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Awesome-linux

🐧 A list of awesome projects and resources that make Linux even more awesome. 🐧 Credits to: aleksandar-todorovic/awesome-linux
https://github.com/LinuxUsersGroup-NU/Awesome-linux

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  • Distributions

  • Learning Resources

  • X Desktop Environments

    • Courses

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      • Cinnamon - Cinnamon strives to provide a traditional user experience. Cinnamon is a fork of GNOME 3.
      • LXQt - LXQt is the Qt port and the upcoming version of LXDE, the Lightweight Desktop Environment. It is the product of the merge between the LXDE-Qt and the Razor-qt projects: A lightweight, modular, blazing-fast and user-friendly desktop environment.
      • Unity - Unity is a shell for GNOME designed by Canonical for Ubuntu.

  • X Windows Managers

    • Courses

      • awesome - Highly configurable window manager for X. Fast and extensible.
      • Blackbox - Fast, lightweight window manager for the X Window System, without annoying library dependencies. Built with C++.
      • Compiz - OpenGL compositing window manager. It has a plug-in system to be changed at runtime.
      • dwm - Dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts. All of the layouts can be applied dynamically, optimising the environment for the application in use and the task performed.
      • Enlightenment - Not just a window manager for X11 and others, but also a whole suite of libraries to help you create beautiful user interfaces with much less work than doing it the old fashioned way and fighting with traditional toolkits.
      • Fluxbox - Window manager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code. Very light on resources and easy to handle but yet full of features to make an easy, and extremely fast, desktop experience. Built using C++. MIT-licensed.
      • IceWM - Window manager with the goal of being fast, simple, and not getting in the user's way
      • Matchbox - Base environment for X running on non-desktop embedded platforms such as handhelds, set-top boxes, kiosks and anything else for which screen space, input mechanisms or system resources are limited.
      • Mutter - Window manager for X. Default window manager in GNOME 3.
      • Openbox - Highly configurable window manager with extensive standards support.
      • ratpoison - A simple window manager with no fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no rodent dependence. It is largely modeled after GNU Screen which has done wonders in the virtual terminal market.
      • Sawfish - An extensible window manager using Lisp-based scripting language. Its policy is very minimal compared to most window managers. Its aim is simply to manage windows in the most flexible and attractive manner possible.

  • Applications

    • GUI-based Applications

      • Builder - Builder is an IDE for GNOME that is focused on bringing the power of the GNOME platform to more developers than ever before.
      • Evince - The most popular document viewer on the GNOME platform.
      • Gedit - Gedit is the GNOME text editor. While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, gedit is a powerful general purpose text editor.
      • Polari - IRC client built to be easy to use.
      • To Do - Minimalistic personal task manager designed to fit right into your GNOME desktop.
      • FeedReader - RSS desktop client able to integrate with multiple online services.
      • Go For It! - To-do list with built-in productivity timer.
      • NaSC - Intelligent calculator app.
      • Dolphin - File manager for KDE focusing on usability.
      • Krita - Painting program.
      • ghostwriter - Distraction-free Markdown editor.
      • Kodi - Most popular entertainment center.
      • Zathura - Highly customizable document viewer. It provides a minimalistic and space saving interface as well as an easy usage that mainly focuses on keyboard interaction.
      • Corebird - Twitter client.
      • GNOME Twitch - Twitch player.
      • Y PPA Manager - Manage PPAs and search for packages.
      • Synaptics - Graphical package management program for `apt`.
      • YaST - Main package management tool on openSUSE.
      • YumEx - A GUI for the `dnf` package manager.
      • Yaourt - A wrapper for `pacman` which adds automated access to the AUR using the same syntax as pacman.

    • Console-based Applications

      • cmus - Small, fast and powerful console music player.
      • git - Free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
      • tig - Text-mode interface for git. It functions mainly as a Git repository browser.
      • vim - Advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set.
      • vtop - Easily-extendable activity monitor.

  • Useful Websites

Programming Languages
C++ 1 Vala 1
Categories
Applications 25 Distributions 12 X Windows Managers 12 X Desktop Environments 8 Learning Resources 6 Useful Websites 3 License 1
Sub Categories
Courses 23 GUI-based Applications 20 Console-based Applications 9 Intermediate 8 Books 3 Beginners 3 Special Purpose 1
Keywords
rss 1 gnome 1 flatpak-bundle 1 feed-reader 1