Whats your favorite free open source software that everyone should try?

Sigmatank@midwest.social to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 420 points –

Lemmy seems like the right place to ask this. Personally I've really enjoyed Gurgle, which is a FOSS Wordle clone app.

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I adore VLC.

I've been using Linux Mint for almost a year and a half now: would recommend it to anyone ready to make a jump into Linux and away from Windows. It's quite friendly.

I'm also quite enjoying Sonarr to keep track of some older television shows that I enjoy.

I forget how incredible VLC is. It's been my primary video player for going on 7 years?

I honestly don't know if any other video player that just works.

MPC-HC https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc (the still maintained one).

For me VLC struggled on very high bitrate videos. While MPC-HC was smooth and used less resources.

However it is not available for Linux. So if it's a software for Linux, I guess VLC is the best choice.

mpv is what I used, but I switched to VLC because of the interface