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This is a collection of nice open source software. Below, you find two categories. Casual contains software for everyone. Nerdy contains software which is suited for people who are technically more interested.
Are you a gamer? Check out the Gaming Links.
If you are using Android, take a look at the Android Links.
Looking for secure services? Hosted Links are the way to go.
If you are owning a server, peek at the Selfhosted Links.
Need new hardware? Start your search at the Hardware Links.
If you are using the Nix package manager or NixOS, have a look at the Nix Links.
Casual
Communication
- Element
- All-in-one secure chat app for teams, friends and organisations, based on the Matrix protocol
- Jami
- The distributed and open source communication platform
- Rambox
- Workspace browser that allows you to manage as many applications as you want
- Session
- End-to-end encrypted messenger that minimises sensitive metadata, designed and built for people who want absolute privacy and freedom from any form of surveillance
Computer-Aided Design
- FreeCAD
- Open-source parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size
- SolveSpace
- Free parametric 3D CAD tool
Desktop Environments
File Synchronisation
- Syncthing
- Synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes
Graphics
Music
- Audacious
- Plays your music how you want it, without stealing away your computer's resources from other tasks
- DeaDBeeF
- Lets you play variety of audio formats, convert between them, customize the UI almost any way you want, and use many additional plugins which can extend it even more
- Giada
- Open source, minimalistic and hardcore music production tool
- LMMS
- Let's make music with a free, cross-platform tool for your computer
- Lollypop
- Modern music player for GNOME
- Quod Libet
- Designed around the idea that you know how to organize your music better than we do
Notes
- Joplin
- Note taking and to-do application with synchronisation capabilities
Office
- ghostwriter
- Distraction-free Markdown editor
- Libre Office
- Powerful office suite
- Paperwork
- Scan or import your personal documents and find them back in a snap
- TeXstudio
- Integrated writing environment for creating LaTeX documents
Web Browsers
- Min
- Fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy
Video
- VLC
- Cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files, and various streaming protocols
Nerdy
Communication
Documentation
- Zeal
- Offline documentation browser for software developers
File Editing
- GNU Emacs
- Extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor - and more
- Kakoune
- Modal editor, similar to Vim
- Neovim
- Hyperextensible Vim-based text editor
- Pandoc
- Swiss-army knife for converting files from one markup format into another
- Vim
- Highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient
File Management
File Sharing
- Magic Wormhole
- Get things from one computer to another, safely
File Systems
Graphics
- feh
- Image viewer aimed mostly at console users
- ImageMagick
- Software suite for displaying, creating, converting, modifying, and editing raster images
Look & Feel
- Pywal
- Tool that generates a color palette from the dominant colors in an image
Music
Networking
- aria2
- Lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility
- curl
- Command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs
- hosts
- Unified hosts file with base extensions
- Mosh
- Remote terminal application that allows roaming, supports intermittent connectivity, and provides intelligent local echo and line editing of user keystrokes
- Nebula
- Scalable overlay networking tool with a focus on performance, simplicity and security
- Nmap
- Utility for network discovery and security auditing
- Termshark
- A terminal UI for tshark, inspired by Wireshark
- tinc
- VPN daemon that uses tunnelling and encryption to create a secure private network between hosts on the Internet
- WireGuard
- Extremely simple yet fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography
- Wireshark
- The world's foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer
Newsfeeds
- spiderss
- Plaintext RSS crawler
Operating Systems
- NixOS
- Declarative operating system, based on the Nix package manager
Package Managers
- Nix
- Purely functional package manager, available for all Unix based distributions
PDF Viewers
Programming Languages
Terminal
- fish
- Fish is a smart and user-friendly command line
- kitty
- The fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
- rxvt-unicode
- rxvt-unicode is a fork of the well known terminal emulator rxvt
- tmux
- Terminal multiplexer
- Xonsh
- Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell language and command prompt
Version Control
Video
Web Browsers
- Nyxt
- Keyboard-oriented, extensible web browser designed for power users
- qutebrowser
- Keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI
- w3m
- Text-based web browser as well as a pager
- webmacs
- Yet another browser for keyboard-based web navigation
Window Managers
- 2bwm
- Fast floating WM, with the particularity of having 2 borders
- awesome
- Highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X
- bspwm
- Tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning
- EXWM
- Full-featured tiling X window manager for Emacs
- i3
- Improved tiling window manager
- i3-gaps
- i3 with more features
- Sway
- Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for i3
- xmonad
- Dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell