Useful Software

General Use

• winget [W] - Windows package manager. Comprehensive list of software available. Comes with Windows 11 as standard.
• winstall [W] - Web-based winget browser. Creates a script which allows installing multiple packages with one command. Reminiscent of Ninite.
• Everything [W] - Instantly search all your files across multiple local & network drives.
• HexChat [L][W] - Free IRC client based on XChat
• CrystalDiskInfo [W] - HDD/SSD benchmark & health status utility. Optional anime girl features.
• Transmission [L][W][M] - Lightweight torrent client. Handles large numbers of torrents very well. Approved by all private trackers, offers packages for most NAS solutions.
• Rufus [W] - Feature-rich utility for burning ISOs to flash drives.
• Newsboat [L] - Console RSS Reader.
• Filezilla [L][W][M] - Graphical FTP client and server software.

Multimedia

Video

• mpv [L][W][M] - Minimalistic cross-platform media player.
• MPD [L][W][M] - Music Player Daemon. Audio player server controlled through player clients.
  • ncmpcpp [L] - Terminal-based frontend for mpd.
• foobar2000 [W] - Advanced, highly customisable audio player for Windows.
• GIMP [L][W][M] - Cross-platform free & open source image editor.
• FFmpeg [L][W][M] - Cross platform command-line media editing & encoding tool. Very extensive list of features.
• Kdenlive [L][W][M] - FOSS non-linear editing video editor. Part of the KDE suite.
• Exact Audio Copy [W] - CD Ripping Tool.
• MusicBrainz Picard [L][W][M] - Audio file tag editor.
• Mp3tag [W] - Audio file tag editor.
• MediaInfo [L][W][M] - View information on multimedia files.
• ExifTool [L][W][M] - EXIF metadata editor. Helps to quickly removes EXIF data from photos to stop you doxing yourself.

Backup/Archiving

• Timeshift [L] - Schedule instant Btrfs snapshots for the quick system/file restore.
• Virtual Volumes View [L][W][M] - External media cataloguing tool.

Security

• WinGPG [W] - All-in-one GPG tool for Windows. Allows creating keypairs, importing public keys & encrypting/decrypting files.
• KeePass [L][W][M] - Cross-platform password manager. Uses a local database file instead of keeping your passwords in the cloud.
• KeePassXC [L][W][M] - More modern KeePass.

Web Resources

• ArchWiki - Arch Linux Wiki. Commonly accepted as the most thorough Linux Wiki, regardless of your distro of choice.
• Internet Archive - The biggest archive of software, media & much more, home of the Wayback Machine.
• GifCities - Archive of Geocities gifs from the Internet Archive.
• Wolfram - Search engine for power users.
• ImgOps - Image utilities, multi-engine reverse search.
• ncmpcpp Cheat Sheet - Keyboard shortcuts for the ncmpcpp media player.
• ArchiveOS - Operating System Archive.

Browser Extensions

• uBlock Origin - The only browser adblocker you should consider.
• SponsorBlock - Skips YouTube sponsor segments, subscription reminders etc.
• NoScript - Script blocker.