Laptop:
Window Terminal
SSH
Slack
OneNote
Outlook
Edge / Firefox
Total Commander
GVim
Pocket Casts
Gimp

Workstation:
Tmux
Neovim
Compilers
Midnight Commander
SSH

Raspberry Pi:
Tmux
Vim
Compilers
Telnet
Picocom

Most of the laptop screen time is spent in Windows Terminal tabs with SSH sessions logged in to a powerful Linux workstation and a handful of Raspberry Pies, all with long-lived Tmux sessions.

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No list. Just a few names.

KeePass : password manager
Everything : local search
paint.net : image manipulation

Browser: Firefox, Opera
File Compression: 7-Zip
Image Editing: Adobe PhotoShop 7
Word Processing / Spreadsheets: MS Office 2013

Game Clients:
Galaxy
Epic - for downloading free stuff
IndieGala - there's been freebies here not on the website
itch - can be used to download what are otherwise browser-only games

What can you do with WinRar that you can't with 7zip? Seems a bit redundant to me.

You can only use 7-Zip to unpack RAR files. Packing and using the RAR format is not supported.

On my Windows 11 system:

Image viewer: IrfanView

Word processor: TeXnicCenter & MiKTeX & SumatraPDF, LibreOffice

Video player: VLC media player

Audio player: foobar2000 for gapless audio playback, VLC where gapless audio playback is not necessary

Text editor: Notepad++ which also replaces the broken and bugged Windows 11 Notepad

Web browser: Firefox, Vivaldi (+ add-ons to block scripts for both browsers)

E-mail client: Thunderbird

Document viewer: SumatraPDF, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Ghostscript + GSview, WinDjView

File manager: Total Commander

Compression: WinRAR and 7-Zip

Antivirus: Windows Defender + browser add-ons to block scripts

Oh, I didn't know that.
Anyway, it's not like there's much of a need to compress to rar these days, is there?

I know some people who still prefer the RAR format and it is still somewhat popular in Germany. Other than that, there is indeed no need to use the RAR compression.

I don't get it.
Still seeing RAR files these days gives me conniptions. Give me a tar.gz, anything but a fucking RAR.

Why telnet rather than ssh? The Raspberry Pi can run ssh, both as a client and as a server, just fine.

(Of course, you should still take the usual precautions.)

Internet Browser: Opera GX.


Video game client: Galaxy and Steam.


GPU Driver: AMD Adrenaline.


Word Porcessing: Libre Office.


Compression: 7zip.


Image Editing: GIMP.


Audio Editor: Audacity.


Digital Painting: Krita.


3D Model Editor: Misfit Model 3D.

Brwosers: Vivaldi for general use, Chrome and Edge for registering for ''official'' stuff and work stuff, Brave for checking out shady stuff

Image viewer: Image Glass

Image editing: GIMP for advanced stuff, MS Paint for resizing, want to try Darktable

PDF reader: Sumatra PDF

EDPUB reader: Calibre

Word processor: LibreOffice

Audio editor: Audacity

A/V player: VLC

Hardware info: CPU-Z

Disk health monitor: CrystalDiskInfo

Messaging: Steam, Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp Web

File decompression: 7-Zip

On Android phone:
ReadEra: perfect for consolidating PDFs and EPUBs, reading and organizing them
ColorNote: good non-nonsense app for note-taking
Castbox: for getting audio versions of almost any podcast

Any interesting and simple software I use go to a pen drive cause later versions can get, well, less simple. Like Audacity enabled telemetry, K-lite packs including infatica P2b with the install or eventually disapear/going Microsoft Store exclusive.

Browser - Mainly Firefox but nowadays I'm using Seamonkey, Palemoon and Vivaldi

PDF Reader - Sumatra, very simple but powerful and support remember last session

Image Viewer - Windows Photo Viewer whenever possible, is freaking fast and smooth. Would love to find a suitable replacement

Compression - 7Zip ZS, the same good old 7Zip but with aditional algoritms, like ZStandard

Windows Menu replacement - Classic Shell/Open Shell, this is a must in any of the computers I use

Media player + codecs - MPC-HC with bundled codecs (older version) and VLC

System Information - CPUZ goes to every computer I touch, not only o get info but to do a fast benchmark to get some sort of performance measurement, it's very usefull to check if the CPU is boosting correctly and if the device throttles under load or without charger. GPUZ is also usefull with the fast render test, both can be used at the same time. MSI Afterburner is a must to configure game performance

Some Software I regulary install but not as "critical": Deluge, Notepad++, Paint.net, shut up 10, Audacity (older version), Rufus and APO Equalizer.