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awesome-linux-software

🐧 A list of awesome Linux softwares
https://github.com/mrhyperion101/awesome-linux-software

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  • Applications

    • Sharing Files

      • AnyDesk - AnyDesk ensures secure and reliable remote desktop connections for IT professionals and on-the-go individuals alike.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Share mouse and keyboard over the local network.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Connections allows you to connect to and use other desktops. This can be a great way to access content or software on a different desktop operating system.
      • PushBullet - Pushbullet connects your devices, making them feel like one.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Open source virtual / remote desktop infrastructure for everyone! The open source TeamViewer alternative.
      • ![Open-Source Software - torrent.org/) - Deluge is a lightweight, Free Software, cross-platform BitTorrent client.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Fragments is an easy to use BitTorrent client for the GNOME desktop environment.
      • ![Open-Source Software - KTorrent is a BitTorrent application by KDE which allows you to download files using the BitTorrent protocol.
      • ![Open-Source Software - The qBittorrent project aims to provide a Free Software alternative to µTorrent.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Enhanced-Edition) - qBittorrent Enhanced is fork of qBittorrent that features peer whitelist/blacklist, auto update public tracker list and more.
      • Tixati - Freeware, advanced featured torrent client, a web user interface is included.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Simple, lightweight, multi-platform torrent client.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Transmission Remote GUI is a feature rich cross platform front-end to remotely control a Transmission Bit-Torrent client daemon via its RPC protocol.
      • Vuze - Vuze is a BitTorrent client used to transfer files via the BitTorrent protocol.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Web Torrent Desktop is for streaming torrents which connects to both BitTorrent and WebTorrent peers.
    • Terminal

      • ![Open-Source Software - A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A beautiful GTK 4 terminal.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A simple user-friendly terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop.
      • ![Open-Source Software - terminal/contour/) - Contour is a modern and actually fast, modal, virtual terminal emulator, for everyday use. It is aiming for power users with a modern feature mindset.
      • ![Open-Source Software - retro-term) - A good looking terminal that mimicks the old cathode display.
      • ![Open-Source Software - UI](https://github.com/GitSquared/edex-ui) - eDEX-UI is a fullscreen, cross-platform terminal emulator and system monitor that looks and feels like a sci-fi computer interface.
      • ![Open-Source Software - terminal/stable/) - A widely preinstalled terminal emulator in Linux world.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Guake is a top-down terminal for GNOME.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A terminal built on web technologies.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A VTE-based, simple and froggy terminal emulator.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Cross-platform, fast, feature full, OpenGL based terminal emulator.
      • ![Open-Source Software - An alternative terminal emulator for KDE desktop environment.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A terminal emulator for X11, a popular replacement for the standard ‘xterm’.
      • ![Open-Source Software - unicode](http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html) - rxvt-unicode is a fork of the well known terminal emulator.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Simple but powerful libvte based terminal emulator, supporting utf-8 and input methods as provided by gtk+ and pango libraries.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Feature filled terminal emulator that supports tabs and grids.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Modern, highly configurable terminal app based on web technologies.
      • ![Open-Source Software - terminology) - The pretty and lightweight terminal from the Enlightenment Desktop, it's highly configurable, it works in X11, under a Wayland compositor and even directly in the framebuffer on Linux. Replace your boring text-mode VT with a graphical one that requires no display system.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Simple terminal emulator based on vte library, extensible via Lua.
      • Termius - Cross-platform terminal with built-in SSH and Telnet.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A Gtk based drop down terminal for Linux and Unix.
      • ![Open-Source Software - web/) - A tiling terminal emulator for Linux using GTK+ 3.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Fast, lightweight text-mode window environment with mouse support. Enables multiple terminals in a single Linux console, terminal or X11 window. It can be detached (keeps running in background) and reattached to a different console, terminal or X11 server. Works on Linux, Mac OS X and BSD.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Wave is an open-source, AI-native terminal built for seamless developer workflows with inline rendering, a modern UI, and persistent sessions.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust.
      • ![Open-Source Software - island.net/xterm/) - The Xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can't use the window system directly.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A Quake-style terminal emulator based on KDE Konsole technology.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A terminal workspace and multiplexer. Letting you open several panes and tabs to run different programs, share a terminal session with others and more. Very user friendly and intuitive.
    • Text Editors

