Art
- Blender
My love - Krita
Drawin and paintin - Aseprite*
Pixel arting - Trenchbroom
Brush based map making - BespokeSynth
Node based synth playground
Media
Random
- uBlock Origin, unhook
the 2 extensions i cannot live without. uBlock blocks ads and alerts you when you are about to visit a suspicious site, unhook lets you hide things like the recommended tab on yt - Godot
Game engine - 7-Zip
really good archive manager (where windows' file explorer gets stuck, 7z might extract just fine) - Bitwarden
Password manager - PrusaSlicer
Slicer for 3D printing - micro (for linux users)
simple terminal text editor. Like nano but good - ironwail
my favorite quake engine - PICO-8
8 bit game engine with audio/art tools included - Obsidian
Text editor for .md files
I've personally used all of these (some more than others ofc) and I think they're gewd. They're also like... free and stuff
Resources
- fmhy
humongous index of all sorts of sites. Most are for piracy, some are genuinely just free, other things are useful programs and plugins. Bangers include Anna's Archive for books, FitGirl Repacks for games and Morphe for yt and yt music's apps without ads