When setting up a new computer, there’s no need to spend money on most commercial programs – Freeware equivalents exist. Download what you need and enjoy the savings. It’s a list of software I find essential when saving money and replacing commercial software with freeware.
Free Software List:
| Image Editor | GIMP, Paint.NET |
| Vector Graphics Editor | Inkscape, Synfig Studio |
| 3D Graphics | Blender |
| Video Editing | kdenlive, shotcut, OpenShot, Avidemux, Losslesscut |
| Video Converter | HandBrake, FFmpegYAG |
| Audio Editor | Audacity, ocenaudio |
| Digital audio workstation | Ardour, Rosegarden, MusE, LMMS |
| Code Editor | Visual studio code, Atom, Notepad++, CodeLite, Geany |
| IDE | Visual Studio Community, Netbeans, Eclipse, Kompozer, Android Studio, Code::Blocks |
| Office Suite | LibreOffice , Apache OpenOffice, onlyoffice free |
| File Archivers | 7-Zip,Peazip,IZArc |
| Screen Casting | OBS Studio, fraps, VirtualDub, camstudio |
| Image viewer, converter, compressor, Watermark | IrfanView, FastStone Photo Resizer |
| FTP Client | Filezilla |
| Media player | VLC |
| DVD authoring application | DVDStyler |
| Mount ISO image | Virtual CloneDrive, DVDFab Virtual Drive,WinCDEmu |
| CD/DVD/Blu-Ray Burning, ISO image creator | CDBurnerXP, BurnAware Free |
| Download manager | Free download manager |
| Acrobat Reader DC,Foxit PDF Reader, Edge browser | |
| Folder hidden | Wise Folder Hider Free |
| Screenshot | Greenshot, ShareX |
| De fragmentation | Defraggler |
| PC Cleaner | CCleaner |
| Recovery | Recuva,Unstoppable-Copier |
| e mail client | Thunderbird |
| Remote control,desktop sharing,file transfer | Anydesk, TeamViewer |
| Codec Pack | K-Lite Codec Pack Full |
| Automatic shutdown | AMP WinOFF |
| Map | Goole earth |
| Password manager | keepass |
| Local Apache PHP MySQL Setup | WAMP, XAMPP |
| System information tool | HWiNFO, Speccy |
| Virtual | virtualbox, QEMU, VMware Workstation Player |
| Typing | Rapid typing |
| Setup Making | inno setup, nsis, create install |
