Desktop
General Tools
General Tools
Internet
Internet
- Terminal: putty
- File Transfer: WinSCP
- Browser: Chrome
Productivity
Productivity
- MS Office: Word, Powerpoint, Excel
- Notetaking: OneNote, Google Keep
- E-mail: Google Inbox (web)
- Calendar: Google Calendar (web)
- Reference Management: Endnote, Mendeley
- PDF: Adobe Reader
Development
Development
- Editor: emacs
- ess (R formatting mode)
- Unix tools: cygwin (see below)
- Stats: R
- Other languages/interpreters: Java
Cloud Documents
Cloud Documents
- OneDrive, Google Drive
Communication
Communication
- Skype
- RSS: Feedly
Misc
Misc
- Spotify
Cygwin
Cygwin
Cygwin has been an old friend, bringing a unix environment to the Windows boxes I've used for quite some time. They implemented a lot of the unix OS layer in a DLL, making it so that most unix apps can compile directly via the configure/make (via native gcc/g++ ports). There is also a repository of pre-compiled binaries that can be installed, which are the packages listed here. There is some thought in my mind of trying out the Linux subsystem on windows.
Development environment
Development environment
- gcc/g++/make
- awk
- python
- perl
Internet Utilities/Terminal
Internet Utilities/Terminal
- openssh
- X11: xorg-server, xinit, xorg-docs, xlaunch
- For putty to be able to forward X11: startxwin -- -listen tcp
- rsync, wget
Compiled
Compiled
These will probably need to be compiled separately
- data manipulation: datamash
- genomics: bedtools