Personal note: I am not very knowledgeable on computers.
I have a new solid state drive after my old hard drive's Windows key apparently 'expired.'
The ssd is preloaded with Windows 10 because of familiarity and 'muh gaymes', but I do want to start getting away from Microsoft stuff (including the OS) on principle.
I know internet browser options are currently a bit "pick your poison." I've been satisfied with Brave and Waterfox, and previously Pale Moon (dropped for some website or add-in functionality I can't remember from years ago).
Besides that, I was thinking this might be a good opportunity to learn about current software/projects doing things properly.
So, I'll just share what programs I see among my hard drive files... 7zip, SumatraPDF, VLC, Audacity (which I recall seeing got bought), Steam, Dropbox, MusicBee (music player and manager), OpenOffice, and some game emulators for a Nintendo fanboomer.
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I'll give my list of "must haves" applications that I always install, developed over 20 plus years of use:
VLC - because it plays every video format I've ever heard of, is free, and is still under active development
Irfanview - for resizing photo files, and general photo manipulation
7zip - because even though handing zip files is built into windows now, Microsoft hasn't seen fit to put an "extract here" option into the right click menu. 7zip adds that.
Brackets - expanded text editor that I first used in my web design class in college, works like notepad++ but isn't notepad++.
Waterfox - because fuck Firefox and most especially fuck Chrome, and because PaleMoon can't run the browser extensions I need anymore. I used to use PaleMoon, ran it for years, but a revision several years ago broke all Firefox add on compatibility, and it was no longer an option. I can't use Brave, because the way it handles bookmarks is shit.
eM client - email client that I have a paid license for, because Thunderbird is from Mozilla, and fuck Mozilla for forcing out Brendan Eich.
Deluge - bittorrent client, for when I feel the need to sail the high seas.
NordVPN - VPN I use when I fire up Deluge, because DMCA emails suck and it works with bittorrent.
Putty - SSH shell app that I use to shell into my various linux boxen, and the Rasberry Pi that I run Pi-Hole on.
Foxit PDF reader - because everyone had to have a PDF reader nowadays
libreOffice - because I have many, many spreadsheets, including my financial budget.
Discord - some of the games and/or mods I play have active discord servers. Yes, I know Dicord is evil, but you don't have much choice today if you want to talk with other fans of the game/mod you are playing.
This short list is for software development, so if you don't do that, feel free to ignore it:
Gitkraken - for pulling from, and pushing to, my github account.
Eclipse IDE - for Java development. My university was pretty much standardized on it, and I've used it for years, at this point. Yes, I know about jetbrains, no I don't like it, I won't switch.
Visual Studio Community edition - I currently use 2019, but there is a later one out. For development in c#, which I also do along with Java.
For games:
I have Steam, Uplay, and Battlenet installed. And the standalone Path of Exile client, because I play that, too. Path of Building community edition for use with Path of Exile.
Mullvad is better as a VPN, and for torrenting you're best off either getting a realdebrid account or seedbox. You can integrate either into a full setup with sonarr, radarr, and the rest.