Freeware Recommendations

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RenderDoc: Graphics debugger for Vulkan, D3D11, OpenGL & OpenGL ES and D3D12
Sysinternals Suite: Collection of useful troubleshooting utilities
WinDirStat: Disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool
Windows Performance Toolkit: Performance monitoring tools that produce in-depth performance profiles
Wireshark: Program for network traffic capturing and analysis

BGB: GameBoy and GameBoy Color emulator and debugger for Windows
DOSBox: DOS emulator
Emulicious: Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Master System, Game Gear and MSX emulator
FCEUX: Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and Famicom Disk System (FDS) emulator

ADOM: Ancient Domains of Mystery: Epic roguelike and RPG
Battle for Wesnoth: Turn-based tactical strategy game with a high fantasy theme
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead: Turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup: Roguelike dungeon crawler
Dwarf Fortress: Fantasy simulation
Freeciv: Remake of the original Sid Meier's Civilization
NetHack: Text-based fantasy RPG dungeon crawler with procedural generation
OpenRA: Remake of Command and Conquer: Red Alert with many improvements
OpenRCT2: Open source RollerCoaster Tycoon implementation with many improvements
OpenTTD: Open source simulation based on Transport Tycoon Deluxe
POWDER: Oldschool roguelike with simple graphics
Simutrans: Transportation simulation game similar to Transportation Tycoon
Tales of Maj'Eyal: Tactical RPG roguelike

Blender: 3D modeling program
GIMP: Image manipulation program similar to Photoshop
GrafX2: bitmap paint program inspired by Deluxe Paint
GraphicsGale
Inkscape: Vector graphics editor
Krita: Professional open source painting program
MagicaVoxel: 8-bit voxel art editor
Paint.NET: Very basic image manipulation program similar to MS Paint
yEd: Powerful diagram editor that can be used to generate drawings of diagrams

Audacity: Audio editing and recording software
DaVinci Resolve: Professional video editing software
OBS Studio: Open source software for video recording and live streaming
ScreenToGif: Screen, webcam and sketchboard recorder with an integrated editor
Sekaiju: MIDI sequencer/editor software
Shotcut: Open source, cross-platform video editor
Sidplay2: Plays SID files (C64 music)
NSFPlay: Plays NSF files (NES music)
VLC: Sophisticated multimedia player

MiKTeX: TeX implementation with additional tools and content, comes with the TeXworks editor
LibreOffice: Program suite similar to Microsoft Office with additional features
TeXworks: Minimal but very reliable LaTeX editor

Eclipse IDE: Development environment primarily for Java applications
Git: Distributed version control system
HxD: Powerful hex-editor and disk-editor
Notepad++: Extended Notepad with syntax highlighting, spell-check, macros and more
Visual Studio Code: Cross-platform code editor, debugger, GIT support, etc.
Visual Studio Community: Free version of Microsoft Visual Studio