Installing extra applications for Windows 10

Misc notes

Some applications can be installed directly from the Microsoft Store

Installed applications

Firefox and Thunderbird

Firefox

Thunderbird

VLC media player

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

Python

Depending on which kind of data, you can install a Python distribution either directly in Windows, or in the Linux section (WSL + Ubuntu or some other Linux flavor) of the computer

CDAT

CDAT is a Python distribution for the climate scientist. It can only be installed in the WSL+Ubuntu part of a Win10 computer. Check the installation instructions for 8.1 (or later)

Anaconda

The Anaconda Python distribution can be installed either directly in Win10, or in the WSL+Ubuntu part of Win10. CDAT (above) uses Anaconda for its installation

Canopy

The Enthought Canopy Python distribution can be installed either directly in Win10, or in the WSL+Ubuntu part of Win10.

VcXsrv Windows X Server

Once VcXsrv is installed (see below), follow the VcXsrv on Win10 extra steps to solve the resolution problems (blurry text, etc…)

Check the Win7 VcXrv section

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

Check the WSL page if you want to execute Ubuntu (or another Linux) on your Win10 computer