Software

This page is a list of software I use.

I denote the license in brackets, I try to stick with software that is free and open-source, if a piece of software is not FOSS, source, I mark it red, as I do not want to recommend such, but it is what I am stuck with.

PC

• 7-Zip , p7zip (GPLv2 with unRAR restriction) - archiving tool
• Arch Linux and Arch linux ARM as my OS for my computers and VPS
• Arduino IDE (GPLv2/LGPL)
• Calibre - Read ebooks, especially EPUBs
• Charles (proprietary) – for HTTP monitoring
• Cheat Engine (No license, source code available) – hacking flash games/SP games - Never attach this to games that use an anticheat unless you aren't afraid of being banned
• Deezloader Remix (GPLv3+) - Download songs from Deezer
• ffmpeg (LGPLv2.1+) – for simple video editing
• Firefox (MPL 2), Chromium (BSD/MIT/LGPL) - Browsers I use. Chromium is an open-source browser that Chrome builds upon.
• KDE Connect (GPL) - Connect your phone with your desktop - share clipboard, files, read SMS, control media players...
• KeePassXC (GPL) - Cross-platform password manager, supports OTP (including Steam)
• Krita (GPLv3), GIMP (GPL), digiKam (GPLv2) - tools for image editing/drawing
• Libreoffice (various open/copyleft licenses) - An office suite. Be aware that OOXML standard that Microsoft Office uses by default is sometimes(very often) not displayed correctly anywhere, so get people to save in ODF formats instead.
• MultiMC (Apache v2) - Minecraft launcher
• Mumble (BSD, GPL), Riot (Apache v2), Telegram (GPLv3, proprietary server) - chat/voice/video clients with E2E encryption that are actually worth something. I use Telegram for stuff that can be insecure as they roll their own crypto and don't encrypt conversations and group conversations by default
• Nvidia drivers (proprietary) – Since the open-source nouveau driver won't work properly unless Nvidia releases the necessary firmware blobs
• OBS Studio (GPLv2+) - capturing video/streaming
• qBitTorrent (GPLv2+) - A torrent client.
• redshift (GPLv3) - tool for colorshifting to rest your eyes
• smplayer (GPLv2+) with mpv (GPLv2) as a backend - to play videos
• Steam (proprietary), GOG Galaxy (proprietary), Uplay (proprietary), Origin (proprietary), itch (MIT) - clients for games
• SmoothVideoPlayer (proprietary) - to do on-the-fly video interpolation - let's me watch movies and shows in 144 FPS
• Ventoy (GPLv3) - Create a multiboot flash drive that actually works
• virt-manager (GPLv3+) and KVM/QEMU (GPLv2) – for virtualization
• Visual Studio Code (MIT) - Plugins: Arduino, Draw.io integration, indent-rainbow, gitlens, shellcheck
• youtube-dl (The Unlicense) - video/audio downloader

Windows only

• AIDA64 (8.20) (proprietary) – To get system specs, temps - Check here for newer version
• Chocolatey (MIT) - A package manager
• CrystalDiskInfo (MIT) - Monitoring tool for your drives and temperatures of your HW
• Everything (proprietary) - Tool for searching your files and folders
• HashCheck (BSD-style) - Add hash sum feature to the Properties tab of files
• MSI afterburner (proprietary) + Kombustor (proprietary) – for GPU stressing, overclocking and checking on temperatures
• Rufus (GPLv3+) – To create bootable flash drives when I’m stuck with Windows.
• ShareX (GPLv3) - screenshotting, capturing video, editing screenshots
• WinAuth (GPLv3)- 2-factor-authentication, has integration for custom 2FA like Steam, Battle.net, ...
• WinDirStat (GPLv2) - Tool for visualizing your disk space to help you clean useless stuff

Linux only

• ANGRYsearch (GPLv2) - Tool for searching your files and folders
• Flameshot (GPLv3) - Screenshot tool, lets you draw over the screenshot while taking it.
• gparted (GPLv2+) - Partitioning tool. There is also a live image.
• nano (GPL) and gedit (GPLv2) – For text editing since I’m too lazy to learn vim or emacs
• pavucontrol (GPLv2) - sound mixer/audio control
• QDirStat (GPLv2) - Tool for visualizing your disk space to help you clean useless stuff
• Tauon Music Box (GPLv3+) - My favorite music player
• WINE (LGPLv2.1+) - Windows compatibility layer - play Windows games/use Windows software

Android

• AdAway (GPLv3) - Blocks ads system wide, requires root
• DriveDroid (proprietary) - Boot images from your phone
• FreeOTP (Apache v2) - 2-factor-authentication, only has basic TOTP with no gimmicks
• F-Droid - Open source store with open source apps.
• KeePassDX (GPLv3+) - Using it to access my password database. Using Nextcloud to sync it.
• NewPipe (GPLv3) - Youtube player with all the features you could ask for
• Nextcloud (AGPLv3) – For cloud backup and file sharing
• Open Camera (GPLv3) - Camera app
• Google services (proprietary) - Gmail, account sync and such. I hope I can migrate all to Nextcloud sometime soon.
• StreetComplete - Help make OpenStreetMap better!
• Usb Mountr (MIT) - Fakes mass storage so you can boot an image from your phone instead of using a flash drive. Requires root.
• WiFiAnalyzer (GPLv3) - Neat tool that shows APs, their settings and their signal strength. Doesn't show whether WPS is locked or not(Android API limitation).

Browser addons

• Augmented Steam (GPLv3) - Chromium, Firefox - Makes the steam website stuck less

• Auto Resume Downloads (MIT) - Chromium, GitHub - Automatically resume failed downloads, helpful on shoddy networks

• AutoScroll (MIT) - Chromium - Middle click to scroll, just like in Windows

• ClearURLs (LGPLv3) - Chromium Firefox GitHub- Remove tracking and other garbage from URLs

• Dark Reader (MIT) - Chromium Firefox GitHub - Dark mode for the web, slightly buggy sometimes

• EditThisCookie (GPLv3+) - Chromium - Cookie editor

• Floccus (MPLv2)- GitHub - Sync my bookmarks across browsers from my Nextcloud server

• Forever Pinned (proprietary, source code available) - Chromium - keep a set of tabs always pinned

• HoverZoom+ (MIT) - Chromium - View video/images upon hover

• Netflix 1080p (MIT) - Chromium GitHub - Play Netflix in 1080p and 5.1

• Plasma Integration (GPLv3) - Chromium - For Plasma on Linux

• Reddit Enhancement Suite (GPLv3) - Chromium - Make Reddit bearable

• SponsorBlock (GPLv3) - Chromium Firefox GitHub - Skip specific segments on Youtube

• SSL Grade (GPLv3) -Chromium - Test website's TLS settings on ssllabs and show their grade

• Steam Database (BSD-3) - Chromium Firefox GitHub - Show links to SteamDB on Steam store pages

• Tamper Monkey (proprietary, source code available only for ancient versions, TODO: Check out Greasemonkey) - Chromium - Run various scripts

  • GitHub unroll comments
  • IPT fixes
  • MuseScore downloader
  • ScoreSaberEnhanced
  • Youtube continue watching - Autoclicks this stupid popup

• uBlock Origin (GPLv3) - Chromium, Firefox - Block ads, popups and similar stuff.

  • Make sure to enable extra filters:
    • Options -> Filter Lists -> Ads -> Adblock Warning removal list
    • Options -> Filter Lists -> Annoyances -> Fanboy’s Annoyance

• User agent switcher (MPLv2) - GitHub - Switch UA to make sites display content I want