Links

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.

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• Casual
  • Communication
  • File Synchronisation
  • Graphics
  • Music
  • Office
  • Video
• Nerdy
  • Communication
  • 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
• Riot
  Universal secure chat app entirely under your control, 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

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

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
• 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