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File compression:
[t][l] atool
[l] Xarchiver
[w] 7zip
File management:
[l] Thunar
[w] Explorer++ -- dev builds are highly recommended on windows 11
Password management:
[t] gopass
[m] KeepassXC
[w] Keepass
[a] Password Store (gopass compatible) | KeepassDX
[m] Bitwarden
Checksums:
[t][l] hashdeep
[w] HashCheck
File synchronization:
[t][l] rsync
[t][w] robocopy -- OS built-in
[t][m] rclone -- cloud drive equivalent to rsync/robocopy
Bitrot detection:
[t][l] cshatag
[w] whirlpool file checker
Audio player:
[t][l] cmus
[l] quodlibet
[w] foobar2000
[m] Qmmp
[m] Strawberry
Video player:
[l] mpv
[w] MPC-HC
Basic, mouse driven text editors:
[t][m] micro
[l] mousepad
[w] notepad3
[w] notepad++
Programmer editors:
[t][m] Neovim
[t][m] Helix
[t][l] mg
[m] Emacs
IDE:
[m] VSCode
Screenshot:
[l] xfce4-screenshooter
[m] Flameshot
[w] ShareX
Image management:
[m] geeqie
[m] XnView MP
[w] XnView Classic
Books:
[l] Zathura
[w] SumatraPDF
[m] Calibre
[m] Thorium Reader-- for those rare epubs that require a full browser to properly render
Search:
[t][m] ripgrep | fd
[w] Wizfile
Disk space analyzer:
[t][m] dust
alternatively : ncdu
[l] baobab
[w] Wiztree
Calculator/unit conversion:
[t][m] bc
[t][m] GNU Units
[m] Qalculate
[w] glasscalc
[a] Mi Calculator
Print:
[m] LibreOffice
It's not good, but it is what it is. About the least worst. If your job requires Excel for
anything complex, you will still be using MS Office.
LO Draw is surprisingly competent and decent for basic vector stuff and quick diagrams.
[m] Scribus
[m] LaTeX -- of course!
[m] LyX -- LaTeX Wysiwyg
Notetaking:
[w] TreeSheets
[m] TiddlyWiki
[m] Obsidian
IRC:
[t][l] weechat | irssi
[l] HexChat
[w] AdiIRC - don't bother with Hexchat, old gtk doesn't do proper DPI scaling on Windows, font rendering is a mess.
[a] Revolution IRC
Torrent clients:
[t][l] rTorrent
[l] Transmission
[w] Picotorrent
[m] qbittorrent -- still the best for very large torrents, but I don't much of that anymore so I'll leave that bloat behind.
Other P2P/file download:
[m] Nicotine+
[m] jdownloader2
Screen recording/streaming:
[m] OBS Studio
Video Editing:
[m] Shotcut
[m] kdenlive
[m] DaVinci Resolve
Audio software:
[m] Audacity
Basic image editing:
[l] Pinta
[w] PhotoDemon
[w] Paint.net
Advanced image editing:
[m] Gimp + G'MIC
[m] Krita
Pixel art:
[m] Aseprite
[m] Libresprite
[m] GrafX2
Vector image editors :
[m] Inkscape
The swiss knife of art - 3d modelling, render, 2d animation, video editing :
[m] Blender!
Hardware utilities :
[l] lscpu, lspci, lsusb, lsblk, blkid, nvme-cli, smartctl, lm_sensors, nvtop, dmidecode
[l] stress-ng -- system stress testing
[l] unigine benchmark -- gpu stress testing, not as good as furmark but the only one that has a linux build
[m] OpenRGB -- universal, brand independent control of RGB leds
[w] HWMonitor -- Temperature, clock speed, voltage etc monitoring
[w] CPU-Z -- detailed CPU, ram and motherboard information
[w] GPU-Z -- detailed GPU info
[w] CrystalDiskInfo -- view hard drive/ssd S.M.A.R.T data
[w] Furmark -- GPU stress testing
[m] Memtest86+ -- test ram integrity
[m] Prime95 -- cpu stress testing
Gaming
[l] gamescope -- frame limiting, image upscaling and fullscreenizer for linux
[l] ProtonUp-Qt -- manage proton installations
[l] Hawck -- keyboard rebinding and macros on linux
[w] RTSS -- frame limiting, gsync alternative (scanline sync)
[w] DgVoodoo2, WineD3D, DXVK, winevdm -- run games that have compatibility issues on windows with alternative API runtimes.
[w] Integer Scaling -- as the name says. Pixel perfect upscaling for older games
[w] Magpie -- All purpose upscaler
[w] AutoHotKey -- remap even the keyboard in games that don't have any key rebinding config, write macros
[m] AntiMicroX -- universal gamepad rebinding
Misc
[w] Rufus -- create bootable drives
[m] Ventoy -- create bootable drives with multiple OS isos
[w] Nirsoft and Sysinternals -- suite of utilities to diagnose and deal with any issue on Windows
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