Useful Software

This page will contain the software I have searched for and that I can completely recommend for different OSes. I prefer something simple, that works for what I want, that is light, that does not contains ads, that supports old hardware/OS, that does not update every 5 minutes like Google stuff, that is light resources, that feels that is oriented to the people, and, it does not matter if it has an ugly interface. In short, stuff to: get work done, do work efficiently, work on older/low resource devices and that is lightweight (probably open source as well but that isn't the case all the time).

For context, I use Windows 7 32 bits, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (with LXDE desktop - Lubuntu) 64 bits and Android KitKat (4.4), Lollipop (5.1.1) and Nougat (7.0). And I like to not upgrade (if it works for me then I can keep it like that). I feel like extremely frequent updates are just tormenting and anxiety/obsession/massive consumming producing artifacts >:[ Anyways, back to topic!

Computer (Windows/Linux - some might not be for each OS!):

• Geany: text editor/minimal IDE -- Link
• Ungoogled Chromium: main browser, feels faster -- Link 1 Link 2 or Firefox: secondary browser, older versions for webgl apps and stuff that requires more hardware compatibility (be sure to disable all ui animation crap it comes with) -- Link 3
• Ksnip: simple image editor -- Link
• ImHex/HxD: hex viewer/editor -- Link Link
• VLC: video player -- Link
• Vokoscreen screen recording -- Link
• HandBrake: video transcoder -- Link
• ffmpeg: the literal commandline tool for video/audio manipulation -- Link 1 Link 2
• GIMP: general image editing -- Link
• Blender: 3D modelling software -- Link
• Audacity: audio editing -- Link
• 7zip: file compressor/decompressor -- Link
• Clementine: music player -- Link
• LibreOffice: for document stuff -- Link 1 Link 2
• SumatraPDF: PDF viewer (Windows) -- Link
• qpdfview: PDF viewer (Linux mostly) -- Link
• uGet: download manager -- Link
• TexStudio: latex IDE -- Link
• ...

NOTE: Linux users can just use Wine to execute some Windows-only programs.

Smartphone (Android):

• Total Commander: file Manager - Android 1.5+ :O -- Link
• Open Camera: powerful camera app - Android 4.0.3+ -- Link
• QuickPic: gallery App, best versions are those that released when it wasn't property of Cheetah Mobile.
  • Lastest original - 4.5.2 - Android 2.0+: version before Cheetah Mobile version (AFAIK) -- Link
  • Modded version of QuickPic: based on QuickPic 4.5.2 -- Link
• Kiwi browser: web browser, you can install webstore extensions on it.
  • Lastest version "Kiwi Next" (now referred to as "Kiwi"): chromium 93+ -- Link
  • Older version "Kiwi" (now referred to as "Kiwi Classic"): chromium 77 -- Link
• Musicolet: music player - I use version 4.5 build 220 -- Link
• Desmos: graph calculator -- Link
• CPU-Z: to get device information -- Link
• SetEdit: low level phone settings (be careful with it) -- Link
• Document Viewer: very clean PDF viewer -- Link
• ...

Web services/Browser extensions:

• Browser extensions:
  
  
  • uBlock Origin: remove adds -- Link
  • I don't care about cookies: remove annoying cookie warnnings from websites -- Link
  • TamperMonkey/GreaseMonkey: userscript manager -- Link Link
    • Some useful userscripts:
    • Viewtube: to view videos using another video player -- Link
    • Redirect Gmail to HTML Version: name explains everything :P -- Link
    • Youtube shorts redirect: name also explains everything (YouTube shorts suck) -- Link
    • ...
  • Youtube No Buffer: stops YouTube automatic buffering of a video when the page is loaded -- Link
  • ...
  
  
• Web services:
  
  
  • Neocities: website hosting -- Link
  • NotABug: code hosting -- Link
  • Mathcha: latex GUI editor -- Link
  • Desmos: 2D graph calculator -- Link
  • Internet Archive: general file hosting -- Link
  • Circuit Simulator Applet: epic tool -- Link
  • ...