The most popular PC digital distribution platform, the one and only.BUY GABE A NEW YACHT LOL

a DRM-free game platform created by CDPR.

Open-source mod manager presented by Nexusmod.

Yet another good open-source mod manager.

Popular open-source engine, alternative to unity.However the Godot community is rather small.

Free EDA created by JLC.It's similar to Altium Designer, but have a friendly learning curve.It also includes a large component library service with online and offline support.Great choice for personal projects or small production.

An useable 3d-CAD for personal projects or small-scale production.Giant companies always use SW, NX or Creo.

Yet an alternative, you still need AutoCAD.

Probably the best open-source protocol analyzer.

SRE/decompiler created by NSA.

dotnet(.NET/.NET Core) IL code decompiler.

container is great.

A docker alternative created by redhat.

Become free for personal use shortly after Broadcom acquired VMware.

Open source virtualization tool supporting x86/AMD64, runs on Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris. Offers portable, lightweight, ad-free use.

offer cross-platform unix commands written in Rust.

greq written in Rust.

A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'.

A command-line fuzzy finder written in Go.

json query

yaml/xml query

A modern alternative to ls.

bash is the standard!!!

Windows' cross-platform shell, built with dotnet and C#.

yet another useable Niche shell.

Considered as the "next-gen" bash.

Cross-shell prompt customization tool, way more faster and rich-featured than oh-my-posh/zsh/* series tools.

cross-platform high speed term written in Rust.Uses OpenGL for rendering.

windows' default term. It's actually a great product.

one of the best term on *nix platform.

agentic terminal wirtten in Rust.recently changed to open-source.

useful in embedding dev.

tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it enables a number of terminals (or windows), each running a separate program, to be created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen. tmux may be detached from a screen and continue running in the background, then later reattached.

Zellij is a workspace aimed at developers, ops-oriented people and anyone who loves the terminal. Similar programs are sometimes called "Terminal Multiplexers".

goat editor, even stronger than most IDEs in development.Supports EVERY software development, even some hardware development using plugins to interact with other tools or IDEs. 40k+ plugins in the market.numerous maintainers.

a next-gen editor, with blazing speed and first-class AI support as its strengths. Still has multiple feature flaws and bugs in 2026, such as horrible git and debug experience.Recommended using Zed as your second editor. Active but development is rather slow?(my own opinion)

Gram is a hard fork of the Zed Editor created by Kristoffer Grönlund.Gram is to Zed what VSCodium was meant to be for VSCode.It removes corporate trash in Zed: AI, Telemetry, Proprietary server components, third-party service integrations, Contributor Licenses, Terms of Service or subscription fees.Libre project, libre tools, that's the way it is.

Free open-source code editor and Notepad replacement supporting multiple languages, featuring high speed, low resource usage, privacy focus, and plugin extensibility.

Advanced text editor with multiple modes, syntax highlighting, word completion, plugin support, built-in help, command-line tools, cross-platform and open source.

GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. The features of GNU Emacs include:

Niche, but it's actually good!

Edit is a new command-line text editor in Windows. Edit is open source, so you can build the code or install the latest version from GitHub.

Useable