Thank you so much, comrades! I am feeling pretty comfortable with linux mint, and now would like some suggestions for some absolutely necessary FOSS or free license software for the OS. So far I have the standard, Firefox, ThunderBird, LibreOffice, yada yada. Thank you again to everyone on the linux comm! 
Here's some creative software that replace the functionalities of Adobe software & more.
- photo editing: GIMP
- vector images: Inkscape
- drawing/painting: Krita (GIMP also fine for this)
- video editing: kdenlive
- 3d modelling, animating, etc.: Blender
- audio editing: Tenacity (Audacity fork made after the buyout without telemetry)
- DAW: LMMS
- media player: VLC or mpv
if there's any other specific software you're looking for a FOSS alternative to, don't hesitate to ask. You always have more options on Linux than you'd think.
BONUS: here's some command-line toys that are not useful or necessary, but are just real fun to take a look at especially if you're new to linux:
- cmatrix (does the matrix code rain thing)
- cowsay (ascii cow with speech bubble)
- sl (steam locomotive in your terminal)
- cbonsai (generate bonsai tree)
- neofetch (this one is actually very useful and will print system information in an aesthetically pleasing way)
Cmatrix,SL and neofetch work on android too through termux, I bet others would too, but I have only tested these two
KeePassXC (there's a Firefox extension too) and Syncthing are the first things I add to a new install.
Another nice-to-have is KDE Connect, it connects your desktop with your phone to sync notifications, send files, control media playback, use as remote input, share clipboard, send commands, and more
- Calibre - eBook manager/reader
- Gparted - disk tool
- Keepass - password manager
- VLC - the greatest video/music player
- Waydroid - run android apps
Logseq is a pretty nice FOSS alternative to Obsidian I came across recently. Tmux is absolutely necessary for any terminal work. Wezterm is my favorite terminal emulator because you can easily disable all of the shortcuts except very few you want (tmux handles most of terminal stuff for me). Some new alternatives to old command line utilities:
- bat is cat but 1000 times better. I love it so much!
fun fact
I also recently learned that it's safer, because you can have a file that has some bad command, then the backspace character several times, and cat doesn't display the characters "deleted" by the backspaces (but it still executes). Bat doesn't do that.
- fd is better find
- rg (ripgrep) is better grep
- zoxide is better cd
- dust is better du
Oh, Sorry I didn't notice also thanks to tell us about bat. It's much better than cat.
MPV, although you could also have used it on windows already. Also freetube, you can also combine those two with a little bit of internet search.
KiCAD for PCB design.
PulseView for USB logic analyzers.
DSRemote for remote control of Rigol oscilloscopes.
FreeCAD for 3D CAD.
SDR++ and SDRangel for SDR.
Fldigi, wsjtx & QSSTV for ham radio digital modes.- syncthing - Sync files across internet, works very well
- netdata - Very comprehensive monitoring software for servers
- Firefox
- wine - Without it (including proton) I couldn't make the switch, it's kind of a necessary evil but it's not wine that's the evil.
- KDE Desktop - My personal preference, I used Ubuntu and Pop OS, gnome doesn't suit me.
Welcome on board!
You revealed in your previous post to be a gamer. Therefore, I'd like to focus on software that might help with that (in alpabetical order):
For a one-stop-solution for all your problems related to package X not being available in the repos of distro Y; consider the more than excellent Distrobox.
- You should probably start with this one as the others might be less intuitive to you at the moment. Furthermore, their use-cases and thus why one might prefer the others over Lutris in the first place might not be clear currently and not even be stuff you worry about in the first place.
I always start with Syncthing, which is a cross-platform p2p syncing client I use to share documents between devices
I never tried it seriously mostly because I don't need all of the features it provides. But yeah that can be an alternative too
I always keep GIMP and VLC player installed. If you get comfortable using command line. Tmux and Neovim are a great duo.
Depends what device you run, but Xournal++ is useful. Otherwise pdftk.