      • ![Open-Source Software - Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and web developers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A modern text editor that understands web design.
      • ![Open-Source Software - CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Object Pascal.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Gedit is the GNOME text editor. While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, gedit is a powerful general purpose text editor.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Powerful IDE for modern C / C++ / Bash / JavaScript development, made by Gnome Team. One of the best IDE for C/C++ development (Cmake integrated).
      • ![Open-Source Software - editor.com/) - A post-modern modal text editor.
      • ![Open-Source Software - editor.org/get-it/) - Kate is a multi-document editor part of KDE since release 2.2.
      • ![Open-Source Software - ide/) - Free and open source multilanguage development environment.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust.
      • ![Open-Source Software - The next generation code editor! Support live coding.
      • ![Open-Source Software - edit.dev/) - A Community-led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor, Forked from Atom, built on Electron.
      • Nonfree - A very capable text editor with advanced search capabilities, and many powerful plugins to improve its functionality.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Minimalist text editor for programmers. Textadept is extensible with Lua programming language.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, OS X and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages (C++, C#, Python, PHP, Golang) and runtimes.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A mature, lightweight, cross-platform Lua IDE with modern development features.
      • ![Open-Source Software - An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor — and more.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Kakoune code editor - Vim inspired. Faster as in less keystrokes. Multiple selections. Orthogonal design. Has a strong focus on interactivity.
      • ![Open-Source Software - LunarVim is an opinionated, extensible, and fast IDE layer for Neovim.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Neovim is a fork of Vim aiming to improve user experience, plugins, and GUIs.
      • ![Open-Source Software - An attempt to make neovim cli functional like an IDE while being very beautiful and blazing fast.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A community-driven Emacs distribution.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A community-driven modular vim distribution.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. It's useful whether you're already using vi or using a different editor.
      • ![Open-Source Software - editor.github.io) - Micro is a terminal-based text editor that aims to be easy to use and intuitive, while also taking advantage of the full capabilities of modern terminals.
      • ![Open-Source Software - editor.org/) - GNU Nano is a text editor which aims to introduce a simple interface and intuitive command options to console based text editing.
      • ![Open-Source Software - KWrite is a text editor by KDE, based on the Kate's editor component.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Notepadqq is a Notepad++-like editor for the Linux desktop.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A cross-platform, reimplementation of Notepad++.
    • Utilities

