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awesome-linux-software

🐧 A list of awesome Linux softwares
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  • Applications

    • Games

      • ![Open-Source Software - SuperTuxKart is a 3D open-source arcade racer with a variety characters, tracks, and modes to play.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Singleplayer Diablo clone with beautiful original graphics.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Sci-fi 2D top-down RPG inspired by Diablo games.
      • Ryzom - Free and open-source 3D MMORPG with unique features and deep lore. The official servers allow free accounts as well as paid subscriptions with extra features.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Tales of Maj’Eyal (ToME) is a free, open source roguelike RPG, featuring tactical turn-based combat and advanced character building.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust. It is inspired by games such as Cube World, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A tribute to Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda with additional quests, items and challenges.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Age of Empires like RTS game of ancient warfare.
      • ![Open-Source Software - The automation tower defense RTS, written in Java.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Open-source rogue-like with ASCII graphics.
      • ![Open-Source Software - game.org) - Open source grand strategy game with "Axis and Allies" game rules.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Open-source real-time strategy game that takes place after a nuclear war.
      • Nonfree - A factory building sandbox game.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Unoffical Open-source launcher for Minecraft: Bedrock edition.
      • Nonfree - Minecraft is a game about placing blocks and going on adventures. Explore randomly generated worlds and build amazing things from the simplest of homes to the grandest of castles.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Open-source Minecraft written in C++ (uses less resources) and includes modding API.
      • ![Open-Source Software - MultiMC is an alternative launcher for Minecraft. It allows you to have multiple, cleanly separated instances of Minecraft (each with their own mods, resource packs, saves, etc) and helps you manage them and their associated options with a simple and powerful interface.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A custom launcher for Minecraft that allows you to easily manage multiple installations of Minecraft at once (Fork of MultiMC and PolyMC).
      • ![Open-Source Software - Hardcore 3D space scroll-shooter with spaceship upgrade possibilities.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Dogs SDL](https://cxong.github.io/cdogs-sdl/) - Classic overhead run-and-gun game in beautiful pixel-art.
      • ![Open-Source Software - The Battle for Wesnoth is an open source, turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme. It features both singleplayer and online/hotseat multiplayer combat.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Freeciv is a Free and Open Source empire-building strategy game inspired by the history of human civilization.
      • HedgeWars - 2D game where teams compete in the style of the popular Worms games.
      • Tanks of Freedom - Pixel-art military strategy implemented in Godot game engine.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Easily manage wine prefixes in a new way. Run Windows software and games on Linux.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A GTK4 + Libadwaita game launcher.
      • ![Open-Source Software - GameHub is a unified library for all your games. It allows you to store your games from different platforms into one program to make it easier for you to manage your games.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A Native GOG and Epic Games Launcher for Linux, Windows and Mac.
      • ![Open-Source Software - The itch.io app. All of your downloads are kept in a single place and are automatically updated. Plenty of free games.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Lutris is an open gaming platform for Linux. It helps you install and manage your games in a unified interface.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A simple GOG client for Linux.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A front-end for Wine.
      • Steam - Gaming store, which opens the gates to many games.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Synchronize games from other platforms into your Steam library.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Steam Play compatibility tool to run DOS games using native Linux DOSBox. It is a sister project of Luxtorpeda and DOSBox Staging.
      • ![Open-Source Software - deck-utilities) - A utility to improve performance and help manage storage on Steam Deck.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A plugin loader for the Steam Deck.
      • ![Open-Source Software - staging.github.io/) - DOSBox Staging is a modern continuation of DOSBox with advanced features and current development practices.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Optimise Linux system performance on demand.
      • ![Open-Source Software - GOverlay is an open source project that aims to create a Graphical UI to help manage Linux overlays.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Suite of Steam Play compatibility tools to run games using native Linux engines.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A Vulkan and OpenGL overlay for monitoring FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load and more.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Suspend games and applications.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Steam Play compatibility tool to run adventure games using native Linux ScummVM. It is a sister project of Luxtorpeda.
      • ![Open-Source Software - controller) - User-mode driver, mapper and GTK3 based GUI for Steam Controller, DualShock 4, and similar controllers.
      • ![Open-Source Software - ScummVM allows you to play classic graphic point-and-click adventure games, text adventure games, and RPGs, as long as you already have the game data files. ScummVM replaces the executable files shipped with the games, which means you can now play your favorite games on all your favorite devices.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Install boot videos to your Steam Deck using Steam Deck Repo website API.
      • ![Open-Source Software - rom-manager/) - An app for managing ROMs in Steam.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Linux wrapper tool for use with the Steam client for custom launch options and 3rd party programs.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Proton](https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom) - Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Builds) - Custom Wine builds and build scripts for Vanilla, Wine Staging, Wine-tkg and Proton.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components, primarily developed by Valve and CodeWeavers.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A simple Wine and Proton manager for GNOME.
