10 free Windows apps that improved my productivity (and I'd easily pay money for)

LibreOffice is free to download and install for Windows.

This fresh new text editor is the nano replacement I've been waiting for

For Linux and MacOS, Fresh is the best of both worlds - a terminal text editor with GUI-like options. I'm all for it.
TechPP

Why Microsoft PC Manager Is the Only Optimization App You Need

Microsoft PC Manager is a free all-in-one Windows optimization tool that boosts performance, cleans storage, manages apps, ...

Woman who made sexual harassment claims files tort claim over her removal from council meeting

A woman who made sexual harassment allegations against Mayor Joe Hogsett's former chief of staff has announced the filing of ...
How-To Geek on MSN

Stop downloading random .exe files, this is the safer way to install apps on Windows

Functionally, it acts like an app store for power users and developers, but without the graphical interface. You simply type ...
GitHub

Apx (/à·peks/) is the default package manager in Vanilla OS. It is a wrapper around multiple package managers to install packages and run commands inside a managed container.

Special thanks to distrobox for making this possible.
GitHub

thelicato/react-file-manager

react-file-manager is a comprehensive UI library for React that enables developers to quickly integrate a file management system into their web applications. This package provides a set of graphical ...
Windows Latest

Tested: Windows 11’s ‘faster’ File Explorer (preloaded) is still slower than Windows 10, and uses additional RAM

Microsoft is testing a “fix” to Windows 11’s File Explorer, which is supposed to improve its launch performance by preloading it in the background. But how fast is the ‘faster’ File Explorer? The move ...