A series of commands and tools you must absolutely install first, before doing anything else
| Type | Priority | Admin Rights | Content to append to PATH |
|---|---|---|---|
| Package Manager | highest | False | False |
The single best package manager on Windows, chocolatey is similar but scoop is best.
Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser -Force
irm get.scoop.sh | iex| Type | Priority | Admin Rights | Content to append to PATH |
|---|---|---|---|
| Downloader | highest | False | False |
Scoop can leverage Aria2 to download every package using parallel processes and thus make your installs go much faster. Very important to get first.
scoop install aria2| Type | Priority | Admin Rights | Content to append to PATH |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLI | highest | False | False |
You can't do much without git nowadays, this is the most widely used, if not the 'universal' versioning tool. Any software that is distributed online is most likely using git at some point of its integration pipeline. If you don't have git, you can't download much on windows.
scoop install git| Type | Priority | Admin Rights | Content to append to PATH |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLI | highest | False | False |
A famous command from the unix world that temporarily gives you administrator privileges for the command you're about to run (only). A great way to quickly obtain admin privileges while running CLI tools.
scoop install sudo| Type | Priority | Admin Rights | Content to append to PATH |
|---|---|---|---|
| Package repositories | highest | False | False |
Buckets are a way to group scoop packages. The barebones required packages are 'pre-installed' in the 'main' bucket, but then you can add any bucket to have access to other repositories.
scoop bucket add extras
scoop bucket add versions
scoop bucket add nerd-fonts| Type | Priority | Admin Rights | Content to append to PATH |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terminal | highest | False | False |
Simply the best way to run shells and CLI apps on Windows as of today.
scoop install windows-terminal
reg import $( Resolve-Path "~\scoop\apps\windows-terminal\current\install-context.reg")
scoop install vcredist2022
scoop uninstall vcredist2022| Type | Priority | Admin Rights | Content to append to PATH |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLI | highest | False | False |
A scoop package that helps you have access to important CLI basics which are usually pre-installed on unix but not on windows.
scoop install coreutils| Type | Priority | Admin Rights | Content to append to PATH |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLI | highest | False | False |
A scoop package that helps you have access to important CLI basics which are usually pre-installed on unix but not on windows.
scoop install psutils| Type | Priority | Admin Rights | Content to append to PATH |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLI | highest | False | True |
A native powershell implementation of the z command that moves you to the best match directory
based on frequency of visited dirs or other variables, no matter your current position.
Equivalent of "teleportation" in terms of cd type commands.
scoop install zoxide| Type | Priority | Admin Rights | Content to append to PATH |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLI | highest | False | False |
The very useful github CLI tool, allows to create repos and releases from the command line. Don't miss this one, very useful :)
scoop install gh| Type | Priority | Admin Rights | Content to append to PATH |
|---|---|---|---|
| language | highest | True | False |
The slow but insanely popular language most data science & applied math folks use. We're going to assume you'll be using this language before any other if you're a random person, or someone who wishes to perform some data related task. Okay, R exists, but it's much less universal.
scoop install python
regedit.exe /s $(Resolve-Path "~/scoop/apps/python/current/install*reg")| Type | Priority | Admin Rights | Content to append to PATH |
|---|---|---|---|
| language | highest | False | False |
A relatively fast and C++ like modern language from Google.
A lot of important CLI tools can be instantly installed using
the go install github.com/<user>/<repo>@latest which makes it
incredibly potent for fast setups
scoop install go| Type | Priority | Admin Rights | Content to append to PATH |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLI | important | False | False |
A CLI tool that instantly downloads latest releases from github repositories.
You just have to ghrel github.com/<user>/<repo>@latest and you instantly get the
content. Very useful to download portable exes or fonts from github
go install github.com/jreisinger/ghrel@latest| Type | Priority | Admin Rights | Content to append to PATH |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLI | important | False | False |
A much friendlier version of cURL and irm written in go
go install github.com/astaxie/bat| Type | Priority | Admin Rights | Content to append to PATH |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLI | important | False | False |
CLI to filter/process json (jq) or YAML (yq). Both are fairly important and useful, so having them cannot hurt.
scoop install jq
scoop install yq| Type | Priority | Admin Rights | Content to append to PATH |
|---|---|---|---|
| font | important | True | False |
Nerd fonts are a special kind of font that has been designed to make code and other technical (scientific, math) syntax much more pleasing and easy to read. Most people who code a lot use Nerd-Fonts because it just makes it much more appealing.
sudo scoop install -g FiraCode-NF
sudo scoop install -g Iosevka-NF| Type | Priority | Admin Rights | Content to append to PATH |
|---|---|---|---|
| UI | preferable | False | False |
Useful as a complement to Nerd fonts and/or starship/oh-my-posh.
Install-Module -Name Terminal-Icons -Repository PSGalleryThese are developper (or more advanced) options which are good to have, but are more consuming. They involve downloading Visual Studio C++ Build Tools, which at least takes 5 minutes. This way you then have access to the entire rust toolchain and can install rust CLIs and tools.
| Type | Priority | Admin Rights | Content to append to PATH |
|---|---|---|---|
| toolkit | highest | False | False |
The absolute minimum to have in order to compile lots of low level code,
and a necessity to use rust's cargo install command.
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vs_BuildTools.exe' -OutFile "$env:TEMP\vs_BuildTools.exe"
& "$env:TEMP\vs_BuildTools.exe" --force --quiet --wait --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.VCTools --includeRecommended --remove Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.VC.CMake.Project
$startTime = $(Get-Date).Ticks
While ($(ps | sls vs_BuildTools).Length -gt 0) {
$currTime = $startTime = $(Get-Date).Ticks
$elapsed = $currTime - $startTime
Write-
}
| Type | Priority | Admin Rights | Content to append to PATH |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLI | useful | False | False |
A go implementation of the git semantic revisioning tag cli. Automatically bumps versions like 01.32.12 to 01.32.13 etc.
go install github.com/maykonlf/semver-cli/cmd/semver@latest