Favorite software
Below I have listed software I personally prefer for my daily computing needs and university work. The software is licensed under the conditions listed and is owned by their respective owners (when applicable).
Operating systems
- Arch Linux (various free software licenses, provides non-free software)
- Artix Linux, an Arch fork based on various alternative init systems: OpenRC, runit or s6.
- My fork of LARBS (GPLv3, various licences for installed programs), some installed programs that are different from upstream LARBS are also my forks.
- My fork of voidrice (GPLv3)
- Windows 10 Pro/Education (proprietary)
- Clover Bootloader (BSD-2-Clause), boot a UEFI operating system on a computer with traditional BIOS!
- LineageOS 18.1 (various free software licenses, ships non-free blobs)
Software repositories
- Chocolatey for Windows (Apache v2)
- F-Droid for Android (GPLv3)
Linux desktop
Web browsers
- Brave (MPL 2.0, ships with GPL-licensed extensions)
- Thunderbird (MPL 2.0) with Birdtray (GPLv3)
- FairEmail for Android on Google Play & F-Droid (GPLv3)
Video playback
- mpv (GPLv2+, parts under LGPLv2.1+, some optional parts under GPLv3)
- VLC media player (GPLv2 w/ some libraries under LGPLv2.1)
Office
- LaTeX (its own free license - LPPL)
- TeX Live (LPPL, GPLv2)
- MiKTeX (components licensed under various licenses)
- LibreOffice (MPLv2, secondary license GPL, LGPLv3+ or Apache License 2.0)
Security
- Bitdefender Free (proprietary)
Media creation
Audacity (GPLv2)no longer recommended- GIMP (GPLv3+)
- Olive 0.1 (GPLv3)
- Nvidia Share (proprietary)
- OBS Studio (GPLv2 or later)
- MSI Afterburner (proprietary)
- SimpleScreenRecorder (GPL)
Gaming
- Steam (proprietary)
Communication
File management
- 7-Zip (LGPLv2.1+ with unRAR restriction / LZMA SDK in the public domain)
Programming
- VSCodium (MIT)
- LaTeX Workshop (MIT)
- Android Studio (proprietary / Apache)
Virtualization & compatibility
- VMware Workstation 16 Player (proprietary)
- Wine (LGPLv2.1+)
- Lutris (GPL)