Microsoft Office Suite

• LibreOffice
• Collabora Office
• OnlyOffice

Adobe Suite

• Photoshop: GIMP, Seashore (macOS only), Krita
• Illustrator: Inkscape
• Indesign: Scribus
• Premiere: OpenShot, Shotcut, Kdenlive
• Animate: Synfig, Krita
• Lightroom: Darktable, RawTherapee
• Aftereffects: Natron, ButtleOFX (Linux only), Blender
• Audition: Ardour
• Acrobat (PDFs): Okular, Scribus
• Substance Painter: Blender, Material Maker, Quixel Mixer (Windows only)
• Dreamweaver: BlueGriffon, Brackets, VS Codium, Kate, CudaText, Gedit, Lite, Pulsar, Phoenix

CAD

• FreeCAD
• LibreCAD
• OpenSCAD
• BRL-CAD
• LeoCAD
• SolveSpace
• QCAD
• Blender

Note Taking

• Xournal++
• Obsidian

Multimedia Editing

• Audio: LMMS, Mixxx, Tenacity
• Video: Kdenlive, Shotcut, Olive

Communications

• Discord and Slack: Matrix, Revolt, Spacebar, Mattermost, Zulip
• WhatsApp: Jami, Threema, Signal, Session, Briar, Delta Chat, Snikket, Molly
• Zoom/Skype: Jami, Jitsi
• SMS: Fossify SMS

Social Media

For more information, please visit the website FediDB.

• Twitter: Mastodon, Pleroma, Akkoma
• Instagram: Pixelfed
• Facebook: Friendica
• YouTube: PeerTube​​​
• Reddit: Lemmy, /kbin
• Tumblr: Sharkey

Computer Operating Systems

When choosing a computer operating system, likely Linux or its derivatives, you will want to prioritize desktop environment over distribution (distro).

There are many different desktop environments to choose from:

• GNOME
• KDE
• Cinnamon
• MATE
• Xfce
• LXQt
• Deepin
• Unity

Linux Distribution List:

view a full, detailed list on DistroWatch

• Debian based
  • siduction
  • Ubuntu
    • Kubuntu
    • Lubuntu
    • Xubuntu
    • Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix
    • Ubuntu Unity
    • and others...
  • Mint
  • Pop!_OS
• Arch based
  • Manjaro
  • EndeavourOS
• Fedora
• openSUSE

Mobile Operating Systems

Android (AOSP) based:

• LineageOS
  • /e/
  • CalyxOS
  • iodéOS
  • DivestOS
• GrapheneOS

Linux based:

• postmarketOS
• Ubuntu Touch
• PureOS
• Plasma Mobile