Software

List of applications I usually install after formatting my main computer. You might find an application here that you don’t know but could be useful to you.

Basic

• Aimp2 (Music Player)
• foobar2000 (Music Player)
• Audacious (Music Player)
• 7-Zip (Compressed Files)
• Firefox (Browser)
• SRWare Iron (Chrome-like Browser)
• CD display (Comic Book Reader)
• qBittorrent (Bittorrent Client)
• VLC (Video Player)
• Sumatra PDF (PDF Reader)
• LibreOffice (Office Suite)
• Discord (Messaging, Chat)
• Obsidian (Markdown Editor)
• TeamSpeak (Voice Messaging)
• Nomacs (Image Viewer)
• Equalizer APO (Equalization)
• Peace Equalizer (interface Equalizer APO )
• WinDirStat (Large File Visualizer)
• Microsoft PC Manager (Optimization)

Editing

• OBS (recording and live streaming)
• Audacity (Audio Editor)
• Shotcut (Free Video Editor)
• HandBrake (Format Converter)
• Darktable (Open Source Lightroom)
• pyTranscriber (Audio To Text)

Hardware

• Cpu-z (CPU, RAM, GPU Info)
• HWMonitor (Monitoring)
• MSI Afterburner (Overclock & FPS)
• Cinebench R15 (CPU/GPU Benchmark)
• Cinebench R20 (CPU/GPU Benchmark)
• Aida64 (Stability Test)
• PassMark (Performance Test)
• CrystalDiskMark (Disk Benchmark)

Formatting & Debloating

• Rufus (Bootable USB)
• Ventoy (Multi-ISO USB)
• Clonezilla (Disk Cloning)
• Hiren’s BootCD PE (Rescue Tool)
• Snappy Driver Installer (Driver Search)
• BalenaEtcher (Linux USB Creator)
• ReviOS (Bloatware Removal)
• AtlasOS (Bloatware Removal)

Terminal

• Windows Terminal (Terminal)
• Aria2 (Download utility)
• yt-dlp (audio/video downloader)
• MPV (Video Player)
• Edit (Simple Editor)
• FFmpeg (Universal media converter)
• fastfetch (System information)
• Node.js (JavaScript)
• btop (Monitor of resources)
• ImageMagick (Manipulating digital images)
• Yazi (Terminal file manager)
• Pandoc (Universal document converter)
• Chafa (Terminal image viewer)
• Ani-cli (A cli tool to browse and play anime)
• MinGW (C/C++ compiler)
• MSYS2 (Unix-like dev environment)

Web

• Sublime Text (Code Editor)
• Notepad++ (Code Editor)
• FileZilla (FTP Client)
• WinSCP (FTP, File Manager)
• PuTTY (SSH, Telnet)
• Bootstrap (CSS Framework)
• Visual Studio Code (Code Editor)
• Git (Version Control)

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