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A cross-platform and opensource audio player. 👏\n- [Ardour](https://github.com/Ardour/ardour) - Free, open source audio workstation for recording, editing and Mixing. 👏\n- [Audacious](https://audacious-media-player.org/) Free, open souce, audio player with low resource use. 👏\n- [Audacity](https://github.com/audacity/audacity) - Free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds. 👏\n- [Clementine](https://www.clementine-player.org/) -  A cross-platform feature-rich music player.\n- [Frinika](http://www.frinika.com/) - Free, complete music workstation software.\n- [LMMS](https://github.com/LMMS/lmms) - Free cross-platform music production software. 👏\n- [Ocenaudio](http://www.ocenaudio.com/) - Easy, fast and powerful audio editor.\n\n## Backup\n\n- [attic](https://github.com/jborg/attic) - Efficient and secure way to backup data. 👏\n- [Back In Time](https://github.com/bit-team/backintime) - Simple backup solution. 👏\n- [backup](https://github.com/backup/backup) - Powerful backup tool distributed using RubyGems. 👏\n- [BackupPC](https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc) - High-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up to a server's disk. 👏\n- [bup](https://github.com/bup/bup) - Efficient backup system, provide fast incremental saves and global deduplication. 👏\n- [Déjà Dup](https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/deja-dup) - Simple backup tool, hides the complexity of backing up the right way and uses duplicity as the backend. 👏\n- [duplicity](http://duplicity.nongnu.org/) - Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm.\n- [restic](https://github.com/restic/restic) - Fast, secure, efficient backup program. 👏\n- [Timeshift](http://www.teejeetech.in/p/timeshift.html) - Takes incremental snapshots of the file system at regular intervals. 👏\n\n## Browser\n\n- [Brave](https://brave.com/) - Secure, fast and private web browser with Adblocker.\n- [Chrome](https://www.google.com/chrome/) - Fast, simple and secure browser by Google.\n- [Chromium](https://github.com/chromium/chromium) - Open source, safer, faster and more stable way for all Internet users. 👏\n- [Edge](https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/download?platform=linux-deb) - Fast and secure browser by Microsoft.\n- [Firefox](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/) - Fast, lightweight and powerfully private web browser.\n- [Midori](https://www.midori-browser.org/) - Lightweight, fast and free web browser.\n- [Opera](https://www.opera.com) - Fast, secure, easy-to-use and free VPN.\n- [Tor](https://www.torproject.org/) - Contain everything you need to safely browse the internet.\n- [Vivaldi](https://vivaldi.com) - Powerful, personal and flexible browser.\n- [Yandex](https://browser.yandex.com/) - Fast and secure browser.\n- [Zen](https://zen-browser.app) - A brand new cross-platform browser with attractive UI, based on Firefox. 👏\n\n## Chat\n\n- [Discord](https://discord.com/) - Free voice and text chat for gamers.\n- [Keybase](https://keybase.io/) - Secure messaging and file-sharing for team collaboration.\n- [Microsoft Teams](https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software) - Meet, chat, call, and collaborate in just one place.\n- [Pidgin](https://www.pidgin.im/) - A chat program which lets you log into accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. 👏\n- [Signal](https://signal.org/) - Free communication, audio, video call and secure messaging.\n- [Skype](https://www.skype.com) - Famous instant messaging application for talking, chatting and collaborating.\n- [Telegram](https://telegram.org) - Cloud-based mobile and desktop messaging app with a focus on security and speed.\n- [Slack](https://slack.com) - Awesome tool for team collaboration and communication.\n- [Tox](https://tox.chat/) - Free, powerful and secure chat.\n- [Viber](https://www.viber.com) - Free and secure calls and messages to anyone, anywhere.\n- [WICKR](https://wickr.com/) - Secure for team collaboration space.\n- [Wire](https://wire.com) - Open source and secure collaboration platform. 👏\n\n## Cloud Storage\n\n- [Dropbox](https://www.dropbox.com) - The best cloud services on Linux.\n- [Google Drive](https://drive.google.com) - Powerful cloud services by Google.\n- [Mega](https://mega.io/start) - Powerful and Secure Coud Storage.\n- [NextCloud](https://nextcloud.com) - Free, open source cloud storage and collaboration platform.\n- [pCloud](https://www.pcloud.com) - Secure online storage from Switzerland.\n- [insync](https://www.insynchq.com/) - Google Drive and OneDrive file syncing\n- [Terrabox](https://www.terabox.com/) - Get free cloud storage 1024GB. \n\n## Code Editors\n\n- [Atom](https://github.com/atom/atom) - Hackable text editor for the 21st Century. 👏\n- [BlueFish](http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.html) - Powerful editor targeted towards programmers and web developers.\n- [Brackets](https://github.com/adobe/brackets) - Modern, open source text editor that understands web design. 