Notes: Audacity recently got into drama after it got bought by other company, so if you dont like it, you can move to Tenacity.

Notes: Best one for sample-based music will be FL Studio. REAPER has the most customizable experience but hardest to learn. OpenMPT and Famistudio are best for retro stylized music.

Notes: Blender is not suitable as much as other software for video editing, but powerful in VFX. Davinci Resolve has powerful node sytem which will be uselful in creation of custom effects

Notes: 2D animation features of Blender is limited in comparasion with other software.

Notes: Photopea is browser-only software. Paint.net is not a Phtotoshop alternative, rather has some features of it.

Notes: Blender is not pixel art software, but with help of addons and compositor you can create effect of pixel art. Libresprite is free-first fork of aseprite.

Notes: ZBrush is best for sculpting, Houdini is best for VFX, Maya is best for 3d animtion, Blender is preety much universal.

Notes: to publish on itch.io/gamejolt you dont need to pay. On other platforms you required to pay one-time fee.

Notes: Logseq is FOS alternative to obsidian. Obsidian has built-in paid feature for synchronization of vaults for monthly subscription, but it can be bypassed/skipped by other cloud services(dropbox + dropsync, google drive + autosync, etc.).

Notes: Telegram and Discord has paid subscription, but it doesnt limit most of the features.