my 2026 Windows working environment
- apply for admin privileges on your laptop
- exploration
- which areas outside can you reach (and how: https, ssh, irregular ports)?
- CryptDrive (…)
- my home NAS
- HS
- Microsoft PowerToys
- … zones … (for splitting huge screens)
- Microsoft Sysinternals
- PuTTY
- ssh (already comes with Windows, but YOU NEED TO SET UP YOUR CONNECTIONS – e.g. for backing up YOUR FILES (diary, tools, git repositories, …))
- GNU Emacs
- Git Bash
- UNIX (AKA Linux) utilities
- perl
- git
- …
- xmlstarlet
- my own tool set
- create_snapshot.sh
- MEGA IMPORTANT: continuous automatic backup of YOUR FILES
- for as long as “automatic” is not yet possible and established
- the “emergency action” must get established (REMEMBER the c*m*l dr*v*r with his fierceful face expression and his kalashnikov!!!)
- backing up must get executed a couple of times each day
- TARring
- syncing
- maybe: “git archive”
- …
- ??? busybox “w32”, preferredly with Unicode support
- WSL – Windows Subsystem for Linux
- …