A list of daily driver and software recommendations for those who want to be less dependant on a single company, use FOSS software or looking for alternatives to proprietary software on Linux and other platforms.
This list is purely my own opinion and changes over time with my experience and usage. It will expand as needed and typically includes a couple of options for various categories.
Items with a 🚙 are my daily drivers.
Items with a 💾 are my alternative/backup software.
Reason: Its free, studio quality and for 99% of free users handles literally all you could ask for in a video production environment.
Website: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve
Reason: Free and open source. It is also very lightweight and functions well. Made some great progress in the years and when i have updates to Resolve or using my lighter weight ARM based Laptop this works a treat.
Website: https://kdenlive.org/en/
Reason: Its VS Code without the bloat, telemetry and has great community support.
Website: https://vscodium.com
Reason: Blender provides great support to all platforms including Linux and is very capable at most 3D Tasks. I have watched this grow for more than 10 years and the team behind it is really making waves.
Website: https://www.blender.org
Reason: Allowing the sending of information (photos, videos, clipboard, files) from iOS devices to Linux/KDE and back.
Website: https://kdeconnect.kde.org
Reason: A great open source project that is progressing fast, runs well on multiple platforms and has many features.
Website: https://krita.org/en/
Reason: A fully featured, secure and standards focused open source NAS system. Control your data and do it easily with Scale.
Website: https://www.truenas.com/truenas-scale/
Reason: A strong community and responsive developers make Proxmox a very stable and powerful hypervisor. I use also LXC containers in Proxmox.
Website: https://www.proxmox.com/en/
Reason: SUSE and their community openSUSE create and maintain great stable and standards based software. Image Writer for me always works when creating USB Boot drives.