I first saw this on reddit, but I figured it would be good to make sure that this also stays accessible on another platform

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    This list feel a little dated. On the top of my head I’d add “Visual Studio Code” for programming, Cakewalk for music composition, and Davinci Resolve for video editing.

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        OneNote is absolutely free. I use it for a lot of things, at home and work.

        Edit: I guess, I should say that it doesn’t cost money. It certainly isn’t “free” as in “freedom”, but it’s incredibly handy.

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        +1 for Xournalpp. I use it a lot and is fantastic

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          Better than premiere, I dare say

          A bit steeper of a learning curve than other video editors though, imo

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          I love it. It’s surprisingly powerful for a completely free software. Takes bit of time to learn, but well worth it. Unless you just want to stitch clips together, then it might be a bit overkill.

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          It’s fantastic! You can use it as a simple editor, or you can literally do anything you want.

          It’s Adobe Premiere and After Effects combined. For free!

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      Extremely dated. It looks like the list of software someone might have recommended back before I started using Reddit a decade ago.

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      Also, I’d add Bitwarden to password managers

      Edit: And AFAIK Eraser should not be used on modern SSDs

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        You could use it to shred individual files, but to wipe a disk there are better ways. Generally you would use an ata command or wipe the encryption key if it’s encrypted.

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          But wasn’t Eraser supposed to wear out the SSD without noticeable improvements regards data recovery capability due to the way SSDs work?

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            Well, the issue is that it depends on how you set eraser. Just doing a delete on an SSD has the same issue with just doing a delete on an HDD at the OS level for the file recovery. But SSDs don’t really have the same need to overwrite a lot of times. So you could set Eraser to overwrite once with zeros or random values to successfully “shred” a single file.

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      Alright so not just me, it’s useful but out of date. Some of these are still good, others have been replaced.

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      I would also remove MuseCore and Audacity from the list and add Tenacity as a replacement for the latter