      • ![Open-Source Software - This is a wrapper script that allows you to easily run Winetricks commands for Steam Play/Proton games among other common Wine features, such as launching external Windows executables.
      • ![Open-Source Software - CLI program and API to automate the installation and update of GE-Proton.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Qt](https://davidotek.github.io/protonup-qt/) - Install and manage GE-Proton and Luxtorpeda for Steam and Wine-GE for Lutris with this graphical user interface.
      • ![Open-Source Software - GE-Custom](https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/wine-ge-custom) - Custom build of wine, made to use with lutris. Built with lutris's buildbot.
      • ![Open-Source Software - tkg](https://github.com/Frogging-Family/wine-tkg-git) - The wine-tkg build systems, to create custom Wine and Proton builds.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Winetricks is an easy way to work around problems in Wine.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Wayland](https://github.com/varmd/wine-wayland) - Wine-wayland allows playing DX9/DX11 and Vulkan games using pure wayland and Wine/DXVK.
      • ![Open-Source Software - emu.net/) - A multi-system console emulation suite.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Emulator configurator for Steam Deck.
      • ![Open-Source Software - GNOME Video Arcade is a simple Mame frontend for any freedesktop.org compliant desktop environment.
      • ![Open-Source Software - emu/higan) - Higan is a multi-system emulator that supports emulating a huge number of different systems including: NES, SNES, GameBoy, GameBoy Color, Gameboy Advance, NEC PC Engine, Sega Master System, and more. Here is a guide to install it on Linux [Higan Installation](https://higan.readthedocs.io/en/stable/install/linux/).
      • ![Open-Source Software - MAME is an Arcade Cabinet emulator that strives for accuracy, and can play a huge number of different arcade games.
      • ![Open-Source Software - mame-fe) - QMC2 is the successor to QMamecat, it is a gui for MAME and a ROM manager.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A front-end for a lot of game emulators.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Everything you need for emulation on Steam Deck.
      • ![Open-Source Software - emu.github.io/) - Is an Atari 2600 Emulator that is multiplatform.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Original Xbox Emulator for Windows, macOS, and Linux (Active Development).
      • ![Open-Source Software - Software to emulate Wii U games and applications on PC.
      • ![Open-Source Software - DeSmuME is a Nintendo DS emulator.
      • ![Open-Source Software - emu.org/) - Dolphin is a GameCube / Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements.
      • ![Open-Source Software - melonDS aims at providing fast and accurate Nintendo DS emulation.
      • ![Open-Source Software - mGBA is an open-source Game Boy Advance emulator.
      • ![Open-Source Software - nestopia is a Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicon emulator.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Ryujinx is an open-source Nintendo Switch emulator created by gdkchan and written in C#.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Is a multiplatform Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulator that has gone through many incarnations, but is still being actively developed.
      • ![Open-Source Software - M](https://vba-m.com/) - A Gameboy and Gameboy Advance Emulator that is still undergoing active development and can even emulate a system link between two gameboys.
      • ![Open-Source Software - emu.org/) - yuzu is an experimental open-source emulator for the Nintendo Switch from the creators of Citra.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A capable and commonly used Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Super Famicom emulator, many consider it the gold standard in SNES/Super Famicom emulation.
      • ![Open-Source Software - PCSX2 is a free and open-source PlayStation 2 (PS2) emulator.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Play! is a PlayStation2 emulator for Windows, macOS, UNIX, Android, iOS and web browser platforms.
      • ![Open-Source Software - PPSSPP is a PSP emulator that can run games full HD resolution. It can even upscale textures that would otherwise be too blurry as they were made for the small screen of the original PSP.
      • ![Open-Source Software - RPCS3 is a multi-platform open-source Sony PlayStation 3 emulator and debugger written in C++ for Windows, Linux, macOS and FreeBSD.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Vita3K is an experimental PlayStation Vita emulator for Windows and Linux.
      • ![Open-Source Software - emulator.sourceforge.net/) - Fuse (the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator) is a ZX Spectrum emulator for Unix.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Professional quality 3D flight simulator.
      • ![Open-Source Software - 2D motocross physics-based game requiring a lot of skill to master, with a built-in replay-recording and sharing system.
    • Graphics

      • ![Open-Source Software - A free and open source complete 3D creation pipeline for artists and small teams.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Open source deep paint software.
      • ![Open-Source Software - This free basic raster image editor is similar to Microsoft Paint, but aiming at the GNOME desktop.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Your open source video to GIF maker built with Haskell.
      • Heron Animation - A free stop animation making program.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A powerful, free design tool for you , whether you are an illustrator, designer, web designer or just someone who needs to create some vector imagery.
      • ![Open-Source Software - An open source vector drawing program.
