Top 10 Best FREE SOFTWARE You Should Be Using!
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024
- These are 10 best free software for your computer that are very useful. Beginning with this edition of the “Free Software” series and future episodes to come, we’ll take a look at the best free and open source programs for your computer. In short, when you see the term “open-source software”, it means that it’s source-code is freely available for users to inspect, modify, and distribute the software to anyone for any reason. With so many free and open-source programs that are actually great, in this video I will show you 10 of our personal favorites that we think are the most useful, many of which you’ve heard me discuss before on this channel. They’re all well-established, trusted and completely free.
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0:38 Office Suite
1:25 Web Browser
2:03 Screen Recorder
2:42 Video Editor
3:35 Graphics Editor
4:46 Screenshot Tool
5:47 3D Creation
6:23 Text Editor
6:55 Media Player
7:21 Virtualizer
Atom
atom.io/
Blender
www.blender.org/
GIMP
www.gimp.org/
LibreOffice
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Mozilla Firefox
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OBS Studio
obsproject.com/
ShareX
getsharex.com/
Shotcut
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Tor Browser
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What are your favorite "free and open-source" programs? Thanks for watching :)
There's a very useful app called Join, and extension in Chrome. Tho its not free, it has one time charge but its a great app. You might wanna look at it
Edit: Join is basically Pushbullet but cheaper and way better
Edit.: Add tasker to it, and bam you can do whatever you want
Anki SRS flashcard software
Microsoft Visual Studio code
DaVinci Resolve video editor
Inkscape SVG graphics editor
Paint.net image editor
af5.exe ReName file renamer
MP3tag tag editor
WinAmp MP3 player
PosterRazor enlarges images for multi-page printing
Balabolka text to speech that can record to MP3
Machete Lite video splitter
Thanks a lot, you doing great!!!
@@bobzani both of them are proprietary, not open sourced.
Pinta
Inkscape
darktable
vim
flameshot
Here's what's currently on my main PC & laptop as freeware:
WinX DVD Author Freeware - convert and burn to DVD any video file to be able to play on any home dvd/bluray player
CDBurnerXP - burn audio cd
IMGBurn - burn ISO to disk and other functions
WinX RUclips Downloader Freeware (vital if your browser is chrome) - download any YT video & select resolution
Calibre - eBook Reader & format converter etc
O & O ShupUp10 - to safeguard you against the MS Win 10 spymachine
WinPatrol - gives you full control over startup programs & services
LightShot - very efficient screenshot program
Image Resizer Windows Powertoy (pre- Win 10 use only, but the best out there) - turns large size pics into very small size
VLC Media Player - has many other functions besides playing almost all formats out there
uTorrent downloader - best torrent downloader, very small memory footprint
BitDefender free AV -- PC Magazine rated it top, and uses very little resources on my laptop
ZoneAlarm FireWall Freeware - recommend turn off Win Firewall & use auto settings - set & forget
FLux - To reduce bluelight automatically at night
KeyBoard LED - if like mine, your keyboard/laptop has no Caps Lock indicator
DesktopOK - saves desktop icons layout
CoreTemp - shows temp of each core & RAM usage in system tray
7ZIP for best compression, uncompress anything out there
AxCrypt - rightclick menu integrated, I find the old v 1.7 to be the most practical
Agent Ransack - for very fast realtime file search without creating an index first
doPDF - after using many, I like this freeware PDF Writer software the best, or try Foxit PDF
PDFXchange Viewer - to avoid the resource hogging Adobe Reader, use this functional & lightweight pdf reader
Heidi Eraser - to securely erase files from your system
BelArc Advisor - to give a thorough summary of all hardware and software plus product keys etc on your system
There's Audacity, a great audio editor, that's free and open source.
Yeah, I use to to record and process my voice, casette tapes, vynil discs, to convert sound formats, and to create Audio CD images.
I 2nd this, Audacity is the best when it comes to audio editing.
Used to make ogg files for sound tracks in certain games.
and it is EASY to use. Nothing complicated.
ABSOLUTELY -I've used Audacity for years. It's superb.
My Favorites:
I pretty much use most of the programs you listed on a daily basis.
I dabble in Audio/Video production.
Instead of Shotcut and Blender, I typically use KdenLive for video editing.
