Switch to these open-source apps...on Windows, macOS or Linux! 

I'd add: OBS (video recording and livestreaming); Syncthing (file synchronization); Zotero (citation/bibliography management); Freeplane (mind-mapping); Nextcloud (self-hosted cloud storage); Calibre (ebook mamangement and reader)

No RU-vid video like this should be taken as Gospel or set in stone, it's one person's opinion. But this is one of the most comprehensive run downs of open source applications I've seen, packing 25 sensible suggestions into less than 24 minutes without any unnecessary padding. Kudos.

FYI MailSpring's sync engine was open-sourced a few weeks ago.

i love how he says everyone should ditch whatsapp and get signal but he actively changed the search engine to google

One of the most useful Linux and OSS-related videos I've seen recently. Well done!

This is such an informative video, and the comments are equally so. Hope this is something that can be updated periodically. Thank you so much for this!

This is the first video I have seen from your channel, and I have to say you are a new hero of mine. I have been using Linux for a few years now and what you are doing is nothing short of amazing. I can't stress enough how great the open source community and Linux are. I truly believe that if people know what is available with the many distros and open source repositories, it could completely change the world of computing, and since computers basically run the world, we can change the world it's self. Please keep up the good work in opening the eyes of the unenlightened proprietary software prisoners.

Funny that he's running OBS and forgets to mention it 😂👍

This is one of the most complete listings of cross platform opensource apps that exists. Ever us Mac users are covered! Please do more like this wherever you can.

With geospatial information becoming more abundant with things like open data from cities, QGIS is a must for working with all kinds of spatial data...it's how I integrate my bike ride maps into my videos: export a .GPX from my Strava ride, import it into QGIS, export images, and then use GIMP to cut out the background of the route, then tiles in nicely to my video editing software (sorry, a FCP X holdout, but it just works so beautifully).

Everything that's great about this channel is covered in this video, pretty much. Great work, IG!

I love these app discussions that you do, it's a niche that linux/open source youtubers don't cover enough...keep up the good work.

Hey, thanks for reminding me about Strawberry. Using a Mac right now and hate the music app so this is a blessing.

This is a great video to encourage people to move to Linux. Thanks a lot for this! We need more of these videos. Perhaps detailing your workflow for each category of apps. Like audio production/video editing/coding/email and productivity etc...

10Years... WOW. Thanks, its been a great ride! Cheers Mate.

Been following your channel for a while, and I've always been a huge fan of your videos regardless of content. This is one of the first videos I think will be accessible to the average user, whether or not they use Linux. Mad props!

I love these list of Open Source program. The average users would mostly see them as free-of-charge program and it is one way to promote FOSS.

Why would someone downvote this video? Unless of course, they're against open source.

Exceptional rundown of open source apps. I appreciate the delivery of the information. Well done. I didn't realize the amount of excellent program that are available for free. Great tutorial that I thoroughly enjoyed. Keep up the good work.

Great collection of apps. Good to see you're still making videos

I can't emphasize enough how powerful Blender is, if you've never used it your doing your self a huge disservice by not giving it a go, I highly recommend this magnificent software

Great list and good intro to opensource apps. Just wondering why OBS wasn't mentioned, given that you were using it to record .

I'm glad you included the music production apps in this list. I've been wondering what open source options there were for that kind of thing. I just didn't know the correct terminology to use in a search engine.

The video is great !!! I saw interesting programs that I didn't even know about! Thank you! 👍👌

Awesome video. I would add OBS for screen recording and streaming. Bitwarden for password management. Godot for game development. Qbittorrent. Heidsql for database management. Git for source code management. Cmder for terminal. But again. awesome list

Thank god your video came out! I almost deleted my G-account due to crappy YT recommendations.

Bell has ben rung. Thanks! Comments in vid are also awesome.

NIce video. It's just what I was looking for about sw alternatives! Thank you.

Fun fact: Krita and Kdenlive are both made by the Kde desktop team They are most popular for making plasma desktop, plasma tv (not the tech, but a ui) and plasma mobile

Thanks for sharing! I also think, IIRC, that mailspring recently released everything under GPL, so now should be 100% open source

Thanks a lot for all the very informative and practical videos for years!

