Awesome-Linux-Software

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🐧 A list of awesome Linux softwares

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Awesome Linux Software / Applications / 3D Printing

Ultimaker/Cura6,244almost 2 years agoThe world's most advanced 3D printer software
An open source parametric 3D CAD modeler
prusa3d/PrusaSlicer7,833almost 2 years agoA slicer based on Slic3r by Alessandro Ranellucci and the RepRap community
slic3r/Slic3r3,364over 2 years agoOpen Source toolpath generator for 3D printers

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / Audio

Ardour/ardour3,992almost 2 years agoRecord, Edit, and Mix on Linux
audacity/audacity12,739almost 2 years agoFree, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds
Simple audio recorder available in an Ubuntu PPA
BitwigDAW for music production
wwmm/easyeffects6,695almost 2 years agoEasyEffects is an advanced audio manipulation tool. It includes an equalizer, limiter, compressor and a reverberation tool, just to mention a few. To complement this there is also a built in spectrum analyzer
mtytel/helm2,387almost 4 years agoA software synthesizer, that runs either standalone, or as an LV2, VST, VST3 or AU plugin
hydrogen-music/hydrogen1,081almost 2 years agoAdvanced drum machine for GNU/Linux
KXStudio/Repository75about 2 years agoA collection of applications and plugins for professional audio production
LMMS/lmms8,232almost 2 years agoMaking music on your PC by creating melodies and beats, synthesizing and mixing sounds, arranging samples and much more
mixxxdj/mixxx4,577almost 2 years agoFree DJ software that gives you everything you need to perform live mixes; veritable alternative to Traktor
musescore/MuseScore12,444almost 2 years agoCreate, play and print beautiful sheet music
ReaperAudio Production without Limits
VCVRack/Rack4,073almost 2 years agoAn open-source virtual modular synthesizer
Audio4Linux/Viper4Linux-GUI166over 2 years agoAn audio effect processor based on Viper4Android
A small and simple sound and music player that is well integrated with GNOME
An open source audio player that plays your music how you want it, without stealing away your computer’s resources from other tasks
Feature-rich YouTube Music client for KDE, built with Kirigami
beetbox/beets13,003almost 2 years agoBeets is the media library management system for obsessive-compulsive music geeks
CDrummond/cantata1,046over 4 years agoQt5 Graphical MPD (Music Player Daemon) Client for Linux, Windows, MacOS
ciderapp/cider7,200almost 2 years agoA new cross-platform Apple Music experience based on Electron and Vue.js written from scratch with performance in mind
clementine-player/Clementine3,795almost 2 years agoPlay numerous lossy and lossless audio formats
cmus/cmus5,605almost 2 years agoA small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems
DeaDBeeF-Player/deadbeef1,660almost 2 years agoDeaDBeeF is a modular audio player for GNU/Linux, BSD, OpenSolaris, macOS, and other UNIX-like systems
linuxdeepin/deepin-music192almost 2 years agoAn application, developed by Deepin Technology Team, which focused on local music playing
Elisa is a music player developed by the KDE community that strives to be simple and nice to use
A fast, fluent, light weight music player written in GTK4
gpodder/gpodder1,299almost 2 years agoMedia aggregator and podcast client
harmonoid/harmonoid3,687almost 2 years agoPlays & manages your music library. Looks beautiful & juicy. Playlists, visuals, synced lyrics, pitch shift, volume boost & more
trazyn/ieaseMusic8,775over 3 years agoiEaseMusic is a multiplatform program built in electron for listening to NetEase Music
Jukebox music player for managing audio and editing metadata
LibreTime/libretime817almost 2 years agoThe open broadcast software for scheduling and remote station management; forked from Airtime
A GNOME music playing application
Cloud music integration for your desktop
Linux app for streaming music from YouTube
Moosync/Moosync1,257about 2 years agoCustomizable Desktop Music Player with a clean interface for streaming local music as well as music from online sources such as YouTube and Spotify,
mopidy/mopidy8,147almost 2 years agoAn extensible music server written in Python
staniel359/muffon1,478almost 2 years agomuffon is a cross-platform music streaming browser for desktop, which helps you find, listen and organize music in a way you've probably never experienced before
martpie/museeks1,715almost 2 years agoA simple, clean and cross-platform music player
metabrainz/picard3,826almost 2 years agoPicard is a cross-platform music tagger written in Python
Netease MusicA music player of Netease - a cloud music service in China
nukeop/nuclear12,296almost 2 years agoAn Electron-based, multiplatform music player app that streams from multiple sources
OcenaudioA cross-platform, easy to use, fast and functional audio editor. It is the ideal software for people who need to edit and analyze audio files
gkarsay/parlatype169almost 2 years agoGNOME audio player for transcription
pithos/pithos513over 2 years agoA native Pandora client for Linux
quodlibet/quodlibet1,459almost 2 years agoGTK+ music player written with huge libraries in mind. Supports search-based dynamic playlists, regular expressions, tagging, Replay Gain, podcasts & Internet radio
GNOME/rhythmbox205almost 2 years agoMusic player from GNOME
A small, clear and fast audio player for Linux written in C++, supported by the Qt framework
multani/sonata125almost 2 years agoA Music player that is designed to be an elegant and intuitive interface for your music collection via the Music Player Daemon (MPD)
Soundnode/soundnode-app5,148almost 2 years agoAn open source SoundCloud app for desktop
xou816/spot2,329almost 2 years agoNative Spotify client for the GNOME desktop
SpotifySpotify is the best way to listen to music and podcasts on pc, mobile or tablet
krtirtho/spotube32,554almost 2 years agoSpotube is a Flutter based lightweight spotify client. It utilizes the power of Spotify & Youtube's public API & creates a hazardless, performant & resource friendly User Experience
strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry2,776almost 2 years agoStrawberry is a fork of Clementine aimed at music collectors and audiophiles. It's written in C++ using the Qt toolkit
Mastermindzh/tidal-hifi1,100almost 2 years agoThe web version of Tidal running in electron with hifi support thanks to widevine
th-ch/youtube-music9,403almost 2 years agoYouTube Music Desktop App bundled with custom plugins (and built-in ad blocker / downloader)
chronitis/curseradio195over 6 years agoCommand line radio player
Feature-rich, convergent podcast client for Linux Desktop and Mobile
ebruck/radiotray-ng264almost 2 years agoAn Internet radio player for Linux
Shortwave is an internet radio player that provides access to a station database with over 25,000 stations
needle-and-thread/vocal348about 2 years agoPodcast client for the modern desktop
karlstav/cava4,363almost 2 years agoCava is a Cross-platform Audio Visualizer
Small and simple audio file tag editor
GNOME/easytag72about 2 years agoEdit audio file metadata
enzo1982/freac1,439almost 2 years agofre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. It currently converts between MP3, MP4/M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, WAV and Bonk formats
KDE/k3b151almost 2 years agoThe CD/DVD Kreator for Linux, optimized for KDE
Edit tags of multiple files, e.g. the artist, album, year and genre of all mp3 files of an album
orhun/linuxwave541almost 2 years agoGenerate music from the entropy of Linux
SeaDve/Mousai1,020almost 2 years agoMousai is a simple application that can identify songs similar to Shazam
MusixMatchA Capable lyrics app with synchronized lyrics function
osdlyrics/osdlyrics353over 2 years agoShow lyrics with your favorite media player
Leading audio file converter. Aims to be simple to use, and very fast
CD Ripping tool for GNOME
Soundux/Soundux1,550almost 2 years agoA cross-platform soundboard
spicetify/spicetify-cli18,980almost 2 years agoCommand-line tool to customize the official Spotify client. Supports Windows, MacOS and Linux

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / Chat Clients

sindresorhus/caprine7,051almost 2 years agoElegant Facebook Messenger desktop app
chatterino/chatterino22,082almost 2 years agoChatterino is a chat client for Twitch chat. It aims to be an improved/extended version of the Twitch web chat
chatty/chatty848almost 2 years agoChatty is a Twitch chat client for everyone who wants to try something new and different from the webchat, but doesn't want the complexity of an IRC client or miss out on the Twitch specific features
Fractal is a Matrix messaging app for GNOME written in Rust. Its interface is optimized for collaboration in large groups, such as free software projects
NeoChat is a Matrix client. It allows you to send text messages, videos and audio files to your family, colleagues and friends using the Matrix protocol
Nheko-Reborn/nheko1,975almost 2 years agoDesktop client for Matrix using Qt and C++20
Tokodon is a Mastodon client for Plasma and Plasma Mobile
Vencord/Vesktop4,633almost 2 years agoVesktop is a custom Discord App aiming to give you better performance and improve linux support
SpacingBat3/WebCord2,004almost 2 years agoA Discord and Fosscord web-based client made with the electron
WhatsDesk is a unofficial client of WhatsApp
ferdium/ferdium-app3,017almost 2 years agoFork of Ferdi/Franz. Ferdium is a desktop app that helps you organize how you use your favourite apps by combining them into one application
meetfranz/franz4,559almost 2 years agoFranz is a free messaging app that combines many chat & messaging services into one application
A universal chat client
RamboxFree and Cross Platform messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one
sonnyp/Tangram925almost 2 years agoTangram is a new kind of browser. It is designed to organize and run your Web applications
BetterDiscord/BetterDiscord8,084almost 2 years agoBetterDiscord extends the functionality of DiscordApp by enhancing it with new features
trigg/Discover653almost 2 years agoYet another Discord overlay for Linux written in Python using GTK3
jagrosh/MusicBot5,433almost 2 years agoA Discord music bot that's easy to set up and run yourself
Cog-Creators/Red-DiscordBot4,856almost 2 years agoRed Discord Bot is a self-hosted music/chat/trivia bot that can run on a Raspberry Pi and a variety of OS's. It's extensible through a system of "Cogs" that allow it to do more
Vendicated/Vencord9,459almost 2 years agoThe cutest Discord client mod
HexChat is an IRC client based on XChat, but unlike XChat it’s completely free for both Windows and Unix-like system
irssi/irssi2,911over 2 years agoIrssi is a modular chat client that is most commonly known for its text mode user interface
User-friendly and fully-featured IRC client
kvirc/KVIrc245almost 2 years agoKVIrc is a free portable IRC client based on the excellent Qt GUI toolkit
A simple IRC client that is designed to integrate seamlessly with GNOME
weechat/weechat2,997almost 2 years agoWeeChat is a fast, light and extensible chat client
BeeBEEP is an open source, peer to peer, lan messenger. You can talk and share files with anyone inside your local area network. You don't need a server, just download, unzip and start it. Simple, fast and secure
dino/dino2,238almost 2 years agoClean and modern Jabber/XMPP chat client
DiscordAll-in-one voice and text chat for gamers that’s free, secure, and works on both your desktop and phone
vector-im/element-web11,302almost 2 years agoA glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web
Gitter — Where developers come to talk. Gitter is designed to make community messaging, collaboration and discovery as smooth and simple as possible
GuildedGuilded is the best app for gaming chat. Guilded is perfect for gaming with friends, clans, guilds, communities, esports, LFG and teams. And it's free
Chat. Talk. Share. Jami is a free and universal communication platform which preserves the users' privacy and freedoms. Formerly Ring
Jitsi is a free and open source multiplatform voice, videoconferencing and instant messaging application for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Android
Mattermost is a secure collaboration platform that is open, flexible, and deeply integrated with the tools you love
qTox/qTox4,765over 3 years agoA simple distributed, secure messenger with audio and video chat capabilities
Revolt is an open source user-first chat platform
RocketChat/Rocket.Chat41,159almost 2 years agoRocket.Chat is an open-source fully customizable communications platform developed in JavaScript for organizations with high standards of data protection
Session is an end-to-end encrypted messenger that minimises sensitive metadata, designed and built for people who want absolute privacy and freedom from any form of surveillance
An end-to-end encrypted chat app that focuses on privacy for all. Say "hello" to privacy
SkypeSkype keeps the world talking, for free
SlackReal-time messaging, archiving and search for modern teams
telegramdesktop/tdesktop26,529almost 2 years agoA messaging app with a focus on speed and security, it’s super fast, simple and free
linagora/Twake1,795almost 2 years agoOpen-source alternative to Microsoft Teams
ViberViber for Linux lets you send free messages and make free calls to other Viber users on any device and network, in any country
Secure communication. Full privacy
zulip/zulip21,805almost 2 years agoZulip is a powerful, open source group chat application that combines the immediacy of real-time chat with the productivity benefits of threaded conversations

