Launchy: it doesn’t suck

Quicksilver rocks my world. Sadly, I don’t use a Mac at work. What to do?

Lifehacker recommends Launchy which is to Quicksilver as a very-small-elegant-thing is to a very-large-even-more-elegant-thing. Ahem.

There are a great many text-based launchers for Windows out there. Some are quite clunky. Some are old-school. Some are non-free. All have their fans and disciples. Launchy, for me, seems exist in the sweet spot of free, good, elegant and powerful. It doesn’t suck.

While Launchy is not as geeky as some of the other keyboard-based launchers out there it is still basically a command-line interface and so is very much on the geeky end of the spectrum things. I would not recommend it for the non-technically-inclined. The (skinable) glossy black interface hides a great deal of file-system complexity.  However, if you are geeky enough, Launchy rocks.