Glad I came across your video today. I've been on the rocks about making a permanent switch to Linux for a while now. I used to play with SUSE Linux back in 1999 before graduating high school, but never seriously launched into Linux. I'm also a gamer, and have been nervous about making the switch because I was worried many of my games wouldn't work even with Wine. Thanks for the video, and live long and prosper. 🖖

Okular, Calibre, Fluent Reader, great video btw

You forgot Shotcut. It doesn't crash as much as KDEnlive and supports Hardware-based encoding without editing configs (as on KDEnlive, which may or may not work). For communication, Session could be mentioned. It's blockchain-based, doesn't need a phone number or email to signup, and it's decentralized with minimal metadata.

Thank you so mutch for this Video. You are an enrichment for the whole Linux Community!

Immediately started using freecad instead of Solidworks ... Thank you! This video has been life changing

Don't get Firefox. Use Brave. Also Steam programs work on linux like Asesprite for example.

I wish you would make a similar list for phones and tablets, both Android and iOS devices.

Just found your chanel and have to say wow...the money you save your viewers is brilliant and I have always prefered Opensource software to paid.. Thanks mate.

Thank you for your hard work and promoting alternatives. keep on doing good around you.

Nitroshare is my favourite file sharing software on linux. It is open source and free. It allow cross-platform file sharing over a network. Wonderful software.

GIMP is utterly gimped without non-destructive layer adjustments. It's still nowhere close to Photoshop because of that omission. Use Krita instead. It's not just for sketching and drawing. Plus, as an alternative to Adobe Lightroom, use darktable.

Excellent list man, thanks

Very Useful, Thank You So Much!

Great Video! There's a couple things about Libre Office (from experience of installing it on the PCs of 7 friends/family) Nearly all I know prefer the top bar/ribbon to be tabbed (like office) instead of the default. And because you're going to share your files with people that can't open .odt and .ods files I set it up to save to .docx and .xslx by default.

This is such a great list! Great work! PhotoGIMP and Lutris made me say, "how have I not seen these!"

Some of these suggestions I've found from other sources but I appreciate your comparisons and updates to mentioned apps as well as some that I had not heard of that I now want to try. Subbed with anticipations for more comparisons and updates.😃👌👍

You made some great choices! Well done.

I would add probably LaTeX, I know it's not a program on itself, but there's several open-source programs that work as an IDE with preview features. The fact that it is open-source is incredible.

Gr8 list, although I'd have liked to see added, your take on antivirus for the winders folks....... if there's some "open source" app out there that could provide a decent level of protection.....

Super great video 😊👌 Thanks a lot

Great this is what I am been looking for an alternative From not just facebook but google as well, looking forward to series 2 . keep up great work!

it makes me really happy to see three KDE projects on this amazing list :)

Thank you for these amazing recommendations, I really needed some of them ! Edit: I'm a bit sad you didn't expand a tad more on Signal's privacy benefits. Btw, what did you use to customize your desktop like this ? Thanks ! :D

Great video. Just one addition, Anytype is a new open source alternative to notion which is both open source and encrypted, a strong contender for note taking. It's lacking in some areas but is majorly usable.

Love your work!

For anyone watching this video, you must take a serious look at the awesome recommendations made in the comments

Excellent review of free software that could save tons of money ...if only people were not so handcuffed to their old habits.

Because of YOU. I switch from dreamweaver to vscode. Thanks sooo much!

thank you. i was looking for this

Brief note. MPV is now officially Celluloid which was a enhanced version of the MPV GUI client which came with the MPV media framework. I just checked here in Linux Mint where Celluloid is the default media player and typing "MPV" from the launch menu now only gives "Celluloid" instead of also returning "MPV". Celluloid has a much enlarged set of keystrokes which can be used to fine control the program as well as having added GPU accelerated playback over the original MPV client. It also makes a cracking good DVD player which VLC is increasingly becoming bad at displaying the DVD menu's correctly.

Diolinux, is a Brazilian youtuber/content creator that is always try to show to his audience how wonderful the open-source community is, his job is amazing, my first real experience with the linux world was due to his videos.

Excellent run down... thank you

Keep up the good work. Loved the video. Very informative with helpful tips. ❤

I want to note, if you are using Mailspring your email never touches the Mailspring server. Some Pro-Features send some of your emails to Mailspring, but generally your email doesn't go through Mailspring.

As someone that does code, I'm using Notepad++ and from what I hear a ton of others too. I'd add that to the recommended list.

Superb and very helpful research, kudos!

Fantastic video, fist time in your channel, got subscribed after this video, keep the good work!

