Technology

For me it is KDE Plasma desktop. By far the most powerful, customizable, flexible and innovative of the computer desktops today. And despite all these features and power it is still one of the more lightweight ones.

Also there are other great KDE apps and GNU/Linux operating system in general. Just love how they respect my digital rights and freedoms and my privacy and I do not need to use proprietary alternatives which are just getting more bloated and include more and more spyware. Not to mention their constant dumbing down of the interface and closing it up.

The Linux ecosystem as a whole

Linux! The responsible for my knowledge in computing and a great deal of English..Linux is the power!

Firefox is the first to come to mind. Also all the KDE software (when run in KDE).

Definitely Blender. I'd consider myself a medium grade expert at using it for CAD, solid modelling, 3D printing, yet there are vast sections of it I have never touched, and appear to be so rich that you could build a career around them without overlapping with my skill set.

Jellyfin
Blender
Darktable
Bitwarden / Vaultwarden

It’s probably safe to use but ghidra feels so sus considering who made it

qbittorrent

@dl007 kde and vlc

Blender and KDE

Jellyfin, such a great little media server.

Omnivore! It's just a "read it later" app, but so nice to use. I enjoy newsletters again, because they all go there instead of in my emails, and they all have a uniform look to them now. Sorting by labels and syncing highlights to my Obsidian inbox page are great features. And they said bulk editing is coming soon.

Also bitwarden, lichess, and qbitorrent.

VSCode. I know its owned by Microsoft but its such a good editor. Having a strong tool is so important since nobody wants to be concerned about the app, they just want to code and do their work!

Honestly, Lively Wallpaper. You can set anything as your wallpaper and it'll work wonderfully: a video streaming directly from YouTube, a Unity game, a shader, a browser tab, a gif... You name it!

And the API supports sound input so anyone can make their sound visualizers now. I always wanted to do that as a kid after being an og WMP fanboy and finally got that knocked off my bucket list

All of them! Manny have already been mentioned. But I'd like to add: -Gimp -Inkskape -KdenLive

OBS

• Xonotic
• SearXNG

• Yunohost
• KDE Plasma
• Kdenlive
• Krita
• Inkscape
• Blender
• OBS
• Xonotic
• Beyond All Reason
• Manjaro (Despite the hate, no other distro has worked as well for me)
• Firefly III
• Grocy
• Nextcloud
• DisplayCal / Argyll CMS
• Scribus
• Natron
• MuseScore
• Jellyfin
• Navidrome
• QOwnNotes

...and so many more

For some reason i thought Brave was closed source

As a creative: Blender. It was always a good program but thank god they finally started hiring people, that actually know how to design a usable UI. I remember the times when the devs refused to change the simple default selection to the worldwide standard: left mouse button.