Below are a list of software resources that I use regularly or got good use out of in the past.
Did I miss something? Let me know!
Websites / Webapps that are good can be found at bookmarks
Platform Agnostic (available on many)
- Obsidian – knowledge base mapper
- Floorp – Web browser based on firefox
- Calibre – Ebook manager
- Keepass – Password Management
- Zim – A desktop Wiki
- Anydesk – Remote access client
- Rustdesk – FOSS alternative
- Mumble – Voice Chat
- Open Broadcaster Software – Screen recording
- Avidemux – Video editor for simple cuts
- yt-dlp – Video Downloader
- RedNotebook – Good note taking application
- Quassel IRC – IRC Client
- Thunderbird – Email Client
- Telegram – IM / Multimedia chat client
- VirtualBox – Beautiful VMs, works on all operating systems
- RPCS3 – PS3 Emulation
- balenaEtcher – Flash USB and SD cards
- Portainer – Docker management
- beets – music metadata management
Android
Mostly sticking to Fdroid here instead of the Google Play store but if you really need something from there use Aurora Store
- Display your android on your PC
- Aegis 2fa – Fdroid
- Bromite – web browser – Fdroid
- Element – messaging – Fdroid
- Feeder – RSS – Fdroid
- k-9 Mail – Email – Fdroid
- MPV – multimedia player – Fdroid
- Simple music player – Fdroid
- Vanilla music player – Fdroid
- NewPipe – Youtube FrontEnd – Fdroid
- Podverse – Podcast Player – Fdroid
- Open Note Scanner – Scan handwritten notes into images – Fdroid
- OsmAnd~ – Maps (gmaps alternative) – Fdroid
- Primitive ftpd – spin up an FTP server – Fdroid
- Syncthing – Sync directories between machines regardless of OS – Fdroid
- DNS66 – whole host adblocking – Fdroid
- Hacki – ycombinator hackernews client – Fdroid
- KeepassDX – keepass client for android – Fdroid
- Raven – API / web scraping news reader – Fdroid
- Audile – Song identification – Fdroid
Additional Repos
Windows:
- Ditto – keeps db of clipboard / can sync clipboards
- Mremoteng – SSH client
- Notion – Workspace / Notetaking
- AutoHotkey – script user input
- Foobar2000 – music player
- Notepad++ – Notepad
- RDCMan – Multiple remote desktop sessions in a single window
- 7zip – Archive management (zip / rar)
- VLC – Media player
- Greenshot – Screenshot application
- Imageglass – Photo Viewer / light editor
- Digikam – Photo Management
- IrfanView – Photo viewer and light editor with extensive codec support
- Paint.net – Photo manipulation tool, good middle ground between mspaint and photoshop
- HyperV – Virtualization native to Windows
- FileConverter – Allows conversion between file formats from the context menu
- files – Explorer.exe alternative
- Snappy Driver Installer – FOSS driver installer / wizard
- Hiren’s boot cd – Fix windows after it breaks with bootable iso
- yt-dlp frontend – GUI for everyone’s favorite youtube archiver
- FileConverter –allows for file conversion from the right click (context) menu
- Everything – Searches everything and indexes multiple disks. Can search by extension and much more
- PowerToys– Everything Microsoft should put in windows but you have to download it and install it after. FancyZones, PowerRename and Text Extractor are all great.
Linux
Web Browser & Extensions
Firefox and Firefox based Floorp are great for daily drivers.
Iridium is chrome based, Brave is chrome based, Opera is chrome based.
Ultimately, I will switch browsers based on what task needs to be completed and pick the best one for the job.
Chrome based browsers + Firefox, just search your browser with the extension name
(Stop using Chrome based browsers given Manifestv3 soon^tm)
- Sponsorblock
- Ublock Origin
- Violentmonkey
- User Agent Switcher
- Noscript
- CookieAutodelete
- Video DownloadHelper
- Firefox Multi Account Containers
- DownloadThemAll!
- Link Gopher
- Simple mass downloader
- Get cookies.txt
- Reddit Enhancement Suite
- Bookmark All Tabs
- Jdownloader
Self Hosted
- ArchiveBox – Archive the net
- Syncthing – Sync your devices / folders
- Photoprism – Photo tagging application
- Immich – Google Photos alternative
- immich-go – import from google takeouts and more
- Hydrus – Multimedia tagging solution
- WordPress – What hosts this website 🙂
- Modoboa – simple email server
- TrueNAS Scale – Debian based baremetal NAS powered by ZFS
- Nextcloud – NAS and MORE
- Plex – Multimedia Server
- Commafeed – Google Reader inspired self-hosted RSS reader
- Bitwarden – Password manager
- FreshRSS – RSS reader and aggregator
- TTRSS – RSS reader and aggregator