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / Data Backup and Recovery

bit-team/backintime2,144almost 2 years agoA simple backup tool for Linux, inspired by "flyback project"
A deduplicating backup program with compression and authenticated encryption
bup/bup7,154almost 2 years agoVery efficient backup system based on the git packfile format, providing fast incremental saves and global deduplication (among and within files, including virtual machine images)
A simple backup tool with built-in encryption
gilbertchen/duplicacy5,279almost 2 years agoDuplicacy is a new generation cross-platform cloud backup tool based on the idea of Lock-Free Deduplication. CLI version is free for personal use and is open-source, GUI and commercial use require licensing
Duplicity does directory backups by producing encrypted tar-format volumes and uploading them to a remote or local file server
FreeFileSync is a folder comparison and synchronization software that creates and manages backup copies of all your important files. Instead of copying every file every time, FreeFileSync determines the differences between a source and a target folder and transfers only the minimum amount of data needed
kopia/kopia8,302almost 2 years agoCross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication
cgsecurity/testdisk1,702about 2 years agoPhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures (thus the Photo Recovery name) from digital camera memory
Pika Backup is designed to save your personal data and does not support complete system recovery. Pika Backup is powered by the well-tested BorgBackup software
Qt-fsarchiver is a GUI for the fsarchiver program to save/restore partitions, folders and even the MBR/GPT table. The program is for systems based on Debian, OpenSuse or Fedora
ncw/rclone47,647almost 2 years agoRclone is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from various cloud storage solutions. It also allows encrypted backups
restic/restic26,921almost 2 years agorestic is a backup program that is fast, efficient and secure. It supports the three major operating systems (Linux, macOS, Windows) and a few smaller ones (FreeBSD, OpenBSD)
rsnapshot/rsnapshot3,285almost 2 years agorsnapshot is a command line utility based on rsync to make periodic snapshots of local/remote machines. The code makes extensive use of hard links whenever possible to greatly reduce the disk space required
SystemRescueCd is a Linux system rescue disk available as a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash
cgsecurity/testdisk1,702about 2 years agoTestDisk is powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software
linuxmint/timeshift2,578almost 2 years agoSystem restore tool for Linux. Creates filesystem snapshots using rsync+hardlinks, or BTRFS snapshots. Supports scheduled snapshots, multiple backup levels, and exclude filters. Snapshots can be restored while system is running or from Live CD/USB
borgbase/vorta2,049almost 2 years agoVorta is a backup client for macOS and Linux desktops. It integrates the mighty BorgBackup with your desktop environment to protect your data from disk failure, ransomware and theft

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / Desktop Customization

EliverLara/candy-icons1,103almost 2 years agoAn icon theme colored with sweet gradients
daniruiz/Flat-Remix1,694over 2 years agoFlat Remix is an icon theme inspired by material design. It is mostly flat using a colorful palette with some shadows, highlights, and gradients for some depth
vinceliuice/Fluent-icon-theme631almost 2 years agoFluent icon theme for linux desktops
keeferrourke/la-capitaine-icon-theme1,948almost 5 years agoA macOS and Material design inspired icon theme designed to fit into most desktop environments
snwh/moka-icon-theme454over 4 years agoMoka was created with simplicity in mind. With the use simple geometry & bright colours
numixproject/numix-icon-theme780almost 2 years agoA flat icon theme that comes in two varieties, Numix Main, and Numix circle
PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-icon-theme6,730almost 2 years agoSVG icon theme for Linux systems, based on Paper with a few extras like (hardcode-tray support, kde-color-scheme support, libreoffice icon theme, filezilla theme, smplayer themes, ...) and other modifications. The theme is available for GTK and KDE
vinceliuice/Qogir-icon-theme759almost 2 years agoA flat colorful design icon theme for linux desktops
yeyushengfan258/Reversal-icon-theme479over 2 years agoA colorful design icon theme for linux desktops
vinceliuice/Tela-icon-theme1,550almost 2 years agoA flat colorful Design icon theme
vinceliuice/WhiteSur-icon-theme1,386almost 2 years agoMacOS Big Sur style icon theme for linux desktops
zayronxio/Zafiro-icons438almost 2 years agoMinimalist icons created with the flat-desing technique, utilizing washed out colors and always accompanied by white
EliverLara/Ant830almost 2 years agoAnt is a flat GTK theme for Ubuntu and other GNOME-based Linux desktops it comes in three varieties: vanilla, Bloody, or Dracula
jnsh/arc-theme918over 2 years agoA flat theme with transparent elements
Catppuccin is a community-driven pastel theme that aims to be the middle ground between low and high contrast themes
dracula/gtk952almost 2 years agoA dark theme using the awesome Dracula color pallete
daniruiz/Flat-Remix-GTK864about 2 years agoFlat Remix is a GTK application theme inspired by material design
vinceliuice/Graphite-gtk-theme1,068almost 2 years agoGraphite GTK theme
Fausto-Korpsvart/Gruvbox-GTK-Theme603almost 2 years agoA GTK theme based on the Gruvbox colour palette
EliverLara/Kimi62almost 2 years agoKimi is a light Gtk3.20+ theme
vinceliuice/Layan-gtk-theme555almost 2 years agoLayan is a flat Material Design theme for GTK 3, GTK 2 and Gnome-Shell which supports GTK 3 and GTK 2 based desktop environments like Gnome, Budgie, etc
material-ocean/material-ocean107over 2 years agoA material design theme with oceanic colors(GTK, QT)
vinceliuice/Mojave-gtk-theme1,507almost 2 years agoMojave is a Mac OSX like theme for GTK 3, GTK 2 and GNOME-Shell which supports GTK 3 and GTK 2 based desktop environments like GNOME, Pantheon, XFCE, Mate, etc
EliverLara/Nordic2,354almost 2 years agoDark Gtk3.20+ theme created using the awesome Nord color pallete
vinceliuice/Orchis-theme3,096almost 2 years agoOrchis is a Material Design theme for GNOME/GTK based desktop environments
vinceliuice/Qogir-theme1,589almost 2 years agoQogir is a flat Design theme for GTK
EliverLara/Sweet1,483almost 2 years agoLight and dark colorful Gtk3.20+ theme
vinceliuice/WhiteSur-gtk-theme6,086almost 2 years agoMacOS Big Sur like theme for GNOME desktops
brndnmtthws/conky7,362almost 2 years agoConky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any kind of information on your desktop
mjakeman/extension-manager1,029almost 2 years agoA utility for browsing and installing GNOME Shell Extensions
GNOME ExtensionsExtensions for the GNOME Desktop Environment
GNOME LookA website that hosts a Large amounts of community created icons, shell themes, fonts, and many more assets that can be used to customize your GNOME desktop environment
GradienceTeam/Gradience1,306about 2 years agoGradience is a tool for customizing Libadwaita applications and the adw-gtk3 theme
bilelmoussaoui/Hardcode-Tray867about 2 years agoThis script fixes hardcoded tray icons in Linux by automatically detecting your default theme, the right icon size, the hard-coded applications, the right icons for each indicator and fix them
LemonBoy/bar1,627about 2 years agoSuper fast, lightweight, and mnml status bar for Linux
realmazharhussain/gdm-settings726almost 2 years agoA settings app for GNOME's Login Manager, GDM
themix-project/themix-gui2,109almost 2 years agoA Graphical application for generating different color variations of Oomox (Numix-based) and Materia (ex-Flat-Plat) themes (GTK2, GTK3, Cinnamon, GNOME, Openbox, Xfwm), Archdroid, Gnome-Color, Numix, Papirus and Suru++ icon themes
Desktop app of openDesktop.org, which is one of the largest communities where developers and artists share applications, themes and other content
jaagr/polybar14,251almost 2 years agoFast and easy-to-use status bar
deviantfero/wpgtk2,072almost 2 years agoA universal theming software for all themes defined in text files, compatible with all terminals, with default themes for GTK2, GTK+, openbox and Tint2 that uses pywal as it's core for colorscheme generation

