Software recommendation questions are on-topic here, and it's even one of our most popular tags: software-recommendations. However we haven't talked much about how we should approach such questions, apart from this: Software recommendations for X or Y.
Recently it was brought to my attention that at least one other SE site has discussed the topic quite extensively compared to us, and I just thought I'd re-post the link they gave me here: Apple.SE: How should I ask about getting a software recommendation?
We can also add more of the network-wide discussion on this topic here, and start some discussion of our own, if people desire!