I first saw this on reddit, but I figured it would be good to make sure that this also stays accessible on another platform
Bitwarden for password
Note taking software has changed a lot over the years since this image was made. Obsidian, Logseq, and Trillium Notes being some of the more preferred note taking apps around.
There are a few others but I can’t remember them off the top of my head.
For meetings, https://meet.jit.si/ is like Zoom or MS Teams but open source and free. You don’t even need to create an account.
Unless my definition for media player is wrong, I wouldn’t call OBS a media player, it better fits into screen recording than anything else, heck even video editing works better than media player.
If love to see Python under “Data and Statistics”.
The whole list seems old though, are all of those programs still available? I suspect there are other great new programs that could go on a list like this.
Jesus this list is old.
No VS Code? Dropbox as your storage? No GroupMe/Discord for group chats?
This list feel a little dated. On the top of my head I’d add “Visual Studio Code” for programming, Cakewalk for music composition, and Davinci Resolve for video editing.
Alright so not just me, it’s useful but out of date. Some of these are still good, others have been replaced.
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How is it? I’ve been using KDEnlive forever.
I love it. It’s surprisingly powerful for a completely free software. Takes bit of time to learn, but well worth it. Unless you just want to stitch clips together, then it might be a bit overkill.
Davinci isn’t free as in FOSS, just free as in beer. Just FYI.
It’s fantastic! You can use it as a simple editor, or you can literally do anything you want.
It’s Adobe Premiere and After Effects combined. For free!
Better than premiere, I dare say
A bit steeper of a learning curve than other video editors though, imo
And Visio and OneNote aren’t free. Draw.io and Xournalpp would be potential alternatives.
OneNote is absolutely free. I use it for a lot of things, at home and work.
Edit: I guess, I should say that it doesn’t cost money. It certainly isn’t “free” as in “freedom”, but it’s incredibly handy.
Extremely dated. It looks like the list of software someone might have recommended back before I started using Reddit a decade ago.
Also, I’d add Bitwarden to password managers
Edit: And AFAIK Eraser should not be used on modern SSDs
You could use it to shred individual files, but to wipe a disk there are better ways. Generally you would use an ata command or wipe the encryption key if it’s encrypted.
Bitwarden for passwords!
Indeed!
If you’re on windows then ShareX is a free open source tool for screenshots and screen recording. I’ve used it for years and it’s my favorite one.
Shout out to ninite.com
A bit dated as Moskus also said. Skip on OpenOffice in favor of LibreOffice for example.
Yo where’s Krita under digital image tools? This list is missing some basic stuff :P
I was looking for it on here. GIMP is way too difficult for most people. Krita feels like it can do just about everything an amateur would want to do with Photoshop and makes it painless.
Definitely old but some are still useful
I would not really recommend LaTeX or any of those other programs just for writing student papers. LaTeX is for academic papers and it’s pretty cumbersome and technical to learn, it would be very very extra to use it for writing just like your random freshman comp paper. I’m not sure why that list doesn’t have LibreOffice or OpenOffice or whatever.
We’re not all first-year undergrads. Writing your PhD thesis? Sure, have a look at LaTeX. Also, the list has both of those office suites at the top. It’s a long list, but sometimes that is good when you are looking for alternatives.
This seems to be really dated, shouldn’t really be promoting things like OpenOffice now.
And I would really put OnlyOffice in there. It’s by far the most polished of the bunch nowadays.
As a power user, who uses spreadsheets every day professionally, OnlyOffice isn’t full-featured enough for my needs. LibreOffice is the only free software that’s adequate for my job.
Never heard of OpenOffice, but googled it now and it looks really impressive!
As I’ve said above, it’s not OpenOffice you want, it’s LibreOffice, please don’t download OpenOffice. https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/10/12/open-letter-to-apache-openoffice/
Why not?
Apache OpenOffice hasn’t had a major release since 2014 whereas LibreOffice, its de facto successor, is actively developed and modern.
Unfortunately OpenOffice still has name recognition which leads casual users to still download it as a replacement to commercial office suites, despite being very out of date. It’s kind of become a bit of an embarrassment to open source software and really should be discontinued, but a small handful of developers insist on keeping it on life support.
See this open letter https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/10/12/open-letter-to-apache-openoffice/
And nobody’s used Xvid for at least the last like 10 years. And even back when the Xvid codec was used, ffmpeg was the way to do it lol
Who’s still using antivirus nowadays?
It’s kind of mandatory for windows unless you want to get viruses/malware.
Really? The built in Defender seems to be all most people need. Everything that used to be good is now scamware. The only time it’s useful is if you need to lock down your grandma’s pc so she doesn’t give your inheritance to a scammer with a nice Facebook ad.
