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This post will be boring. It is merely a list of my favorite free and open source tools for Windows desktop. I started this in mid-July and am just throwing things on the page. (Will tidy up over time).
Ed Bott has published his list of 10 most useful Windows tools.
Foobar2000 for my music player/encoder/metadata editor.
freeac for batch processing of music files (ie., mass conversion of flac files to mp3/m4a, opus, etc
LibreOffice. I use this for basic office apps, especially for printed docs. (I can use Google Docs for cloud-based or streaming docs).
7-zip file manager, for batch unzipper of Zip Files (saved me lots of time!)
Gimp for image editor. (Free, but requires lots of training).
Notepad++ — the best open source editor. I use it for a lot of text, not just for code.
Filezilla
Winmerge
Fontbase & nexusfont
qBittorrent
Handbrake
Videolan
Mediainfo
Freefilesync
izarc
Teamviewer
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