      • ![Open-Source Software - A capable CD/DVD burner.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Delete information stored on hard disk drives (HDDs) in PC laptops, desktops or servers.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A disk space visualizer and navigator for the terminal.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Duc, a library and suite of tools for indexing, and visualizing inspecting disk usage.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Disk Partition utility for Linux.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A simple open-source disk benchmark tool for Linux distros, similar to CrystalDiskmark on Windows.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Graphical utility to format 3.5" and 5.25" floppy disks.
      • ![Open-Source Software - MultiBootUSB allows you to install multiple live linux on a USB disk.
      • ![Open-Source Software - os/popsicle) - Popsicle is a Linux utility for flashing multiple USB devices in parallel, written in Rust.
      • ![Open-Source Software - UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. You can either let UNetbootin download one of the many distributions supported out-of-the-box for you, or supply your own Linux .iso file.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A new bootable USB solution.
      • ![Open-Source Software - toolkit) - A tool for you to organize your Favorite PPAs and manage Packages Easily.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Helper application for Linux distributions serving as a kind of "entry point" for running and integrating AppImages.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A simple, modern AppImageHub Client.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Graphical user interface for managing your Linux applications. Supports AppImage, Arch packages (including AUR), Debian packages, Flatpak, Snap and native Web applications.
      • ![Open-Source Software - BleachBit quickly frees disk space and tirelessly guards your privacy. Free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and more.
      • ![Open-Source Software - editor) - Simple configuration storage system - graphical editor.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Nala is a front-end for libapt-pkg. Specifically we interface using the python-apt api.Especially for newer users it can be hard to understand what apt is trying to do when installing or upgrading.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Paru is your standard pacman wrapping AUR helper with lots of features and minimal interaction.
      • ![Open-Source Software - rmlint finds space waste and other broken things on your filesystem and offers to remove it.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Web/) - The most well known Ubuntu System Optimizer.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Synaptic is a graphical package management program for apt.
      • ![Open-Source Software - cleaner) - Ubuntu Cleaner is a tool that makes it easy to clean your Ubuntu system.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Yet another Yogurt - An AUR Helper written in Go.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Terminal bandwidth utilization tool.
      • ![Open-Source Software - CoreCtrl is a Free and Open Source GNU/Linux application that allows you to control with ease your computer hardware using application profiles. It aims to be flexible, comfortable and accessible to regular users.
      • ![Open-Source Software - G](https://launchpad.net/cpug) - Easy monitoring the battery life of your Ubuntu laptop.
      • ![Open-Source Software - gui](https://github.com/vagnum08/cpupower-gui) - Graphical program to easily change the frequency limits and governors of the CPU, similar to cpupower.
      • ![Open-Source Software - X](https://thetumultuousunicornofdarkness.github.io/CPU-X/) - CPU-X is a Free software that gathers information on CPU, motherboard and more.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Filelight is an application to visualize the disk usage on your computer by showing folders using an easy-to-understand view of concentric rings. Filelight makes it simple to free up space!
      • GD map - A tool to visualize disk usage.
      • ![Open-Source Software - cpufreq](https://launchpad.net/indicator-cpufreq) - It provides the same functionality as the GNOME CPU frequency applet, but doesn't require GNOME panel and works under Unity.
      • ![Open-Source Software - multiload](https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-multiload) - Graphical system load indicator for CPU, ram, etc.
      • ![Open-Source Software - SysMonitor](https://github.com/fossfreedom/indicator-sysmonitor) - An Application Indicator showing cpu temperature, memory, network speed, cpu usage, public IP address and internet connection status.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Linux system monitor with the compactness and usefulness of windows task manager to allow higher control and monitoring.
      • ![Open-Source Software - netdata.io) - Next-gen web based real-time performance and health monitoring for physical and virtual servers, containers and IoT devices. It is also a distributed `statsd` server with automatic visualization for APM (applications performance monitoring).
      • ![Open-Source Software - multiload) - A program that shows current system load in a status bar.
      • ![Open-Source Software - vnStat is a console-based network traffic monitor that uses the network interface statistics provided by the kernel as information source. This means that vnStat won't actually be sniffing any traffic and also ensures light use of system resources regardless of network traffic rate.
      • ![Open-Source Software - pkg-convert/) - Package converter. Converts between RPM, DPKG, SLP, and TGZ package formats.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Fast and friendly network scanner.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Graphical program used to map keyboard buttons and mouse controls to a gamepad. Useful for playing games with no gamepad support.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Official Linux Bluetooth protocol stack.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Cheat allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A program that can convert many units of measurement to other units.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A GTK media converter for the GNOME desktop.
      • ![Open-Source Software - get](https://github.com/wimpysworld/deb-get) - Deb-get makes is easy to install and update .debs published in 3rd party apt repositories or made available via direct download on websites or GitHub release pages.
      • ![Open-Source Software - dmenu is a dynamic menu for X, originally designed for dwm. It manages large numbers of user-defined menu items efficiently.
      • ![Open-Source Software - DroidCam turns your Android device into a wireless webcam for your PC.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Easystroke is a gesture-recognition application for X11.
      • ![Open-Source Software - keyboard) - Virtual keyboard-like emoji picker for Linux.
      • ![Open-Source Software - cli](https://github.com/sindresorhus/fast-cli) - Test your download and upload speed using fast.com.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Flatseal is a graphical utility to review and modify permissions from your Flatpak applications.
      • ![Open-Source Software - FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).
      • ![Open-Source Software - Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! 💅🏻
      • ![Open-Source Software - Pie](https://schneegans.github.io/gnome-pie.html) - The circular app launcher for Linux desktops.
      • ![Open-Source Software - gpt4all: an ecosystem of open-source chatbots trained on a massive collections of clean assistant data including code, stories and dialogue
      • ![Open-Source Software - project.org/blog/) - Research, organize and share your family tree with Gramps.
      • ![Open-Source Software - KDE Connect implementation for GNOME.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Wallpaper manager with multi monitor support.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Connect](https://apps.kde.org/kdeconnect/) - A tool, that allows one to integrate the Linux desktop with an Android smartphone and can be used to send files to and from the phone and the linux desktop, use the phone as a trackpad, control the desktop media player using the phone, and lots more.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Keynav is a piece of an on-going experiment to make pointer-driven interfaces easier and faster for users to operate. It lets you move the pointer quickly to most points on the screen with only a few keystrokes.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Komorebi is a background manager for all Linux platforms, provides fully customizable backgrounds that can be tweaked at any time.
      • ![Open-Source Software - MapSCII is a Braille & ASCII world map renderer for your console.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Mosh is a Remote terminal application that allows roaming, supports intermittent connectivity, and provides intelligent local echo and line editing of user keystrokes.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Nmap is a free, open-source tool for network exploration, management, and security auditing.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Make any web page a desktop application.
      • ![Open-Source Software
      • ![Open-Source Software - A utility to unzip any of a huge variety of compression formats.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Hole](https://pi-hole.net) - Network-wide ad blocking via your own Linux hardware, using DNS filtering and re-direction Pi-Hole can block ads on a whole network, so Smartphones and Game Consoles can benefit from it in addition to computers.
      • ![Open-Source Software - PipeWire is a project that aims to greatly improve handling of audio and video under Linux.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A tool that can help diagnose issues with power consumption in Linux.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Improve Linux Audio with customized Profiles.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A feature-rich remote desktop application for Linux and other UNIXes.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A window switcher, Application launcher and dmenu replacement.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Display and control your Android device.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Solaar/Solaar) - Logitech Unifying Receiver peripherals manager for Linux.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Sushi is a quick previewer for Nautilus, the GNOME desktop file manager.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Easily configure your touchpad and touchscreen multi-touch gestures using Touchégg with this GTK graphical user interface.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A Free, Lightweight, Fast and Reliable Remote Control / Remote Desktop Software.
      • ![Open-Source Software - TMSU lets you tags your files and then access them through a nifty virtual filesystem from any other application.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A cross-platform tool for losslessly optimizing PNG and JPG files.
      • ![Open-Source Software - An application designed to allow you to change in-depth system features without the command line.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Quickly migrate from using snap packages to flatpaks.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Variety is an open-source wallpaper changer for Linux, packed with great features, yet slim and easy to use.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Wayland is intended as a simpler replacement for X, easier to develop and maintain.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A program that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI).
    • Video

