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!
VLC player, 7zip, translucent bar, greenshot, irfanview,
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.
It will never stop to amaze me how many people don’t know it’s a feature in every major DE and every Windows starting from Vista.
Even on Windows 10/11, just tap windows key and start typing without clicking anywhere.
My list of FOSS I use everywhere (these work in Win and Linux):
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Open Tablet Driver - if you’ve got the drawing tablet it probably supports it. You can customize everything and has even built-in plugin manager.
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Krita - GIMP alternative with non-destructive editing capabilities.
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yt-dlp - download videos from almost any video sharing service, even TikTok, Instagram etc.
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neovim - for quick file edits
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vscode/vscodium with vim plugin - my IDE for everything
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ffmpeg - forget handbrake - you can do even basic video editing here. Join two videos together? Done. Add audio to video? Done. Crop part of the video without reencoding it? Done. Loop a video to 10 hours without reencoding it? Done in matters of seconds.
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kdenlive - an actual video editor that is 100% FOSS, doesn’t suck and works on Windows and Linux.
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imagemagick - ffmpeg for images
why not use neovim as your ide instead?
I used to, but I need to get my job done, not play with configuring it for hours just to achieve what VSCode does out of the box. Plus settings sync is great.
Lite xl is also a nice IDE and very lite
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Lite xl (ide) KDE connect (file transfaring) KDEnlive (video editing software) Mpv (media player) Librewolf(better out of the box experience than Firefox ) I don’t care about cookies add-on (Firefox addon) Gimp or paint.net Obs(video capture) libreoffice(office stuff) Nomacs(image viewer) BC uninstaller Alt drag (moving winows)
What I honestly miss the most is my window manager/compositor hyprland
BC uninstaller
Too god to be real
Greenshot (GPLv3) is a powerful screenshot tool with its own basic image editor.
🪟Windows only:
QuickLook
clavier-plus
Cryptsync
Notepad3
shareX
PhotoDemon
eartrumpet
ImageGlass
MSEdge Redirect🪟+:tux: Also on Linux:
Copyq
SMPlayer
StrawberryFor Edge it helps using BCU and then also removing the exe using a good OS like Linux and pluggin in the drive.
Qclip
Bulk crap uninstaller
Vlc
Irfanview (is it proprietary?)
Gimp, Krita, Inkscape, KDEnLive, Blender, OBS
Nonfree: XNViewMP, Startisback++,
Irfanview is proprietary yes
Damn, it blew my mind that both Irfanview and XNView are proprietary, so there seems to be no actually maintained FOSS image viewer and light editor especially for Linux. Gwenview is a mediocre alternative but really smooth, maybe it should get all the features and replace these programs.
@Pantherina @db0 i was going to say https://www.darktable.org/about/ but i think this thread is about Windoze programs. Upppsss, sorry.
Darktable doesnt run on Winbloats? Also its a raw editing tool right?
This might be of more help…
https://www.darktable.org/about/features/
or
https://docs.darktable.org/usermanual/4.0/en/darktable_user_manual.pdf
Nice links, thanks! But Darktable is for raw. Maybe thats some crazy lossless rabbithole I have to go in, but I was talking about plain old JPEG editing, conversion, color adaption, quick cutting etc.
Tried Darktable and that other one and both were very unintuitive.
Plus, XNView also works as an Image viewer. XNConvert is also great for batch processing.
BloatyNosy
Universal Debloater and PC Manager for the most up-to-date version of the Redmond OS (Windows 11)
https://github.com/builtbybel/BloatyNosy
sleek
an open-source (FOSS) todo manager based on the todo.txt syntax
https://github.com/ransome1/sleek
WinDirStat
a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for various versions of Microsoft Windows
https://github.com/windirstat/windirstat
MacType
Better font rendering for Windows
I dont get mactype there simply is no explanation what it does?
Some of these are cross platform but:
7zip
Autohotkey
Bitwarden
Calibre
Handbrake
Speedcrunch
WinHTTrack
WinSCP
Oof, just actually installed AltDrag, I can’t live without being able to grab my windows with the super key from anywhere (although in this case the alt).
Thanks for letting me know that there is a fork still maintained.
Privatezilla: Harden your Windows privacy and security