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 - LibreOffice , Apache OpenOffice, onlyoffice free File Archivers - 7-Zip,Peazip,IZArc Screencasting - OBS Studio, fraps, VirtualDub, camstudio Image viewer,converter,compressor,Watermark - IrfanView, FastStone Photo Resizer FTP clint - Filezilla Media player - vlc DVD authoring application - DVDStyler Mount ISO image - Virtual CloneDrive, DVDFab Virtual Drive,WinCDEmu CD/DVD/Blu-Ray/HD-DVD Burning,iso image creator - CDBurnerXP, BurnAware Free Download manager - Free download manager Pdf - Acrobat Reader DC,Foxit PDF Reader, Edge browser Floder hidden - Wise Folder Hider Fre Screenshot - Greenshot, ShareX Defragmentation - Defraggler 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 System information tool - HWiNFO, Speccy Local apache,php,database - WAMP, XAMPP Virtual - virtualbox, QEMU, VMware Workstation Player Typing - Rapid typing Setupmaking - inno setup, nsis, create install