Add Free Apps

[Axorax]

https://github.com/Axorax/awesome-free-apps

List of all the best free apps for Windows, Mac and Linux. All of the apps are curated and hand-picked. I saw that there were no lists on only free apps so I spent a lot of time researching and making the list myself.

My Pull Requests Reviews:
#3153
#3115
#3160
#3217
#3223
#3247

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[Axorax]

unicorn

[Axorax]

not sure on why the linter in the github actions failed but heres a screenshot of me running awesome linter on it:

[donBarbos]

linter show me next problems:

✖ Linting

  README.md:158:77
  ✖  158:77  List item description must end with proper punctuation  remark-lint:awesome-list-item
  ✖  163:99  List item description must end with proper punctuation  remark-lint:awesome-list-item
  ✖  184:41  List item description must end with proper punctuation  remark-lint:awesome-list-item
  ✖  186:67  List item description must end with proper punctuation  remark-lint:awesome-list-item

  4 errors

anyway you need to fix your README.md,
and it's linter output from workflow (you always can check github actions logs):

warning: url contains a newline in its path component: https://github.com/Axorax/awesome-free-apps
https://github.com/Axorax/awesome-free-apps
https://github.com/Axorax/awesome-free-apps/
fatal: credential url cannot be parsed: https://github.com/Axorax/awesome-free-apps
https://github.com/Axorax/awesome-free-apps
https://github.com/Axorax/awesome-free-apps/
fatal: remote helper 'https' aborted session

these're similar awesome lists i found:

• https://github.com/RunaCapital/awesome-oss-alternatives
• https://github.com/diegoleme/awesome-open-source-alternatives

but you can explain how your list is different and what you mean by free apps?
(I didn't find any explanation in your readme)

and I also don't think it's worth adding your list to several topics

[Axorax]

Hey! So, I added more apps and messed up some punctuations. Should be fixed now.

How is my list different?
Well, there are open source app lists. My list is for free apps that means the app can be open-source or closed source. The listen only contains the best free apps that can have their source code public or private.

I put it in three topics as the list covers windows, mac and linux. There are no free app lists currently, so I made one.

[Mo-way]

@Axorax
The free needs more clear, because (software) people differentiate free as in freedom and free as in free beer.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre

Awesome to see the resonance to your list! It seems there's definitely a desire for a "gratis" apps list, regardless the freedom of the source code. Still, I think adding it in one category only suffices.. All other "free apps" related lists are in Miscellaneous (apart from the macOS one, for obvious reasons).

[Jogai]

Was dissapointed when looking at the games category. No free games listed, mostly launchers of big for-profit corpos.

[Axorax]

@Mo-way Thanks for the feedback! What category should I list it in?

[Mo-way]

@Axorax Miscellaneous

[Mo-way]

Another nitpick: if yo ask me, the "⭐ recommended by us" category makes no sense on an awesome list - if you don't recommend it, remove it from the list

[Axorax]

Another nitpick: if yo ask me, the "⭐ recommended by us" category makes no sense on an awesome list - if you don't recommend it, remove it from the list

ofc we recommend all the apps but the star ones are the apps in that category with the best UI and functionality like best all together

[Mo-way]

ofc we recommend all the apps but the star ones are the apps in that category with the best UI and functionality like best all together

Okay, sounds sensible to me. I agree, there are many very long awesome lists, where some prioritization would help.
Let's see what others say