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Recommended Software
- The following are either software I've used personally or know to work best in the noted capacity/context.
- The list of supported OSes for particular applications is not necessarily exhaustive. Ports for a particular OS may exist; check Repology or Packages Search
- FuryBSD KDE is FreeBSD with a bundled live image desktop and KDE installation, and so anything that is listed as working with FuryBSD can be assumed to work with FreeBSD also unless otherwise stated
- Avira Antivirus Pro (macOS, Windows)
- chkrootkit (FreeBSD, Linux, OpenIndiana)
- ClamAV (Linux)
- Windows Defender Antivirus (Windows)
7-zip (Windows)
Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition (Windows)
NOTE: These do not necessarily have equivalent features.
- Back In Time (Linux)
- BorgBackup (Linux, macOS, OpenIndiana) + Vorta (Linux, macOS)
- Duplicati (Windows & more)
- Restic (FreeBSD, Linux)
- rpi-clone (Linux)
- Snapper (Linux)
- Syncback Freeware (Windows)
- System Restore (Windows)
- Time Slider (OpenIndiana, Solaris)
- Timeshift (Linux)
- TWRP (Android)
- Veeam Agent FREE (Linux, Windows)
- Volume Shadow Copy + ShadowExplorer (Windows)
-
zfsnap2
(FreeBSD, Linux)
Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition (Windows, supports all Veeam client host OSes as sources)
There are many people who swear by rsync
, but I find it obtuse to use, so it's not listed here.
qBittorrent (BSD, Haiku, Linux, macOS, OS/2, Windows)
- All-In-One Calculator (Android)
- Calculator (Windows)
- Challenger Comics Viewer (Android)
-
ComicRack (Android, Windows)
- ComicRack hasn't been updated in aeons, but it's still pretty far ahead of the competition in features, spit, and polish
- Discord (Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, web, Windows)
- Telegram (Android, FreeBSD, iOS, Linux, macOS, web, Windows)
- ANSYS Fluent (Linux, Windows)
- Siemens PLM STAR-CCM+ (Windows)
- draw.io (web)
- Microsoft Visio (Windows)
- JDownloader (Windows)
- Persepolis (Linux, Windows)
DupeGuru (macOS, Linux, Windows)
Microsoft Outlook (Windows)
Gmail (web)
- File Explorer (Windows)
- Krusader (KDE)
- MiXplorer Silver - File Manager (Android)
- dBpoweramp (Windows)
- FileMenu Tools (Windows)
digiKam (FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD, Windows)
IrfanView (Windows)
- Messages (Android, Linux, macOS, web, Windows)
- Skype (Android, iOS, macOS, Linux, Windows)
- Signal (Android, iOS, Linux, Windows)
VLC (Android, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, Windows)
- AIMP (Windows)
- Foobar2000 (Windows)
- Poweramp (Android)
- Soundcloud (Android, iOS, web)
- Spotify (Android, iOS, Linux, web, Windows)
MP3Tag (Windows)
- Microsoft OneNote (Android, iOS, macOS, web, Windows)
- Evernote (Android, iOS, macOS, web, Windows)
Pushbullet (Android, web, Windows)
FreeNAS (Soon to become TrueNAS Core)
Debian Stable (KDE installation)
Debian Stable + Cockpit
Pro and Home work well enough for both consumer desktop and server applications, but the following SKUs have better feature parity with the other non-mobile OSes listed here.
- Enterprise
- Pro for Workstations
Server (Since 2019, Microsoft has dropped the "Server" part of the name, calling it just Windows 2019. Presumably subsequent releases will follow this trend)
FuryBSD KDE
Debian Stable
- Enterprise
- Pro for Workstations
Oracle Solaris
OpenIndiana Hipster GUI
pfSense
Raspbian Stable
FreeNAS
- FreeBSD
- FuryBSD KDE
Debian Stable + Cockpit
Server
Oracle Solaris
OpenIndiana Hipster GUI
- MiniTool Partition Wizard Free (Windows)
- GParted (Linux, OpenIndiana)
- KeePass (FreeBSD, Linux, OpenIndiana, Windows)
- KeePass2Android (Android)
- KeePassXC (Linux, macOS, Windows)
- Adobe Reader DC (Windows)
- Xodo (Android)
Microsoft Office 365 (Android, macOS, Windows)
- Reddit Enhancement Suite (Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Opera)
Due to real-time notifications and chat being 1st party app exclusive features, I'd recommend running the latter along with a 3rd party app.
- Reddit Official (Android, iOS)
- Boost for Reddit - WARNING: Boost appears to use a deprecated Reddit Markdown version, which results in list and code formatting issues
- WARNING: TeamViewer is a major security attack target whose default settings are inadequate for that fact. Enable TOTP 2FA for your account and unique, strong, per device remote access passwords
ANSYS Workbench (Linux, Windows)
- Ásbrú Connection Manager (Linux)
- MobaXterm (Windows)
- Termius (Android)
- JuiceSSH + JuiceSSH Performance Plugin (Android) - Use this only if you need SSH-based performance monitoring; development seems to have ceased in 2017
ANSYS Mechanical (Linux, Windows)
Don't use anything other than Mechanical unless you absolutely have to. Everything else is an absolute pain to deal with, relatively speaking.
- QuickEdit Text Editor Pro (Android)
- Sublime Text (FreeBSD, Linux, Windows)
- Tweeten (Chrome, macOS, Windows)
- Tweetings (Android, iOS, iPadOS)
- Twitter (Android, iOS, web, Windows)
Authy (Android, iOS, Linux (snap), macOS, Windows) - A Chrome extension exists, but is no longer maintained or supported
Converber (Windows)
- Mozilla Firefox (Android, FreeBSD, iOS, Linux, macOS, OpenIndiana, Windows)
- Google Chrome (Android, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, Windows)
- Microsoft Edge Insider (Android, iOS, macOS, Windows)
Organized Alphabetically:
- Explainers
- How Linux, BSD, UNIX, and macOS Relate to Each Other
- Why I Use Resilio Sync Instead of Syncthing
- Why US Buyers Should Purchase Datacenter HDDs instead of NAS HDDs
- Why You Should Separate Compute and Backup Workloads
- Why You Shouldn't Stress Test HDDs Unless You're Trying to Maximize Uptime
- Why You Shouldn't Use Most Premade NAS Solutions
- Guides
- Disaster Recovery and Backups for OpenRC BSDs to non ZFS Repositories
- Disk Encryption Options
- How Much Raw Storage You'll Need for RAID
- How Often Arrays Can Be Scrubbed Without Reducing HDD Life
- How to Calculate the Odds of Physical Attack Data Loss for a ZFS Array
- How to Configure a Samba Server
- How to Generate an Affordable Server or NAS Parts List
- How to Get Your Home Wired for Ethernet
- How to Install OpenIndiana
- How to Install Pycharm on Debian from the JetBrains script
- How to Set Up Regular, Recurring, Incremental, Online Filesystem Backups using Restic
- How to Set Up Regular, Recurring, Recursive, Incremental, Online, In Place Filesystem Backups Using zfsnap
- How to Store HDDs Long Term
- How to Update dnscrypt proxy in Debian with Minimal Downtime
- Projects
- Ongoing
- Future (in order of descending priority/implementation)
- Recommended Hardware
- Recommended Software
- Troubleshooting
- Useful Links