For a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation), I use Qtractor or Ardour.
For DJ'ing I use Mixxx.
As a long-time subscriber, I just want to thank you for your videos. They are always useful and your hard work is appreciated.
Inkscape is worth mentioning. Another one, though not open source, is Davinci Resolve. The free version provides more than the average person would need.
Gee Tech Gumbo - you not only have the best info available, you have some awesome readers that thrash out more issues for dummies like me. Another year of watching and reading and I may be able to plug this tape deck into my computer... Thanks!
Everything, ArsClip, KeePass, Playnite, AltDrag, Balabolka, HWInfo, CPU-Z, GPU-Z, Paint.net, Lockhunter, Wox
I use GIMP and Audacity often. Love them both.
My favorite soft is Handbrake - an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder
I have used gimp, blender and inkscape. Inkscape is great great free alternative to Adobe illustrator. I love them all and have great respect for their developers for making it available for free. I have used them for professional design work and made decent amount of money as a beginner on freelancing platforms. One day very soon I will donate them
Inkscape should have definitely been on this list. I've been using it to create icons and other graphics for my android apps. As a non-artist the Trace Bitmap function has been a revelation.
drawing - Krita 4.1.0 Video Editor - Avidemux 2.1.2
WOW, this is very informative. I have been using computer for more than 36 years, and never came across such informative video. This information has compelled me to learn more about software.
Thanks for the Libre Office tip. Our old 2007 Microsoft Word has to go through a 2-minute load on our Windows 10 machine EACH and every time we open it. As a result, we just leave Microsoft Word open and collapsed in the background. Microsoft wants a kidney & 1st born for the latest incarnation of Word, PLUS you get a nice monthly "subscription" fee to go with it! That's right -- no one time purchase. Just an ongoing monthly extortion payment for it. Your Libre suggestion is a Godsend. Free, works great, barely a learning curve, and works with all my old saved documents. THANKS, PAL!
MPC-HC (media player classic - home cinema) I like better than VLC as it has less problems.
For simple Screenshots incl. highlighting areas, writing on the screen, etc. I often use Pointofix. It call's itself "highliter pen for the screen"
Notepad++ deserves a shoutout, excellent software for basic coding
yes, the black background and white text is amazing. or the 99 languages it auto-parses
I write css3 advanced I need rgba value with a tool that transparent values set
I’m using notepad in my web design class right now.
long time ago on Windows as beginner, but VSCode, Sublime (not open source), Atom are much more powerfull.
Summary:
LibreOffice
Mozilla
OBS Studio
Shot Cut
GIMP
ShareX
Blender
Atom
VLC Player
VirtualBox
Keka
SketchBook
Heroes of the Storm
mpv Player
KRITA is my favorite open source painting program.
Code_Aster la the best tool to calculate any structure, you can simulate incredibly complex physics with the open-source FE & CFD solvers Code_Aster, Code-Saturne, OpenFOAM & Elmer: non-linear thermo-mechanics, coupled fluid-structure dynamics, seismic / non-linear explicit dynamics, contacts, visco-plasticity, fluid dynamics, heat exchange, convection heat transfer and radiation in other words nearly all physics problem can be addressed with the integrated solvers!! Then reload your results files in post-processing applications like Salomé, GMSH or Paraview to visualize your data in 3D... And don't forget all these features are based on open-source / free softwares, so now you don't have to pay for any expensive licenses and if you want, you can even improve it.
AnVir task manager gives you a lot of info on what is going on with computer processes with the option to delete or quarantine Belarc Advisers a snapshot on just about everything to do with what is on your system. Both of these are free with the option upgrade but in the long run-you will not need to do that(most likely).
This one you can use for a time and then ask for an extension for 60 or 90 days(not sure of the number). Eventually you will have to pony up to buy a full version. The program name is Directory OPus-a really good replacement for File Explorer. I paid the money-no regrets on that one.
I totally agree with Libre Office being included. It really is a very good program. I use the Word Processor all the time and wrote my novel on it.
I enjoyed the video and will try a couple of those that I haven't used before. Just to add a little plug for VLC. I recently retired from working as a TV/Radio station engineer and VLC was a great program to have and use. We would get video clips from various sources in a huge variety of formats, codecs etc and VLC was the only app I found that could open virtually anything we came across. Just FYI.
