# Links

This is a collection of nice open source software. Below, you find two
categories. [Casual](#casual) contains software for everyone.
[Nerdy](#nerdy) contains software which is suited for people who are
technically more interested.

If you are using **Android**, take a look at the [**Android
Links**](./android.md).

If you are owning a **server**, take a look at the [**Selfhosted
Links**](./selfhosted.md).

If you are looking for new **hardware**, start at the [**Hardware
Links**](./hardware.md)

If you are using the **Nix** package manager or **NixOS**, have a look
at the [**Nix Links**](./nix.md)

  - [Casual](#casual)
      - [Communication](#communication)
      - [File Synchronisation](#file-synchronisation)
      - [Graphics](#graphics)
      - [Music](#music)
      - [Notes](#notes)
      - [Office](#office)
      - [Video](#video)
  - [Nerdy](#nerdy)
      - [Communication](#communication-1)
      - [Documentation](#documentation)
      - [File Editing](#file-editing)
      - [File Management](#file-management)
      - [File Sharing](#file-sharing)
      - [Graphics](#graphics-1)
      - [Look & Feel](#look-feel)
      - [Music](#music-1)
      - [Networking](#networking)
      - [Newsfeeds](#newsfeeds)
      - [Operating Systems](#operating-systems)
      - [Package Managers](#package-managers)
      - [PDF Viewers](#pdf-viewers)
      - [Programming Languages](#programming-languages)
      - [Terminal](#terminal)
      - [Version Control](#version-control)
      - [Video](#video-1)
      - [Web Browsers](#web-browsers)
      - [Window Managers](#window-managers)

## Casual

### Communication

  - [**Rambox**](https://rambox.pro/)  
    Workspace browser that allows you to manage as many applications as
    you want
  - [**Element**](https://element.io/)  
    All-in-one secure chat app for teams, friends and organisations,
    based on the **Matrix** protocol

### File Synchronisation

  - [**Syncthing**](https://syncthing.net/)  
    Synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time,
    safely protected from prying eyes

### Graphics

  - [**GIMP**](https://gimp.org/)  
    Cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows
    and more operating systems
  - [**Inkscape**](https://inkscape.org/)  
    Vector graphics editor for GNU/Linux, Windows and MacOS X

### Music

  - [**Audacious**](https://audacious-media-player.org/)  
    Plays your music how you want it, without stealing away your
    computer’s resources from other tasks
  - [**DeaDBeeF**](https://deadbeef.sourceforge.io/)  
    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
  - [**Quod Libet**](https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/)  
    Designed around the idea that you know how to organize your music
    better than we do

### Notes

  - [**Joplin**](https://joplinapp.org/)  
    Note taking and to-do application with synchronisation capabilities

### Office

  - [**ghostwriter**](http://wereturtle.github.io/ghostwriter/)  
    Distraction-free Markdown editor
  - [**Libre Office**](https://libreoffice.org/)  
    Powerful office suite
  - [**TeXstudio**](https://texstudio.org/)  
    Integrated writing environment for creating LaTeX documents

### Video

  - [**VLC**](http://videolan.org/)  
    Cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most
    multimedia files, and various streaming protocols

## Nerdy

### Communication

  - [**Matrix**](https://matrix.org/)  
    Open network for secure, decentralized communication
  - [**Mutt**](http://mutt.org/)  
    Small but very powerful text-based mail client
  - [**Neomutt**](https://neomutt.org/)  
    Fork of **Mutt** with added features

### Documentation

  - [**Zeal**](https://zealdocs.org/)  
    Offline documentation browser for software developers

### File Editing

  - [**Kakoune**](https://kakoune.org/)  
    Modal editor, similar to **Vim**
  - [**Neovim**](https://neovim.io/)  
    Hyperextensible **Vim**-based text editor
  - [**Pandoc**](https://pandoc.org/)  
    Swiss-army knife for converting files from one markup format into
    another
  - [**Vim**](https://www.vim.org/)  
    Highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing
    any kind of text very efficient

