Great libre software on Windows [Effortpost]

If for some reason you've to use the spyware OS Windows10 then why don't you at least use these great libre programs and games? Think of it as a first step towards more privacy on your desktop.

All mentioned software is open source and cross platform (works natively on Linux)

Media player

Clementine (music player)

If you want an older style dense UI

Elisa (music player)

if you want a more modern UI

PDF reader

Okular

supports many formats, including PDF, EPub, DjVU and MD for documents; CBR and CBZ for comics; and many more.
Supports annontations, text selection and more.
Download from here

Office software

LibreOffice

Best free office suite and a great alternative to Microsoft Office
Compatible with a wide range of formats such as Microsoft
Supports extensions

Browser

Firefox

Check this post for why you should use Firefox and ditch any other browser.

Torrent

qBittorrent

Polished User Interface, Well-integrated and extensible Search Engine, RSS support, Sequential downloading (to watch media while downloading)

Screenshot

Flameshot

Very light, easy to use with a customizable appearance, screenshot editing and uploading to Imgur

Imagie viewer

Nomacs

Beautiful interface, supports most image formats, image editing and more

Archive Utility

Text editor

Password manager

File explorer

Dolphin

lightweight and feature rich, multiple tabs and split view features allow navigating multiple folders at the same time, access to cloud services and more

Artistic/Creator software

Krita

Professional painting program with great features

GIMP

Photoshop alternative
Those used to Photoshop's interface should check PhotoGIMP out. It's a patch that makes GIMP look like Photoshop

KDENLive (video editor)

use it for basic video editing or professional work, supports almost all audio and video formats
Titler, many effects and transitions and a lot more
Configurable themable interface and shortcuts that can also be configured

Inkscape

A vector graphics editor for drawing and making illustrations

CAD software

Gaming

Dolphin emulator

0AD

Reak time strategy game of ancient warfare, got great graphics

Xonotic

first-person shooter with multiplayer support

Game engines

Doom

open source engines, not free assets unless you use freedoom

OpenRA

OpenMW

RetroArch

Godot

More linux software on windows

If you want to go further and try out some of the software that would come with many linux distributions out of the box with a desktop environment called KDE Plasma.

KDE Plasma is a desktop environment, which is basically the foundation of your computer's desktop, it controls taskbars and start menus, docks and panels, titlebars and close buttons, settings and configuations. The KDE desktop uses a toolkit that's cross compatible with windows, so it's possible for the devs to port their software over to windows (like krita, Okular and kdenlive).

While porting is still a somewhat large task thanks to how different windows is compared to linux, there's a pretty good library of windows binaries of KDE programs here. Since these programs are made for linux it's important to note that they won't be as good as they would be on linux, they probably won't be as stable either because they just don't have the same kind of freedom as they do on linux, but it's good for understanding some of the core software.

This post only presents a curated sample of available cross platform software so feel free to ask for more alternatives

Check this post for open source apps on Android

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