No audio with screen record
Greg my old laptop won't play some of my old CDs - plays others just fine though. I wanted to take backups too, same problem with the certain CDs - won't copy/burn. Any ideas if I could somehow use VLC to recognise them? I don't know why some CDs don't work :( Thanks!
@@kiwi8157 I never really dealt with CDs but VLC should be able to open it. Have you tried opening those CDs on a different, possibly newer, computer? If they will open and play on a different computer or for that matter a CD player like in your car then the problem may be with the laptop's CD drive or the computer itself. If they won't play in other devices then the discs may be bad. I hope that helps.
VLC for android is a great player with a clean, good looking UI :)
I have been using VLC on my computers for years. Love the A-B option. I also used the option to watch youtube videos to repeat sections.
Would be great if they have keyboard shortcut to switch left/right audio channels.
Kind of disappointed after the last update that the playlist font is so small that I almost have to 'smell' the screen to read the list.
As a Linux user VLC has been my standard for years, too :) Just lately I discovered how great the android app is. It made me wave goodbye to the (payed) player I used until then.
You forgot about Krita. It's an art program just like photoshop. And I think it's way better then Gimp. Krita even allows you to make animations like Adobie Flash and Animate. Another free program I just recently found is Godot. It's a free game development tool similar to Unity. Except your not required to log into an Account to start creating like newer versions of Unity do.
If you like doing animation, you should also take a look at Synfug Studio and OpenToonz. I think there's also Pencil2D. I prefer Blender, personally, and the new grease pencil feature is an awesome way to animate.
Photoshop is not an art program, it's a photo editor. For some weird reason artists use it for drawing. A real art program is Corel Painter, or Krita as you mentioned.
I like using Equalizer APO as an alternative to DFX Audio Enhancer (FXSound Enhancer). It is open source and makes my personal music and Pandora sound so much better on Windows PC with my soundbar .
Handbrake is a great transcoding software for MP4s.
my tv hates the m4v extension, but i rename to .avi and my tv takes the usb
Must have something to do with what's in the file. The TV doesn't take m4v container files so it rejects the m4v extension, but it can process what's in the container so when you change the extension it works. At least that's my hypothesis.
Handbrake is great for transcoding. Anything. :-)
I've used Libre Office for around 10 years, for my transcription services. Never had a problem with conversion between LO and MS Office - although, admittedly, my documents are never that complex.
Light shot is one of the best alternative for Print Screen.
And Greenshot
Jinga as well
Snipping tool is pre installed on windows.
@@BeNachos Haven't gone wrong with snipping tools so far. Snip&Sketch isn't as fast.
@@nico1337 I'd really prefer snipping tool tho.
Magnifixer : Screen Magnifier (blackburn) -free gives you a square on screen with adjustable framesizel to make little or big and move around on your screen with pressed left mouse and scrol to magnify image in frame -move program for quick launch to your taskbar on bottom and it wil come in handy any time you need it i use it daily
This is your best video so far. You knew it would be.
qBitTorrent - Open Source bit torrent client
GNS3 - Network Simulator software
Audacity - Music editing.
Raimeter - Desktop customization
VSCodium - Open Source software development environment
Visual Studio Code is a faster and more flexible option than Atom, and also open source.
@Shon Miles use code::blocks it has a compiler and .exe maker, just like netbeans but with mingw pre intalled instead of linux's cygwin
@@corlfranco9371 code::blocks seems tailored specifically towards C, C++ and Fortran. I haven't seen any plugins that adds support for Java, Javascript, Haskell, Haxe, etc. so it doesn't seem comparable in the editor category.
@@klesus if you just wanna edit text go for notepad++
@@klesus netbeans and firefox edits n runs javascipts. tbh i just hate microsoft so deeply
But it is not free software.
I am fond of Paint .NET if you want a free Windows based paint package thats more powerful than MS Paint but less complex to learn than Photoshop. I found GIMP's interface horrible to use along with other issues.
Krita is way better for drawing than Gimp. Gimp is really only for photo editing.
I have/use almost all of these on a regular basis.
Am alternative to ShareX is LightShot. Simple and has a few options. Not as many as ShareX, though.
