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LibreOffice (and Open Office). When Microsoft Office is $200 or a monthly subscription.

I just used LibreOffice Writer to update my resume a few minutes ago and it’s a bit to switch to but it makes sense and I loveeeee the UI that caters to both people who prefer classic Office (‘97-2003) or those who prefer the more modern UI (‘07 and newer).

It does get a bit annoying because it is so powerful that it has a mind of its own and tries to do things for you, like formatting, but if you’re patient (like I was just now), it’ll work out for you and be really great.

For me: Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf, Keepass, and Aegis

Quite a few of my favorites have already been mentioned, so I'll add some that live on my toolbar:

Zim, a desktop wiki with markdown and a lot of plugins. Great for organizing all of your notes with links and a fast search function.

Heroic launcher, for organizing your Epic, GOG and Prime collection.

Geany, an extremely configurable and light editor that can be as simple or as full featured as you want, via plugins.

Terminator, a solid multi terminal emulator where I spend most of my time at work.

May be a bit out there, but on Android, Shattered Pixel Dungeon is a rogue lite game that is free and extremely fun to play. No ads, not very demanding on your phone, still gets updates, and easy to pick up and play when you're out traveling.

Its a very hard game, where knowledge is very important, as well as experimentation.

Emacs

VSCode. I don't get why Microsoft hasn't monetized it but I'm glad it is free. Has so many extensions and gets great updates, even if I don't understand half of the stuff in their patch notes when I open up the program.

Another one is a little program called Stacher that basically serves as GUI for yt-dlp. It's a very pretty one though! And all the settings and buttons are super great. I'm not very good with CLI stuff so I'm glad it exists for free, saves so much time.

Pretty much every major open source project at this point. I need to start looking into donating to the programs I use the most.

Lichess :) (FOSS Chess server, no account needed to play, second biggest chess server overall)

The folks behind it are one of my admirations

Photopea Fully functional Photoshop in your browser. Amazing.

for windows:

• WizTree - Disk space visualizer
• Everything (& EverythingToolbar) - Search tool
• Playnite - Game library

for android:

• Mihon/Tachiyomi - Manga reader
• Obtanium - Manage apps from various sources (github, gitlab, etc)
• Syncthing-Fork - File syncing
• MiXplorer - Feature dense file manager
• Universal Android Debloater Next Generation (technically a windows/linux program) - Remove/disable stock apps

for linux:

• wine/proton - windows translation software
• yazi - File manager
• easyeffects - Audio processing
• mpv - Video player

Libby ebook reader/browser

OctoPrint for 3D printing

Spacemonger and jellyfin

Apples
Edit: I steal my neighbours apples

audacity

neovim

calibre

mpv