Software Recommendations for End-User

• For Installation with minimal hassle: Ninite

Packaging

• 7-zip – Compressing and uncompressing files in and into various formats.
  • LZMA/7zip is the most efficient one, free and open.
  • Also handles zip, rar, etc.

Web-Browser ^{(ranked by degree of recommendation)}

• Firefox – as the highly configurable and modular superb browser
• Chrome – Fast, efficient, by Google
• Opera

E-Mail and Calendar

• Thunderbird
  • Lightning – Addon for calendar handling

PDF-Reader

• Sumatra PDF – very fast Reader

Text Editor

• Notepad++ – for Windows

Music Player

• AIMP3

Media Player / Codec Pack

• Community Codec Pack (includes Media Player Classic - Home Cinema)

free, good antivirus

• Microsoft Security Essentials (Windowns-only)

VoIP

• Mumble – your #1 VoIP, ultra low latency, superb quality - self-hosted, or public servers (keep control over your data)

SIP

• SIP Communicator (Win-only)

(Multi-)Messenger

• Telegram
• Miranda (Windows-only)
• Pidgin
• InstantBird - relatively new, beautiful

Torrent

• qTorrent – small, fast and feature-rich

IRC

• Quassel IRC - can be run as a local client, or server bnc and client with saved scrollback
• Hexchat - successor of XChat WDK, multi-server capable, multiple plugin APIs (languages)

Virtual Machine (“VM”)

• VirtualBox

Mounting Images (ISO, Bin, etc)

• WinCDEmu (Windows only)

Screenshots

• Greenshot - take screenshots from fullscreen, window, region, instant-save or edit them for adding marks like arrows, hightlights or text

Misc

• LibreOffice - “Office” software package. Free software writer, table calculator, math formular creator, and presentation software.
• FreeFileSync - for all your backup, file-folder synchronisation and comparison needs
• Tipp10 – Learning to Type