Am alternative, or companion, to OBS is FFSplit.
For a powerful DJ program, Mixxx is one to start with before getting involved with Rekordbox or Serato.
BootCD is GREAT piece of software. You burn the image to a disc or thumb drive and let your computer load it instead of your regular OS. It will give you drive testing and diagnostics, same for memory, BIOS and a ton of info about your computer. It gets updates on a regular basis.
I appreciate you mentioning when the software's were released. I didn't know blender been around since 1998 Whew.
Open Source Web Browser - Pale Moon isn't bad (Windows & Linux, no Mac) and another one I like is 7zip, covers a lot of Operating Systems.
PureText lets you paste text you copied with any special formatting stripped out. Copy formatted text to the clipboard from word, WINOWS KEY + V will strip the formatting and paste plain text.
Faststone Image Viewer: "An image browser, converter and editor that supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO, TGA and camera raw files. It has a nice array of features such as image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping, color adjustments, musical slideshow and much more."
Many thanks @TechGumbo. Trying out Shotcut & reading the OBS Beginner's Guide. Much appreciated!
I'm a fan of Virtual CloneDrive, it allows you to mount almost any disc image format as though it were a real disc drive.
Good to see VLC Player is still making top 10 lists after all these years.
Have good, one of the most stable engine. But really extremely poor on UI
Visual Studio Code is an excellent choice and is extremely powerful. Should also have mentioned DaVinci Resolve video editor which is free (not open source though).
- VS Code (although Atom is nice, I still find myself using VS Code the most)
- Azure Data Studio (SQL Server Management Studio alternative, not as feature-full but cross platform)
Incredibly helpful. Informative, clear and straightforward - Thanks and keep up the excellent work
I believe Libre Office 6.2 has dropped, not sure if out of beta just yet but it has a new UI within the various programs
Dark themes for everything rock!
A few ones I use that are not in the list: Inkscape, KiCad, PostgreSQL, Spyder, Git, TortoiseGit, 7-zip.
PostgreSQL is vastly undermentioned, but a serious DB for real use...
I prefer, Hitfilm Express or DaVinci Resolve as a free alternative for Premier Pro, as of video editing :)
So do I, but these are not open source, so is of no use if looking for open source.
nice list... also a nice feature Windows should have is to change and manage files easily, such as using Folderchanger, google it
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can't live without this channel
Great video! thank you very much for sharing,..
Excellent list! I'd have added Notepad ++, Audacity, and Paint.net. I don't personally use Paint.net but I know a lot of Sim Racers that like to skin race cars with it (I use the paid software Paint Shop Pro for this)
Here Are Some Of My Favorite Open Source Programs!
Mozilla Thunderbird - A Great E-Mail Client.
Etcher - A Great Way To Burn ISO Files Onto SD Cards, USB Flash Drives And CD-DVD.
Rufhs - The Same Thing As Etcher But Only For USB Flash Drives.
Project64 - The Best N64 Emulator!
SeaMonkey - A Internet Suite!
And Others I Think Are Cool!
It isn't open-source, but for video editing, you will be hard pressed to find something better that DaVinci Resolve, and it is free. Many consider it better than Premiere Pro.
If you're using Windows, get Media Player Classic - Home Cinema instead of VLC. It uses 1/4 the CPU that VLC does for playing the same video.
very nice and helpful. thanks
Very nice. I use almost all of these programs.
Mine is Medibang Paint Pro, It's an amazing free software for drawings and Illustrations, Comics, and stuff
Just stumbled across this video. Thank you! The content is great and I just subscribed. Very helpful content.
Seeing a great notification from one of my favorite creators!
VLC is a good media player, but I find PotPlayer to be even better.
Thanks for this. Never heard of PotPlayer before. Looks good.
PotPlayer is amazing and better than VLC imo, although not open source.
How is it better?
Yes Pot Player is made by same team that created KM Player back then , they sold KM Player and created Pot Player.Before Pot Player release KM Player was considered best video player , now for many ppl Pot Player is the best video player but its more to personal preferences i guess.
Agree
My favorite is CyberLink PowerDirector 12. It is free now on CyberLink’s website.
Krita is a digital painting software, that is much preferred for drawing over GIMP
The new Blender 2.8 Beta is much better for new users. You should mention that too!