👏\n- [Kakoune](https://github.com/mawww/kakoune) - Modal editor with multi selection and fewer keystroke 👏\n- [neovim](https://github.com/neovim/neovim) - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability. 👏\n- [Oni](https://github.com/onivim/oni) - Modern Modal Editing - powered by Neovim. 👏\n- [Oni2](https://github.com/onivim/oni2) - Native, lightweight modal code editor. 👏\n- [Sublime Text](https://www.sublimetext.com/) - Sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose.\n- [Vim](https://github.com/vim/vim) - Greatly improved version of the good old UNIX editor Vi. 👏\n- [Visual Studio Code](https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode) - Free, open source, powerful and runs everywhere. 👏\n- [Zed](https://zed.dev/) - Fast, modern \u0026 open source code editor with focus on performance. 👏\n\n## Databases\n\n- [CockroachDB](https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach) - CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database built on a transactional and strongly-consistent key-value store. 👏\n- [DB Browser for SQLite](https://github.com/sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser) - High quality, visual, open source tool with SQLite. 👏\n- [DBeaver](https://github.com/dbeaver/dbeaver) - Free universal database tool and SQL client. 👏\n- [Gun](https://github.com/amark/gun) - Gun is an open-source and realtime, decentralized, offline-first, graph database engine written in JavaScript. 👏\n- [Mongodb Compass](https://www.mongodb.com/products/compass) - Nice GUI for MongoDB with dark mode included.\n- [Postbird](https://github.com/Paxa/postbird) - Cross-platform PostgreSQL GUI client, written in JavaScript, runs with Electron. 👏\n- [Postgres admin](https://www.pgadmin.org/download/) - Free Postgres admin GUI, you can export and import database and rarely fail.\n- [Robo 3T](https://robomongo.org/) - Free lightweight GUI for MongoDB enthusiasts.\n\n## Game\n\n- [GameHub](https://github.com/tkashkin/GameHub) - GameHub provides games from multiple game sources and services (Steam, GOG, Humble Bundle, Humble Trove, etc). 👏\n- [GOG.com](https://www.gog.com/) - Web platform to donwload games.\n- [Humble](https://www.humblebundle.com/) - Platform to buy games bundles.\n- [itch.io](https://itch.io/games/platform-linux) - Platform to buy games.\n- [Lutris](https://lutris.net/) - Open Source gaming platform for Linux. 👏\n- [PlayOnLinux](https://www.playonlinux.com) - Support install Windows app and games on Linux. 👏\n- [Portable Linux Games](https://portablelinuxgames.org/) - Collection of a number of Linux games.\n- [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/) - Platform to buy games.\n\n## IDEs\n\n- [Android Studio](https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html) - The fastest tools for building apps on every type of Android device.\n- [CLion](https://www.jetbrains.com/clion/) - Cross-platform IDE for C and C++.\n- [DataGrip](https://www.jetbrains.com/datagrip/) - Many databases, one tool.\n- [Eclipse](https://www.eclipse.org/) - Free, open source, written by Java and plugin architecture allows Eclipse to be extended in other languages.\n- [GoLand](https://www.jetbrains.com/go/) - Cross-platform IDE built specially for Go developers.\n- [IntelliJ IDEA](https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/) - Powerful IDE for JVM languages.\n- [NetBeans](https://netbeans.org/) - Quickly and easily develop desktop, mobile, and web applications with Java.\n- [PyCharm](https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/) - Powerful Python IDE for Professional Developers.\n- [Rider](https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/) - Fast and powerful cross-platform .NET IDE.\n- [WebStorm](https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/) - The powerful IDE for modern JavaScript development.\n\n## Image Editors\n\n- [DigiKam](https://www.digikam.org/) - Free \u0026 Open-source digital photo management application. 👏\n- [Fotoxx](https://kornelix.net/fotoxx/fotoxx.html) - Free \u0026 Open-source photo editing and collection management tool. 👏\n- [GIMP](https://github.com/GNOME/gimp) - Free \u0026 Open Source Image Editor. 👏\n- [GrafX2](http://grafx2.chez.com/) - Bitmap paint program inspired by Deluxe Paint on Amiga.\n- [Inkscape](https://github.com/inkscape/inkscape) - Professional vector graphics editor. 👏\n- [Karbon](https://www.calligra.org/karbon/) - Vector drawing application that is easy to use, highly customizable and extensible.\n- [Krita](https://github.com/KDE/krita) - Open source professional software and free digital painting. 👏\n- [MyPaint](https://github.com/mypaint/mypaint) - Fast and dead-simple painting app for artists. 👏\n- [Pinta](https://github.com/PintaProject/Pinta) - Free, open source program for drawing and image editing. 👏\n- [Shotcut](https://www.shotcut.org/) - Free, open source, cross-platform video editor. 👏\n- [ShowFOTO](https://apps.kde.org/showfoto/) - Free \u0026 Lightweight image editor.\n- [Vectr](https://vectr.com/) - Free graphics software used to create vector graphics easily and intuitively.\n\n## Mail\n\n- [Hiri](https://www.hiri.com/) - Linux email client for Exchange and Office 365.