Starter Programs
A starter collection for a fresh install
Google LLC
Chrome is the official web browser from Google, built to be fast, secure, and customizable.
Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Visual Studio Code is a code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications. Microsoft Visual Studio Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Node.js Foundation
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
GitKraken
The legendary Git client with an ultra-intuitive GUI, a powerful terminal, and offers a seamless experience for Windows, Mac and Linux.
The Git Development Community
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
Git for Windows focuses on offering a lightweight, native set of tools that bring the full feature set of the Git SCM to Windows while providing appropriate user interfaces for experienced Git users and novices alike.
Skype Technologies S.A.
Skype is for connecting with the people that matter most in your life and work. It's built for both one-on-one and group conversations and works wherever you are – via mobile, PC and Alexa. Skype messaging and HD voice and video calling will help you share experiences and get things done with others.
With Skype, you can have meetings and create great things with your workgroup, share a story or celebrate a birthday with friends and family, and learn a new skill or hobby with a teacher. It’s free to use Skype – to send messages and have audio and video calls with groups of up to 100 people!
If you pay a little, you can do more things, in more ways, with more people – like call phones or SMS messages. You can pay as you go or buy a subscription, whatever works for you.
Try Skype out today and start adding your friends, family and colleagues. They won’t be hard to find; hundreds of millions of people are already using Skype to do all sorts of things together.
Valve Corporation
Steam is the ultimate destination for playing, discussing, and creating games.
Steam is a video game digital distribution service and storefront.
Steam offers features such as game server matchmaking with Valve Anti-Cheat measures, social networking, and game streaming services.
Steam automates game updates, provides cloud storage for game progress, and includes community features like direct messaging, in-game overlay functions, and a virtual collectible marketplace.
Epic Games, Inc.
The Epic Games Launcher provides access to the Epic Games Store and Unreal Engine. The Epic Games Store is a marketplace where you can find, purchase, download and play games.
GOG.com
GOG GALAXY 2.0 allows you to combine multiple game libraries into one and connect with your friends across all gaming platforms, consoles included!
Mumble VoIP
Low-latency and high quality voice chat primarily intended for use while gaming.
KeePassXC Team
KeePassXC is a modern, secure, and open-source password manager that stores and manages your most sensitive information. You can run KeePassXC on Windows, macOS, and Linux systems. KeePassXC is for people with extremely high demands of secure personal data management. It saves many different types of information, such as usernames, passwords, URLs, attachments, and notes in an offline, encrypted file that can be stored in any location, including private and public cloud solutions. For easy identification and management, user-defined titles and icons can be specified for entries. In addition, entries are sorted into customizable groups. An integrated search function allows you to use advanced patterns to easily find any entry in your database. A customizable, fast, and easy-to-use password generator utility allows you to create passwords with any combination of characters or easy to remember passphrases.
Postman
Postman is a collaboration platform for API development. Postman's features simplify each step of building an API and streamline collaboration so you can create better APIs — faster.
Mozilla
Firefox Browser, also known as Mozilla Firefox or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine to render web pages, which implements current and anticipated web standards. In 2017, Firefox began incorporating new technology under the code name Quantum to promote parallelism and a more intuitive user interface. Firefox is officially available for Windows 7 or newer, macOS, and Linux. Its unofficial ports are available for various Unix and Unix-like operating systems including FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, illumos, and Solaris Unix.
Laurent Cozic
Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. The notes are searchable, can be copied, tagged and modified either from the applications directly or from your own text editor. The notes are in Markdown format.
Notes exported from Evernote can be imported into Joplin, including the formatted content (which is converted to Markdown), resources (images, attachments, etc.) and complete metadata (geolocation, updated time, created time, etc.). Plain Markdown files can also be imported.
Joplin is "offline first", which means you always have all your data on your phone or computer. This ensures that your notes are always accessible, whether you have an internet connection or not.
The notes can be securely synchronised using end-to-end encryption with various cloud services including Nextcloud, Dropbox, OneDrive and Joplin Cloud.
Full text search is available on all platforms to quickly find the information you need. The app can be customised using plugins and themes, and you can also easily create your own.
The application is available for Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS. A Web Clipper, to save web pages and screenshots from your browser, is also available for Firefox and Chrome.
Microsoft Corporation
The new Windows Terminal, a tabbed command line experience for Windows.
Starship Contributors
The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!
- Fast: it's fast – really really fast! 🚀
- Customizable: configure every aspect of your prompt.
- Universal: works on any shell, on any operating system.
- Intelligent: shows relevant information at a glance.
- Feature rich: support for all your favorite tools.
- Easy: quick to install – start using it in minutes.
Cygwin
a large collection of GNU and Open Source tools which provide functionality similar to a Linux distribution on Windows.
Martin Prikryl
WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client, FTP client, WebDAV client, S3 client and SCP client for Windows.
Its main function is file transfer between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this, WinSCP offers scripting and basic file manager functionality
Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity.
Inspired by the Windows 95 era PowerToys project, this reboot provides power users with ways to squeeze more efficiency out of the Windows 10 shell and customize it for individual workflows.
AppWork GmbH
JDownloader is a free, open-source download management tool with a huge community of developers that makes downloading as easy and fast as it should be. Users can start, stop or pause downloads, set bandwith limitations, auto-extract archives and much more.