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winget - Windows package manager.
winstall - Web-based winget browser. Creates a script which allows installing multiple packages with one command. Reminiscent of Ninite.
Everything - Instantly search all your files across multiple local & network drives.
HexChat - Free IRC client based on XChat.
CrystalDiskInfo - HDD/SSD benchmark & health status utility. Optional anime girl features.
Transmission - Lightweight torrent client. Handles large numbers of torrents very well. Approved by all private trackers, offers packages for most NAS solutions.
Rufus - Feature-rich utility for burning ISOs to flash drives.
Newsboat - Console RSS Reader.
Filezilla - Graphical FTP client and server software.
Ventoy - Create a bootable USB flash drive containing multiple ISO files.
Btrfs Assistant - GUI to help manage Btrfs filesystems. Includes commonly used subvolume operations and Snapper support.

mpv - Minimalistic cross-platform media player.
MPD - Music Player Daemon. Audio player server controlled through player clients.
ncmpcpp - Terminal-based frontend for mpd.
GIMP - Cross-platform free & open source image editor. Green Is My Pepper.
FFmpeg - Cross platform command-line media editing & encoding tool. Very extensive list of features.
Kdenlive - FOSS non-linear editing video editor. Part of the KDE suite.
Exact Audio Copy - CD Ripping Tool.
MusicBrainz Picard - Audio file tag editor.
Mp3tag - Audio file tag editor.
MediaInfo - View information on multimedia files.
ExifTool - EXIF metadata editor. Helps to quickly remove EXIF data from photos to stop you from doxing yourself.
foobar2000 - Advanced, highly customizable audio player.
fooyin - qt6 foobar2000 clone for Linux.

Snapper - Manages Btrfs subvolumes, allows scheduling automated snapshots.
Timeshift - Schedule Btrfs snapshots. Alternative to Snapper, more similar to Apple's Time Machine.
Virtual Volumes View - External media cataloguing tool.

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

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.