must-haves

7-zip

compress decompress encrypt hash

Google Chrome

browser (or Firefox for privacy)

VLC media player

video player

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC

PDF reader

LibreOffice (or MS Office)

office stuff

GIMP (free Photoshop)

serious users please purchase Ps

Joplin (free Evernote)

better than Evernote

pro-and-frees

Blender

3D creation

foobar2000

audio player

DaVinci Resolve 17

video editing

REAPER (not really but practically free)

digital audio workstation (DAW)

nerd-onlys

Octave

replacement of MatLab

Anaconda3

Python3 evironment manager

GitHub Desktop

GitHub client

Git version X.XX.X

SVN

Ubuntu 2X.04 LTS (WSL)

Linux VM

Microsoft Visual Studio Code

code editor

fancy

Taskbar stats

live system stats

TranslucentTB

taskbar appearance

Wallpaper Engine

live wallpaper