awesome-linux

Strives to provide a traditional user experience

Small desktop environment built to be responsive, light in resource usage and to have a familiar look and feel

Qt port and the upcoming version of LXDE, the Lightweight Desktop Environment. It is the product of the merge between the LXDE-Qt and the Razor-qt projects: A lightweight, modular, blazing-fast and user-friendly desktop environment

Provides an intuitive and attractive desktop to Linux users using traditional metaphors. Fork of GNOME 2

Pantheon is the default desktop environment originally created for the elementary OS distribution. The desktop has some similarities with GNOME Shell and macOS

Window manager that attempts to emulate the Plan 9 window manager 8-1/2 as far as possible within the constraints imposed by X

Highly configurable window manager for X. Fast and extensible

Blackbox

Lightweight window manager for the X window system, without library dependencies. Built using C++

bspwm

Tiling window manager that represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree

OpenGL compositing window manager. It has a plug-in system to be changed at runtime

Dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts. All of the layouts can be applied dynamically, optimising the environment for the application and task performed

Window manager bundled with a whole suite of libraries to help you create beautiful user interfaces

Window manager for X, lightweight and easy to handle but full of features to make an easy and fast desktop experience. Built using C++

ICCCM-compliant multiple virtual desktop window manager for X. Extremely powerful

Tiling window manager. BSD-licensed. Primarily targeted at advanced users and developers

Window manager with the goal of being fast, simple, and not getting in the user's way

Lightweight window manager for X11. Good choice for older and/or less powerful systems, though perfectly capable of running on modern systems. Built using C

Environment for X running on non-desktop embedded platforms such as handhelds, set-top boxes, kiosks and anything else for which screen space, input mechanisms or system resources are limited

Window manager for X. Default window manager in GNOME 3

Highly configurable window manager with extensive standards support

A simple window manager with no library dependencies, no graphics, and no decorations. Modeled after GNU Screen

Extensible window manager. Its aim is to manage windows in the most flexible and attractive manner possible. Built using Lisp-based scripting language

Small, scriptable window manager, with a 9P filesystem interface and an acme-like layout

Dynamically tiling X11 window manager. Makes work easier by automating aligning and searching for windows. Built using Haskell

IDE for GNOME that is focused on bringing the power of the GNOME platform to more developers

The most popular document viewer on the GNOME platform

Powerful general purpose text editor

IRC client built to be easy to use

Minimalistic personal task manager designed to fit right into your GNOME desktop

RSS desktop client able to integrate with multiple online services

To-do list with built-in productivity timer

Intelligent calculator app

Spice-Up

Desktop presentation app

Podcast client for the modern desktop

File manager for KDE focusing on usability

Painting program

Hackable text editor for the 21st century

Distraction-free Markdown editor

The most popular disk partitioning software out there

Most popular entertainment center

Highly customizable document viewer. It provides a minimalistic and space saving interface as well as an easy usage that mainly focuses on keyboard interaction

Flash OS images to SD cards and USB drives, safely and easily

Twitter client

Twitch player

Caprine

Facebook's Messenger client with some added privacy features

PB for Desktop

Pushbullet client

ramme

Instagram client

Whatever

Evernote client based on the web version

(Ubuntu) - Manage PPAs and search for packages

(Fedora) - Provides a set of graphical tools for managing software

(Debian and users) - Graphical package management program for

(openSUSE) - Main package management tool on openSUSE

dnfdragora

(Fedora) - A GUI for the package manager

Yay

(Arch) - Yay is one of the many wrappers to which automatically downloads and installs packages from AUR, a full list can be found

Aura

(Arch) - Secure, multilingual package manager

AppImageKit

Using AppImageKit you can package applications in the format that runs on common Linux-based operating systems, such as RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, Fedora, debian and derivatives; one app = one file

Small, fast and powerful console music player

fuck

Command line tool which corrects your previously mistyped command

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

Cross-platform system monitoring tool

Nice looking, customizable task manager

Simple to use text editor

Useful tool for restoring deleted files

ranger

Vim-inspired file manager for the console

screenFetch

Fetches system/theme information in terminal

shellcheck

Static analysis tool for shell scripts

speed-test

Test your Internet connection speed and ping using

A tool for disk partition recovery

tig

Text-mode interface for git. It functions mainly as a Git repository browser

Advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set

vtop

Easily-extendable activity monitor

wavemon

Monitoring application for wireless network devices

youtube-dl

A tool to download videos from YouTube and other video sites