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / Development

anbox/anbox8,919over 2 years agoRun Android applications on any GNU/Linux operating system
The Official IDE for Android: Android Studio provides the fastest tools for building apps on every type of Android device
waydroid/waydroid8,167almost 2 years agoWaydroid uses a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu
CLionA cross-platform and powerful IDE for C/C++
Code::Blocks is a free C/C++ and Fortran IDE built to meet the most demanding needs of its users. It is designed to be very extensible and fully configurable
A Free, open source, cross platform C/C++, PHP and Node.js IDE
qt-creator/qt-creator2,652almost 2 years agoFully-stocked cross-platform integrated development environment for easy creation of connected devices, UIs and applications
apache/cassandra8,906almost 2 years agoApache Cassandra database is the right choice when you need scalability and high availability without compromising performance. Linear scalability and proven fault-tolerance on commodity hardware or cloud infrastructure make it the perfect platform for mission-critical data
apache/couchdb6,298almost 2 years agoSeamless multi-master sync, that scales from Big Data to Mobile, with an Intuitive HTTP/JSON API and designed for Reliability
DataGripDataGrip is a cross-platform IDE that is aimed at DBAs and developers working with SQL databases. It has built-in drivers that support DB2, Derby, H2, HSQLDB, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Sqlite and Sybase
dbeaver/dbeaver40,942almost 2 years agoA universal database client supporting multiple platforms and databases
Kexi is an open source visual database applications creator, a long-awaited competitor for programs like MS Access or Filemaker
One of the most popular database servers. Made by the original developers of MySQL
mongodb/mongo26,503almost 2 years agoMongoDB is a free and open-source cross-platform document-oriented database program, uses JSON-like documents with schemas
dbcli/mycli11,513almost 2 years agoMyCLI is a command line interface for MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona with auto-completion and syntax highlighting
mysql/mysql-server10,964almost 2 years agoMySQL is the world's leading open source database thanks to its proven performance, reliability and ease-of-use. It is used by high profile web properties including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Yahoo! and many more
mysql/mysql-workbench907almost 2 years agoMySQL Workbench is a unified visual tool for database architects, developers, and DBAs. MySQL Workbench provides data modeling, SQL development, and comprehensive administration tools for server configuration, user administration, backup, and much more
oceanbase/oceanbase8,565almost 2 years agoDistributed relational database. Based on the Paxos protocol and its distributed structure, it provides high availability and linear scalability
OmniDB/OmniDB3,195over 3 years agoBrowser-based tool that visually create, manage, and view databases
OracleDBObject-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation, one of the most trusted and widely-used relational database engines
percona/percona-server-mongodb213almost 2 years agoPercona Server for MongoDB provides all features and benefits of MongoDB Community Server
percona/pmm-server186about 4 years agoPercona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL, MariaDB and MongoDB performance. You can run PMM in your own environment for maximum security and reliability. It provides thorough time-based analysis for MySQL, MariaDB and MongoDB servers to ensure that your data works as efficiently as possible
percona/percona-server1,164almost 2 years agoPercona Server for MySQL is a free, fully compatible, enhanced, open source drop-in replacement for MySQL that provides superior performance, scalability and instrumentation
percona/percona-xtradb-cluster343almost 2 years agoPercona XtraDB Cluster is an active/active high availability and high scalability open source solution for MySQL clustering. It integrates Percona Server and Percona XtraBackup with the Codership Galera library of MySQL high availability solutions in a single package that enables you to create a cost-effective MySQL high availability cluster
dbcli/pgcli12,182almost 2 years agoPgcli is a command line interface for Postgres with auto-completion and syntax highlighting
postgres/postgres16,442almost 2 years agoPostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system with more than 15 year development. PostgreSQL is not controlled by any corporation or other private entity and the source code is available free of charge
SQLite is an in-process library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine
sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser21,505almost 2 years agoVisually create, manage, and view sqlite database files
WebDB-App/app192almost 2 years agoOpen Source and Efficient Database IDE. Easy server connection, Modern ERD, Intelligent data generator, IA assistant, NoSQL structure manager, Time machine and Powerful query editor
bevyengine/bevy36,948almost 2 years agoA refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust
defold/defold4,482almost 2 years agoDefold is a completely free to use game engine for development of desktop, mobile and web games
AchetaGames/Epic-Asset-Manager411almost 2 years agoAn unofficial client to install Unreal Engine, download and manage purchased assets, projects, plugins and games from the Epic Games Store
FlaxEngine/FlaxEngine5,878almost 2 years agoFlax Engine – multi-platform 3D game engine
GameMakerThe Ultimate 2D Game Development Environment
4ian/GDevelop11,868almost 2 years agoOpen-source, cross-platform game engine designed to be used by everyone
Godot provides a huge set of common tools, so you can just focus on making your game without reinventing the wheel
haxeflixel/flixel2,019almost 2 years ago2D game engine written in
HeapsIO/heaps3,233almost 2 years agoHeaps is a cross platform graphics engine designed for high performance games. It's designed to leverage modern GPUs that are commonly available on desktop, mobile and consoles
o3de/o3de7,924almost 2 years agoOpen 3D Engine (O3DE) is a modular, open source, cross-platform 3D engine built to power anything from AAA games to cinema-quality 3D worlds to high-fidelity simulations
stride3d/stride6,691almost 2 years agoStride is an open-source C# game engine for realistic rendering and VR
UnityThe world’s leading platform for real-time content creation
Unreal EngineThe world’s most open and advanced real-time 3D creation tool
turanszkij/WickedEngine5,892almost 2 years ago3D engine with modern graphics
A hyperfast web frontend for git repositories written in C
Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge. It is a "soft" fork of Gitea with a focus on scaling, federation and privacy
Giggle is a graphical frontend for the git content tracker
Gisto/Gisto1,033almost 2 years agoGisto is a code snippet manager that runs on GitHub Gists and adds additional features such as searching, tagging and sharing gists while including a rich code editor
git/git52,873almost 2 years agoGit is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency
git-cola/git-cola2,286almost 2 years agoGit Cola is a sleek and powerful graphical Git client. Written in Python and GPL-licensed
Gitea is a community managed lightweight code hosting solution written in Go. It is published under the MIT license
Gitg is the GNOME GUI client to view git repositories
GitKrakenThe downright luxurious Git GUI client for Windows, Mac & Linux
gitlabhq/gitlabhq23,836almost 2 years agoGitLab is a web-based Git repository manager with wiki and issue tracking features
sitaramc/gitolite8,419over 2 years agoGitolite allows you to setup git hosting on a central server, with fine-grained access control and many more powerful features
Murmele/Gittyup1,574almost 2 years agoGittyup is a graphical Git client designed to help you understand and manage your source code history
gogs/gogs45,220almost 2 years agoA painless self-hosted Git service
jesseduffield/lazygit54,158almost 2 years agoA simple terminal UI for git commands, written in Go with the gocui library
SmartGitSmartGit is a Git client with support for GitHub Pull Requests+Comments and SVN
GoLandCommercial IDE by JetBrains aimed at providing an ergonomic environment for Go development
visualfc/liteide7,620about 2 years agoLiteIDE is a simple, open source, cross-platform Go IDE
A free Java Development Environment designed for beginners, used by millions worldwide
Eclipse is famous for our Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE), but can also download packages to support C/C++ IDE and PHP IDE
JetBrains/intellij-community17,481almost 2 years agoOpen source IDE by Jetbrains for JVM and Android development
IntelliJ IDEA UltimateCommercial IDE by Jetbrains for web and enterprise JAVA development
WebstormPowerful IDE for modern JavaScript development, made by JetBrains
arduino/arduino-ide2,368almost 2 years agoThe open-source Arduino Software (IDE) makes it easy to write code and upload it to the board
fritzing/fritzing-app4,077almost 2 years agoFritzing is an open-source hardware initiative that makes electronics accessible as a creative material for anyone
Sloeber/arduino-eclipse-plugin423almost 2 years agoSloeber IDE. The Arduino IDE for Eclipse
aptana/studio31,076over 3 years agoAptana Studio harnesses the flexibility of Eclipse and focuses it into a powerful web development engine
It is a free, open source IDE, feature-full, plugin extensible IDE for C/C++ and other programming languages
Cross platform IDE for C#, F# and more
NetBeans IDE lets you quickly and easily develop Java desktop, mobile, and web applications, as well as HTML5 applications with HTML, JavaScript, and CSS
Powerful build system for Python, JVM, Go and more, relies on static analysis instead of boilerplate to make adoption and use easy
PHPStormLightning-smart and powerful PHP IDE from Jetbrains
JetBrains/intellij-community17,481almost 2 years agoOpen source IDE by Jetbrains for pure Python development
PyCharm ProfessionalCommercial IDE by Jetbrains for scientific and web Python development
RubyMineProfessional Ruby and Rails IDE
fish-shell/fish-shell26,452almost 2 years agoA smart and user-friendly command-line shell
jorgebucaran/fisher7,881about 2 years agoA plugin manager for fish shell
ipython/ipython16,332almost 2 years agoPowerful Python shell
nushell/nushell32,955almost 2 years agoA new type of shell
oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish10,522about 2 years agoProvides various packages and themes to extend the functionality of your fish shell
robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh174,664almost 2 years agoA delightful community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration
oilshell/oil2,974almost 2 years agoOil is a new Unix shell for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!
koalaman/shellcheck36,593almost 2 years agoShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts
zimfw/zimfw3,934almost 2 years agoModular, customizable, and blazing fast Zsh framework
A powerful command line shell
kspalaiologos/bzip3697almost 2 years agoA versatile statistical compressor with better compression ratio than standard Linux tools (gzip, bzip2, etc...)
GeopJr/Collision151almost 2 years agoCollision comes with a simple & clean UI, allowing anyone, from any age and experience group, to generate, compare and verify MD5, SHA-256, SHA-512 and SHA-1 hashes
Cscope is a developer's tool for browsing source code. Although cmd-line application, it is nativelly integrated with Vim editor. It allows searching code for symbols, definitions, functions (called/calling), regex, files
Huluti/Curtail371almost 2 years agoCurtail is an useful image compressor, supporting PNG, JPEG and WEBP file types
qarmin/czkawka20,744almost 2 years agoMulti functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc
cytopia/devilbox4,407over 2 years agoThe devilbox is a modern and highly customisable dockerized PHP stack supporting full LAMP and MEAN and running on all major platforms. The main goal is to easily switch and combine any version required for local development
dialect-app/dialect613almost 2 years agoA translation app for GNOME
Diffuse is a graphical tool for comparing and merging text files. It can retrieve files for comparison from Bazaar, CVS, Darcs, Git, Mercurial, Monotone, RCS, Subversion, and SVK repositories
docker/desktop-linux83over 3 years agoDocker is a set of platform as a service products that use OS-level virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers
flox/flox2,783almost 2 years agoFlox is a virtual environment and package manager all-in-one
Self-contained, distributed software configuration management system with integrated bug-tracking, wiki, technotes and web interface
gaphor/gaphor1,905almost 2 years agoA simple and fast software and systems modeling tool
GenymotionGenymotion is a fast third-party emulator that can be used instead of the default Android emulator
GTK+ User Interface Builder
A heap memory profiler for Linux
WindSoilder/hors241over 2 years agoInstant coding answers via the command line
Kong/insomnia35,150almost 2 years agoA simple, beautiful, and free REST API client
IntelĀ® VTuneā„¢ ProfilerGUI and Commandline tool from Intel for finding and fixing performance bottlenecks in software written in C/C++, C#, Java, and more
An open source program that provides interactive data and scientific computing information across over 40 programming languages
jesseduffield/lazydocker39,303almost 2 years agoA simple terminal UI for both docker and docker-compose, written in Go with the gocui library
Meld is a visual diff and merge tool that helps you compare files, directories, and version controlled projects
This tool allows you to view metadata in your files and to get rid of it, as much as possible
MockittMockitt is an easy-to-use prototyping tool
Hex Editor for viewing and editing the raw data of files
evolus/pencil9,102about 2 years agoAn open-source GUI prototyping tool that's available for ALL platforms
stuartlangridge/ColourPicker282over 2 years agoSimple color picker
PostmanPostman, allows a user to develop and test APIs quickly
rabbitvcs/rabbitvcs377about 2 years agoRabbitVCS is a set of graphical tools written to provide simple and straightforward access to the version control systems you use
CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail14,990almost 5 years agoSourcetrail is a free and open-source cross-platform source explorer that helps you get productive on unfamiliar source code
StarUMLA sophisticated software modeler
uncrustify/uncrustify2,878almost 2 years agoSource Code Beautifier for C/C++, C#, ObjectiveC, D, Java, Pawn and VALA. See UniversalIndentGUI below
UniversalIndentGUI offers a live preview for setting the parameters of nearly any indenter
Valgrind is a GPL'd system for debugging and profiling Linux programs
GitBreezeGitBreeze is the free for personal use effortless Git GUI for Windows, Mac, & Linux
The GNU wdiff program is a front end to diff for comparing files on a word per word basis. It collects the diff output and uses it to produce a nicer display of word differences between the original files
sonnyp/Workbench716almost 2 years agoWorkbench goal is to let you experiment with GNOME technologies, no matter if tinkering for the first time or building and testing a custom GTK widget
zealdocs/zeal11,830almost 2 years agoZeal is an offline documentation browser for software developers

