VS Code

Favourite, not sure. Maybe my "favourite" would be the one which would be the hardest to replace with something I like.

There wouldn't be something i can think off that could be irreplaceable. However the hardest thing I like may be FanControl.

For the browser, Firefox is very nice, but it's "just" a browser if you think about it. There is brave, and other open source chromium alternatives if it disappears.

For mail clients, I also like the Mailspring design, however Thunderbird just got a new skin and damn it looks good too.

And for the rest, I don't really know. Either I don't remember right now, or no special "like" for the software. Or I like the closed source software convenience more (I may also have no idea of an open source alternative, or an equivalent in features open source).

It depends on the usage really.

Thunderbird. Hasn't bugged on me once.

Would probably say Firefox, but since many others have already mentioned it, I'll go with Nushell

https://www.kicad.org/

I’ve been using Logseq after trying Notion and Obsidian a good bit and I’m really enjoying it. It’s a block-based note app that makes connecting thoughts together super easy. So far so goo!

Linux, Tor, and the Ballistica game engine/BombSquad game (not fully open source as stuff used for sensitive data remains closed source 😔)

Edit: forgot git lol

I have used a lot of stuff over the years but my favorite would have to be a little command line program called cowsay. It takes whatever text you feed it and puts it in a speech bubble above a cow, hence the name.

Linux, of course. But another one that I use all the time, and love to death, is SageMath. It's the perfect blend of mathematics and programming for me.

For games:

• Anuto TD (found a few days ago, isn't super feature rich but still fun to kill time)

• Mindustry (never played a game like it before, ended up supporting by buying it on Steam)

• Supertuxkart (I love how many custom add-on karts and tracks I have)

For non-games:

• Termux (allows me to get apk files and install Revancify for add free yt)

• VLC (I don't mind slow updates and have yet to switch mostly because I can't find anything better that isn't more complicated than it needs to be and/or is closed source)

• KDE Connect (I have almost always had problems with moving files from and to my desktop via cord)

I'd include something like Linux, but I personally feel that's kinda cheating because of how large it is compared to the others.

Hard to answer but maybe Haiku or GNU Emacs

OpenSCAD and Gitlab. I can quickly iterate on designs through code, push it to my Gitlab instance, and have my CI/CD pipelines pick it up, render it, and automatically slice it in some common profiles to send to Octoprint

ShareX and it isn't even close

GCC, back in the days DJGPP in particular. As a child in the 1990s I could not afford the big name compilers like Watcom. And compared to DJGPP, all the “prized” Borland/Turbo stuff that my middle school prized (with segmented real mode), were practically Fisher-Price and Mattel compilers.

Suricata

yay

Linux, Firefox, Apache

QGIS and OpenStreetMap for mapping

Right now, it's Warpinator. Makes at-home wireless file transfers so damn SIMPLE.

Media Player Classic (I'm unsure if the latest iterations are or even if the Home Cinema edition is open source), TOR, qbittorrent, firefox, thinderbird, obs to name a few that I use regularly.

Keepass and firefox expansion Firefox of course Ninite to install and update software Newpipe / yt vanced : youtube alternatives obsidian : note taking (not sure if this is technically open source)