Loose list of free and free-ish software I use and recommend. Some of it is well known and some is obscure.
Probably the most well known compress utility. https://www.7-zip.org/
Somewhat obscure image tile viwer. https://www.ampsoft.net/utilities/TileViewer.php
GPU Tweak software for NVIDIA graphics cards. https://www.asus.com/supportonly/gputweak%20ii/helpdesk_download/
Well known audio editing software. https://www.audacityteam.org/download/
Free-ish version of Fusion for personal use. Like or not still one of the best cad software out there. https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/personal
Flash utility, works where others fail. https://etcher.balena.io/
Software disk cleaner. https://www.bleachbit.org/download
well known 3D package. https://www.blender.org/download/
API client. https://www.usebruno.com/downloads
Node-based image processing GUI. https://github.com/chaiNNer-org/chaiNNer/releases
GUI for well known Chocolatey package manager. https://docs.chocolatey.org/en-us/chocolatey-gui/setup/installation/
Chrome without Google. https://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/download-chromium/
Best free video editing package, extremely powerful. https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve
Desktop version of the online translation app. https://www.deepl.com/en/windows-app
Offline version of the web app. https://www.drawio.com/
3D parametric modeler, funky at times, but still one of the best open source modeler out there. https://www.freecad.org/downloads.php
Screenshot software. https://getgreenshot.org/downloads/
Well known hardware info software. https://www.hwinfo.com/download/
.NET decompiler. https://github.com/icsharpcode/ILSpy
Well known schematic and PCB editor. https://www.kicad.org/
Well known graphics pakage. https://krita.org
Well known office suite. https://www.libreoffice.org/
Custom build of Firefox browser, focused on privacy and security. https://librewolf.net/
Python code editor for micro electronics. https://codewith.mu/
Document viewer. https://okular.kde.org/
Interactive whiteboard. https://openboard.ch/index.en.html
Virtualization software. https://www.virtualbox.org/
Universal document converter. https://pandoc.org/
Offline-only password manager. https://www.pwsafe.org/
Alternative to Docker and Docker Desktop. https://podman-desktop.io/
Well known terminal application. https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html
My love. <3 https://www.python.org/downloads/
Simple Image viewer. https://github.com/easymodo/qimgv
Teleprompter application. https://qprompt.app/
Android screen mirroring tool. https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy
Messenger app. https://simplex.chat/
File manager. https://www.spacedrive.com/
PC fan control. https://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php
UI editor for your embedded systems. Free for personal use only. https://squareline.io/downloads
OCR engine. https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
Python IDE for beginners. https://thonny.org/
Image upscaler. https://upscayl.org/download
VSCode without Microsoft. https://vscodium.com/
Server infrastructure management application. https://xpipe.io/
Writting application. (Used for this document) https://www.zettlr.com/
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