• Casual
  • Communication
  • File Synchronisation
  • Graphics
  • Music
  • Notes
  • Office
  • Video
• Nerdy
  • Communication
  • Documentation
  • File Editing
  • File Management
  • File Sharing
  • Graphics
  • Look & Feel
  • Music
  • Networking
  • Newsfeeds
  • Operating Systems
  • Package Managers
  • PDF Viewers
  • Programming Languages
  • Terminal
  • Version Control
  • Video
  • Web Browsers
  • Window Managers

Casual

Communication

Rambox

Workspace browser that allows you to manage as many applications as you want

Element

All-in-one secure chat app for teams, friends and organisations, based on the Matrix protocol

File Synchronisation

Syncthing

Synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes

Graphics

GIMP

Cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows and more operating systems

Inkscape

Vector graphics editor for GNU/Linux, Windows and MacOS X

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

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

TeXstudio

Integrated writing environment for creating LaTeX documents

Video

VLC

Cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files, and various streaming protocols

Nerdy

Communication

Matrix

Open network for secure, decentralized communication

Mutt

Small but very powerful text-based mail client

Neomutt

Fork of Mutt with added features

Documentation

Zeal

Offline documentation browser for software developers

File Editing

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

exa

Improved file lister with more features and better defaults

ranger

Console file manager with VI key bindings

rsync

Utility that provides fast incremental file transfer

File Sharing

Magic Wormhole

Get things from one computer to another, safely

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

Beets

Media library management system for obsessive music geeks

Mopidy

Extensible music server written in Python

Networking

aria2

Lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility

curl

Command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs

Mosh

Remote terminal application that allows roaming, supports intermittent connectivity, and provides intelligent local echo and line editing of user keystrokes

Nmap

Utility for network discovery and security auditing

Termshark

A terminal UI for tshark, inspired by Wireshark

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

MuPDF

Lightweight PDF, XPS, and E-book viewer

zathura

Highly customizable and functional document viewer

Programming Languages

Haskell

An advanced, purely functional programming language

Python

Programming language that lets you work quickly and integrate systems more effectively

Rust

Language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software

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

Git

Distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency

Video

mpv

Media player for the command line

Web Browsers

qutebrowser

Keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI

w3m

Text-based web browser as well as a pager

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

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