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Speedcrunch!! Speedcrunch is a text based calculator that I just recently found, and already cannot live without. The syntax is very intuitive. If you're a programmer, you will feel right at home. Now, I do all my bit twiddling in speedcrunch before it gets to code.
It also works on Windows. At work, I have a Windows and Linux machine, and it is pinned to the taskbar on both.
Geany,qbtorrent,Vlc Media Player,LocalSend,obs,KdenLive (Atleast in Linux),Cinnamon (Forked from gnome 3 With a traditional Ui)
I got sick of fucking around with windows administrator tasks so I just wrote my own. It's crude. It's not pretty but I'm sick of having my job undermined by windows settings being forced on me.
Actual - Accounting/budgeting/etc
Wrote up a python script or three to handle parsing my bank CSV export files into an actually usable form, with automatic categorization, and so now I just do a periodic export and sync, and have all my financial records all in one place with some nice visualization, categorization, and budgeting features from Actual. It saves everything to a local sqlite db, so I can always jump ship to a different system if needed, and also itself provides a CSV export option.
10/10 software, would recommend
MPD and whatever front end you like for what's the best music player going, imo. You can tweak your player to your liking, MPD will play any format supported by ffmpeg, has some forks for further functionality, handles big libraries like a champ (I'm sitting at 54,758 files in mine without issue), can serve music streams online and be remotely controlled, and even has ridiculous features like the ability to handle gopher urls for media/streaming.
It's also as lightweight as you want it to be. MPD+ncmpcpp for playback use a whopping 66MB of ram for me.
KiCad - electrical engieneering
FreeCAD - mechanical engieneering
Blender - 3d modeling, rendering, animation
Krita - raster painting
Kdenlive - video editing
LMMS - music creation
Ardour - sound processing
Nheko - Matrix client
Xonotic - FPS game
KDE - K Desktop Enviroment
Hotspot - GUI for perf sampling profiler
KCachegrind - GUI for valgrind cache simulator
QT Creator - C(++)/QML(and prob JS) IDE
Graphvis - graph visualizer
Adding on:
Inkscape - vector graphics program
Meshrom - photogrammetry
Handbrake - video transcoding
MakeMKV - rips DVDs and Blu Ray into video files
7zip - file compression and decompression
Droid48 - Truly excellent HP48 emulator for android
LibreOffice - free word processor & office suite (not without some recent drama though, I guess)
I'm sure I'm forgetting plenty, but hey, more for additional commenters to name.
Edit: Removed Audacity, apparently I'd missed privatization drama around that one too
Handbrake - video transcoding
FFmpeg.
Edit: Removed Audacity, apparently I'd missed privatization drama around that one too
Still GPL.
Synfig Studio - 2d animation software
I definitely considered FFmpeg (I mean, it does everything, and pretty much as fast as possible), but the sense I had was that people were mostly posting about tools that were reasonably accessible to novice users, with nice-ish interfaces. FFmpeg is pretty daunting to newcomers.
OpenSCAD (CAD, but with a programming language-style interface) is kind of in a similar category. It's pretty powerful, and for someone who thinks like a programmer it can be relatively easy to learn, but if you don't already understand 3d transformations on a pretty intuitive level, the program doesn't have a lot of features to ease you into that.
kate is similar to npp.
I've recently discovered and made heavy use of xournal++; for stylus-based note taking.
I got heavy use out of that one as a teaching assistant in grad school during the pandemic. I used a cheap wacom drawing pad.