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I am and all my life have been a Linux user, I have nothing against Windows or MacOS, I just like Linux, and lately I have been experimenting with Windows in a virtual machine and I don't really know much open source software there apart from the one that is cross-platform like Firefox or Joplin.

At the moment I know:

Flow Launcher: It's a typical rofi style launcher, although I'm not a TWM user I like to just press super and type the first letters of the program I'm looking for to open it.

Lively Wallpaper: A program to have animated wallpapers, in the style of Wallpaper Engine.

Edit: I want to clarify that I read all the comments, I only respond to some because many times I have nothing to contribute to many of them because I don't know what to comment. Thanks to all of you for providing your lists of programs, I will be sure to try as many as I can because they are great, at least I know what to install if I use Windows one day!

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
  • Firefox: best web browser out there
  • Bitwarden: password manager
  • ShareX: screenshot utility. Greenshot is also good, but I prefer ShareX
  • WinDirStat: disk usage utility
  • KDE Connect: connect Android phone to PC
  • Image Glass: image viewer
  • OBS: video & audio capture
  • Blender: 3D modeling, animation, video editing
  • Handbrake: video conversion
  • VLC: video/audio playback
  • Audacity: audio editing
  • SpeedCrunch: calculator
  • Notepad++: text editor
  • Spyder (via Anaconda): Python IDE
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
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If you liked windirstat i warmly recommend wiztree ( not sure if open source tho).it’s the same but faster. like FASTER faster