Another +1 for GIMP, also love Inkscape (for svg graphics) and VLC for media playback — I think those should all be available on linux/macos/windows. I also liked GNU Octave when I was doing matlab-adjacent work in undergrad.
Some of my favorite utilities are ag (code searching tool called the silver searcher, like awk but faster and more fully featured), and jq for parsing/manipulating json data — both definitely available on linux and macos, probably bsd too but I haven't checked.
Also loving the hell out of Nix as a package manager right now (haven't used nixos itself yet). Nixpkgs really easy to use, though writing nix configuration files has one of the steepest learning curves of any language I've ever used lol
Another +1 for GIMP, also love Inkscape (for svg graphics) and VLC for media playback — I think those should all be available on linux/macos/windows. I also liked GNU Octave when I was doing matlab-adjacent work in undergrad.
Some of my favorite utilities are
ag(code searching tool called the silver searcher, like awk but faster and more fully featured), andjqfor parsing/manipulating json data — both definitely available on linux and macos, probably bsd too but I haven't checked.Also loving the hell out of Nix as a package manager right now (haven't used nixos itself yet). Nixpkgs really easy to use, though writing nix configuration files has one of the steepest learning curves of any language I've ever used lol
I love how ancient GIMP's UI is. In an age of slick mobile design it takes me back to my roots.
That being said I would never recommend it to anyone because of that.