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / E-Book Utilities

An eBook reader and library management applicatiion for files from KDE
babluboy/bookworm1,339almost 2 years agoA simple, focused eBook reader
oguzhaninan/Buka1,093over 3 years agoA program for EBook Management
kovidgoyal/calibre20,037almost 2 years agoIncredibly ugly but powerful software for ebook management and conversion
janeczku/calibre-web13,345almost 2 years agoCalibre Web is a web app providing a clean interface for browsing, reading and downloading eBooks using an existing Calibre database
michaldaniel/Ebook-Viewer415over 2 years agoModern GTK Python Ebook Reader app to easily read epub files
Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats. The goal of evince is to replace the multiple document viewers that exist on the GNOME Desktop with a single simple application
geometer/FBReader541almost 6 years agoOne of the most popular eReader apps
johnfactotum/foliate6,489almost 2 years agoFoliate is a simple and modern GTK eBook viewer
FoxitFoxit Reader 8.0—Award-winning PDF Reader
martahilmar/gnome-books51over 7 years agoGNOME Books is application for listing, searching and reading eBooks
K2pdfopt optimizes PDF/DJVU files for mobile e-readers (e.g. the Kindle) and smartphones
Manga reader with support for online and offline reading, automatic downloads, locally stored manga formats (CBZ and CBR formats), and collection organization features
LucidorLucidor is a computer program for reading and handling e-books. Lucidor supports e-books in the EPUB file format, and catalogs in the OPDS format
MasterPDF editorMaster PDF Editor a convenient and smart PDF editor for Linux
GTK+ comic book viewer
A lightweight PDF and XPS viewer
KDE/okular921almost 2 years agoOkular is a universal document viewer based developed by KDE. Okular works on multiple platforms, including but not limited to Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, BSD, etc
pdfarranger/pdfarranger3,653almost 2 years agoPDF Arranger is a small application, which helps the user to merge or split pdf documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface
torakiki/pdfsam3,480almost 2 years agoA desktop application to split, extract pages, rotate, mix and merge PDF files
junrrein/pdfslicer151almost 2 years agoPDF Slicer is a simple application to extract, merge, rotate and reorder pages of PDF documents
PDF StudioAn easy to use, full-featured PDF editing software that is a reliable alternative to Adobe Acrobat and provides all PDF functions needed at a fraction of the cost. PDF Studio maintains full compatibility with the PDF Standard
qpdfview is a tabbed document viewer
Sigil-Ebook/Sigil6,006almost 2 years agoSigil is a multi-platform EPUB ebook editor
pwmt/zathura2,167almost 2 years agoZathura is a highly customizable and functional document viewer

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / Electronic

An EDA suite for schematic and circuit board design
logisim-evolution/logisim-evolution5,043almost 2 years agoGraphical tool for designing and simulating digital logic curcuits. Successor of LogiSim

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / Education

Powerful, intelligent flash cards which makes remembering things easy
Artha is a free cross-platform English thesaurus that works completely off-line and is based on WordNet
bibletime/bibletime337almost 2 years agoBibleTime is a Bible study application based on the Sword library and Qt toolkit
CelestiaProject/Celestia1,878almost 2 years agoThe free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions
opp11/chemtool1over 12 years agoChemtool is a small program for drawing chemical structures on Linux
Colobot: Gold Edition is a real-time strategy game, where you can program your units (bots) in a language called CBOT, which is similar to C++ and Java
An open source computer lab management and monitoring tool
gap-system/gap822almost 2 years agoA computer algebra system for computational discrete algebra with particular emphasis on computational group theory
GCompris is a high quality educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10
geogebra/geogebra1,717almost 2 years agoThe graphing calculator for functions, geometry, algebra, calculus, statistics and 3D mathematics
A powerful dictionary for GNOME
GNU Octave is a scientific programming language, primarily intended for numerical computations, that is mostly compatible with MATLAB
ncurses-based free-software typing instructor
Open source accounting software
Google EarthGoogle Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program
GPeriodic is a periodic table application for Linux
KDE Edu SuiteFree Educational Software based on the KDE technologies
A touch typing tutor very flexible, supporting customizable keyboard layouts. You can edit and save new or unknown keyboard layouts, as the basic course was designed to not depend on specific ones. Also, there are some charts about the learning process
KTouch is a program to learn and practice touch typing
MAPLEMaple is math software that combines the world's most powerful math engine with an interface that makes it extremely easy to analyze, explore, visualize, and solve mathematical problems
MapTilerMapTiler generates zoomable raster maps from images in user-defined coordinate system
KDE/marble130almost 2 years agoMarble is a virtual globe and world atlas — your swiss army knife for maps
MATLABThe MATLAB platform is optimized for solving engineering and scientific problems. MATLAB helps you take your ideas beyond the desktop. You can run your analyses on larger data sets and scale up to clusters and clouds
MathematicaThe world's definitive system for modern technical computing
Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, Laplace transforms, ordinary differential equations, systems of linear equations, and much more
MendeleyMendeley is a program for managing and sharing research papers, finding research data and collaborating online
moodle/moodle5,838almost 2 years agoCourse management system for online learning
OpenEuclide is a 2D geometry software: figures are defined dynamically by describing formal geometrical constraints
OpenMapTiles is a set of open-source tools for self-hosting of OpenStreetMaps in more than 50 languages. It provides both raster as well as vector tiles, WMS, WMTS, support for JavaScript viewers and mobile SDK
School Management Software that Increases Student Achievements & Teacher Performances
A computer algebra system for fast computations in number theory
sagemath/sage1,506almost 2 years agoA mathematical software with features covering many aspects of mathematics, including algebra, combinatorics, numerical mathematics, number theory, and calculus
scipy/scipy13,197almost 2 years agoSciPy is a Python-based ecosystem of open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering
LLK/scratch-flash1,328over 7 years agoWith Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations — and share your creations with others in the online community
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer
sugarlabs/sugar264almost 2 years agoSugar is a learning platform that reinvents how computers are used for education. Collaboration, reflection, and discovery are integrated directly into the user interface
An educational typing tutorial game starring Tux
ugeneunipro/ugene218almost 2 years agoUGENE is free open-source cross-platform integrated GUI-based bioinformatics software
veyon/veyon1,343almost 2 years agoVeyon is a computer management software for classrooms, it allows a teacher to control student computers and guide students over a computer network

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / Email

aerc is an efficient, extensible email client that runs in the terminal. It features special support for git email workflows, reviewing patches, and processing HTML emails in a terminal-based browser
Claws is an email client and news reader, featuring sophisticated interface, easy configuration, intuitive operation, abundant features and plugins, robustness and stability
vladimiry/ElectronMail1,518almost 2 years agoElectronMail is an Electron-based unofficial desktop client for ProtonMail and Tutanota end-to-end encrypted email providers
Evolution is a personal information management application that provides integrated mail, calendaring and address book functionality
Geary is an email application built for GNOME 3. It allows you to read and send email with a simple, modern interface
HiriHiri is a business focused desktop e-mail client for sending and receiving e-mails, managing calendars, contacts, and tasks
KMail is the email component of Kontact, the integrated personal information manager from KDE
pulb/mailnag255about 2 years agoMailnag is a daemon program that checks POP3 and IMAP servers for new mail
MailspringA beautiful, fast and maintained fork of Nylas Mail ( ) by one of the original authors
Lightweight and user-friendly e-mail client
Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize and it’s loaded with great features
KDE/trojita35almost 2 years agoA super fast desktop email client for Linux
danchoi/vmail785almost 6 years agoVim-like Gmail client

