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What Software Do I Use on Linux?

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3D & Animation

  1. Blender (Daily-driver)
  2. Unreal Engine 5 (Daily-driver for real-time projects.)
  3. Houdini (Still learning but use for procedural generation & simulations.)
  4. Fspy (Perspective matching images.)

Video, Compositing &

  1. DaVinci Resolve Studio 21
    1. Handbrake or Shutter Encoder to transcode AAC audio on rare occasions
  2. Natron (Hopefully I will eventually move to Nuke)
  3. Soundly (Stock audio service.)
  4. Audacity (Usually Resolve is enough, but occasionally its useful.)
  5. OBS Studio (Screen recording)

2D Graphics & Photo

  1. Affintiy (AffinityOnLinux by Mattscreative)
  2. DaVinci Resolve Studio 21
  3. Inkscape, Gimp & Krita (If I can get access to Affinity for some reason.)

Writing, Text & Code Editors

  1. Obsidian
  2. Zed or VSCodium(Open-source VSCode stripped of Microsoft telemetry.)
  3. WritierSolo (Screenplay and Longform writing.)
  4. Alacritty, Konsole or Gnome Terminal + Nano/Vim

Other

  1. FreeOffice (Proprietary German-based office suite.) or OnlyOffice (Open-source office suite.)
  2. Gnome Screenshot
  3. Steam for Gaming
  4. LocalSend (Wireless file transfer.)
  5. Firefox or Chromium
  6. gnome-disk-utility (writing image/ISO to usb and partition management.)

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