Software I Recommend

Operating system: Debian Linux or Bunsenlabs Linux¹.
OS Utilities: Openbox, dwm, dmenu, Tint2, Ranger, PlayonLinux.
Terminal (& apps): XTerm, Tmux.
Text editors: Vim, Mousepad, SublimeText.
Internet browsing: Tor, Brave, Firefox, NoScript, uBlockOrigin, Vimium.
Password manager: KeepassXC.
Torrent downloader: Tixati, qbittorrent.
File syncing: Rsync, Syncthing, FreeFileSync.
Ebook management: Calibre.
Email client: Claws Mail.
Multi-media: MPV, Mp3Tag.
CMS: PicoCMS.
Project management: OpenProject.
Office suite: LibreOffice.
Note taking: Obsidian.
IM: Signal.
Indic language computing resources: Indic Page.

I refer to Linux not as GNU/Linux, but as Linux. Linus Torvalds puts it best, "Well, I think it's justified, but it's justified if you actually make a GNU distribution of Linux ... the same way that I think that "Red Hat Linux" is fine, or "SUSE Linux" or "Debian Linux", because if you actually make your own distribution of Linux, you get to name the thing, but calling Linux in general "GNU Linux" I think is just ridiculous." ↩