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / File Manager

A very capable program that can unzip nearly any file archiving format
mate-desktop/caja272almost 2 years agoIs the default file manager for the MATE desktop environment, it is very fast and simple to use
leo-arch/clifm1,361almost 2 years agoThe shell-like, command line terminal file manager: simple, fast, extensible, and lightweight as hell
Dolphin is the default file manager of the KDE desktop environment featuring usability as well as functionality
Double Commander is a cross platform open source file manager with two panels side by side. It is inspired by Total Commander and features some new ideas
Konqueror is KDE's Webbrowser and swiss-army-knife for any kind of file-management and file previewing
Krusader is an advanced twin panel (commander style) file manager for KDE and other desktops in the *nix world, similar to Midnight or Total Commander
MidnightCommander/mc2,622almost 2 years agoA feature rich full-screen file manager that allows you to copy, move and delete files and whole directory trees
GNOME/nautilus350almost 2 years agoNautilus (Files) is a file manager designed to fit the GNOME desktop design and behaviour, giving the user a simple way to navigate and manage its files
linuxmint/nemo1,251almost 2 years agoNemo is the file manager for the Cinnamon desktop environment
jarun/nnn19,467almost 2 years agoA very lightweight and fast terminal file browser with excellent desktop integration
shundhammer/qdirstat1,781almost 2 years agoQt-based directory statistics - KDirStat without any KDE, from the original KDirStat author
ranger/ranger15,729almost 2 years agoRanger is a console file manager with VI key bindings
IgnorantGuru/spacefm489over 2 years agoMulti-panel tabbed file and desktop manager with built-in VFS, udev- or HAL-based device manager, customisable menu system and bash-GTK integration
Thunar is a modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment
vifm/vifm2,770almost 2 years agoVifm is an ncurses based file manager with VI like keybindings, which also borrows some useful ideas from mutt

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / Games

Dwarf FortressA famously complex simulation of a High Fantasy Dwarf Fortress, fight goblins, and slay massive legendary beasts. Strike the earth!
OpenTTD/OpenTTD6,448almost 2 years agoAn open-source clone of Transport Tycoon Plus with major improvements
aburch/simutrans435almost 2 years agoSimutrans is a freeware and open-source transportation simulator
unknown-horizons/unknown-horizons1,430almost 3 years agoA 2D realtime strategy simulation with an emphasis on economy and city building. Multiplayer currently broken
mydzor/bash2048899over 2 years agoPlay the famous 2048 in commandline
fph/bastet276almost 4 years agoPlay Tetris in commandline
maaslalani/gambit831over 2 years agoPlay chess in your terminal
alexdantas/nsnake201almost 3 years agoPlay the classic Nokia snake game on the command line
alexdantas/pacman4console.debian2almost 4 years agoPlay Pacman game in console
lxgr-linux/pokete2,915almost 2 years agoA terminal based Pokemon like game
mpereira/tty-solitaire279about 2 years agoPlay solitaire in your terminal!
wheybags/freeablo2,159over 3 years agoA free recreation of the original Diablo game engine that runs natively on Linux. Requires the original game assets
A source port of Cave Story that runs natively on Linux, source needs to be built
nxengine/nxengine-evo495over 2 years agoA somewhat upgraded/refactored version of NXEngine by Caitlin Shaw
SFTtech/openage12,810almost 2 years agoFree (as in freedom) open source clone of the Age of Empires II engine, source needs to be built
OpenMW/openmw5,435almost 2 years agoA recreation of the Morrowind engine, expanding upon the original. It can be used to play legitimate copies of original game
OpenRA/OpenRA14,822almost 2 years agoClassic strategy games, rebuilt for the modern era. Open source
OpenRCT2/OpenRCT213,634almost 2 years agoA recreation of the Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 engine. Requires the original games assests
A modification of Xonotic which included extended weapons, maps, vehicles, buildable buildings, mounted weapons, spell casting, monsters, player characters, textures, and game mode (such as colorwar (think liquidwar))
freedoom/freedoom1,082almost 2 years agoFree version of the original Doom games, with newly created free-licensed assets
Free and open-source clone of Quake III Arena, based on the realeased source code, with newly created assets
red-eclipse/base445about 2 years agoRed Eclipse is a fun-filled new take on the first person arena shooter, which lends itself toward a balanced gameplay, with a general theme of agility in a variety of environments
Urban TerrorA "Hollywood" tactical shooter - realism based, but the motto is "fun over realism"
Arena shooter inspired by Unreal Tournament and Quake
Leading the way in newschool multiplayer Doom online
coelckers/gzdoom2,571almost 2 years agoZDoom is a source port for the modern era, supporting current hardware and operating systems and sporting a vast array of user options
Professional quality 3D flight simulator
Mudlet/Mudlet745almost 2 years agoA cross-platform, open source, and super fast MUD (text-only MMORPGs) client with scripting in Lua
Neverball/neverball354almost 2 years agoAddictive ball-rolling game with many levels, avatars and an ability to record replays
OhMyGiraffeA delightful game of survival. A game about a giraffe eating fruit while being chased by lions
alemart/opensurge389almost 2 years agoA 2D platformer and game creation engine inspired by the 16-bit Sonic the Hedgehog games
alpcoskun/snake30over 3 years agoCross-platform Classic Snake Game based on Node.js
SuperTux/supertux2,549almost 2 years agoClone of the popular sidescrolling Super Mario games
Cockatrice/Cockatrice1,566almost 2 years agoCockatrice is an open-source multiplatform supported program for playing tabletop card games over a network
Galois is a Falling Blocks type game that isn't limited to the standard tetrominoes that most games in it's genre are limited to
Gbrainy is a brain teaser game with logic puzzles and memory trainers
Pingus/pingus172about 2 years ago2D puzzle game that clones the popular Lemmings. Your goal is to guide a group of penguins safely across the game map
drwhut/tabletop-club1,306almost 2 years agoAn open-source platform for playing tabletop games in a physics-based 3D environment for Windows, macOS, and Linux! Made with the Godot Engine
KartKrewDev/RingRacers216almost 2 years agoA technical kart racer, drawing inspiration from ā€œantigravā€ racers, fighting games, and traditional-style kart racing
2D top-viewed game where you drive a MotoGP bike
supertuxkart/stk-code4,549almost 2 years agoSuperTuxKart is a 3D open-source arcade racer with a variety characters, tracks, and modes to play
2D motocross physics-based game requiring a lot of skill to master, with a built-in replay-recording and sharing system
flareteam/flare-engine1,112almost 2 years agoSingleplayer Diablo clone with beautiful original graphics
Sci-fi 2D top-down RPG inspired by Diablo games
RyzomFree and open-source 3D MMORPG with unique features and deep lore. The official servers allow free accounts as well as paid subscriptions with extra features
Tales of Maj’Eyal (ToME) is a free, open source roguelike RPG, featuring tactical turn-based combat and advanced character building
Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust. It is inspired by games such as Cube World, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft
ZeldaClassic/ZeldaClassic17almost 2 years agoA tribute to Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda with additional quests, items and challenges
A direct sequel to The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past on the SNES, using the same graphics and game mechanisms
Age of Empires like RTS game of ancient warfare
Anuken/Mindustry22,911almost 2 years agoThe automation tower defense RTS, written in Java
Open-source rogue-like with ASCII graphics
triplea-game/triplea1,362almost 2 years agoOpen source grand strategy game with "Axis and Allies" game rules
Warzone2100/warzone21003,239almost 2 years agoOpen-source real-time strategy game that takes place after a nuclear war
Widelands is a open source RTS game with singleplayer campaigns and a multiplayer mode inspired by Settlers II
FactorioA factory building sandbox game
minecraft-linux/mcpelauncher-manifest991almost 2 years agoUnoffical Open-source launcher for Minecraft: Bedrock edition
MinecraftMinecraft is a game about placing blocks and going on adventures. Explore randomly generated worlds and build amazing things from the simplest of homes to the grandest of castles
minetest/minetest10,914almost 2 years agoOpen-source Minecraft written in C++ (uses less resources) and includes modding API
