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List of software

This is a list of "usually installed" software that I always (or almost always) have installed on any personal computer I use.

It's generally meant to be an overview for myself, but maybe someone else will find some use for this. Please do not take this as a "must-have" list. I just like to have some place to keep track of this.

This is primarily a Windows-only list. While the majority of these programs have a Linux version, it's intended for Windows installations.

Icons

Some software have been 'marked' with an emoji to signify something.

Emoji Meaning
✔️ Personal recommendation for anyone to use, regardless of technical ability or experience.
🔷 Software available through Ninite for easy installation.
💵 Software that typically costs money, or that I specifically have an upgraded license for.
🍫 Available via the Chocolatey package manager.

Other notes

  • If you "live in the terminal", I highly recommend checking out Chocolatey or alternatively Scoop. Essentially package managers for Windows.
  • Updates as of April 8th, 2021:
    • I have started adding Chocolatey package names for new software. I have yet to update the rest of the list to include all package names.
    • There's also a changelog at the bottom of this document that will include all changes from this day onwards.

The list

Web browsers

Name/Link Notes Marks Chocolatey name
Mozilla Firefox N/A ✔️🔷
Google Chrome N/A 🔷

Communication

Name/Link Notes Marks Chocolatey name
Mozilla Thunderbird Email client 🔷
TeamSpeak Voice communications. TS is mainly used as a backup in case Discord has an outage or something.
Discord My primary voice and text communications - Canary version
Slack Text communication for work (mostly)
Chatty IRC client designed for Twitch - Requires Java 🔷, but there is a "standalone version" for Windows that has Java bundled with it, so you don't have to install Java on the system.
Mailbird Mail client 💵
ProtonMail Bridge Client for bridging ProtonMail to a local mail client. Bridge requires a paid ProtonMail account (affiliate link) 💵
Keybase Encrypted communication platform to help make PGP easier to use

Media Players

Name/Link Notes Marks Chocolatey name
VLC Media Player N/A ✔️🔷
Spotify Music streaming and offline sync. 🔷💵
foobar2000 Music player for local files and it's great
Plex app Desktop client for direct-streaming from my Plex server 💵 (Plex Pass)

File management

Name/Link Notes Marks Chocolatey name
7-Zip Archive (de-)compression ✔️🔷
Bandizip Similar to 7-Zip
WizTree Disk usage viewer (WinDirStat alternative, seems to be much quicker than WDS)

Development

Name/Link Notes Marks Chocolatey name
Notepad++ Great text editor that is a great replacement for the standard Windows Notepad ✔️🔷
Visual Studio Code 👌 PowerShell support - VSCode settings/config
VSCodium VSCode without telemetry - VSCode settings/config
Sublime Text 4 Text editor 💵
Sublime Merge Git GUI client 💵
WinSCP Windows client for SFTP/FTP 🔷
PuTTY N/A 🔷
cmder Console emulator package - Replaced this with Windows Terminal, though I still have it installed.
Windows Terminal Microsoft actually made a proper terminal app. Windows Terminal settings (personal).
composer PHP package manager
Node.js & npm JavaScript development
DB Browser for SQLite For the rare times I need an SQLite browser
CSVFileView For the times I need to look at CSV files
HeidiSQL MySQL/PostgreSQL/MSSQL client
MobaXterm 🔥 SSH/RDP client with tabs, folders/categories etc. 💵
Python Both 2.x and 3.x (for various different open-source tools and software)
Git It's Git, I don't know what to tell you.
JetBrains PhpStorm PHP development 💵
JetBrains DataGrip Database management 💵

Media Management

Recording, editing etc.

Name/Link Notes Marks Chocolatey name
GIMP Image editing 🔷
Avidemux Basic video editor. Great if you only need a simple cut/delete video editor and not much more.
Audacity Audio editor 🔷
Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) Video recording and livestreaming
Handbrake Video conversion
Bandicam Video recording software I also help translate 😃 💵
ffmpeg Open-software CLI software for managing video, audio or streams
yt-dlp CLI software for media downloading/archiving. Supports a large list of services - Based on youtube-dl
Mp3tag Used for when I need/want to modify the metadata of audio files

Sync/cloud

Name/Link Notes Marks Chocolatey name
Dropbox N/A 🔷
Nextcloud Self-hosted cloud storage
Google Backup and Sync Normal Google Drive 🔷
Google Drive File Stream G Suite, mounts like a network share 💵

Authentication & credentials

Name/Link Notes Marks Chocolatey name
KeePass 2 Password manager 🔷
KeeWeb Password manager compatible with KeePass databases
Authy Desktop Desktop application for the Authy 2FA app
Bitwarden Password manager - Desktop application for Bitwarden ✔️💵
YubiKey Manager For managing my YubiKeys

Gaming

Name/Link Notes Marks Chocolatey name
Steam Games 🔷
Origin Electronic Arts games
Ubisoft Connect Ubisoft games - Replaces Uplay
GOG Galaxy All-in-one launcher for managing games scattered across multiple launchers.

Utilities

Name/Link Notes Marks Chocolatey name
ShareX Screenshots, quick file uploading ✔️🔷
qBitTorrent Torrent client 🔷
VirtualBox Type 2 hypervisor for virtual machines (development/testing).
Vagrant Management tool for virtual machines (VirtualBox)
ProtonVPN Client for ProtonVPN (affiliate link) 💵
Mullvad VPN Client Client app for Mullvad 💵
OpenVPN client For connecting to my own VPN server
WireGuard Also for connecting to my own VPN server (experimental)
Logitech Gaming Software Keyboard + mouse - no direct link, because direct links only link to the specific version
Glorious Model O software For my Glorious Model O mouse
Open Shell Menu Up-to-date version of Classic Shell
WhatPulse Tracks my every move :^)
ActivityWatch Tracks time spent in applications and such (similar to WhatPulse). Open source and stores data locally.
Rufus Great tool for creating bootable USB drives
Joplin Notes app with support for encryption, links up to my Nextcloud installation
Deluge Remote management for the torrent clients on my, uh, Linux ISO servers. ⚠️ Keep in mind that 2.x isn't compatible with 1.x
GPG4Win GPG management
Not Another PDF Scanner 2 Document scanning
Microsoft PowerToys Makes using Windows better for power users.
XSplit VCam Webcam software so I can blur my background during meetings and hide my messy room 💵
Sumatra PDF Reader PDF reader. Open source 🔷
EarTrumpet Alternative volume mixer for Windows 10 ✔️🍫 eartrumpet
ModernFlyouts Alternative media popout thing ✔️🍫 modernflyouts

Changelog

Changelog was started on April 8th, 2021. Any changes prior to that date are available via the diffs in the GitHub Gists Revisions tab.

2021-12-22

  • Media management
    • Added yt-dlp, replaces youtube-dl as youtube-dl is no longer being actively maintained.
    • Removed youtube-dl-gui
  • Development
    • Updated Sublime Text 3 to 4.
    • Added Sublime Merge
  • Media players
    • Removed spicetify-cli as I no longer use it.

2021-05-14

2021-04-08

  • Started changelog
  • New column to all tables for listing each software's Chocolatey package name.
    • TODO: Software may still have Chocolatey packages available, but they're just not listed because I'm too lazy to go through the list and update everything. Soon™️
  • New "icon" for indicating (🍫) that something is available on Chocolatey.
  • Added:
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