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Ultimate Windows Utility - Chris Titus Tech's Ultimate Windows Utility is useful for post-installation Windows 10/11 setup.
Rufus - Rufus is an application that writes images to USBs to create bootable devices.
MSMG Toolkit - MSMG Toolkit is a Windows 10/11 pre-installation utility that is good for slimming down Windows and more.
NTLite - NTLite is another Windows 10/11 pre-installation utility that can customize windows, preinstall apps, and more.
Multipack Visual C++ - Visual C++ is useful for various applications to function on Windows 10/11.
NVCleanstall - NVCleanstall is useful for avoiding telemetry and other unwanted or unnecessary applications installed by default through Nvidia Geforce Experience when installing video drivers.
DDUninstaller - Display Driver Uninstaller is useful for removing all trace of AMD, Intel, and Nvidia drivers from a windows machine to fix problems with hardware changes or to reinstall drivers.

Debian - Debian is an almost entirely FOSS operating system except for recently introduced proprietary drivers in Debian 12.
Fedora - Fedora is a fork of Red Hat Linux that is very popular for its stability and tested packages, it's targeted use being servers.
Arch - Arch is a general purpose rolling-release operating system meant for those needing the 'bleeding edge' of software.
OpenSUSE - OpenSUSE is a FOSS operating system that has official releases and a rolling-release version and which uses the RPM package manager, which makes it very attractive for server and desktop solutions alike.
NixOS - NixOS is an immutable FOSS operating system that has a configuration file for the entire system which allows for easy replicability of system configurations.
VanillaOS - VanillaOS is a, immutable FOSS operating system, based on Ubuntu, which containerizes applications separate from the OS, and can install apps from different sources like apt, dnf, pacman, aur, appimages, snap, and has subsystems for Arch, Fedora, Void, OpenSUSE, and more.
OpenBSD - OpenBSD is a fork of NetBSD, based on the Berkeley Software Distribution, and is a general purpose operating system that is focused on security.
FreeBSD - FreeBSD, like OpenBSD is based on the Berkeley Software Distribution and is another general purpose operating system with limitless application.
Fedora Silverblue - Fedora Silverblue is based on Fedora Workstation, but its an immutable OS that runs installed programs in a containerized environment separate from the operating system for increased stability and other benefits.

VMware EXSi - VMware EXSi (vSphere) is proprietary and owned by Oracle, and requires sign up and account creation, but can be obtained with no charge, At times it can outperform KVM, and it can even run on ARM architectures. It is one of the most popular commercial virtualization solutions today. It has both an enterprise tier, which includes support and more features, and a free tier that includes most features.
Proxmox VE - Proxmox Virtual Environment is based on Debian and is FOSS yet still has both an enterprise tier, including support, and free tier lacking support and HTTPS update repos. It runs virtual machines with KVM and containers with LXC on the host's Debian kernel rather than with docker.
XCP-ng - XCP-ng is based on the FOSS Xen hypervisor, and is very performant and stable, It has both an enterprise tier, including support, and a free tier lacking support.

Oracle VirtualBox - Oracle VirtualBox is an open source hypervisor made by Innotek and eventually bought by the company, Sun, now known as Oracle.
VMware Workstation - VMware Workstation is another proprietary hypervisor from Oracle, similar to VirtualBox.
Virtual Machine Manager - Virt-Manager is one of the most versatile type 2 hypervisors that can run Xen, KVM, QEMU and also run LXC containers, and even optional support for OpenBSD's bhyve hypervisor, developed by Red Hat

Nginx Proxy Manager - Nginx Proxy Manager is a proxy manager that handles SSL and TLS from a simple web frontend for forwarding services to the internet. This runs only in Docker currently.
Wireshark - Wireshark is a network traffic tool used read and write network traffic via ethernet, bluetooth, wifi, usb and more with hundreds of protcols and decryption support.
ZeroTier One - ZeroTier One is an open source multipoint VPN solution, much like LogMeIn Hamachi, and has a free and enterprise tier.

OpenWRT - OpenWRT is an open source firewall and router firmware based on Linux and is fully writeable and supports optional package management with opkg.
PFsense is an open source firewall and router, and TNSR is a command line router with mass scale in mind, both provided by Netgate and feature commercial and free tiers.
OPNsense - OPNsense is an open source firewall and routing firmware based on OpenBSD and supports plugins, VLANs and more.
DD-WRT - DD-WRT is an open source router and firewall with many proprietary Broadcom drivers, and is originally based on Lynksis firmware and features TOR and VPN routing, and more.