📦 Install software safely
Around 300 well-known free programs – downloaded directly from the vendor, verified, and installed and kept up to date with one click.
What it does for you
- No fake download pages, no bundled adware, no viruses from wrong sources.
- Updates for all your programs in one place, with one click.
- A new computer is set up with your favourite programs in one go.
Who it is for: Everyone who uses programs like Firefox, VLC, LibreOffice or 7-Zip.
What you need: Windows 10/11 or Linux. The feature is being enabled step by step. Free; the programs themselves are free as well.
You search for “download VLC” – and end up on a page full of green “Download” buttons, three of which are adverts and one installs a browser toolbar along with it. This is exactly how many viruses get onto computers. In the software section this danger doesn't exist.
How it works
Under 🏠 Personal area → 📦 Software you find around 300 free programs for Windows: browsers, archivers, security, media players, image & video, office & PDF, communication, developer and system tools. The list is renewed daily.
Every file is downloaded directly from the vendor's official site – never from a third-party site and not from our server. DasDing then compares its checksum with the vendor's information. A checksum is like a fingerprint of the file: if even a single character has changed, it no longer matches. Only when it matches does it say “✓ Downloaded and verified”.
How to do it
- Choose a category at the top or type in the search field.
- ⬇ Download – the file ends up in the folder “DasDing-Software” under Downloads (“Change …” for a different location).
- Install – Windows asks for administrator rights. Many programs install silently in the background, others show their own installer.
- Afterwards the card shows ✓ installed with the version. If there is a newer one, ⬆ Update appears.
- Uninstall removes the program via Windows.
Programs without an installer (for example Rufus, Ventoy, rclone) are only downloaded; 📂 Open takes you to the file.
Updates for everything at once
The ⬆ Updates tab (the number = waiting updates) shows installed programs with a newer version. Update all downloads, verifies and installs them one after another. An error with one program doesn't stop the others. You can leave the tab in the meantime.
Why updates matter: many attacks exploit holes in outdated programs such as browsers or PDF readers.
Favourites – a new computer in one go
With the ⭐ star on a card you mark a program. The favourites are stored in your storage and are the same on every device. In the ⭐ Favourites tab, Install all installs everything that's still missing.
On Linux
On Linux the section shows around 240 programs from Flathub, the shared app directory for Linux – many from the Windows catalogue (Firefox, VLC, LibreOffice, GIMP, KeePassXC …) plus Linux-specific ones.
- Install – the program is installed via Flatpak (Flathub's installation system) only for your user, without administrator rights. With the first program a runtime is added, which takes a few minutes.
- Afterwards it is in the start menu or the application overview.
- ⬆ Updates, ⭐ Favourites and Uninstall work as on Windows. Your settings stay in
~/.var/app/when uninstalling.
Flatpak missing? Once in a terminal sudo apt install flatpak (Ubuntu, Debian, Mint) or sudo dnf install flatpak (Fedora), then restart DasDing.
Does it cost anything?
No. The programs belong to their vendors and are free. Some are freeware with their own licence (for example Malwarebytes, AnyDesk, TeamViewer) – the card says “vendor licence”; please read it when installing.
My favourite program is missing.
Write to us via Support – we're happy to add more programs if the vendor offers a safe official source.
This guide is also available in the program under 📖 Guides – with jump links to the other guides.