I recently bought myself a new laptop, It’s a Lenovo E16 with 1TB SSD and 32Gb RAM (for those who like that sort of info)…
It will not be my main computer I have a desktop for that but it is mainly for travelling and visiting when the desktop is not available - Having said that I am actually using it now mainly to get used to it and find its shortcomings now rather than when I need to use it.
Before it arrived I made a list of all the programs/Apps that I wanted to install on it all are free or open source though I have made donations to some that I am particularly fond of…
- Open Live Writer (for my blog)
- Shotcut (video editor)
- Notepad++ (favourite text editor)
- Paint dot Net (simple image editor - might go back to Paintshop Pro V7)
- Firefox (browser)
- VLC (Video viewer)
- Thunderbird (mail reader)
- Dropbox (cloud storage used only for phone photos)
- Bulk Rename (rename photos to something sensible)
- Picasa 3 (old Google photo manager)
- Keepass (password manager)
- M$ Office 2021 (Word, Excel etc)
I did consider installing OBS Studio but don’t use it enough on a travel laptop.
BTW before installing anything I ran “Debloater” to get rid of most of the junk that new computers come loaded with, then went through the remaining programs and deleted stuff like OneDrive, Xbox, Office 365 etc.
What are your favourite “go to” programs that you always install?