Free and Open Source Software = FOSS

All of my life I used Windows as an Operating System together with proprietary software that I often pirated because it was too expensive. That changed some 5-6 years ago when I discovered Linux. Since then I’ve mainly used free and open source software and I absolutely love it. It is stable, awesome, not bloated with ads or unnecessary features, and since it is made for free it is made by people who are passionate about what they do so that results in an overall better user interface and more useful software.

Today I use Ubuntu 16.04 with Unity Interface. I love it. A few things that I absolutely love are:

Workspaces
On Ubuntu you can enable multiple workspaces natively. You can move stuff from one workspace to another with ease and switch between them with all kinds of gestures: buttons, hotcorners on the screen, keys, mouse position. I usually use them when I work on multiple things at once and I want to separate my workspaces.
https://www.tiotrom.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/workspaces.gif

HUD
Imagine you want to edit a photo in a program and you want to apply a certain blur filter. Where do you find it? Search through all of the menus? What if you could press a key and write that filter's name then pres enter and that's it!? Well, that's HUD and after you use it you can't imagine life without it. It is such a useful feature and it works with all (at least most) Ubuntu apps.
https://www.tiotrom.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/hud.gif

Customize
You can customize Linux distributions any way you like. From icons and themes, to shadows and text, everything. You can make them look like Mac OS or any Windows, or anything original. There are many custom made themes and icons and all kinds of editing tools. Here's a website where you can find themes, icons, and more. 
- https://www.opendesktop.org/s/Gnome
https://www.tiotrom.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/customize.gif

There are many other reasons to love Linux, like the updates and upgrades (that I used to hate on Windows), or the built-in features that allow for easy management of programs (they have an app store). No point to list here all the goodies, but I am going to list my most used FOSS apps. So, there you go, my go-to free and open source software:

There are a few free but closed source software that I also use because I didn’t find better FOSS alternatives:
 Master PDF Editor (https://code-industry.net/get-masterpdfeditor/)(great tool for editing pdfs); 
Private Internet Access as VPN(https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/)(the app is free but you have to pay for the service); 
Slack (https://slack.com/)(for managing TROM teams – it is a chat app); 
TeamViewer( (https://www.teamviewer.com)remote desktop access/control); 
XnConvert ((https://www.xnview.com/en/xnconvert/)to bulk editing images). I also use a few websites as apps since in Ubuntu you can save websites as apps via Chromium: 
TROM News (https://www.tromsite.com/goodies/news/)(my only source of news), 
MusikWave ((http://www.musikwave.com/)my music website – built by me); 
Radio Garden ((http://radio.garden/)awesome radio website); 
Jamedo Music( https://www.jamendo.com/)(free music that you can also use for your projects). I use lots more websites but only these I use as “apps”.

Let me know what you use and maybe suggest something FOSS for the above non-FOSS ones. 😉