ) as an alternative terminal on Windows. It support tabs, power shell, wsl shell, ssh connection, use windows creds manager for storing password etc... Definitively one of the best terminal app.

  • obsidian-releases

    Community plugins list, theme list, and releases of Obsidian.

  • Sorry I'll probably sound ignorant right now, but I've never heard of Obsidian. Do you mean this application? It seems to be a note taking app, how can you utilize this for writing shell commands?

  • Chocolatey

    Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows

  • Not in use everywhere but I find this package manager a great way to setup a box quickly…especially for RAdmin tools… Chocolatey https://chocolatey.org

  • mtr

    Official repository for mtr, a network diagnostic tool

  • Lot of great stuff here, haven’t seen MTR yet: https://github.com/traviscross/mtr

  • sccmclictr

    Client Center for Configuration Manager

  • pingtracer

    Graphical pinging and traceroute application. Ping Tracer continuously pings each network host between your computer and a given destination, helping identify the source of connectivity problems.

  • Oof, that is some steep pricing. PingTracer is open source and gets the job done for me.

  • clash-verge

    Discontinued A Clash GUI based on tauri. Supports Windows, macOS and Linux.

  • winstall

    A web app for browsing and installing Windows Package Manager apps.

  • vscodium

    binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing

  • rustdesk

    An open-source remote desktop, and alternative to TeamViewer.

  • You are thinking of RustDesk: https://rustdesk.com/ (written in Rust)

  • fping

    High performance ping tool

  • Windows Terminal

    The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!

  • SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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