I tried it, but until they implement mirroring bones, Ill stick to 2.79.
Wow, superb video and comments, a wealth of tools that are free to use. Great work.
Blender, GIMP, and Inkscape are amazing.
Tech Gumbo is the best! Can you please do a vid on best DAWs for Mac and Windows?
Although I usually get the full paid versions, a good, free VFX program (not open-source) is HitFilm Express. Even at the free level, you can make some pretty impressive visual effects for your movies.
Well done, thanks.
I like to use format factory for any audio video photo format trans-coding the only thing it does not do is cut mp3 files into smaller sections but it will join them
Have just switched to Libre but also occasionally use Open Office. Microsoft Office was installed on my PC but since finding OO and Libre, I've deleted it. Total waste of money these days.
Of the two options relevant to this upload, I find Libre Writer much easier with only a couple of functions which aren't quite as intuitive. (eg: in Open Office you can easily drag upper, lower and side margins to adjust the text area for a document. In Libre you seem to have to do with by adjusting them manually using Edit / Page / Margins. Slightly more cumbersome, but no great problem. You can also download the full Libre manuals in 3 forms and/or you can download individual chapters.
All-in-all, Libre is proving the best option for me. You can also save in ..doc, .docx or rtf formats by default.
Inkscape is a great vector graphics software. Open source.
Great video. Great presentation. Fast and to the point. Thanks.
I prefer Krita over Gimp for digital art. I just wish it was available for IOS, it would be great on the iPad Pro.
For screen recording and live streaming I use Nvidia Share play. If you have an Nvidia graphics card on your PC this is a great option. There is no lag or performance decrease because it's integrated into the card and not an external program. you can capture up to 4k resolution and it's totally free. Just download the GeForce Exerience suite from Nvidia.
Thank you so much +TechGumbo .
You saved me a bit of a dilemma when you showed Shotcut and where it says the get it from Microsoft label
meaning that the app is now also available in the Windows App Store like I cannot say thank you enough
because of all of these dilemmas that have been coming up about the moving to Windows 10 out there even though I am using Windows 10 .
The good news being that so far those dilemmas are shrinking quite a bit . It's not at zero yet but it's getting better than it was .
- Dwight
I think VPN is a mandatory part of the software, for example, I have VeePN, a cool program, running like clockwork
I remember using virtualbox to play around with some volatile programs. 😉😂
Educational purposes BTW
I have two open source programs I use quite frequently: LibreOffice, and Inkscape.
Wow! No mention of GNU's GCC (GNU's Compiler Collection). The software that literally changed the world!
Still using it every day and have been since around 1990....
Nice video!
There's another great editor - Krita, but mostly for painting
Great video thank you! I can suggest to your collection mpc-hc video player
My Favorite Software is💻💾🤖
-PureRef
-Rainmeter
-Flux
Great content here... Thanks!!
So useful! Thanks!
Dear friend thanks for the informative and helpful video could you tell me what is the best version of Linux to install and what is the url address
Davinci Resolve is also pretty good for editing videos
No love for Inkscape. Great video though
I knew about most of these but not Shotcut. I'll have to check that one out. There just aren't that many decent options for free video editing, so interested to see what that one is like.
May I also recommend zotero.. it is an open source reference manager that saved me a lot of effort in my thesis. It might only be beneficial to a niche of people, nevertheless, total life saver.
Using Atom for Python programming. It is very useful and easy to use. Thank you for sharing the list.
Great Presentaion. Have you tried Ashampoo Snap 2018 screen capture app. They offer a lot of free full functional no ad apps too
Any substitute of itunes ( free and open source ) for win 8 / Win 10 ?
Thanks for this amazing video
My favourite FLOSS application has to be MiKTeX. Just does the job and if you need a new style file then it can probably find it if it's findable.
Open Office. IT may be a bit older, but does more than Libre at least for my needs.
If I were you, I’ld replace virtual box with Qemu. Qemu supports more architectures and is generally lighter weight and more simply to configure than virtual box. The only real problem is that it is less new user friendly than virtual box. This can be fixed with something like virtual-manager though.
My all time favourite is hybrid, it's so useful
Hitfilm Express - High quality video editor
Davinci Resolve - High quality video editor