favorites_tools.md

My Favorites tools

• XPipe - connection management

  • https://xpipe.io/
  • windows, macos, linux - portable mode

• Rancher Desktop

  • https://rancherdesktop.io/
  • Container and Kubernetes management
  • windows, macos, linux

• wsl2-distro-manager

  • https://github.com/bostrot/wsl2-distro-manager
  • A GUI to quickly manage your WSL2 instances
  • Manage WSL instances
  • Download and use Docker images as WSL instances - without Docker!
  • Quick Actions (execute pre-defined scripts directly on your instances for quick configurations)
  • windows - portable mode available (see releases in github repository)
    • if windows do not want to execute downloaded binary, go to : settings/general/unlock

• microsoft terminal

  • https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
  • support for tabs, rich text, globalization, configurability
  • can launch any WSL shell or powershell or command terminal
  • windows - portable mode available (see release on github repo)

• Visual Studio Code

  • https://github.com/microsoft/vscode
  • existing versions lists : https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/tags
  • latest download links : https://code.visualstudio.com/Download
  • all versions download links : https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/faq#_previous-release-versions