Still the best and fastest web browser
https://www.google.com/chrome/
Open Source Recommendations
Google Chrome Web Browser
Mozilla Firefox Web Browser
Best open source secure web browser
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
Libre Office Word Excel Clones
Not as good a MS Office but works well
https://www.libreoffice.org/
MPC-BE Movie Video Audio Player
Lightweight, plays any audio or video file type
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpcbe/
Handbreak Video Encoder Converter
I still can’t believe this software is free
https://handbrake.fr/
AOMEI Backupper Hard Drive Backup
Backup hard drive or clone entire computer
https://www.ubackup.com/
Virtual Box Multiple Operating Systems
Run older or other OS’s inside Windows
https://www.virtualbox.org/
HWiNFO64 Analyze Your PC Hardware
View All Your Hardware Real Time Displays
https://www.hwinfo.com/download/
MakeMKV DVD & BluRay Movie Backup
Free 30 days, powerful easy movie archiving
https://www.makemkv.com/download/
MkvToolNix Videos Merge Info Extract
Not the easiest of tools but works very well
https://mkvtoolnix.download/downloads.html
Exact Audio Copy Lossless File Backup
Audio CD backup. Lossless Wav, Flac, MP3
https://www.exactaudiocopy.de/
Burn Aware CD/DVD/BluRay Burning
Full-featured free Windows burning software
https://www.burnaware.com/index.html
Open Shot Video Editor Converter
Not the best but it is of the free video editors
https://www.openshot.org/
CopyTrans iPhone Music Manager
CopyTrans is a great alternative to iTunes
https://www.copytrans.net/..manager/
Telegram Instant Chat Messenger
One of the more secure ways to chat
Windows: https://desktop.telegram.org/
Others: https://www.telegram.org/apps
Inkscape Drawing Sketch Paint
Well designed doodler to draw a masterpiece
https://inkscape.org/
Krita Painting Illustrations Editor
Painting illustration, best with a pen pad
https://krita.org/en/
Gimp Photograph Edit Manipulation
Over 25 years in development and open source
https://www.gimp.org/
Blue Griffin Website Design Code Edit
Little buggy but my favorite free html editor
http://www.bluegriffon.org/
Blender 3D Animation Video Editor
Not the easiest but the best for free 3D
https://www.blender.org/
Unity Game Development Design
Time consuming but wow what can be done
https://unity.com/
qBittorrent File Share Download
Open source software created by volunteers
**Only download files from trusted sources
https://www.qbittorrent.org/
FileZilla FTP File Server & Client
Free FTP File Server and FTP User Client
https://filezilla-project.org
Team Viewer Remote Desktop
Small pop up ad after use, but works very well
https://www.teamviewer.com/en-us/
Sublime Text Code Editor
Text editor for code, markup, and more
https://www.sublimetext.com/
USA Weather Radars
A little older and of my own design but I use it
https://usaradars.com/welcome.html
Know something better?
Although I do a lot of research and have tried a lot of software, I don’t claim to know all. If you think I missed something that’s better or newer, please contact me and let me know!