The best free stuff on the internets.
Video Editing
- KdenLive - Free software, best for Linux users
- HitFilm - Advanced, many features, needs beefy hardware, nonfree
- Lightworks - Nonfree, works on average budget computers, lots of cool features Youtubers want
- Windows Movie Maker - Simple, very little features
Code Editing
- Sublime Text - Easy to use, many features, not open-source
- Notepad++ - Eh
- Atom - Good for web development
- Notepad/Textedit - Boring, barely any features
- Micro - Beginner friendly, extensible, sane bindings
- Tilde - MS-DOS like, don't need to learn bindings at all
Web/Project Hosting
- Github - Many features, no database/php, easy to use, VCS
- ByteHost - Many features, unlimited everything, PHP, database, hard to use
- X10Hosting - Easy to use, PHP, sites expire fast
- Self-hosted Web Server - Freedom, not for the noobs
Operating Systems
- Linux Mint - Lots of features, easy to use, does everything Windows can do.
- Puppy Linux - Light, supports all hardware.
- Windows 10 - Best for gaming, has watermark in bottom right corner when using free version.
- Ubuntu, Debian, any other Linux distro - Fast, good for programming and productivity
- Ubuntu Mate - sometimes bloaty, but decent
Browsers
- Google Chrome - Slow, crap, made by Google, nice UI
- Chromium/Ungoogled Chromium - Free software, nice UI, good dev tools
- Firefox, Fast, okay UI, very customizable
CMS
- Bubble.is - Data management, really cool stuff to mess with, closed source, bloaty
- Wix - Easy to use, TONS of ads and poorly made
News
- Your Uncle: Pretty biased, like to talk about politics for hours on end