### File Management

  - [**exa**](https://the.exa.website/)  
    Improved file lister with more features and better defaults
  - [**ranger**](https://ranger.github.io/)  
    Console file manager with VI key bindings
  - [**rsync**](https://rsync.samba.org/)  
    Utility that provides fast incremental file transfer

### File Sharing

  - [**Magic Wormhole**](https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole/)  
    Get things from one computer to another, safely

### Graphics

  - [**feh**](https://feh.finalrewind.org/)  
    Image viewer aimed mostly at console users
  - [**ImageMagick**](https://imagemagick.org/)  
    Software suite for displaying, creating, converting, modifying, and
    editing raster images

### Look & Feel

  - [**Pywal**](https://github.com/dylanaraps/pywal)  
    Tool that generates a color palette from the dominant colors in an
    image

### Music

  - [**Beets**](http://beets.io/)  
    Media library management system for obsessive music geeks
  - [**Mopidy**](https://mopidy.com/)  
    Extensible music server written in **Python**

### Networking

  - [**aria2**](https://aria2.github.io/)  
    Lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download
    utility
  - [**curl**](https://curl.haxx.se/)  
    Command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs
  - [**Mosh**](https://mosh.org/)  
    Remote terminal application that allows roaming, supports
    intermittent connectivity, and provides intelligent local echo and
    line editing of user keystrokes
  - [**Nmap**](https://nmap.org/)  
    Utility for network discovery and security auditing
  - [**Termshark**](https://termshark.io/)  
    A terminal UI for tshark, inspired by **Wireshark**
  - [**WireGuard**](https://wireguard.com/)  
    Extremely simple yet fast and modern VPN that utilizes
    state-of-the-art cryptography
  - [**Wireshark**](https://wireshark.org/)  
    The world’s foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer

### Newsfeeds

  - [**spiderss**](https://git.opaque.tech/denis/spiderss/)  
    Plaintext RSS crawler

### Operating Systems

  - [**NixOS**](https://nixos.org/)  
    Declarative operating system, based on the **Nix** package manager

### Package Managers

  - [**Nix**](https://nixos.org/nix/)  
    Purely functional package manager, available for all Unix based
    distributions

### PDF Viewers

  - [**MuPDF**](https://mupdf.com/)  
    Lightweight PDF, XPS, and E-book viewer
  - [**zathura**](https://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/)  
    Highly customizable and functional document viewer

### Programming Languages

  - [**Haskell**](https://www.haskell.org/)  
    An advanced, purely functional programming language
  - [**Python**](https://python.org/)  
    Programming language that lets you work quickly and integrate
    systems more effectively
  - [**Rust**](https://www.rust-lang.org/)  
    Language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient
    software

### Terminal

  - [**fish**](https://fishshell.com/)  
    Fish is a smart and user-friendly command line
  - [**kitty**](https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/)  
    The fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
  - [**rxvt-unicode**](http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html)  
    rxvt-unicode is a fork of the well known terminal emulator rxvt
  - [**tmux**](https://tmux.github.io)  
    Terminal multiplexer
  - [**Xonsh**](https://xon.sh/)  
    Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell language and
    command prompt

### Version Control

  - [**Git**](https://git-scm.com/)  
    Distributed version control system designed to handle everything
    from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency

### Video

  - [**mpv**](https://mpv.io/)  
    Media player for the command line

### Web Browsers

  - [**qutebrowser**](https://qutebrowser.org/)  
    Keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI
  - [**w3m**](http://w3m.sourceforge.net/)  
    Text-based web browser as well as a pager

### Window Managers

  - [**2bwm**](https://github.com/venam/2bwm)  
    Fast floating WM, with the particularity of having 2 borders
  - [**awesome**](https://awesomewm.org/)  
    Highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X
  - [**bspwm**](https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm)  
    Tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning
  - [**i3**](https://i3wm.org/)  
    Improved tiling window manager
  - [**i3-gaps**](https://github.com/Airblader/i3/)  
    **i3** with more features
  - [**Sway**](https://swaywm.org/)  
    Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for
    **i3**
  - [**xmonad**](https://xmonad.org/)  
    Dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured
    in **Haskell**