setup-win

WARNING I'm currently working on a re-write of these docs

Set up a fresh Windows 11 install the easy way using the winget package manager.

Fork and change it to your favourite apps. Mine will be a fairly minimal gaming rig.

💡 I also have guides for macOS and Linux!

🍫 Install Chocolatey Package Manager

1. Open Windows Powershell as Administrator
2. Install Chocolatey with the command:

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

3. Close and reopen Powershell, or open CMD as Admin, instead.
4. Check it worked with choco

Keep things updated:

• Keep everything up to date with choco upgrade all
• Lock certain apps to a version with choco upgrade all --except="'speccy,vlc'"

List all installed packages + versions:

choco version all

TL;DR - All in one

choco install -y microsoft-windows-terminal firefox origin steam uplay goggalaxy vortex epicgameslauncher discord slack notion obs obs-studio virtualbox itunes icloud vlc 7zip ccleaner FiraCode-ttf powertoys dashlane authy-desktop

Step-by-step

👩‍💻 Install Windows Terminal

choco install -y microsoft-windows-terminal 

🔐 Install Password manager

choco install -y 1password

🦊 Install Firefox

choco install -y firefox

🎮 Install game launchers

choco install -y origin steam uplay goggalaxy vortex epicgameslauncher

🦜 Install chat clients

choco install -y discord slack

Install other misc. bits

choco install -y obs obs-studio virtualbox itunes icloud vlc 7zip ccleaner 

📺 Install graphics drivers (Choose one)

• Team Green: NVIDIA Experience
• Team Red: AMD Adrenaline

🎼 Install Sound drivers (Optional)

• Komplete Audio 6

🐧 Install some dev stuff (Optional)

• Install Windows Subsystem for Linux, enable it, enable Ubuntu (or your favourite flavour) (check Windows App Store)

Extra stuff (Optional)

• Xbox (Beta) app
• Xbox Accessories app
• Install Fira-Code font: choco install -y FiraCode-ttf
• Install Windows PowerToys (Preview): choco install -y powertoys
• Razer Synapse 3
• Da Vinci Resolve 17 (Sign-up required)
• Change Disk Letters (eg, C:\, E:\=WD Green, G:\=Games, R:\=WD Red (RAIDED), V:\=VirtualMachines)
• DS4 Windows (a must have for PS controller users!)
• Steam ROM Manager
• https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/restore-old-right-click-context-menu-in-windows-11/a62e797c-eaf3-411b-aeec-e460e6e5a82a

Web apps

• Steam Grid DB - add custom banners and logos for your non-steam games.