Recommended Softwares

System Compositions

Currently this category mainly includes package managers and GUI environments.

Python Environment Management

• 🆓📖-🪟🍎🐧 Conda: Development environment manager.
  • 🆓📖 Conda-Pack: Archive Conda environment.

Windows Package Management

• 🆓📖-🪟 WinGet: Windows application softwares manager.

Mainstream Applications

• 🆓📖-🪟🍎🐧 .NET: A cross-operating-system development platform.
• 🆓📖-🪟🍎🐧 7-Zip: Archive compression software.
• 🆓📖-🪟🍎🐧 Git: Distributed version control system.
• 🆓📖-🪟🍎🐧 Git Large File Storage: Git large file management expansion.
• 🆓📖-🪟🍎🐧 MiKTeX: Typesetting tool set for TeX ecosystem.
• 🆓📖-🪟🍎🐧 Neovim: TUI text editor and text editing kernel.
• 🆓📖-🪟🍎🐧 Python: Runtime environment of programming language Python.
  • 🆓📖 pip: pip is the package installer for Python.
  • 🆓📖 matplotlib: A package for data visualization.
  • 🆓📖 seaborn: A package for statistic data visualization based on matplotlib.

Commandline Shell

• 🆓📖-🪟🍎🐧 OhMyPosh: Shell display effect configuration tool.
• 🆓📖-🪟🍎🐧 PowerShell: Command line shell. Used both in daily operating and scripting.

Ebook Reader

• 🆓📖-🪟🐧 Okular: An open source ebook reader that support PDF, EPUB etc.

Other choices:

• 🆓📖-🪟 Sumatra PDF: Document viewer.

Image Viewer

This category mainly includes the softwares that can handle a folder of image instead of show only one image. This is for exclude some other softwares that can view single image (e.g. web page browsers, ebook readers etc.).

• 🆓📖-🪟 ImageGlass: Image viewer and gallery browser.

Terminal Emulator

• 🆓📖-🪟🍎🐧😈 Alacritty: Terminal emulator.

Other choices:

• 🆓📖-🪟 Windows Terminal: Terminal emulator.

Terminal Multiplexer

• 🆓📖-🐧 Tmux: An open source terminal multiplexer.

Other choices:

• 🆓📖-🐧 GNU Screen: An open source terminal multiplexer. For now, it dosen’t support true color ANSI escape sequence.

Timed Media Player

Audio and video palyer.

• 🆓📖-🪟🍎🐧 VLC: An open source video and audio palyer.

Web Application Client

• 🆓📖-🪟🍎🐧 Firefox: An open source web page browser.
• 🆓📖-🪟🍎🐧 Thunderbird: An open source e-mail client.
• 🆓📖-🪟🍎🐧🍏🤖 Bitwarden: An open source password management client.

Text Editor and Development Environment Front-end

Mainly use this:

• 🆓📖-🪟🍎🐧 Visual Studio Code: GUI text editor and development environment front-end framework.
  • Recommended Visual Studio Code Plugins

Alternative Applications

• 🆓📖-🪟🐧 Nomacs: Image viewer, not support APNG for now.
• 💰📕-🪟🍎🐧 Typora: Markdown viewer and editor.

For Fun

• 🆓📖-🪟🍎🐧😈 GNU Emacs: A complex system disguised as a text editor.

Irreplaceable Works

This category focuses more on the game’s artworks, stories, and level design etc., while other categories focus on mechanics.

• 💰📕-🪟 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare: A modern military theme FPS game with cinematic experience.
• 💰📕-🪟 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2: A modern military theme FPS game with cinematic experience.
• 💰📕-🪟 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2011): A modern military theme FPS game with cinematic experience.
• 💰📕-🪟🍎🍏🤖Gorogoa: A jigsaw puzzle game that cleverly uses optical illusions. Its graphics are quite artistic.

Not Classified

• 💰📕-🪟🍎🍏🤖Gorogoa: A jigsaw puzzle game that cleverly uses optical illusions. Its graphics are quite artistic.

Age of Empires

• 💰📕-🪟 Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition: A historical RTS game.
  • 🆓📖 Return Of Rome Main Menu: A Return of Rome theme main menu wall paper.
  • 🆓📖 Small Trees: Show trees smaller.
  • 🆓📖 Zetnus Improved Grid Mod: Show map grid.
• 💰📕-🪟 Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition: A historical RTS game.
• 💰📕-🪟 Age of Empires IV: A historical RTS game.

Not recommended:

• 💰📕-🪟 Age of Empires: Definitive Edition: A historical RTS game.

Bejeweled-like

BioShock-like

Diablo-like

• 🆓📖-🪟🍎🐧 DevilutionX: Diablo build for modern operating systems.
• 💰📕-🪟 Diablo II: A famous diablo-like games.
• 💰📕-🪟 Diablo III: A famous diablo-like games.
• 💰📕-🪟 Last Epoch: A good diablo-like game.

Not recommended:

• 💰📕-🪟 Diablo: The origin of diablo-like games.

Dwarf-Fortress-like

• 💰📕-🪟🍎🐧 RimWorld: A colony management game.

Half-Life-like

• 💰📕-🪟 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2011): A modern military theme FPS game with cinematic experience.

Not recommended:

• 💰📕-🪟 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2007): A modern military theme FPS game with cinematic experience.
• 💰📕-🪟 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009): A modern military theme FPS game with cinematic experience.

Minecraft-like

Rogue-like

• 🆓📖-🪟🍎🐧 NetHack: A dungeon crawler game, the successor of Hack.
• 🆓📕-🪟🍎🐧🍏🤖 Pathos: Nethack Codex: A modern rogue-like dungeon crawler game.

Not recommended:

• 🆓📕-🍏 1-Bit Rogue: A Dungeon crawler RPG: A very simple rogue-like game, somewhat even not that rogue-like.
• 🆓📖-🪟🐧 Rogue: A dungeon crawler game. It’s the begin of rogue-like games.
• 💰📕-🪟 Rogue (Epyx DOS Edition): This is a DOS port of Rogue.
• 🆓📖-🪟🍎🐧 Moria: The first rogue-like game with a town level.
• 🆓📖-🐧 Hack: The first rogue-like game with a pet dog.
• 🆓📖-🐧 Larn: The first roguelike with a time limit and multi dungeons.
• 🆓📖-🐧 Omega: A roguelike game that plays more like a DND RPG. You can’t just hack and slash at the begin.

Stardew Valley

• 🆓📖-🪟🍎🐧 SMAPI: A modding framework for Stardew Valley.
  • 🆓📖 ConsoleCommands: Offer console commands for SMAPI console.
  • 🆓📖 GenericModConfigMenu: Add menus for mods to config.
  • 🆓📖 Lookup Anything: In-game data wiki.
  • 🆓📖 SaveBackup: Auto backup the saves of Stardew Valley.
  • 🆓📖 UIInfoSuite2: Provide more informations on UI.
• 💰📕-🪟🍎🐧 Stardew Valley: A farm game.
• 🆓📖-🪟🍎🐧 Stardew Valley Mod Manager: A mod manager for Stardew Valley.

XCOM

• 💰📕-🪟 XCOM Chimera Squad: A sci-fi alien war chess game.