Okay, I think I've just about crafted a halfway decent environment under Windows XP. As opposed to MacOS X, I had to pull a lot of stuff from the 'Net. Basically I've papered over XP to make it feel more UNIXy. Here's what I'm currently using to replace a combo of NetNewsWire, Omni Outliner, and Safari, plus a baked in *BSD substrate:
- Cygwin (UNIX replacement) Back to the Future
- XEmacs (Text editor) Baked into my genes
- FeedDemon (RSS aggregator) Enough keyboard customization to make it livable
- Mozilla Firebird (Web browser) Must have tabbed browsing!!
- Mozilla Thunderbird (e-mail) Need a change from Outlook/Entourage
- ActionOutliner (outliner) Nice, simple keyboard controls, and lets you put URLs in the outline
Of course it's a heck of a lot more work downloading and installing all of this stuff, then buying Jaguar and installing 2 more apps.