MultiMC/Launcher4,328almost 2 years agoMultiMC is an alternative launcher for Minecraft. It allows you to have multiple, cleanly separated instances of Minecraft (each with their own mods, resource packs, saves, etc) and helps you manage them and their associated options with a simple and powerful interface
PrismLauncher/PrismLauncher6,002almost 2 years agoA custom launcher for Minecraft that allows you to easily manage multiple installations of Minecraft at once (Fork of MultiMC and PolyMC)
viewizard/astromenace229over 3 years agoHardcore 3D space scroll-shooter with spaceship upgrade possibilities
cxong/cdogs-sdl908almost 2 years agoClassic overhead run-and-gun game in beautiful pixel-art
wesnoth/wesnoth5,578almost 2 years agoThe Battle for Wesnoth is an open source, turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme. It features both singleplayer and online/hotseat multiplayer combat
freeciv/freeciv1,292almost 2 years agoFreeciv is a Free and Open Source empire-building strategy game inspired by the history of human civilization
HedgeWars2D game where teams compete in the style of the popular Worms games
Tanks of FreedomPixel-art military strategy implemented in Godot game engine
Easily manage wine prefixes in a new way. Run Windows software and games on Linux
kra-mo/cartridges669almost 2 years agoA GTK4 + Libadwaita game launcher
tkashkin/GameHub2,257almost 2 years agoGameHub is a unified library for all your games. It allows you to store your games from different platforms into one program to make it easier for you to manage your games
A Native GOG and Epic Games Launcher for Linux, Windows and Mac
itchio/itch2,393almost 2 years agoThe itch.io app. All of your downloads are kept in a single place and are automatically updated. Plenty of free games
lutris/lutris8,135almost 2 years agoLutris is an open gaming platform for Linux. It helps you install and manage your games in a unified interface
sharkwouter/minigalaxy1,116almost 2 years agoA simple GOG client for Linux
A front-end for Wine
SteamGaming store, which opens the gates to many games
PhilipK/BoilR1,468almost 2 years agoSynchronize games from other platforms into your Steam library
dreamer/boxtron413over 3 years agoSteam Play compatibility tool to run DOS games using native Linux DOSBox. It is a sister project of Luxtorpeda and DOSBox Staging
CryoByte33/steam-deck-utilities3,267over 2 years agoA utility to improve performance and help manage storage on Steam Deck
SteamDeckHomebrew/decky-loader4,814almost 2 years agoA plugin loader for the Steam Deck
dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging1,330almost 2 years agoDOSBox Staging is a modern continuation of DOSBox with advanced features and current development practices
FeralInteractive/gamemode4,875almost 2 years agoOptimise Linux system performance on demand
benjamimgois/goverlay637about 2 years agoGOverlay is an open source project that aims to create a Graphical UI to help manage Linux overlays
luxtorpeda-dev/luxtorpeda740almost 2 years agoSuite of Steam Play compatibility tools to run games using native Linux engines
flightlessmango/MangoHud6,612almost 2 years agoA Vulkan and OpenGL overlay for monitoring FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load and more
Merrit/nyrna956almost 2 years agoSuspend games and applications
dreamer/roberta167over 5 years agoSteam Play compatibility tool to run adventure games using native Linux ScummVM. It is a sister project of Luxtorpeda
kozec/sc-controller1,544almost 3 years agoUser-mode driver, mapper and GTK3 based GUI for Steam Controller, DualShock 4, and similar controllers
scummvm/scummvm2,335almost 2 years agoScummVM allows you to play classic graphic point-and-click adventure games, text adventure games, and RPGs, as long as you already have the game data files. ScummVM replaces the executable files shipped with the games, which means you can now play your favorite games on all your favorite devices
CapitaineJSparrow/steam-repo-manager70almost 3 years agoInstall boot videos to your Steam Deck using Steam Deck Repo website API
SteamGridDB/steam-rom-manager1,930almost 2 years agoAn app for managing ROMs in Steam
sonic2kk/steamtinkerlaunch2,203almost 2 years agoLinux wrapper tool for use with the Steam client for custom launch options and 3rd party programs
fastrizwaan/WineZGUI79almost 2 years agoGUI Frontend using Zenity for running Windows games with Wine that allows you to create, manage, and share game prefixes
GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom10,283almost 2 years agoCompatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components
Kron4ek/Wine-Builds760almost 2 years agoCustom Wine builds and build scripts for Vanilla, Wine Staging, Wine-tkg and Proton
ValveSoftware/Proton24,819almost 2 years agoCompatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components, primarily developed by Valve and CodeWeavers
Vysp3r/ProtonPlus264almost 2 years agoA simple Wine and Proton manager for GNOME
Matoking/protontricks1,702almost 2 years agoThis is a wrapper script that allows you to easily run Winetricks commands for Steam Play/Proton games among other common Wine features, such as launching external Windows executables
AUNaseef/protonup579almost 3 years agoCLI program and API to automate the installation and update of GE-Proton
DavidoTek/ProtonUp-Qt1,298almost 2 years agoInstall and manage GE-Proton and Luxtorpeda for Steam and Wine-GE for Lutris with this graphical user interface
Wine ("Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on Linux, quality depends from game to game
GloriousEggroll/wine-ge-custom2,135over 2 years agoCustom build of wine, made to use with lutris. Built with lutris's buildbot
Frogging-Family/wine-tkg-git914almost 2 years agoThe wine-tkg build systems, to create custom Wine and Proton builds
Winetricks/winetricks2,840almost 2 years agoWinetricks is an easy way to work around problems in Wine
varmd/wine-wayland761over 2 years agoWine-wayland allows playing DX9/DX11 and Vulkan games using pure wayland and Wine/DXVK
ares-emulator/ares1,025almost 2 years agoA multi-system console emulation suite
dragoonDorise/EmuDeck2,966almost 2 years agoEmulator configurator for Steam Deck
GNOME Video Arcade is a simple Mame frontend for any freedesktop.org compliant desktop environment
byuu/higan8over 5 years agoHigan is a multi-system emulator that supports emulating a huge number of different systems including: NES, SNES, GameBoy, GameBoy Color, Gameboy Advance, NEC PC Engine, Sega Master System, and more. Here is a guide to install it on Linux
mamedev/mame8,502almost 2 years agoMAME is an Arcade Cabinet emulator that strives for accuracy, and can play a huge number of different arcade games
qmc2/qmc2-mame-fe44about 2 years agoQMC2 is the successor to QMamecat, it is a gui for MAME and a ROM manager
libretro/RetroArch10,438almost 2 years agoA front-end for a lot of game emulators
XargonWan/RetroDECK799almost 2 years agoEverything you need for emulation on Steam Deck
stella-emu/stella630almost 2 years agoIs an Atari 2600 Emulator that is multiplatform
mborgerson/xemu2,871almost 2 years agoOriginal Xbox Emulator for Windows, macOS, and Linux (Active Development)
cemu-project/Cemu7,484almost 2 years agoSoftware to emulate Wii U games and applications on PC
TASEmulators/desmume3,038almost 2 years agoDeSmuME is a Nintendo DS emulator
dolphin-emu/dolphin13,148almost 2 years agoDolphin is a GameCube / Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements
Arisotura/melonDS3,362almost 2 years agomelonDS aims at providing fast and accurate Nintendo DS emulation
mGBA is an open-source Game Boy Advance emulator
0ldsk00l/nestopia714almost 2 years agonestopia is a Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicon emulator
snes9xgit/snes9x2,699almost 2 years agoIs a multiplatform Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulator that has gone through many incarnations, but is still being actively developed
visualboyadvance-m/visualboyadvance-m3,403almost 2 years agoA Gameboy and Gameboy Advance Emulator that is still undergoing active development and can even emulate a system link between two gameboys
A capable and commonly used Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Super Famicom emulator, many consider it the gold standard in SNES/Super Famicom emulation
PCSX2 is a free and open-source PlayStation 2 (PS2) emulator
jpd002/Play-2,192almost 2 years agoPlay! is a PlayStation2 emulator for Windows, macOS, UNIX, Android, iOS and web browser platforms
hrydgard/ppsspp11,479almost 2 years agoPPSSPP is a PSP emulator that can run games full HD resolution. It can even upscale textures that would otherwise be too blurry as they were made for the small screen of the original PSP
RPCS3 is a multi-platform open-source Sony PlayStation 3 emulator and debugger written in C++ for Windows, Linux, macOS and FreeBSD
Vita3K/Vita3K4,040almost 2 years agoVita3K is an experimental PlayStation Vita emulator for Windows and Linux
Fuse (the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator) is a ZX Spectrum emulator for Unix

