Let's get this community popping with some useful information. Reddit's sysadmin subreddit seemed like a place of complainers, I look forward to having actual productive conversation in this community.
Lots of onprem cluster work. I generally use k3s with an nfs provisioner. I've gotten into using ansible with AWX. Summerwind gh runners. I still stick with vim but having read comments, see I need to check out tmux over ssh. I like uptime kuma for basic monitors and while I setup signoz I still go back to just using Datadog.
as a IT admin and helpdesk guy in a smaller company, I use those Windows tools:
Greenshot - lightweight screenshot tool with editing
VsCode (this replaced notepad++ for me)
Microsoft Stream - making quick, easy guides
Terminal - part of Win 11, installable for Win 10, is really nice terminal app
PowerToys - my most used is the quick search bar where I sometimes put temp text or use it as a calculator (or opening apps), Text extraction, Fancy Zones, file preview (ctrl+space)
Edge vertical tabs - dunno if you would count it as a tool but having vertical tabs with groups is really amazing IMO
I've been in the weird space of on-prem "cloud" infrastructure (mostly kubernetes) for the last seven years but I've been doing infra, middleware, and devops for more than twenty years and have my own way of working that's nearly GUI-free.
remote desktop manager by devolutions powershell - duh ansible vscode sharex or greenshot (I've been favoring sharex lately) firefox with the container plugin (so I can keep the authentication contexts separate for all the o365 consoles I have to deal with)
Big fan of the IODD. I love having a ton of bootable images ready to go on a single drive. I mostly use it to boot disk wiping software, disk imaging software, and malware removal tools but it also serves as my main flash drive with common software and scripts I use a lot.
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