      • ![Open-Source Software - KolourPaint is a simple painting program to quickly create raster images.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Open Source Software for Concept Artists, Digital Painters, and Illustrators.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Mypaint is a paint program for use with graphics tablets.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A modern, open source cross platform software to produce DVD images.
      • ![Open-Source Software - interactive.itch.io/pixelorama) - A free & open-source 2D sprite editor, made with the Godot Engine!
      • ![Open-Source Software - Linux Stopmotion is a Free Open Source application to create stop-motion animations. It helps you capture and edit the frames of your animation and export them as a single file.
      • ![Open-Source Software - House interior and exterior designer with 3D preview, free model database, virtual visits and useful repository of plugins.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Open-source 2D animation software.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Scan Tailor is an interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages. For a tutorial on how to use it, consult its [User Guide](https://github.com/scantailor/scantailor/wiki/User-Guide).
      • ![Open-Source Software - Simple multi-page document scanning application.
      • Vectr - Vectr is a free graphics software used to create vector graphics easily and intuitively. It's a simple yet powerful web and desktop cross-platform tool to bring your designs into reality.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Xara Xtreme for Linux is a powerful, general purpose graphics program for Unix platforms including Linux, FreeBSD.
      • yEd Graph Editor - yEd is a powerful desktop application that can be used to quickly and effectively generate high-quality diagrams. Create diagrams manually, or import your external data for analysis. Our automatic layout algorithms arrange even large data sets with just the press of a button.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Darktable is an open source photography workflow application and RAW developer.
      • ![Open-Source Software - GIMP is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
      • ![Open-Source Software - GraphicsMagick is the swiss army knife of image processing.
      • ![Open-Source Software - An easy to use cross-platform panoramic imaging toolchain based on Panorama Tools.
      • ![Open-Source Software - ImageMagick is a suite of command-line utilities for modifying and working with images.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Blazing fast terminal image resizer and rotator.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Luminance HDR is an open source graphical user interface application that aims to provide a workflow for HDR imaging.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Photivo is a free and open source (GPL3) photo processor, handles your RAW and bitmap files (TIFF, JPEG, BMP, PNG and many more) in a non-destructive 16 bit processing pipe with gimp workflow integration and batch mode. It is intended to be used in a workflow together with digiKam/F-Spot/Shotwell and Gimp.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Browser-based editor for animated sprites and pixel art. Available as offline application.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Pixelitor is a free and open source image editing software that supports layers, layer masks, text layers, filters, multiple undo etc.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A good looking but lesser known photo editing app.
      • ![Open-Source Software - DigiKam is an advanced digital photo management application for Linux.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Remove image metadata with drag and drop. Supports multi-core batch processing.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Fotoxx is a free open source Linux program for image editing and collection management.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Image viewer / photo collection browser. Successor of GQview.
      • ![Open-Source Software - gThumb is an image viewer and browser (it also includes an importer tool for transferring photos from cameras).
      • ![Open-Source Software - Simple yet powerful image viewer and management for KDE desktops.
      • ![Open-Source Software - An open source image optimizer that can shrink the size of images with a minimal loss of quality.
      • ![Open-Source Software - nomacs is an image viewer that is able to view nearly any image format, and has powerful renaming and sorting tools.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A fast and pretty image viewer.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Command line sorting tool to organize photos and videos from your camera in folders by year, month and day.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Phototonic is image viewer and organizer.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Very fast image/comic viewer by using OpenGL.
      • ![Open-Source Software - AI-Powered Command-Line Photo Search Tool.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Shotwell is a photo manager for GNOME.
      • ![Open-Source Software - FreeCAD is a free and opensource multiplatform 3D parametric modeler.
      • ![Open-Source Software - HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A patch for optimizing GIMP 2.10+ for Adobe Photoshop users.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Photoshop CC v19 installer for Gnu/Linux.
      • ![Open-Source Software - CC2022-Linux](https://github.com/MiMillieuh/Photoshop-CC2022-Linux) - Installer for Photoshop CC 2022 on linux with a GUI.
      • ![Open-Source Software - online.org/) - Radiance - A Validated Lighting Simulation Tool.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Rapid Photo Downloader makes it easy to import photos from a camera or smartphone.
      • Nonfree - Avocode - Share and inspect Photoshop and Sketch designs in a heart beat.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Terminal session recorder.
      • ![Open-Source Software - recorder) - A simple desktop recorder for Linux systems, supports recording audio and video on almost all Linux interfaces and Wayland display server on GNOME session.
      • ![Open-Source Software - An easy to use and very intuitive screen recording program that will capture the content of your screen and record a video file that can be played by any video player that supports VP8/WebM video format.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A simple screen recorder written with GTK. It allows you to record your screen and also audio from your microphone or desktop.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Screen{shot,cast} and perform ImageOps on the command line.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Download and start streaming quickly and easily on Windows, Mac or Linux. Share your gaming, art and entertainment with the world.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Simple animated GIF screen recorder with an easy to use interface.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Silentcast can create MKV screencasts and also output to an animated GIF.
