<h3>Operating System</h3>
<ol>
<li>Windows 11 → 🆓 Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, etc.) ✅</li>
<li>macOS → 🆓 Linux (KDE Neon, Zorin OS, Elementary OS) ✅</li>
</ol>
<hr>
<h3>Office &amp; Productivity</h3>
<ol start="3">
<li>Microsoft Office 365 → 🆓 LibreOffice / OnlyOffice / WPS Office ✅</li>
<li>Adobe Acrobat Pro → 🆓 Okular / PDF Arranger / Master PDF Editor (Freemium) ✅</li>
<li>Evernote → 🆓 Joplin / Standard Notes ✅</li>
<li>Microsoft OneNote → 🆓 Zim / CherryTree ✅</li>
<li>Trello (Premium) → 🆓 Wekan / Focalboard ✅</li>
<li>Grammarly (Premium) → 🆓 LanguageTool / Grammarly Browser Plugin ✅</li>
</ol>
<hr>
<h3>Web Browsing &amp; Email</h3>
<ol start="9">
<li>Google Chrome (Proprietary) → 🆓 Mozilla Firefox / Brave / Vivaldi ✅</li>
<li>Microsoft Edge → 🆓 LibreWolf ✅</li>
<li>Outlook → 🆓 Thunderbird / Evolution Mail ✅</li>
</ol>
<hr>
<h3>Cloud Storage</h3>
<ol start="12">
<li>Google Drive (Paid Storage) → 🆓 Nextcloud / Syncthing ✅</li>
<li>Dropbox (Paid Storage) → 🆓 Seafile ✅</li>
</ol>
<hr>
<h3>Multimedia &amp; Graphics</h3>
<ol start="14">
<li>Adobe Photoshop → 🆓 GIMP / Krita ✅</li>
<li>Adobe Lightroom → 🆓 Darktable / RawTherapee ✅</li>
<li>CorelDRAW → 🆓 Inkscape ✅</li>
<li>Adobe Illustrator → 🆓 Inkscape / Vectr ✅</li>
<li>Adobe Premiere Pro → 🆓 Kdenlive / DaVinci Resolve (Free version) ✅</li>
<li>Final Cut Pro → 🆓 Olive / Blender VSE ✅</li>
<li>Adobe After Effects → 🆓 Natron / Blender ✅</li>
<li>Adobe Animate → 🆓 Synfig Studio / Pencil2D ✅</li>
<li>Adobe Audition → 🆓 Audacity / Ardour ✅</li>
<li>Autodesk Maya → 🆓 Blender ✅</li>
<li>Autodesk 3DS Max → 🆓 Blender ✅</li>
<li>ZBrush → 🆓 Blender (Sculpting Mode) ✅</li>
<li>Cinema 4D → 🆓 Blender ✅</li>
<li>SketchUp Pro → 🆓 FreeCAD / Sweet Home 3D ✅</li>
</ol>
<hr>
<h3>Video &amp; Audio</h3>
<ol start="28">
<li>FL Studio → 🆓 LMMS / Ardour ✅</li>
<li>Ableton Live → 🆓 Bitwig Studio (Free Version) / LMMS ✅</li>
<li>Pro Tools → 🆓 Ardour / Reaper (Affordable Paid) ✅</li>
<li>Cubase → 🆓 Ardour / Rosegarden ✅</li>
<li>Sony Vegas Pro → 🆓 Kdenlive / Shotcut ✅</li>
<li>VLC Pro / QuickTime Pro → 🆓 VLC Media Player ✅</li>
</ol>
<hr>
<h3>Coding &amp; Development</h3>
<ol start="34">
<li>Microsoft Visual Studio (Pro) → 🆓 VS Code (Open-Source) / VSCodium ✅</li>
<li>JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA (Paid) → 🆓 Eclipse / NetBeans ✅</li>
<li>PyCharm Pro → 🆓 Spyder / VS Code (Python Plugin) ✅</li>
<li>PHPStorm → 🆓 Apache NetBeans / VS Code ✅</li>
<li>WebStorm → 🆓 Brackets / VS Code ✅</li>
<li>Dreamweaver → 🆓 Bluefish / Brackets ✅</li>
<li>Adobe XD → 🆓 Penpot / Figma (Web) ✅</li>
<li>Microsoft SQL Server → 🆓 PostgreSQL / MariaDB ✅</li>
<li>Toad for Oracle → 🆓 DBeaver / SQL Workbench ✅</li>
<li>MATLAB → 🆓 GNU Octave / Scilab ✅</li>
<li>Wolfram Mathematica → 🆓 SageMath ✅</li>
<li>Tableau → 🆓 Metabase / Redash ✅</li>
<li>SAP Crystal Reports → 🆓 Metabase / JasperReports ✅</li>
<li>VMware Workstation → 🆓 VirtualBox / KVM ✅</li>
<li>Parallels Desktop → 🆓 Gnome Boxes / Virt-Manager ✅</li>
</ol>
<hr>
<h3>Security &amp; Networking</h3>
<ol start="49">
<li>Norton / McAfee Antivirus → 🆓 ClamAV / rkhunter ✅</li>
<li>Malwarebytes → 🆓 Chkrootkit / Lynis ✅</li>
<li>WinRAR / WinZip → 🆓 PeaZip / 7-Zip (p7zip) ✅</li>
<li>PuTTY (SSH Client) → 🆓 OpenSSH / Kitty ✅</li>
<li>TeamViewer → 🆓 AnyDesk (Free for personal) / RustDesk ✅</li>
<li>Cisco Packet Tracer → 🆓 GNS3 / EVE-NG ✅</li>
</ol>
<hr>
<h3>Backup &amp; Recovery</h3>
<ol start="55">
<li>Acronis True Image → 🆓 Clonezilla / Timeshift ✅</li>
<li>EaseUS Partition Manager → 🆓 GParted ✅</li>
<li>Recuva (Data Recovery) → 🆓 PhotoRec / TestDisk ✅</li>
</ol>
<hr>
<h3>Games &amp; Emulation</h3>
<ol start="58">
<li>Steam (Paid Games) → 🆓 Lutris / Heroic Games Launcher ✅</li>
<li>Nvidia GeForce Now (Cloud Gaming) → 🆓 Moonlight Game Streaming ✅</li>
<li>VMware for Gaming → 🆓 Proton / Wine / DXVK ✅</li>
</ol>
<hr>
<h3>Other Useful Software</h3>
<ol start="61">
<li>Dragon NaturallySpeaking (Speech to Text) → 🆓 OpenAI Whisper / Kaldi ✅</li>
<li>MindManager (Mind Maps) → 🆓 FreeMind / XMind (Freemium) ✅</li>
<li>XMind Pro → 🆓 <a href="http://Draw.io" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Draw.io</a> / Freeplane ✅</li>
<li>Rhinoceros (3D Modeling) → 🆓 Blender / FreeCAD ✅</li>
<li>Microsoft Project → 🆓 ProjectLibre / OpenProject ✅</li>
<li>Microsoft Visio → 🆓 <a href="http://Draw.io" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Draw.io</a> / Dia / LibreOffice Draw ✅</li>
<li>AutoCAD → 🆓 LibreCAD / FreeCAD / BricsCAD (Freemium) ✅</li>
<li>Adobe InDesign → 🆓 Scribus ✅</li>
</ol>

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I already know some but Bitwig Studio caught my attention! I used Ableton for a few years but i’ll definitely try this one! Thank you!