The various wireguard mesh VPNs (along with Wireguard itself) such as tailscale/headscale, netbird, etc
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Aside from the obvious FOSS offerings, there is a ton of free music software out there, including plugins for your favorite DAW.
While we are at it, Reaper is not free but they are also not going to bug you to pay for it. It is so good and inexpensive that they mostly rely on the honor system for payment.
check out ardour
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Dosbox
ScummVM
GZDoom
DevilutionX
Wargus
JDownloader
ffmpeg
Off the top of my head:
Krita
Handbrake
LibreOffice
Let me hijack your comment mentioning Krita with another KDE app: Okular!
I simply can't believe a PDF app can be this performant, this fully featured, and entirely free. It even works on Windows, if you're trapped in that nightmare.
Adobe Acrobat Reader, from the people who created the PDF format, is unbelievably slow, it takes a thousand steps through an ugly UI to do anything useful, and any feature you actually care about is locked behind payment. Okular, a free tool, will load PDFs instantly, render previews flawlessly, let you edit, sign, merge, add text, select text, whatever you wish.
And KDE creates this app and a thousand others for less money than Mozilla wasted on some random bs last year. Long live KDE.
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Shutter Encoder is good too
There are so many complex applications that I can't believe are free: KDenLive, Gimp, Audacity, Firefox, Discord, Calibre, Jellyfin, Rainmeter, Godot, Retroarch
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I recently learned about an app called Snappy Driver Installer Origin. It's a minimal FOSS program that checks our PC for the drivers it has, needs installed, or updated and goes about it quickly. It's also portable so it's great if you want it on a install thumb drive.
There are so many apps out there that try to get you to buy or pay a subscription for this feature and others, so it's been a breath of fresh air for me to have learned about and use it.
Linux Mint did this out of the box for me with zero effort
In fact, I'm about to install it on my second PC in two months 👹
windows drivers. i've been doing this work for decades: i quit chasing down every driver update from all the various manufacturers years ago. windows is actually really good at fleshing-out necessary drivers and putting them on, and has been for awhile. gamers and others that 'need' gpu driver updates, sure. get 'em from the source. same with things that windows didn't have for some odd reason.
my own 'gaming rig' in use now (zen3, 3060, w11) is just using the gpu drivers from windows update. they work just fine. i've never even loaded nvidia's control panel on that pc and accepted its eula so i could make what few adjustments it has (very limited compared to the 'full' driver pack). they're actually more stable, even: when the system updated to w11, i did try the 'latest and greatest' but the system crashed daily. rolled back (ty, reflect) and kept the wu-supplied drivers, and been smooth sailing ever since.
Microsoft excels at driver compatibility, and has for a long time. It's their strongest suit.
Im going to throw libre office in. Spreadsheets are so versatile. You always here about this is done so badly they are using spreadsheets but that just shows how friggin powerful and versatile they are and the other parts of the suite are nice to.
Image Toolbox, full of useful feature for image editing
Google Maps
Shosetsu. It lets you download book seriisls off many different sources. I like to keep my royal road books up to date there.
Voyager and pipepipe
fall guys