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I switched to Linux Mint full-time a few months ago and it's blown me away with how good it is.
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
Was going to say Blender as well. It's mind blowing really. What sets Blender apart from most others though is not the feature set (which is massive) but the UI/UX, which is usually something open source apps are lacking in.
- 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).
KDE's stuff is amazing.
I wish Firefox used QT or there was a KDE browser that was better maintained
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
OBS is the one that gets me. A lot of streamers I follow talk about how they use OBS because it's such a reliable standard and works the way they expect. Pretty cool that an open source app is the standard for something as mainstream as livestreaming.
- 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
OBS
qbittorrent
Was just gonna say this. The king of torrent software, thousands of finished github issues, and still going strong.
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.
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
Lichess to add onto the chess stuff
Syncthing, for me. Keep it running on a VPS, and you've obliterated the need for personal cloud services
Firefox, Blender, OBS, FreeTypeβ¦
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
All of them! Manny have already been mentioned. But I'd like to add: -Gimp -Inkskape -KdenLive
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).
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!
Check out VSCodium. It's VSCode compiled without all the Microsoft bits.
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.
For a friend and I, Proxmox (and Proxmox Backups Server) is definitely that "Wow, and to think this is open source!" project.