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Many things that x86 Linux and Windows users take for granted are not easy or straightforward on ARM Linux, so I try to do what I can as a bash scripter to **lower the barrier to entry.**  \n\nIn 2018, when I was in middle school, I was given a Raspberry Pi 3B. I knew nothing about Linux or programming. Raspbian was difficult to use back then, and I encountered numerous issues, many of which were my own fault. Slowly, through hundreds of Google searches, I began making a list of useful terminal commands to do specific things: copy a file, create a keyboard shortcut, install something, search for a file, make a backup, close an unresponsive program, or recover from a frozen screen. Eventually, my list of commands was getting very long, and that's when I discovered **bash scripts** - a special text file that runs a list of terminal commands. 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This was the first application I made with a GUI interface.  \n- [Pi-Apps](https://github.com/Botspot/pi-apps) - **the most popular Raspberry Pi app store by far.**\n- [YouTubuddy](https://github.com/Botspot/youtubuddy) - The private, lightweight YouTube search engine \u0026 player with the best hardware-acceleration available.\n- [CloudBuddy](https://github.com/Botspot/cloudbuddy) - The ultimate way to manage your cloud storage on any Linux computer. This is a bash-powered GUI frontend for `rclone`, and includes built-in support for Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive. It's vastly more convenient than any other web interface or tool available elsewhere.\n- [AndroidBuddy](https://github.com/Botspot/androidbuddy) - Manage your Android phone from a Linux computer. Allows complete screen control, file sharing, internet sharing, and much more.\n- [Update Buddy](https://github.com/Botspot/update-buddy) - a sleek utility to run on startup. It runs `sudo apt update` in the background, and if any updates are found, it displays a non-intrusive notification, asking permission to install updates.\n- [WoR-flasher](https://github.com/Botspot/wor-flasher) - World's first Linux-compatible tool to install Windows 10 or 11 on a Raspberry Pi SD card. Before this tool existed, you had to use a Windows PC to install Windows on a Pi's SD card, but with this tool, you now can use a Pi to do it all.\n- [Windows Screensavers](https://github.com/Botspot/Screensavers) - An efficient GUI screensaver manager, preloaded with fourteen classic Windows screensavers that run smoothly on the RPi using Wine.\n- [Downgrade Chromium](https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63\u0026t=308303) - The latest and greatest web browsers are not necessarily the best, or the fastest. This application allows you to easily switch versions of Chromium Browser.\n- [Botspot Screen Recorder](https://github.com/Botspot/botspot-screen-recorder) - A simple screen recorder for wayland, with webcam support.\n- [BVM](https://github.com/Botspot/bvm) - easy, high-performance Windows 11 virtual machine on ARM Linux\n\nMost of these scripts I have written, released, and left alone to slowly rot, because nobody really uses them. Pi-Apps is an exception. Enough people use Pi-Apps that it justifies the time it takes to keep it maintained and forever improving.  \nI'm just one guy, a busy college student. If you have read this far and want to help, please reach out! I could use some help with Pi-Apps. Anybody who knows a bit of scripting is welcome to look through the codebase and offer code improvements and new apps. Also, if you want, I would be glad to help you understand how any of my scripts work. Just join [my discord server](https://discord.gg/RXSTvaUvuu) and ask whatever you want.\n\nI have recently fallen on hard financial times. If you would like to donate as a way of saying thanks, I have a [GitHub Sponsors profile](https://github.com/sponsors/Botspot) and a [PayPal link](https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=97LDEFVY5AU4G).\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fbotspot%2Fbotspot","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fbotspot%2Fbotspot","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fbotspot%2Fbotspot/lists"}