Windows

Bash

Download Git for Windows to get a copy of Git Bash.
Alternatively you can download MSYS2 or Cygwin.

Blue Screen

How to troubleshoot BSOD (Blue Screen of Death).

• When windows encounters a BSOD, it will create a minidump (.dmp) file in

C:\Windows\Minidump.

• Copy out this dump file to somewhere like your desktop.
  
• There are various software to open the minidump files such as WinDbg Preview and BlueScreenView,

WinDbg Preview

How to use WinDbg preview

• Open your minidump
• Type !analyze -v

Hosts file

Wikipedia: hosts (file)
%SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

Changing IDE/RAID to AHCI

Reference
You should be using ACHI instead of IDE or RAID.

• Run bcdedit /set {current} safeboot minimal in a cmd prompt with admin
• Change to ACHI in UEFI
• Run bcdedit /deletevalue {current} safeboot

Reasons not to use Intel Raid

• It is a fake raid managed by the Intel driver.
• It will not be recognized in Linux. It is better to use software RAID on both Windows and Linux.
  • See the Archwiki RAID page
• You typically run into problems when changing motherboards, and sometimes even just after updating the bios.
• On consumer Intel boards (Z370, Z390), your M.2 slots are wired to your chipset which only has a PCIe x4 connction to your CPU.
  • This means you won't receive a significant performance boost if you use RAID 0 on 2 higher-end NVMe SSDs.

Application Management

Chocolatey

Chocolatey is an open source package manager for windows.
It is particularly useful for managing applications without native updaters such as nodejs, winscp, ffmpeg, youtube-dl,...

Install Chocolatey by following the directions on https://chocolatey.org/install.

# Installs ffmpeg
choco install ffmpeg

# Upgrade all
choco upgrade all

# See installed packages
choco list --localonly