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*[http://www.openoffice.org/ OpenOffice] - If you're an idiot, and want to use a dying and deprecated program [http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/10/14/1531252/openoffice-is-dying-and-ibm-wont-help] for some for some bizarre reason
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*[http://www.openoffice.org/ OpenOffice] - If you're an idiot, and want to use a dying and deprecated program [http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/10/14/1531252/openoffice-is-dying-and-ibm-wont-help] for some for some bizarre reason.  Oddly, things didn't work out for Oracle, so they gave the license to the Apache Foundation who released it under their own license.
 
*[https://www.libreoffice.org/ LibreOffice] - After Oracle acquired OpenOffice, it asked community members to GTFO [https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council_Log_20101014].  Since everyone despises Oracle, the developers all jumped ship as well [http://digitizor.com/2010/11/01/and-so-the-exodus-begins-33-developers-leave-openoffice-org/] and stared LibreOffice.
 
*[https://www.libreoffice.org/ LibreOffice] - After Oracle acquired OpenOffice, it asked community members to GTFO [https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council_Log_20101014].  Since everyone despises Oracle, the developers all jumped ship as well [http://digitizor.com/2010/11/01/and-so-the-exodus-begins-33-developers-leave-openoffice-org/] and stared LibreOffice.
  

Revision as of 22:39, 30 January 2014

Video Players

  • MPC-HC - open-source; with the madVR renderer for GPU rendering and more features (download here)
  • PotPlayer - open-source, supports madVR and H.265 playback. A fork of KMPlayer. (Download here)

Audio Players

  • foobar2000 - freeware; lightweight and customizable
  • MusicBee - freeware; customizable and powerful
  • MediaMonkey - freemium; powerful media player with a great database
  • AIMP - Freeware, considered successor to WinAmp

PDF Readers

Image Viewer

Image Editor

  • GIMP - A popular Photoshop alternative - as good as it tries to be; known to be buggy
  • Paint.NET - Started as a MS Paint alternative, now integrates plenty of features such as layers and effects

Video Encoder

H.264&Others

  • HandBrake - Very basic
  • MeGUI - Supports Hi10P encoding
  • StaxRip - Supports fairly advanced audio encoding, batch processing

H.265

  • x265 - Pre-alpha x265 builds

Audio Editor

Office Suite

  • OpenOffice - If you're an idiot, and want to use a dying and deprecated program [1] for some for some bizarre reason. Oddly, things didn't work out for Oracle, so they gave the license to the Apache Foundation who released it under their own license.
  • LibreOffice - After Oracle acquired OpenOffice, it asked community members to GTFO [2]. Since everyone despises Oracle, the developers all jumped ship as well [3] and stared LibreOffice.

Text Editor

Hex Editor

Archiving

Encryption

Disk Burning

Virtual CD/DVD Drive

Anti-Virus/Malware

Firewall

Defragmenter

Cleaner

File Recovery

Computer Specs

Virtual Machine

Virtual Desktop Manager

  • VirtuaWin - Allows you to use multiple virtual desktops
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