I first saw this on reddit, but I figured it would be good to make sure that this also stays accessible on another platform
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.
Davinci honestly deserves more recognition
Extremely dated. It looks like the list of software someone might have recommended back before I started using Reddit a decade ago.
Bitwarden for passwords!
Indeed!
Shout out to ninite.com
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which leads casual users to still download it as a replacement to commercial office suites, despite being very out of date.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/
Jesus this list is old.
No VS Code? Dropbox as your storage? No GroupMe/Discord for group chats?
Yo where’s Krita under digital image tools? This list is missing some basic stuff :P
Definitely old but some are still useful
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.
Anyone knows of any good mpd player that can read lyrics stored in a “.lrc” file? I tried ncmpcpp but it connects to the internet to get the lyrics and there’s the problem of not having the album art
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.
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.
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.
I would add Obsidian for note taking!
A bit dated as Moskus also said. Skip on OpenOffice in favor of LibreOffice for example.
