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# 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
computers 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 worlds 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**