      • ![Open-Source Software - SimpleScreenRecorder is a feature-rich screen recorder that supports X11 and OpenGL. It has a Qt-based graphical user interface.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A free, multilingual and easy to use screencast recorder with audio for Linux. It has many features.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Ksnip is a Qt-based cross-platform screenshot tool that provides many annotation features for your screenshots.
      • ![Open-Source Software - ScreenCloud is an easy to use screenshot sharing tool consisting of a cross-platform client and a sharing website.
      • ![Open-Source Software - project.org/) - Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program for Linux based operating systems such as Ubuntu.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Spectacle is a simple application for capturing desktop screenshots.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Control your Elgato Stream Deck devices.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Formerly known as **MiniDLNA**, ReadyMedia is a is a simple, lightweight media server software, with the aim of being fully compliant with DLNA/UPnP-AV clients. The MiniDNLA daemon serves media files (music, pictures, and video) to clients on a network such as smartphones, portable media players, televisions, other computers and some gaming systems.
      • ![Open-Source Software - puppet-project/vpuppr) - VTuber application made with Godot 3.4.
      • ![Open-Source Software - cv](http://cinelerra-cv.wikidot.com/) - Professional video editing and compositing environment.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A multitrack non-linear video editor for Linux.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Kdenlive is a Non-Linear Video Editor, which is much more powerful than beginners’ (linear) editors.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Olive is a free non-linear video editor aiming to provide a fully-featured alternative to high-end professional video editing software.
      • ![Open-Source Software - OpenShot is a free, simple-to-use, feature-rich video editor for Linux.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A free video editor with a beautiful and intuitive user interface, a clean codebase and a fantastic community.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor with support for hundreds of audio and video formats and codecs and a sleek, intuitive interface.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Cross-platform Qt5 based app for quick and easy video trimming/splitting and merging/joining for simple quick edits.
      • Nonfree - Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool.
      • Nonfree - Revolutionary tools for editing, color correction, audio post and now visual effects, all in a single application.
    • Internet

      • ![Open-Source Software - Brave is a fast, good desktop browser for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all users to experience the web.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Falkon aims to be a lightweight web browser available through all major platforms.
      • ![Open-Source Software - US/firefox/new/) - A popular Web Browser with a lot of plugins/apps.
      • ![Open-Source Software - GNOME Web (codename: Epiphany) is a GNOME web browser based on
      • ![Open-Source Software - GNU version of Firefox built for privacy, using only free software and free of trademarks.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Fork of Firefox, with the primary goals of privacy, security and user freedom.
      • ![Open-Source Software - browser/download/) - A lightweight free browser that runs well on low spec systems.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A smarter, faster web browser.
      • Opera - Opera browser is everything you need to do more on the web.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on PyQt5.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy.
      • ![Open-Source Software - chromium](https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium) - ungoogled-chromium is Google Chromium, sans dependency on Google web services.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Fork of Firefox. Waterfox gives you a sane way to browse the web. Built with you, the user, in mind.
      • Clipgrab - A friendly downloader for YouTube and other sites.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Download web video and audio.
      • ![Open-Source Software - downloader) - Download your Spotify playlists and songs along with album art and metadata (from YouTube if a match is found).
      • ![Open-Source Software - downloader) - Download videos from websites like YouTube and many others (based on yt-dlp).
      • ![Open-Source Software - dl-gui](https://jely2002.github.io/youtube-dl-gui/) - A cross-platform GUI for youtube-dl made in Electron and node.js
      • ![Open-Source Software - A cross-platform GUI for yt-dlp with advanced options and a modern UI.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Zerotier is a program that creates a Virtual Network for only your devices with end to end encryption over the internet. By default Zerotier will manage your virtual network but you can switch to a self-managed network if you prefer.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A KDE Feed Reader.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Choqok is a Qt5 client for Twitter, GNU Social, Friendica and Pump.IO.
      • ![Open-Source Software - FeedTheMonkey is a desktop client for TinyTinyRSS.
      • ![Open-Source Software - reader/) - Modern desktop RSS reader built with Electron, React, and Fluent UI.
      • ![Open-Source Software - FreeTube is a YouTube client for Windows, Mac, and Linux built around using YouTube more privately.
      • ![Open-Source Software - An open source youtube music player for Ubuntu.
      • ![Open-Source Software - NewsFlash is a program designed to complement an already existing web-based RSS reader account.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Kirigami-based YouTube client for Linux Desktop and Mobile with built-in ad-blocking and privacy features.
      • ![Open-Source Software - official/popcorn-desktop) - Watch torrent movies instantly.