Programs

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Some, not all, apps should work on Linux and Windows systems. Please click here for more information regarding the tags on the left side of each item.

🔗 Productivity

Free¹

  • Obsidian
    • A productivity tool that acts as a second brain of plain text markdown files. Has a graph view, backlinks, outgoing links, is very customizable with plugins, themes and custom CSS.

FOSS

  • ActivityWatch
    • It is a time tracking software that can be used to keep track of productivity, time spent on different projects, bad screen habits, or just to gain “self-knowledge through numbers”.

FOSS

  • Super Productivity
    • This is a simple To-Do List / Time Tracker / Personal Jira Task Manager that aims to make you work super productively. It’s a tad clunky to configure, but it’s a really solid program.

FOSS

  • LibreOffice
    • Free and open-source office productivity suite. LibreOffice includes several applications that make it the most versatile suite on the market: Writer (word processing), Calc (spreadsheets), Impress (presentations), Draw (vector graphics and flowcharts), Base (databases), and Math (formula editing).

🔗 Image Stuff

FOSS

  • GIMP
    • A decent Photoshop alternative, cross-platform image manipulation software with plugin support.

FOSS

  • Krita
    • It’s a surprisingly amazing open-source digital painting, 2D animation, general awesomeness program with many other features.

FOSS

  • LibreSprite
    • LibreSprite is a free and open-source program for creating and animating sprites with real-time animation previews, onion skinning and more.

FOSS

  • Dither Machine
    • Simple tool that can generate dithering patterns automatically, instead of manually.

FOSS

  • Sharex
    • Sharex is a powerful image capture tool that allows the uploading of images, text, or other types of files to over eighty supported destinations, add effects on images and much more.

🔗 Audio Stuff

FOSS

  • Audacity
    • Popular digital audio editor and record application software. Can be used to record voice snippets, podcasts, videos (audio part) and much more. Can also be used as the worst DAW ever made.

FOSS

  • MusicBee
    • It is a fast music player with support for many audio formats as well as support for skins and plugins, music tagging, CD ripping, audio conversion, library management and much more.

FOSS

  • LMMS
    • It’s a music production software that lets you compose fresh music, synthesize existing tracks, use instrument sounds, and enable plugins for cross-plataform support. Not the best DAW out there, but it does its job.

Paid

  • Ableton Live
    • Like LMMS: it’s a DAW. But used in the music industry.

FOSS

  • Free MIDI Chords
    • It is a collection of free MIDI chords and progressions ready to be used in any DAW

🔗 Modifications

Free²

  • Atlas OS
    • An open and transparent modification of the Windows 10 operating system, designed to optimize performance and latency.

FOSS

  • Block the Spot
    • A multi-purpose adblocker and skip-bypass for the Windows Spotify desktop application.

Free³

  • Ripcord
    • Ripcord is a desktop chat client for Slack and Discord. It’s not built on top of web browser technology (thank god): while some features are missing, it responds quickly to input, sips gently from computer resources, and gets out of your way.

🔗 Programming

Free⁴

  • 4coder
    • Primarily a C/C++ code editor. Can be extended to add support to other languages, such as JavaScript, Python etc.

FOSS

  • VSCodium
    • Essentially just VS Code (a powerful code editor with extensive language and extension support), but with no telemetry, Microsoft branding, and under the MIT license.

🔗 Utilities

FOSS

  • SpeedCrunch
    • SpeedCrunch is a high-precision scientific calculator featuring a fast, keyboard-driven user interface. Comes built-in with eighty mathematical functions.

FOSS

  • DoubleCommander
    • Double Commander is a cross-platform open-source file manager with two panels side by side.

FOSS

  • qBitorrent
    • It is an alternative to other torrenting software (namely µTorrent that has been shit for some time now). Has tons of features and it’s actively developed.

FOSS

  • BCUninstaller
    • BCUninstaller is a bulk program uninstaller with advanced automation. It excels at removing large amounts of applications with minimal to no user input, while requiring next to no technical knowledge.

🔗 Other / Idk what to classify them

Paid

  • Mullvad VPN
    • Highly regarded as one of the most secure vpns out there.

¹Has paid options (mainly for commercial use)
²You still need to use a genuine license key from microsoft
³Has limitations on Slack if you don’t pay. Can get you banned from Discord for using it.
⁴You must pay to create / use customizations