Niiro92Othman/Useful-PC-Software

A list to keep track of the software that I personally like and recommend.

Useful PC Software

Software installation

• Ninite (Software installer and updater)
• PatchMyPC (Software installer and updater)

Files and Explorers

• Notepad++ (Text editor) (Open Source)
• LibreOffice (Office software) (Open Source)
• 7-Zip (File archiver) (Open Source)
• WinDirStat (Disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool)
• Clover (Adds multi-tab functionality to the Windows Explorer)

Browsers

• Firefox (Internet browser) (Open Source)
  • uBlock Origin (Advertisment blocker)

Security

• KeePass (Password manager) (Open Source)

Multimedia

• VLC (Cross-platform multimedia player) (Open Source)
• Kodi (Media centre software) (Open Source)
• Clementine (Music player and library organizer) (Open Source)

Media creation

• Blender (3D modelling, video editing, rendering...) (Open Source)
• GIMP (Image editor) (Open Source)
• Krita ( Raster graphics editor: Designed primarily for digital painting and animation) (Open Source)
• Inkscape (Vector graphics editor) (Open Source)

Video

• OBS Studio (Video recording and live streaming) (Open Source)
• DaVinci Resolve (Video editing)

Sound

• MuseScore (Music notation and composition software) (Open Source)
• Audacity (Audio software for multi-track recording and editing) (Open Source)

Software development

• Android Studio (Integrated development environment (IDE) for Android)
• Visual Studio Code (Source code editor) (Open Source)
• Git (Distributed version control system) (Open Source)
  • GitKraken (Cross-platform Git client)

Comunications

• Discord (All-in-one voice and text chat)
• TeamSpeak 3 (All-in-one voice and text chat)

Drivers / Driver related

• GeForce Experience (Nvidia GPU Drivers)
• Radeon Software (AMD Drivers (GPU, Chipset, Embedded....))
• Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) (GPU Driver uninstaller)

Overclocking and System information

• MSI Afterburner (Graphics card overclocking and overview)
• AIDA64 (System information, diagnostics, and auditing)
• Speccy (System information, including real time temperatures and software information)
• HWInfo (Hardware information)

Gaming

• Borderless Gaming (Play games in a borderless window) (Open Source)
• Playnite (Video game library manager) (Open source)

Emulators

• RPCS3 (PlayStation 3 emulator) (Open Source)
• PCSX2 (PlayStation 2 emulator) (Open Source)
• Xenia (XBox 360 emulator) (Open Source)
• CEMU (Wii U emulator)
• Dolphin (Wii & Gamecube emulator) (Open Source)
• MEMU (Android emulator)

Other utilities

• Rufus (Bootable USB creator) (Open Source):
• F.lux (Makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day)
• Windows 10 initial setup script (PowerShell script for automation of routine tasks done after fresh installations of Windows 10) (Open source)
• qBittorrent (BitTorrent protocol client) (Open source)
• TickTick (Todo list, checklist and task manager)

Game development

• Game Development specific list can be found here: Useful Game Development Resources