Recommended Software

(A.K.A. Software That Doesn’t Suck)

Updated on 2026-01-06.

Free Software

Video

OBS Studio

Free and open source software for live streaming and recording.

Audio

RaySession

Ardour

airwindows plugins

Text Editors

GNU Emacs, specifically the DOOM Emacs framework by Henrik Lissner.

GNU Emacs plugins I use:

achievements

citar-org-roam

elcord

evil-mode (with the +everywhere flag enabled) (Vim key-bindings)

emms

lispy and lispyville

lorem-ipsum

org-auto-tangle

org-download

org-drill

org-fragtog

org-heatmap

org-roam-ui

org-roam (specifically v2)

ox-hugo

palimpsest-mode

paredit

random-splash~image

sicp

simple-httpd

sly

and many, many more.

Note: these are subject to change often and primarily informed/influenced by the aforementioned DOOM Emacs. Regardless, here are a few highlights off the top of my head. For a more up to date look at what I use, you can check out my DOOM Emacs configuration here.

Utilities

Duplicati

Timeshift / Timeshift-GTK

tldr / tealdeer

SetACL / SetACL Studio

TeraCopy

TeraCopy is free, but there is a pro version that allows for exporting reports after copying or moving files. For Windows.

Paid Software

Audio

Ableton Live

Cocko’s Reaper

Utilities

TeraCopy Pro

TeraCopy is free, but there is a pro version that allows for exporting reports after copying or moving files. For Windows.

Microsoft Program Install and Uninstall Troubleshooter

Free to download and use but obviously you would have to be using Microsoft Windows in order to run into the kind of problems this troubleshooter is meant to fix.

Resplendence Software

Resplendence software has a number of nifty pieces of software aimed at Windows-based computers.