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / Graphics

AftershotA powerful alternative to Adobe Photoshop
darktable-org/darktable9,948almost 2 years agoDarktable is an open source photography workflow application and RAW developer
GIMP is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring
GraphicsMagick is the swiss army knife of image processing
An easy to use cross-platform panoramic imaging toolchain based on Panorama Tools
ImageMagick/ImageMagick12,445almost 2 years agoImageMagick is a suite of command-line utilities for modifying and working with images
jarun/imgp1,046almost 2 years agoBlazing fast terminal image resizer and rotator
LuminanceHDR/LuminanceHDR613over 2 years agoLuminance HDR is an open source graphical user interface application that aims to provide a workflow for HDR imaging
google-code-export/photivo3over 11 years agoPhotivo is a free and open source (GPL3) photo processor, handles your RAW and bitmap files (TIFF, JPEG, BMP, PNG and many more) in a non-destructive 16 bit processing pipe with gimp workflow integration and batch mode. It is intended to be used in a workflow together with digiKam/F-Spot/Shotwell and Gimp
piskelapp/piskel11,284over 2 years agoBrowser-based editor for animated sprites and pixel art. Available as offline application
lbalazscs/Pixelitor185almost 2 years agoPixelitor is a free and open source image editing software that supports layers, layer masks, text layers, filters, multiple undo etc
Beep6581/RawTherapee2,960almost 2 years agoA good looking but lesser known photo editing app
DigiKam is an advanced digital photo management application for Linux
szTheory/exifcleaner1,949almost 3 years agoRemove image metadata with drag and drop. Supports multi-core batch processing
Lightweight and fast image viewer
Fotocx is a free open source Linux program for image editing and collection management
BestImageViewer/geeqie493almost 2 years agoImage viewer / photo collection browser. Successor of GQview
gThumb is an image viewer and browser (it also includes an importer tool for transferring photos from cameras)
Simple yet powerful image viewer and management for KDE desktops
meowtec/Imagine3,737about 3 years agoAn open source image optimizer that can shrink the size of images with a minimal loss of quality
nomacs/nomacs2,056almost 2 years agonomacs is an image viewer that is able to view nearly any image format, and has powerful renaming and sorting tools
peterlevi/ojo38about 2 years agoA fast and pretty image viewer
ivandokov/phockup867over 2 years agoCommand line sorting tool to organize photos and videos from your camera in folders by year, month and day
oferkv/phototonic158over 3 years agoPhototonic is image viewer and organizer
kanryu/quickviewer545over 4 years agoVery fast image/comic viewer by using OpenGL
yurijmikhalevich/rclip762almost 2 years agoAI-Powered Command-Line Photo Search Tool
Shotwell is a photo manager for GNOME
FreeCAD/FreeCAD21,742almost 2 years agoFreeCAD is a free and opensource multiplatform 3D parametric modeler
HandBrake/HandBrake18,203almost 2 years agoHandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs
Diolinux/PhotoGIMP4,244about 2 years agoA patch for optimizing GIMP 2.10+ for Adobe Photoshop users
Gictorbit/photoshopCClinux4,235about 2 years agoPhotoshop CC v19 installer for Gnu/Linux
MiMillieuh/Photoshop-CC2022-Linux1,000over 2 years agoInstaller for Photoshop CC 2022 on linux with a GUI
Potrace is a tool for tracing a bitmap, which means, transforming a bitmap into a smooth, scalable image
Radiance - A Validated Lighting Simulation Tool
Rapid Photo Downloader makes it easy to import photos from a camera or smartphone
AvocodeAvocode - Share and inspect Photoshop and Sketch designs in a heart beat
asciinema/asciinema14,345almost 2 years agoTerminal session recorder
dvershinin/green-recorder59over 2 years agoA simple desktop recorder for Linux systems, supports recording audio and video on almost all Linux interfaces and Wayland display server on GNOME session
CLI screen recorder and replay software that uses hardware acceleration similar to AMD ReLive or Nvidia ShadowPlay
Official GTK-based frontend for the CLI tool
An easy to use and very intuitive screen recording program that will capture the content of your screen and record a video file that can be played by any video player that supports VP8/WebM video format
SeaDve/Kooha2,655almost 2 years agoA simple screen recorder written with GTK. It allows you to record your screen and also audio from your microphone or desktop
orhun/menyoki630almost 2 years agoScreen{shot,cast} and perform ImageOps on the command line
obsproject/obs-studio60,958almost 2 years agoFree and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Download and start streaming quickly and easily on Windows, Mac or Linux. Share your gaming, art and entertainment with the world
phw/peek10,332almost 2 years agoSimple animated GIF screen recorder with an easy to use interface
colinkeenan/silentcast512about 4 years agoSilentcast can create MKV screencasts and also output to an animated GIF
MaartenBaert/ssr2,595almost 2 years agoSimpleScreenRecorder is a feature-rich screen recorder that supports X11 and OpenGL. It has a Qt-based graphical user interface
vkohaupt/vokoscreen3over 5 years agoA free, multilingual and easy to use screencast recorder with audio for Linux. It has many features
lupoDharkael/flameshot25,218almost 2 years agoPowerful yet simple to use screenshot software
ksnip/ksnip2,475almost 2 years agoKsnip is a Qt-based cross-platform screenshot tool that provides many annotation features for your screenshots
olav-st/screencloud643over 2 years agoScreenCloud is an easy to use screenshot sharing tool consisting of a cross-platform client and a sharing website
shutter-project/shutter545almost 2 years agoShutter is a feature-rich screenshot program for Linux based operating systems such as Ubuntu
Spectacle is a simple application for capturing desktop screenshots
Control your Elgato Stream Deck devices
Formerly known as , ReadyMedia is a is a simple, lightweight media server software, with the aim of being fully compliant with DLNA/UPnP-AV clients. The MiniDNLA daemon serves media files (music, pictures, and video) to clients on a network such as smartphones, portable media players, televisions, other computers and some gaming systems
virtual-puppet-project/vpuppr752over 2 years agoVTuber application made with Godot 3.4
cinelerra-cv-team/cinelerra-cv23almost 2 years agoProfessional video editing and compositing environment
Davinci ResolveRevolutionary tools for editing, color correction, audio post and now visual effects, all in a single application
jliljebl/flowblade2,680almost 2 years agoA multitrack non-linear video editor for Linux
Kdenlive is a Non-Linear Video Editor, which is much more powerful than beginners’ (linear) editors
LightworksProfessional non-linear video editing program with a free version available
olive-editor/olive8,305almost 2 years agoOlive is a free non-linear video editor aiming to provide a fully-featured alternative to high-end professional video editing software
OpenShot/openshot-qt4,415almost 2 years agoOpenShot is a free, simple-to-use, feature-rich video editor for Linux
A free video editor with a beautiful and intuitive user interface, a clean codebase and a fantastic community
mltframework/shotcut11,220almost 2 years agoShotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor with support for hundreds of audio and video formats and codecs and a sleek, intuitive interface
ozmartian/vidcutter1,821about 2 years agoCross-platform Qt5 based app for quick and easy video trimming/splitting and merging/joining for simple quick edits

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / Internet

brave/brave-browser18,078almost 2 years agoBrave is a fast, good desktop browser for macOS, Windows, and Linux
ChromeA popular Web Browser with a lot of plugins/apps
Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all users to experience the web
Falkon aims to be a lightweight web browser available through all major platforms
A popular Web Browser with a lot of plugins/apps
GNOME Web (codename: Epiphany) is a GNOME web browser based on the WebKit rendering engine
GNU version of Firefox built for privacy, using only free software and free of trademarks
Fork of Firefox, with the primary goals of privacy, security and user freedom
Microsoft EdgeMicrosoft Edge is a cross-platform web browser created and developed by Microsoft
A lightweight free browser that runs well on low spec systems
minbrowser/min8,042almost 2 years agoA smarter, faster web browser
The Mullvad Browser is a privacy-focused web browser developed in a collaboration between Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project. It’s designed to minimize tracking and fingerprinting
OperaOpera browser is everything you need to do more on the web
qutebrowser/qutebrowser9,944almost 2 years agoA keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on PyQt5
Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy
Eloston/ungoogled-chromium20,959almost 2 years agoungoogled-chromium is Google Chromium, sans dependency on Google web services
VivaldiA new and rising browser with a lot of customizations
WaterfoxCo/Waterfox3,925almost 2 years agoFork of Firefox. Waterfox gives you a sane way to browse the web. Built with you, the user, in mind
WaveboxA feature-rich Chromium browser that's built for productive working across Google Workspaces, Microsoft Teams, ClickUp, Monday, Atlassian, Asana, AirTable, Slack, and every other web app you use to get work done
YandexFast and convenient browser
ClipgrabA friendly downloader for YouTube and other sites
NickvisionApps/Parabolic1,108almost 2 years agoDownload web video and audio
spotDL/spotify-downloader18,006almost 2 years agoDownload your Spotify playlists and songs along with album art and metadata (from YouTube if a match is found)
Unrud/video-downloader812almost 2 years agoDownload videos from websites like YouTube and many others (based on yt-dlp)
aandrew-me/ytdownloader1,133almost 2 years agoA cross-platform GUI for yt-dlp with advanced options and a modern UI
zerotier/ZeroTierOne14,719almost 2 years agoZerotier is a program that creates a Virtual Network for only your devices with end to end encryption over the internet. By default Zerotier will manage your virtual network but you can switch to a self-managed network if you prefer
A KDE Feed Reader
Choqok is a Qt5 client for Twitter, GNU Social, Friendica and Pump.IO
jeena/FeedTheMonkey128over 5 years agoFeedTheMonkey is a desktop client for TinyTinyRSS
yang991178/fluent-reader7,889over 2 years agoModern desktop RSS reader built with Electron, React, and Fluent UI
FreeTubeApp/FreeTube13,807almost 2 years agoFreeTube is a YouTube client for Windows, Mac, and Linux built around using YouTube more privately
EragonJ/Kaku1,071almost 6 years agoAn open source youtube music player for Ubuntu
NewsFlash is a program designed to complement an already existing web-based RSS reader account
Kirigami-based YouTube client for Linux Desktop and Mobile with built-in ad-blocking and privacy features
popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop9,522almost 2 years agoWatch torrent movies instantly
martinrotter/rssguard1,688almost 2 years agoFeed reader which supports RSS/ATOM/JSON and many web-based feed services
streamlink/streamlink-twitch-gui2,702almost 2 years agoA multi platform Twitch.tv browser for
pystardust/ytfzf3,823almost 2 years agoTerminal Youtube/Odysee client with thumbnails

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / Office

GnuCash is a free software accounting program that implements a double-entry bookkeeping system. It was initially aimed at developing capabilities similar to Intuit, Inc.'s Quicken application, but also has features for small business accounting
simonmichael/hledger3,094almost 2 years agoEasy-to-use command-line/curses/web plaintext accounting tool
HomeBank is a free software that will assist you to manage your personal accounting
KMyMoney is the personal finance manager by KDE. Its operation is similar to Microsoft Money and Quicken
A personal finances manager, powered by KDE
Offers a comprehensive set of 8 applications which satisfies the office, graphics and management needs
Arguably the most popular office suite for Linux, it is very heavily developed and widely known
An office suite that charges for a cloud version of itself, but is free for other uses
WPS officeA popular office suite in China, but is fully translated and functions well in English
GNOME LaTeX is a LaTeX editor for the GNOME desktop
alexandervdm/gummi767almost 2 years agoSimple latex editor with templates, spell check, and wizards
Mature document editor that renders into LaTeX
TeX Live is an easy way to get up and running with the TeX document production system
Free scientific text editor, inspired by TeX and GNU Emacs. WYSIWYG editor and CAS-interface
Free cross-platform LaTeX editor
texstudio-org/texstudio2,868almost 2 years agoTeXstudio's goal is to make writing LaTeX documents as easy and comfortable as possible
TeXworks/texworks702about 2 years agoTeXworks is an environment for authoring TeX (LaTeX, ConTeXt, etc) documents, with a Unicode-based, TeX-aware editor, integrated PDF viewer, and a clean, simple interface accessible to casual and non-technical users
wereturtle/ghostwriter4,366almost 2 years agoA distraction-free Markdown editor for Windows and Linux
fabiocolacio/Marker840about 2 years agoMarker is a markdown editor for linux made with GTK+-3.0
marktext/marktext47,909about 2 years agoMarkText is a free and open-source realtime preview markdown editor which support both CommonMark Spec and GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec. It is a concise text editor, dedicated to improving your writing efficiency
jamiemcg/remarkable1,974about 2 years agoA capable markdown editor that uses a variant of GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM)
retext-project/retext1,894almost 2 years agoA Simple but powerful editor for Markdown and reStructuredText
TyporaA Minimal markdown editor
andreafeccomandi/bibisco697almost 2 years agoA novel writing software with focus on ideas and characters
olivierkes/manuskript1,801almost 2 years agoManuskript is a perfect tool for those writer who like to organize and plan everything before writing
jacquetc/skribisto142about 2 years agoSoftware for writers
scribusproject/scribus421almost 2 years agoScribus is a desktop publishing application designed for layout, typesetting, and preparation of files for professional-quality image-setting equipment. It can also create animated and interactive PDF presentations and forms
trelby/trelby180almost 2 years agoTrelby is simple, fast and elegantly laid out to make screenwriting simple

