{"id":34431,"date":"2025-10-07T16:47:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T07:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aaron.kr\/content\/?page_id=34431"},"modified":"2025-10-07T22:40:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T13:40:34","slug":"uses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aaron.kr\/content\/uses\/","title":{"rendered":"Uses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are occasions in which I get a new computer or need to reinstall an operating system for whatever reason. The following is a list of software (and other things) I use on a regular basis for each system. These are gathered here for ease-of-access whenever I need to reference them again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Software<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For the most part, I believe most of the software download locations are the same for every OS, but I may add OS-specific links below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Utilities \/ Drivers<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>For the most part, it seems Windows Update can mostly find and install the correct drivers for most of the hardware. Apart from that, here are some things I may want to install separately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msi.com\/support\/download\">MSI Drivers<\/a><\/td><td>Many on Windows Update, others here<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/software\/nvidia-app\/\">NVIDIA App \/ drivers<\/a><\/td><td>GeForce GPU<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/app.prntscr.com\/en\/download.html\">Lightshot<\/a><\/td><td>Screenshot + drawing tool<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">AI<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/chatgpt.com\/download\/\">ChatGPT<\/a><\/td><td>Summarizing text, brainstorming, AI-powered search<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Creative<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adobe.com\/creativecloud.html\">Adobe Creative Cloud<\/a><\/td><td>Design work<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\u26ac Photoshop<\/td><td>Photos, wallpapers, etc<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\u26ac Illustrator<\/td><td>Vector art, logos, business cards, etc<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\u26ac InDesign<\/td><td>Long-form documents, magazines, etc<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\u26ac Acrobat PDF<\/td><td>Reading \/ editing PDFs<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\u26ac Premiere Pro<\/td><td>Advanced video editing<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Video \/ Audio<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/obsproject.com\/\">OBS Studio<\/a><\/td><td>Screen recording<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/handbrake.fr\/downloads.php\">Handbrake<\/a><\/td><td>Video compression<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacityteam.org\/download\/\">Audacity<\/a><\/td><td>Audio editing<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\/\">iTunes<\/a><\/td><td>Audio playback (music)<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.videolan.org\/vlc\/\">VLC<\/a><\/td><td>Video playback (movies)<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Web<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/brave.com\/download\/\">Brave Browser<\/a><\/td><td>Ads-free browser (YouTube, Netflix, etc)<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firefox.com\/\">Firefox<\/a><\/td><td>Great dev tools<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/chrome\/\">Chrome<\/a><\/td><td>The original<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/whale.naver.com\/en\/\">Naver Whale<\/a><\/td><td>Korean-based<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dev<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-getwid-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/visualstudio.microsoft.com\/\">Visual Studio<\/a><\/td><td>C, C++, Java dev<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/code.visualstudio.com\/\">Visual Studio Code<\/a><\/td><td>Web, Python, ipynb dev, Markdown<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/notepad-plus-plus.org\/downloads\/\">Notepad++<\/a><\/td><td>Better Notepad, good for code<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/git-scm.com\/downloads\">Git<\/a><\/td><td>Version control<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/desktop.github.com\/download\/\">GitHub Desktop<\/a><\/td><td>Automatic GitHub linkage<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/filezilla-project.org\/download.php\">FileZilla<\/a><\/td><td>FTP client (no Mac, no ARM processors?)<\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberduck.io\/download\/\">Cyberduck<\/a><\/td><td>FTP client (Mac, ARM 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