Gnu+Linux software

 

Email clients

    Thunderbird
    Mailspring
    Evolution
 

Media Production

 
    DaVinci Resolve (proprietary video editing software)
    Lightworks (proprietary video editing software)
    Kdenlive (open-source video editing software)
    Audacity (digital audio editor)
    Ocenaudio (digital audio editor)
    Ardour (digital audio editor)
    DevedeNG (DVD and CD authoring utility)


Office and productivity suites

    OnlyOffice
    OpenOffice
    LibreOffice

Music players

    Lollypop
    Rhythmbox
    Elisa


Web browsers

    Firefox
    SeaMonkey
    Falkon
    LibreWolf
    Chromium (BSD license)
    Brave (Mozilla Public License)
    Google Chrome (Proprietary)
    Microsoft Edge (Proprietary)

rip an Audio CD

    KAudioCreator
    Sound Juicer
    Asunder
    Ripperx


Video Players

    VLC Media Player
    Dragon Player
    Gnome Videos

CD, DVD and Blu-ray authoring

    K3b (from KDE Burn Baby Burn)
    Brasero CD
    Xfburn

Media Converters

    HandBrake
    SoundConverter

Screen Recording and Streaming Tools

    Simple screen recorder
    Kazam
    recordmydesktop
    OBS (Screen Recording and Streaming)
    VokoscreenNG (video or tutorial creator)

Media Server Software

    Kodi
    Plex (Proprietary)

Backup Tools

    Timeshift
    Bacula

Virtualization Apps

    Oracle VM VirtualBox
    QEMU
    VMware Workstation Pro (Proprietary)

Webcam recording software.

    Webcamoid
    Kamoso
    Cheese
    OBS

PDF viewer

    Okular
    evince
    LibreOffice Draw PDF editing
    Master PDF Editor (Proprietary)

Video conferencing

    Zoom (Proprietary)
    Skype (Proprietary)
    Jitsi Meet
    OpenMeetings
    Google Meet (Proprietary)
    Caprine Facebook Messenger

USB Image Writer Tools

     Gnome Multi-Writer
     BalenaEtcher
     Unetbootin
     Fedora Media Writer
     SUSE Studio Imagewriter

Messaging

    Pidgin

Photo editing/enhancing

    Photivo (photo processor.)
    Darktable (alternative to Adobe Lightroom)
    RawTherapee (alternative to Adobe Lightroom)
    Upscaler by Hari Rana (resolution enhancement)
    Gimp (photo editing alternative to Adobe’s Photoshop)

Emulator Software / Retrogaming

     RetroArch