This post is more of a "note to self" than an attempt to be useful to somebody else.   I am even typing this post in Internet Explorer.  It feels like a Pterodactyl is about to swoop into the room and try to shit on HTML standards.   In any case I gave my backup laptop to my kid and so had to install Windows on it.  Why?  Well I want her to be able to play games so Windows seems the best choice.  Plus she can still learn open source programming languages, albeit in a funny way.   Luckily I remembered this blog that I read and they posted this really nifty tool called Ninite.  Click the link here ( http://ninite.com/ ).  This helpful tool lets you download a single install file that installs free (either OSS or free to use) software like Libre Office, Flash, Notepad++, antivirus, etc.   Lets just say that it feels almost like an Ubuntu meta-package that helpfully installs everything you need, but you get to choose.   Plus it's all free and the only software I don't tr...