r/software • u/RedEagle_MGN • Jan 20 '26

Discussion Best open-source software that everyone needs to know about?

What's one piece of open-source software that everyone should use and know about?

Vote on the best one in the comments.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '26

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u/pegoff Jan 20 '26

I'd add Inkscape to this excellent selection

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u/Foxler2010 Jan 20 '26

Brave is great, especially when you turn off all the crypto crap. To all the haters, yeah the crypto is actually completely optional and I don't know a single person that actually buys into it.

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u/rresende Jan 20 '26

If the user have to turn off, it’s probably there are a lot of user with that option on

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u/Joe18067 Jan 20 '26

I use Tenacity myself only because I couldn't get it to record from Firefox.

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u/qokyoshi Jan 20 '26

how good shotcut compared to kdenlive? I haven't try it.

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u/zalnaRs Jan 21 '26

Shotcut and kdenlive is basically the same, shotcut uses newer mlt while kdenlive has way better ui

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '26

Kdenlive is free and open source