List of my favorite alternative tech (all if it's free, some of it's FOSS):

Microsoft Windows

- Linux linux.org/

(hurry up before Windows 11 is mandatory)

Adobe products:

(both of these can also run in the browser)

- Dreamweaver > Brackets brackets.io/

- Photoshop > Photopea photopea.com/

Microsoft Office:

- Excel: Planmaker by freeoffice.com/

- Word: TextMaker by freeoffice.com/

The FreeOffice 2024 suite has office software that has come CLOSEST I have seen to MS Office products, down to most of the shortcuts. Look at the site for others.

Chrome

(who the fuck is still using Chrome?)

- Firefox mozilla.org/

- Brave brave.com/

- Librewolf librewolf.net/

YouTube:

- FreeTube (desktop) freetubeapp.io/

- Newpipe (mobile) newpipe.net/

uTorrent alternative (it's spyware):

- Deluge (Windows) deluge-torrent.org/

- qBittorrent qbittorrent.org/

Honorable mentions:

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Calibre eBook editor/manager calibre-ebook.com/

Bitwarden encrypted pwd/identity/secure notes manager bitwarden.com/

JDownloader for downloading videos from websites including YT jdownloader.org/