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- F-Droid, UptoDown, AppImageHub, UD: freely download Android, MacOS, Windows packages, no registration required
- proprietary, github-oauth registration possible: apps.microsoft.com
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popular Free & Open Source Software (with Windows & MacOS availability)
Internet
- Firefox, Falkon Browser (true OSS), Google Chrome
- Thunderbird (OSS-Emailing)
- OpenVPN: Windows, MacOS, Linux/BSD: packaged with your distro for sure, get .ovpn files VPNs↑🛰
Multimedia
- VLC video, internet TV & radio player & converter, screen video capture, video photos
- media player for windows: WinAmp (non oss, but popular)
- TV-Browser tv program preview/search
- MediathekView (de) search tv mediathek of ZDF, Arte, 3Sat, etc.
Communication
- Pidgin (many protocols, OMEMO plugin), Gajim (OMEMO plugin), Psi, Miranda (Win only, GPL, many protocols): OSS instant messengers, Jabber/XMPP: register account↑📨
- Quassel Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
- Jitsi mobile+desktop audio/video conferencing, messaging (Mac/Win: search it with UptoDown)
- Telegram (all distros, server side non-oss), Signal (+secure): instant messengers for mobile & desktop
Productivity
- LibreOffice word processing, spreadsheet, presentations (Linux, Win, MacOS, OS/2)
- Gimp paint & foto editing, Inkscape vector graphics, OpenShot video editor, more on creativity page↑🖌
- OCR: gImageReader is a GUI for Tesseract,
proprietary alternative: ABBYY, online OCR: Online Tools↑🖌 (optical character recognition)
- CherryTree note taking app
font viewers: FontBase, Opcion (Java), Fontmatrix: Win/Tux (+extract/inst. f.), Linux: font-manager, fontpreview
- FreeCAD - 3D modeler,
Sweet Home 3D
- TinyWow: handy little freeware progs (not necessarily oss):
- 7-zip file compression utility
- Infrarecorder - free CD/DVD burning for Windows
- KeePass: free password manager for Windows
- proprietary, for Windows: MS PowerToys
System/Boot
- Etcher, USBImager: load a bootable CD/DVD image onto USB-stick (freeware)
- partitioning: create/delete/resize: GParted,
clone partition: Clonezilla
- netboot.xyz: boot OSes directly from the internet, without installation
- Unetbootin: create bootable live usb images
- SuperGrubDisk - rescue your Linux installation
- Plop Boot Manager: boot from USB or CD/DVD even when the BIOS does not support it
System-Software
- Oracle: Java SE (Java programming language, Java virtual machine)
- Activestate Python, Perl, Tcl: Windows, non-oss (under Linux, BSD and MacOS python is a system component already installed on your computer)
- Putty
, Kitty: ssh for Windows (secure remote shell)
- DWS Remote Control: remote control of your PC with a web browser (many languages)
- Win., by Microsoft: PC Manager - system cleanup and antivirus for Windows 10 & 11, proprietary
Open Source Software for Translation
- offline dictionaries: GoldenDict,
Freedict & Ding dictionaries: FreeDict.eu,
- related sites: Translate on Linux, Linux for Translators,
- grammar: languagetool,
portuguese: conjugar, conjugue (Debian packages)
- OmegaT (Computer Aided Translation),
Aegisub (subtiteling),
AntConc (text corpus work),
TreeForm (drawing syntax trees)
- crossref: Languages: Online Learning, Translation↑🗪
Games & more
- GCompris educational, playful software for children
- Marble 3d globe with OpenStreetMap
- FlightGear OSS Game like ExtremeTuxRacer
- de: linux-redaktion: Gaming & mehr unter Linux
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