      • ![Open-Source Software - player.github.io/) - Simple GTK+ frontend for mpv.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Cheese uses your webcam to take photos and videos, applies fancy special effects and lets you share the fun with others.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A GNOME media player built using GJS with GTK4 toolkit and powered by GStreamer with OpenGL rendering.
      • Emby Theater - Emby Server's official media player.
      • ![Open-Source Software - FFmpeg is a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Open source video player built with Qt/QML and libmpv.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Jellyfin Desktop Client based on Plex Media Player.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Kamoso is a simple and friendly program to use your camera. Use it to take pictures and make videos to share.
      • ![Open-Source Software - An award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media center for playing videos, music, pictures, games, and more.
      • ![Open-Source Software - cut) - The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Free, and open video, music and internet TV application; it brings video channels from thousands of sources and has more free HD than any other platform.
      • ![Open-Source Software - monad) - A free and simple to use video player made with Haskell.
      • ![Open-Source Software - MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems, play any kind of videos.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A free, open source, and cross-platform media player.
      • Plex - Plex is a media server and streaming platform that organizes, streams, and shares your digital media content.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Free Media Player with built-in codecs. Play all audio and video formats.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Stremio is a modern media center that's a one-stop solution for your video entertainment.
      • ![Open-Source Software - Subtitld is an open source software to edit, transcribe and create subtitles.
      • SVP - SVP allows you to watch any video on your desktop computer using frame interpolation as it is available on high-end TVs and projectors.
      • ![Open-Source Software - VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
    • VPN

      • Nonfree - ExpressVPN is the worlds fastest VPN service. It is both safe and reliable to watch and stream movies abroad, or simply access your favourite sites.
      • Nonfree - IVPN offers a secure VPN service to privacy minded individuals including multi-hop technology and fast bandwidth.
      • Nonfree - US/products/vpn/) - Protect your web history, feel safer on public Wi-Fi, and limit ad tracking by increasing the security of your network connection.
      • Nonfree - Mullvad is a VPN service that helps keep your online activity, identity, and location private.
      • Nonfree - NordVPN gives you military-grade protection online, and you can access all your favorite sites without restriction.
      • ![Open-Source Software - OpenVPN is a virtual private network (VPN) system that implements techniques to create secure point-to-point or site-to-site connections in routed or bridged configurations and remote access facilities. It implements both client and server applications.
      • Nonfree - Private Internet Access provides state of the art, multi-layered security with advanced privacy protection using VPN tunneling.
      • Nonfree - High-speed Swiss VPN that safeguards your privacy.
      • Nonfree - PureVPN is much more than your usual VPN services provider. It offers unparalleled security and anonymity, making it your only choice for a secure online browsing experience.
      • Nonfree - All you need in a VPN and more in one easy-to-use app.
      • Nonfree - Tailscale is a WireGuard-based app that makes secure, private networks easy for teams of any scale.
      • Nonfree - Browse the web privately as it was meant to be.
      • ![Open-Source Software - WireGuard is an extremely simple yet fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography. It aims to be faster, simpler, leaner, and more useful than IPsec, while avoiding the massive headache.
    • Wiki Software

      • ![Open-Source Software - A popular self-hostable wiki software with a large number of plugins.
      • ![Open-Source Software - ikiwiki is a wiki compiler. It converts wiki pages into HTML pages suitable for publishing on a website. Ikiwiki stores pages and history in a revision control system such as Subversion or Git.
      • ![Open-Source Software - A desktop app for TiddlyWiki, an open-source personal wiki written in javascript, great if you're still searching for a good note-taking (and more) app.
      • ![Open-Source Software - wiki.org/) - A graphical text editor used to maintain a collection of wiki pages, great for notes and documents. Stored in plain text files for easy version control.
  • Command Line Utilities

    • Internet

      • ![Open-Source Software - Reddit-Wallpaper/) - Change your wallpaper to the most upvoted image of the day from /r/wallpapers or any other subreddit on system startup.