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Awesome Linux Apps

Jun 16, 2024

#linux #apps

A curated list of Free and open-source software (FOSS) for Gnu/Linux system

Internet

  • Firefox - web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation
  • Ungoogled-chromium - Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
  • Tor Browser - private browsing without tracking, surveillance, or censorship
  • Thunderbird - email client developed by the Mozilla Foundation
  • qBittorrent - a BitTorrent client in Qt

Graphics

  • Inkscape - Vector Drawing
  • Gimp - The GNU Image Manipulation Program
  • Krita - digital painting application
  • Blender - 3D creation suite
  • Kdenlive - video editing software based on the MLT Framework, KDE and Qt
  • Darktable - photography workflow application
  • RawTherapee - raw image processing program

Office

  • LibreOffice - office productivity software suite, a project of The Document Foundation
  • Xournal++ - handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support
  • Okular - document viewer
  • zathura - highly customizable and functional document viewer
  • Zotero - easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources.
  • Manuskript - tool for writers
  • Calibre - e-book management tool

Multimedia

  • VLC media player - multimedia player and framework
  • mpv -media player for the command line
  • Ardour - hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application
  • HandBrake - video transcoder
  • OBS Studio - video recording and live streaming
  • FreeTube - private YouTube client

System

  • Dolphin - file manager by KDE
  • Kate - modern text editor built on the KDE Frameworks and Qt
  • Gparted - partition editor
  • virt-manager - desktop user interface for managing virtual machines through libvirt

Utilities

  • Ark - file archiver by KDE
  • KeePassXC - password manager
  • Kleopatra - certificate manager and GUI for OpenPGP and CMS cryptography
  • VSCodium - community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of VS Code.

CLI tools

  • kitty - GPU based terminal
  • Helix - a post-modern modal text editor.
  • htop - an interactive process viewer
  • nnn - the unorthodox terminal file manager
  • zoxide - a smarter cd command. Supports all major shells
  • fzf - a command-line fuzzy finder
  • git - fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
  • cmus - small, fast and powerful console music player
  • cava - Audio Visualizer
  • ncspot - ncurses Spotify client written in Rust
  • zola - static site generator writtern in Rust
  • mdbook - create book from markdown files
  • pfetch - a pretty system information tool written in POSIX sh
  • restic - fast, secure, efficient backup program