Windows 10 survivor kit

Just to make it clear, I am not planing to move to Windows, recommend it as primary platform nor leave Linux. The reasons why I invest time into this topic are the following:

You can see this as a help and documentation for people like me that do not have so much idea about Windows but need to spend a few hours on this platform, maybe to do some C++ development.

So no need to leave any fanboy like comments because of the topic. Thanks!

The Windows 'installation' was via the system restore partition of the laptop. Nothing special. Some questions, and it’s done. This Thinkpad came with very lite bloat ware, so I keep the default installation. Possible Lenovo has learned something from some of it’s security debacles due to bloat ware? Don’t know, but possible I will make the (d)evolutions of Thinkpads to an own topic in this blog one day. Anyhow, this one is about Windows 10, not Thinkpads.

One special note to the installation: Windows 10 has the unbelievable stupid habit. If you use your Microsoft online id as your user account it will create a home folder named after the first 5 letters of your given name. In my case it became C:\Users\haral .
This might be irrelevant if you never see an console, but for a lot of developers this is unacceptable.

Of course, you can not change the homefolder name in a simple way, without registry hacking. How fulminate stupid and arrogant, I am not the only one who complains about that, just look for this on the internet.

To fix this, create a new user with the name you want, make it an administrator, log in with the new account, delete the account with the crippled home directory name. You can than, if wanted, map the online id to the user created. I did this, and now my home directory is C:\Users\a4z , and windows explorer shows me Harald Achitz, that is how it should be.

So, if you have to spent time on the console, and you do not want to read you given name in a crippled form over and over again, do not use the MS online id as a user in the installation. Create a local user and map it to the online id if you want.

Of course, it would not be Microsoft if , there would not be a few principal problems but first, MS it not the only company with that kind of problems for the user, and second, this is another topic.

Since Microsoft loves Linux (TM:-), integrates bash and ubuntu, puts the Powershell on Linux, multi platform development has become a bit more interesting again.
Of course I am aware that companies primary love to make money, and there is a lot of marketing and calculation involved, and that the main motivation might be Linux on Azure, but every company that has to make money has some motivations.
I think this new competitive situation can only be a win for the users and especially for developers.

With some attentional tools like Windows pager and those mentioned above, Windows 7 was also not that bad to work with, but still a frustration. Non re-sizable windows, like of the cmd.exe or several configuration windows in the 21st century?

I am glad to see that this times seem to be over, and that the stagnancy on the windows desktop has ended, at least it seems so.
And it makes me curious to see how the situation on the desktop will continue to develop, maybe some day the Windows desktop will become a alternative to XFCE, Gnome, KDE, or any other useful desktop environment ;-).
This again, like with the compilers, shows how important competition is and why the desktop monopole from MS was/is hat bad for users.

If I have missed some useful tool or information, what for sure is the case, please add it in the comment section below.

Thanks for listening/reading!
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