Excellent video, guides just like this are needed to spread Linux. I would still like to complain a bit about the strong "Windows mindset" in some of these programs. For example, the syncing support in Joplin is just absolutely stupid. Supporting a cloud file service should never be integrated to an application. Instead you should mount the remote file system to your own file tree using tools like Rclone, so you can browse those files with your native file manager and use them in any program. Mounting Dropbox, Google Drive etc. is something you can't do on Windows due to its legacy file system design, and therefore these poor developers have to support integrate them to their apps. It's always better to have a small tool that is damn good at doing one thing, and then have that communicate with your other software.

Do not let Firefox save passwords and without setting a "Primary Password" (was previous called "Master Password", but changed due to woke pressure). If you do that and then your laptop is stolen, then you just gave away all your passwords you saved in Firefox (they can be shown visibly). The defaults in Firefox are very dangerous.

Very good video, I will watch it later on computer, bravo.

Very enjoyable run through .. I learnt a couple of things on the way too. Thanks :) I generally like to mention TOR for those with high levels of paranoia.

I was in a bad mood when I clicked on this and really didn't want to like it, but you did a great job and won me over. Great collection; thanks for putting this together.

Could you add the links in the description ? Thanks !

Full marks for this video. I used to think that I knew FOSS. Learnt about many softwares for the first time despite going FOSS for 4 years now. Kudos amigo! (y)

This video is very well put together!

For coding, investing time into learning vim or emacs will get you a long way. Most importantly, it gives you street credit.

Now, I've got Signal, just no one's there. My friends still on WhatsApp shii

This was really helpful. I'm planning to switch to Linux so this was just in time.

Great list! Thanks so much for this.

For me: DAW - Reaper (does charge but you can program a great deal of it yourself) Media player - MusicBee (very programmable) Video production - OBS Studio Office - Libre Office x

I would say you missed on File Explorers category(Double Commander, and also for Media(movies) there is nothing like SMPlayer.

Very nice and useful video, thank you ! I have to work on Windows at my practice (we use Office M365 in our network of practices) BUT I recycled an old Microsoft laptop last year and installed Linux Mint 20.3 on it. It runs perfectly and I now know that I can work on Linux at my practice using the apps you mentioned !

very useful video, keep up the good work!

Geary is an amazing but simple email client that i use a lot . Nautilus ,Nemo ,Dolphin 😂😂😂. Amazing file managers which you might miss so much if u go back to windows (never used mac) Lollypop is good . Komikku to read manga . Shortwave for radio . Flameshot for screenshot . Evince,okular pdf reader. Artha dictionary . Btw ,Evernote beta official client is released as deb package .

No mention of ShotCut? Best video editing software I have found for open source.

Thanks infiniteg there were a couple i didn't know here!!

Nice to see a fellow Australian doing this stuff! Great, but short description of open-source app. I would LOVE to switch to linux, but I've been held back because most of the progamming working I involve creating extensions for VS itself. I am using VS Code for other things as well. Once thing, on top of it being open source, is I would have loved to know if it had docker support (ie docker container available) as I like to self-host as much as I can. Thanks for the video! did discover a number of software that I wasn't away of, so that's good too.

I can’t get off Brave. It blocks everything so well

Diolinux is a portuguese speaking youtuber; not portuguese though. He is brazilian. They also speak portuguese. Think of this relatioship as England and the USA. Portugal is where the language originates from and the adopted it and modified it as their needs demanded them to.

Great, Informative video. Personally been meaning to do this myself. You did solid and got my sub for this.

Great video! :D

BLENDER !

I'm more of a Vivaldi (even if it's just partially open-source) guy rather than Firefox since it has more integrated features that _I_ actually need (as a power user) and the company values privacy very strongly. The only downside of the browser is it's Chromium-based but the browser is more de-googled than ever before.

Great video. Just recently started learning LMMS, very nice program.

Great job. Keep up the good work!

Audacity (+ plugins for real time playback), Foobar2000 (organize music playlists, internet radio, batch conversion), Gimp, Inkscape, Krita (these 3 for graphical stuff), JPEGview (minimalistic photo viewer with basic tools), irfanView (for batch conversion like lowering resolution of thousands photos from your smartphone which reduces file size up to 8 times), Handbrake (batch conversion of videos to reduce video size. 4K (or FullHD) videos from smartphones are somehow fake 4K (or FullHD), a bit blurry. I change them all to 1080p or 720p. Saves a lot storage). SumatraPDF (as PDF, MOBi, EPUB reader) Etc.

Unfortunately my work requires me to use whatsapp as everyone is already on there. Sometimes the more privacy focussed we become the more of an inconvenience it is. Great informative video, appreciate it!

Thanks mate, you've earnt a sub. Been looking for some alternatives to Adobe design suite.