\n- [Mailspring](https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring) - Free, open source, beautiful and fast mail client. 👏\n- [Thunderbird](https://www.thunderbird.net) - Free email application, easy to install and customize.\n\n## Markdown Editors\n\n- [ghostwriter](https://github.com/wereturtle/ghostwriter) - Cross-platform, aesthetic, distraction-free Markdown editor. 👏\n- [Haroopad](https://github.com/rhiokim/haroopad) - The next document processor based on Markdown. 👏\n- [Marktext](https://marktext.app) - Simple and Elegant Markdown Editor, focused on speed and usability. 👏\n- [Moeditor](https://github.com/Moeditor/Moeditor) - Your all-purpose Markdown editor. 👏\n- [Remarkable](https://github.com/jamiemcg/remarkable) - Open source, lightweight and powerful Markdown editor. 👏\n- [ReText](https://github.com/retext-project/retext) - Simple but powerful editor for Markdown and reStructuredText. 👏\n- [Typora](https://typora.io) - Truly minimal Markdown editor featuring seamless live preview. \n\n## Music\n\n- [Amarok](https://github.com/KDE/amarok) - Powerful music player for Linux with an intuitive interface. 👏\n- [Audacious](https://audacious-media-player.org/) - Open source audio player that is low resource and has a minimal feature interface. 👏\n- [Clementine](https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine) - Cross-platform music player and library organizer forked from Amarok 1.4. 👏\n- [cmus](https://github.com/cmus/cmus) - Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems. 👏\n- [ocp](https://github.com/mywave82/opencubicplayer) - Music visualizer for various tracked music formats, chiptunes and other formats related to demoscene. 👏\n- [Lollypop](https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/lollypop/) - Modern music player for GNOME. 👏\n- [Rhythmbox](https://github.com/GNOME/rhythmbox) - Music playing application for GNOME. 👏\n\n## Notes\n\n- [Boostnote](https://github.com/BoostIO/Boostnote) - Intuitive and stylish note taking tool for developers. 👏\n- [Laverna](https://github.com/Laverna/laverna) - Keep your notes private. 👏\n- [notes](https://github.com/Standard-Unix-Notes/unix-notes) - GPG Encrypted Notes/Notebook manager for BSD/Linux👏\n- [Simplenote](https://github.com/Automattic/simplenote-electron) - Light, clean and free. 👏\n- [Tagspaces](https://github.com/tagspaces/tagspaces) - Offline, open source and data manager. 👏\n- [Turtl](https://github.com/turtl/desktop) - Secure and collaborative notebook. 👏\n- [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md) - Powerful note-keeping in markdown with tons of plugins.\n- [Logseq](https://logseq.com/) - Note-keeping in markdown, very nice pdf functionallity and flashcards. 👏\n- [qnote](https://github.com/Omibranch/qnote) - Minimal frameless notepad with Markdown, PDF export via Typst, OCR, and version history. 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👏\n- [mpv](https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv) - Free, open source, and cross-platform media player. 👏\n- [OBS Studio](https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio) - Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. 👏\n- [SimpleScreenRecorder](https://github.com/MaartenBaert/ssr) - Free and open source screen recording is easy to do. 👏\n- [SMPlayer](https://www.smplayer.info/) - Free Media Player with built-in codecs.\n- [VLC](https://github.com/videolan/vlc) - Free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework. 👏\n\n## Virtualization\n\n- [Docker](https://www.docker.com/) - Powerful, performs operating-system-level virtualization. 👏\n- [Docker Machine](https://github.com/docker/machine) - Machine management for a container-centric world. 👏\n- [Gnome Boxes](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-boxes) - Easy to view, access, and manage remote and virtual systems. 👏\n- [QEMU](https://github.com/qemu/qemu) - Generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer. 👏\n- [UCS Virtual Machine Manager](https://www.univention.com/products/ucs/functions/virtualization-uvmm/) - Linux VM management tool for Linux, which specializes in working with cloud VMs, clusters, and other enterprise-level virtual systems.\n- [Vagrant](https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant) - Tool for building and distributing development environments. 👏\n- [Virtual Box](https://www.virtualbox.org/) - Free, feature rich, high performance and maintained by Oracle.\n- [Virtual Machine Manager](https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager) - Graphical tool for managing virtual machines via libvirt. 👏\n\n**[⬆ back to top](#contents)**\n\n## License\n\n[![CC0](http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/presskit/buttons/88x31/svg/cc-zero.svg)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)\n\nTo the extent possible under law, [Cuong Nguyen](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cuong9) has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.\n","projects_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/lists/cuongtk8%2Fawesome-linux-apps/projects"}