Bookwyrm, a book tracker and review sharing plateform that is part of the fediverse allowing you to share your notes and review about books in the threadiverse as well as the twittoverse.

Guake, drop down terminal.

I used to recommend Glimpse as a more sane front-end for GIMP but they pretty much stopped maintaining it and put in the towel.

Newpipe, an YouTube client, which is:

• ad free

• lightweight

• useful, it allows downloading videos, music, and playing them when screen is locked

• usable without account

• multi-platform, it can also serve as client for the PeerTube, Bandcamp, SoundCloud

PortMaster, program designed to streamline the management of Ports on your handheld Linux devices

Hexchat, irc client

Immich is a photo/video hosting solution à la Google photos

Portmaster, nowadays mandatory, monitor the traffic of all installed apps and even from the OS itself, blocking with a simple click all unwanted traffic, Inbuild DNS crypt with dynamic filterlists (customizable) blocking ads, trackers and unwanted crap from big companies. Optional SPN service (paid). Windows and Linux.

https://safing.io/

https://github.com/safing/portmaster

Having discarded many other options, I'm looking at Cloud Stack for hosting VMs at home and the job site.

This will be like your proxmox, libvirt, openstack (which derived from it), oVirt(RHEV,OLVM,etc).

If you are in the market for a new alternative, please consider this less-known option.

SMplayer, one of the best multimedia player, fast, capable to stream YouTube and almost everything, all codecs.

Windows (all), Linux, Mac

https://www.smplayer.info/

https://github.com/smplayer-dev/smplayer

Photoshop (almost) right in your browser, desktop or mobile, also as PWA or even selfhosted

https://viliusle.github.io/miniPaint/

https://github.com/viliusle/miniPaint?tab=readme-ov-file

Subsurface

I recently found out after creating Linux, Linus Torvalds wanted to make a good open source scuba dive log software. Today, it's probably one of the best, if not the best dive log programs out there and I recently used this myself on a recent dive and it's great.

Anki (and AnkiDroid):

The gods of learning and studying with flashcards. You will never want another flashcard program, especially if you were still using Quizlet (so enshittified now...) because Anki uses SRS (spaced repetition system) which makes you review things right before your brain forgets it to reinforce the subject material.

Add-ons: Bread and butter of Anki, I use several to make beautiful automatic flashcards of reading material/videos/games when I study Japanese. There's an add-on for literally anything.

Cross platform: Free on desktop, cost $25 on iOS, and free on Android, although Ankidroid is an unofficial app. Still great though!

Cloud: Syncs your anki database across devices. If you don't use anki for a while, will delete from the cloud, but as long as you have your own local database intact, you can reupload again later.

Sharing Decks: If you don't feel like making your own decks, download ones that others shared for free.

Anki is used by language learners, college students, med students, etc. If you need to memorize it, use Anki.

Lemmy

agate and amfora, a server and client for the text-based "small web" protocol called Gemini. Allows to publish and read text, images and media in a really simple and accessible way.

(Works also great in a local file network to distribute media and docs).

simple-scan. Scans documents with zero fuss. Easy and intuitive which is important for software that is not used frequently.

Kodi multimedia center.

super productivity

To do list with time boxing/time tracking. No data collection--it's all local to your device. There are several DIY options to sync the desktop version with the mobile app.

FairEmail, email app for Android that has every feature I can imagine. Available on FDroid