Technology

Linux! The responsible for my knowledge in computing and a great deal of English..Linux is the power!

Definitely Blender. I'd consider myself a medium grade expert at using it for CAD, solid modelling, 3D printing, yet there are vast sections of it I have never touched, and appear to be so rich that you could build a career around them without overlapping with my skill set.

Blender and KDE

• Freecad
• Linux
• GitLab
• Wireguard
• Firefox
• Prusaslicer
• Klipper
• Wikipedia
• Jellyfin
• Nextcloud
• Navidrome
• Home Assistant
• Syncthing

Firefox is the first to come to mind. Also all the KDE software (when run in KDE).

I kinda have the opposite response. I've been a mostly open source guy for the last 20 years so when I see what kind of half baked proprietary tools people buy I'm always shocked how much money mediocre software costs.

• Yunohost
• KDE Plasma
• Kdenlive
• Krita
• Inkscape
• Blender
• OBS
• Xonotic
• Beyond All Reason
• Manjaro (Despite the hate, no other distro has worked as well for me)
• Firefly III
• Grocy
• Nextcloud
• DisplayCal / Argyll CMS
• Scribus
• Natron
• MuseScore
• Jellyfin
• Navidrome
• QOwnNotes

...and so many more

Jellyfin, such a great little media server.

The Linux ecosystem as a whole

• Blender
• the whole *arr stack
• osu!lazer
• proton
• MultiMC (back then when it used to be "new" and everyone was using TechnikLauncher and the FTB launcher. So 2016/17)
• Element

Edit:

• Stable Diffusion
• LLaMA (kinda open source)
• Firefox
• Chromium/Node/Electron
• VSCode
• FFMPEG

Krita, Blender, VLC

EDIT: Xonotic, OBS

OBS

qbittorrent

VLC and OBS

Home Assistant. It's amazing the amount of things you can do with it. I love being able to slowly make my smart home and I barely need to check if the device I buys works!

Krita is a perfect alternative to photoshop. Sadly, I own a mac now and it doesn't work as well there.

Blender is also amazing.

@dl007 kde and vlc

As a creative: Blender. It was always a good program but thank god they finally started hiring people, that actually know how to design a usable UI. I remember the times when the devs refused to change the simple default selection to the worldwide standard: left mouse button.

Stockfish chess engine

Jellyfin
Blender
Darktable
Bitwarden / Vaultwarden

Syncthing, for me. Keep it running on a VPS, and you've obliterated the need for personal cloud services

OpenSSH!

Firefox, Blender, OBS, FreeType…

GIMP, Blender, Krita, Inkskape..

Honestly, Lively Wallpaper. You can set anything as your wallpaper and it'll work wonderfully: a video streaming directly from YouTube, a Unity game, a shader, a browser tab, a gif... You name it!

And the API supports sound input so anyone can make their sound visualizers now. I always wanted to do that as a kid after being an og WMP fanboy and finally got that knocked off my bucket list

Photoprism

All of them! Manny have already been mentioned. But I'd like to add: -Gimp -Inkskape -KdenLive

Godot, 0ad, Minetest, ffmpeg

Fedora OS. I mean, its a fully viable, up to date, no tracking operating system. After trying it im seriously thinking people buy windows only because they're used to it. Now it's my daily driver "even" for gaming (Praise our Lord Gaben and Proton).

All apps in the *arr suite as well as Jellyfin.

VSCode. I know its owned by Microsoft but its such a good editor. Having a strong tool is so important since nobody wants to be concerned about the app, they just want to code and do their work!

Omnivore! It's just a "read it later" app, but so nice to use. I enjoy newsletters again, because they all go there instead of in my emails, and they all have a uniform look to them now. Sorting by labels and syncing highlights to my Obsidian inbox page are great features. And they said bulk editing is coming soon.

Also bitwarden, lichess, and qbitorrent.

Blender is the first one that comes to mind

Because it hasn't been mentioned yet, I add DigiKam. That and darktable are a fantastic team.

I abide by the side of the fence that something performing well means it probably is open source, rather than not.

An open source project's only reason for existing is to work and do its job.

Most paid apps trade userfriendlyness for less features, and making a dollar is sometimes more important than making sure it went to good use.

More than anything else, Ghidra.

For a friend and I, Proxmox (and Proxmox Backups Server) is definitely that "Wow, and to think this is open source!" project.