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.
Install Chocolatey by following the directions on https://chocolatey.org/install.
It is particularly useful for managing CLI applications such as ffmpeg and youtube-dl.

# Installs ffmpeg
choco install ffmpeg