Recommended software and hardware. Free things are in red. Basics Operating system – Windows 11 Browser – Brave Office suite – Microsoft 365 Personal Audio – foobar2000 [screenshot] Video – VLC media player File hosting – Google Drive Audio Stream music – TIDAL Stream music from your PC – Navidrome Transcode FLAC to MP3 – foobar2000 with LAME encoder Tag and rename – foobar2000 with MusicBrainz tagger Edit – REAPER (alternative: Audacity) Capture – Replay Music Productivity Midpoint calculator – Equidistance Team messaging – Slack Video calls – Zoom Task management – Microsoft To Do Text editor – Notepad++ Password manager – Bitwarden Protocols FTP – WinSCP SSH – PuTTY IRC – HexChat (alternative: screen & irssi with PuTTY [screenshot]) Miscellaneous VPN – Mullvad Analytics – Plausible Website crawler – Screaming Frog Video editor – DaVinci Resolve File archiver – 7-Zip Clipboard manager – Ditto Networking Domain names – Portfast Shared hosting – Mythic Beasts CDN – Cloudflare VPS – Jump Networks Dedicated server – Bogons (enquire directly) Router – TP-Link Archer BE3600 Downloading BitTorrent – qBittorrent General – The Pirate Bay Music / Software – Redacted TV – BroadcasTheNet Films – PassThePopcorn Seedbox – Whatbox Hardware Phone – OnePlus with giffgaff Laptop – ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 12 Headphones – Sony WH-1000XM6 TV – Philips OLED760 Wireless speakers – Edifier M90 Hi-fi system – Grahams