What software do you use?
As someone who can't really afford a whole lot of paid programs, I usually use free open source alternatives instead.
Which I think are good enough that I don't need those paid programs.
Music
I use LMMS, an open source DAW.
Not the stable build though, but instead the nightly builds as they contain
more features
and aren't 5-6 years old like the current stable release.
"But what about the instruments?" I hear you ask, basically I use a combo of default instruments,
free soundfonts from Musical Artifact,
free VSTs like Kontakt, Spitfire LAB, BBC Symphony, Kitton 3, etc.
Also for samples, I use Looperman
Drawing
I use a mix of Aseprite (which before you say it, was compiled on my old laptop in like 2021) and Krita.
Aseprite I use for Pixel Art, Promo Art, editting screenshots quickly.
Krita I use for album art or for different projects.
Coding/Game Dev
Since 2021/2022, I've made all my games using the GODOT Game Engine.
Usually the latest version as unlike Unity for example, things don't just break easily or much at all between updating versions.
But what about coding? I usually just use Godot's Script Editor with the ScriptIDE addon , but when I need to code in C# for Godot, I use VSCodium.
Which is basically a Telemetry free, No AI version of VSCode.
As for creating things from scratch with C++ or C#, I use Visual Studio. And yes, I know it's not Open Source and it's bloated as hell and I should use NeoVim, but I hate Make, CMake.
They are evil programs made by the devil himself to punish programmers with hours of incomprehensible overtly verbose errors that make no sense just like C++.