Libre office, a great office option. I’ve been using it for 15 years. Foreshadowing

VLC, Plays media. It’s a tank. Also Highways use VLC to mark many winter potholes.

Linux, It’s not that hard to use anymore.( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

WINE, not just for one night stands! it’s great for running Windows Stuff on Linux.

Also, and my personal favorite, your mom is free and open source. Mic Drop going to bed. With your mom. Wasn’t expecting that twice were you? Well, neither was your mom. Got 'em.

Home Assistant. If you ever want to do home automation properly, this is the way. Works with pretty much anything—Zigbee, zWave, BT LE, MQTT—while keeping things manufacturer agnostic, local, private and highly responsive (your commands don’t need to go through some server 3000 km away and won’t have ugly 1 second latency as a result).

DAVx⁵ and Radicale to sync contacts and calendars between devices without snooping middle-men.

Syncthing to sync any files between devices. Works remotely, too, thanks to Syncthing relays.

Navidrome for your personal music streaming service.

Debian, Docker, Docker Compose and Portainer as the backbone to run all your services.

And many others.

PC:

1. Libreoffice – the best, most customisable and powerful office software available
2. Onlyoffice – alternative for less-advanced users who are used to the UI of contemporary MSO
3. Zotero – great bibliography manager useful when writing scientific papers: lets you collect books, journal articles and all other types of sources, automatically finds full text PDFs online, fills in metadata and then inserts dynamic citations in thousands of different, customisable styles. Also generates bibliographies. Works with LO, MSO and GDocs
4. Caprine – clean Facebook Messenger client (web wrapper based)
5. TeXStudio – my L^AT_eX editor of choice; integral (ha!) when formatting maths-heavy documents

Android:

1. Cloudstream — free streaming app, works with SFlix, Sodastream, PH and other legally dubious streaming providers. Takes some trickery to set up though.
2. Osmand — OpenStreetMap client with offline (optional online) navigation and plenty of plugins; loads of customisation
3. Material Files — nicest file manager, especially for rooted devices
4. Showly — freemium open-source TV and film tracker. Syncs with Trakt.tv
5. Simple Gallery — out of all Simple Apps by this developer, this is the only one which is in fact superior to its alternatives. Highly customisable, powerful, lightweight gallery app

Ublock Origin. The amount of people going through life exposing themselves to ads is tragic. It’s so unhealthy and most people aren’t aware that there is a simple and free way of protecting yourself from the psychological warfare that corpos use against society

Jellyfin, it’s pretty simple and if you have a spare computer, a decent connection (and by decent I don’t mean even a decent one by 21th century standards, I still have a 100/10mbps ADSL) and a 2/4tb Hdd, you can host your own FOSS Netflix/Hulu with all the shows you want, if you’re in a county where “sailing the seven seas” is a huge deal, the only subscription would be a cheap VPN or even better something like real debrid.

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is an open-source (open data) project. OpenStreetMap is a collaborative mapping platform that allows users from around the world to contribute, edit, and use geographical data. The data and software behind OSM are open-source, which means they are freely available for anyone to view, use, modify, and distribute under open licenses.

The data contributed to OpenStreetMap islicensed under the Open Database License (ODbL). This license allows for the free use of the data as long as proper attribution is given and any derivative works are also made available under the same open license.

I got addicted to using and contributing on OSM daily and enjoy spending my time improving the map. In fact a lot of closed source maps such as Google Maps and Apple Maps pull from some of the OSM data, so everyone gets to benefit from contributions.

In case you’re looking into this out of curiosity, check out the Beginner’s Guide and try to verify that the data around your neighborhood is correct and maybe add a point of interest (PoI) or a street name or two. Beware, it gets addictive quite fast.

OSM is also used for humanitarian use thanks to the HOT tasking platform. For example the majority of relief effort in Turkey’s February earthquake, Sri Lanka flooding, and the recent Marocco earthquake. Mapping can literally help save lives. It’s fun and easy too!

• KeePassXC, it is a client for KeePass password management, works great

• Krita, KDE’s awesome drawing program

• Hugo has been a phenomenal tool for building light-weight, static websites as I’ve been working to drop WordPress
• KMyMoney is a life altering personal finance manager that has made budgeting and saving so much more achievable
• KeepassXC is what I use for all of my passwords and important information relative to accounts
  • Aegis is also a tool I’ve been using for 2FA after seeing the benefits of that kind of model

Blender. Maybe not everyone needs to try it but it it’s great if you like 3D.

I can suggest everyone to try Bitwarden if they don’t have a password manager yet. I use Pass now (because UNIX^TM) but was a Bitwarden fan before.

Obtainium - - app with which you can download & update apps (apk’s) directly from github/gitlab/etc. (and even f-droid).

Absolutely awesome 👍

• Xonotic is an open source FPS with an active community. If you liked Quake 3 and Unreal, then I can highly recommend checking it out. It’s got a pretty active community, and lots of people running servers.
• Calibre is a great way to manage ebooks
• Logseq is a great way to organize notes and ideas

For anyone doing academic writing, I use a combination of Logseq, Zotero, and Zettlr. All open source. Collect articles in Zotero. Annotate and take notes on those articles in Logseq with absolutely amazing PDF annotation tools. Write draft in Zettlr which allows me to enter Zotero citations and reference Logseq notes.

Bonus shoutout to LibreOffice for exporting and formatting the final draft. And that’s your recipe for one all-natural, organic, FOSS thesis!

blender’s beginner friendly enough for me to universally recommend it at this point - you might bounce off, or you might, like me, be a half-decent visual artist 3 years later!

Only because CTRL+F had zero results: Krita. Everyone complains about GIMP having a bad name and Krita is actually good!!

LogSeq for taking notes.

It is a markdown editor and has a lot of features i didn’t know I wanted. Like you can mark in PDFs and those marks will be made into notes with shortcuts to that place right into your other notes.