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / Productivity

Jmgr/actiona536almost 2 years agoAn utility for task automation Ubuntu/Linux. (Previously Actionaz)
autokey/autokey3,488almost 2 years agoA desktop automation utility for Linux allows you to manage collection of scripts and phrases, and assign abbreviations and hotkeys to these
rafaelmardojai/blanket1,401almost 2 years agoImprove focus and increase your productivity by listening to different sounds
Prevents Ubuntu from automatically going to sleep
federico-terzi/espanso10,201almost 2 years agoCross-platform Text Expander written in Rust
mautosoft/maxautoclicker4over 2 years agoAutomate your mouse clicks easily with this awesome cross-platform application (for Windows and Linux Desktops)
robiot/xclicker484almost 2 years agoA blazing fast gui autoclicker for linux
Cairo-Dock is a desktop interface that takes the shape of docks, desklets, panel, etc
Docky is a full fledged dock application that makes opening common applications and managing windows easier and quicker
Latte is a dock based on plasma frameworks that provides an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and plasmoids
Plank is meant to be the simplest dock of apps on the planet
albertlauncher/albert7,311almost 2 years agoAn awesome keyboard launcher for the Linux desktop
DoTheEvo/ANGRYsearch1,058about 2 years agoLinux file search, instant results as you type
Catfish is a versatile file searching tool
KELiON/cerebro8,362almost 2 years agoOpen-source productivity booster with a brain / MacOS-Spotlight alternative
cboxdoerfer/fsearch3,380almost 2 years agoA fast file search utility for Unix-like systems based on GTK+3. Wildcard support, RegEx support, Filter support
p-e-w/plotinus1,019over 5 years agoA searchable command palette in every modern GTK+ application
Synapse is a semantic launcher written in Vala that you can use to start applications as well as find and access relevant documents and files by making use of the Zeitgeist engine
Ulauncher/Ulauncher3,755almost 2 years agoUlauncher is a fast application launcher for Linux. It's is written in Python, using GTK+
costales/anoise40over 3 years agoAn ambient noise generator for Linux
jarun/bcal636over 2 years agoPerform storage conversions and calculations
hluk/CopyQ8,961almost 2 years ago-CopyQ is advanced clipboard manager with editing and scripting features
f.luxA program that reddens your display to help you sleep better
thezbyg/gpick383over 2 years agoGpick allows you to sample any color from anywhere on your desktop, and it also provides some other advanced features!
jarun/pdd381over 2 years agoTiny date, time diff calculator
jonls/redshift5,921over 2 years agoRedshift adjusts the color temperature of your screen according to your surroundings. This may help your eyes hurt less if you are working in front of the screen at night
A nice, open source, high-precision scientific calculator
jml/undistract-me543almost 4 years agoNotifies you when long-running terminal commands complete
XmindA mind mapping tool
anyproto/anytype-ts4,626almost 2 years agoA multi-platform, open-source, local-first, personal knowledge base tool
This multi-purpose note-taking application helps you to easily take all sort of notes
Daniele-rolli/Beaver-Notes672almost 2 years agoA multi-platform, open-source, privacy-first, community-driven, note-taking app and personal knowledge manager
BoostIO/BoostNote-App3,808over 3 years agoBoostnote is an open source note-taking app made for programmers just like you
giuspen/cherrytree3,463almost 2 years agoA hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in a single xml or sqlite file
InkdropThe Note-Taking App for Markdown Lovers with simple interface, seemless security and powerful APIs
laurent22/joplin46,571almost 2 years agoA note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS
logseq/logseq33,743almost 2 years agoLogseq is a privacy-first, open-source knowledge base that works on top of local plain-text Markdown and Org-mode files. Use it to write, organize and share your thoughts, keep your to-do list, and build your own digital garden
dvorka/mindforger2,277about 2 years agoThinking notebook and Markdown editor
An open source client for Evernote
nuttyartist/notes3,854almost 2 years agoA clean simple note taking app for Linux
streetwriters/notesnook10,489almost 2 years agoA fully open source & end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote
ObsidianObsidian is a powerful knowledge base on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files
patrikx3/onenote1,885almost 2 years agoLinux Electron OneNote
Org mode is for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, planning projects, and authoring documents with a fast and effective plain-text system
alainm23/planify3,696almost 2 years agoTask manager with Todoist and Nextcloud support designed for GNU/Linux
pbek/QOwnNotes4,751almost 2 years agoQOwnNotes is a plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with markdown support and ownCloud / Nextcloud integration
SimplenoteA Cross platform notetaking app and Evernote competitor
spsdco/notes559almost 9 years agoSimple and beautiful note taking app for daily user
Standard Notes is an end-to-end encrypted note-taking app for digitalists and professionals. Capture your notes, files, and life’s work all in one secure place
Standard-Unix-Notes/unix-notes11over 4 years agoGPG Encrypted Notes/Notebook manager for BSD/Linux
Sticky notes on your Linux desktop
tomboy-notes/tomboy126about 8 years agoTomboy is a desktop note-taking application which is simple and easy to use
TriliumNext/Notes1,180almost 2 years agoTriliumNext Notes is a hierarchical note taking application with focus on building large personal knowledge bases
The secure, collaborative notebook
klaussinani/tusk3,155about 2 years agoRefined Evernote desktop app
wizteam/wizqtclient2,636over 5 years agoA cross-platform cloud based note-taking client
alarm-clock-applet/alarm-clock125over 3 years agoAlarm Clock is a fully-featured alarm clock for your GNOME panel or equivalent
A break timer application for GNOME
tom-james-watson/breaktimer-app1,076almost 2 years agoBreakTimer is a cross platform desktop application with nice UI for managing and enforcing periodic breaks
A calendar and scheduling application for the command line
Complete Calendar app replacement which uses natural language for creating events
EverdoTODO list and Getting Things DoneĀ® app for all platforms. Beautiful, powerful, not SaaS, free version available
codito/gnome-pomodoro2,025almost 2 years agoA full-featured pomodoro timer for GNOME
JMoerman/Go-For-It141almost 2 years agoGo For It! is a simple and stylish productivity app, featuring a to-do list, merged with a timer that keeps your focus on the current task
Kalendar is a calendar application that allows you to manage your tasks and events
RoundPie AppRoundPie App is the easiest way to track your workflow using Tomato technique, on top of your current task management service
RSIBreak takes care of your health and regularly breaks your work to avoid repetitive strain injury
ransome1/sleek1,473almost 2 years agoCross platform todo manager based on the todo.txt syntax
A pomodoro timer for the GNOME desktop
johannesjo/super-productivity12,216almost 2 years agoThe simple free flexible ToDo List / Time Tracker / personal Jira and Github Task Manager
TaskadeReal-time organization and collaboration tool for getting things done. Taskade is a unified workspace for team tasks, notes, with integrated video chat available cross-platform and free to use
klaussinani/taskbook8,986about 2 years agoTasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat
GothenburgBitFactory/taskwarrior4,540almost 2 years agoTaskwarrior is Free and Open Source Software that manages your TODO list from the command line
todotxt/todo.txt-android1,248about 6 years agoTodo.txt is a set of focused editors which help you manage your tasks with as few keystrokes and taps possible
kamhix/todoist-linux185almost 4 years agoUnofficial client of Todoist, the cross-platform to-do manager with mobile apps, great UI and has some optional premium features
ActivityWatch/activitywatch12,809almost 2 years agoActivityWatch is an app that automatically tracks how you spend time on your devices
hamaluik/timecop832about 2 years agoA time tracking app that respects your privacy and gets the job done without getting too fancy
Simple and Intuitive Time Tracking Software with cloud sync
Brightness indicator for Ubuntu
Weather indicator and widget for Ubuntu
An indicator for recent notification
yktoo/indicator-sound-switcher375about 2 years agoSound input/output selector indicator for Ubuntu/Unity

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / Proxy

mitmproxy/mitmproxy37,148almost 2 years agomitmproxy is a free and open source interactive HTTPS proxy
Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk
haad/proxychains6,864over 2 years agoA tool that forces any TCP connection made by any given application to follow through proxy like TOR or any other SOCKS4, SOCKS5 or HTTP(S) proxy
shadowsocks/shadowsocks-qt57,979almost 7 years agoA secure socks5 proxy, designed to protect your Internet traffic

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / Security

noahbliss/mortar237about 2 years agoMortar allows for convenient automatic unlocking of LUKS-encrypted disks without sacrificing security through the use of Secureboot and TPM validation. Mortar aims to be distribution-agnostic
AtomsDevs/Atoms415over 2 years agoEasily manage Linux Chroot(s) and Containers with Atoms
89luca89/distrobox10,254almost 2 years agoUse any linux distribution inside your terminal
netblue30/firejail5,855almost 2 years agoFirejail is a SUID program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using and
Virtualization made simple
KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V)
nanovms/ops1,303almost 2 years agoOPS is a tool that builds, runs and deploys ordinary linux applications as unikernels
marhkb/pods772almost 2 years agoInteract with Podman using an intuitive desktop application
quickemu-project/quickemu11,067almost 2 years agoQuickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines
containers/toolbox2,615almost 2 years agoTool for containerized command line environments on Linux
VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware, targeted at server, desktop and embedded use
virt-manager/virt-manager2,472almost 2 years agoDesktop tool for managing virtual machines via libvirt
VMware Workstation PlayerEasily run multiple operating systems as virtual machines on your Windows or Linux PC with VMware Workstation Player
firehol/firehol1,493almost 2 years agoLinux firewall ( ) manager for humans
firewalld/firewalld887almost 2 years agoFirewalld provides a dynamically managed firewall with support for network or firewall zones to define the trust level of network connections or interfaces
costales/gufw144about 2 years agoOne of the easiest firewalls in the world of Linux
evilsocket/opensnitch11,023almost 2 years agoOpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux interactive application firewall inspired by Little Snitch
safing/portmaster9,516almost 2 years agoPortmaster is a free and open-source application firewall that does the heavy lifting for you. Restore privacy and take back control over all your computer's network activity
TCP Debugging/Capture Tool
gcla/termshark9,161over 2 years agoA terminal UI for tshark, inspired by Wireshark
Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer. It lets you see what's happening on your network at a microscopic level. It is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions
1Password1Password is the easiest way to store and use strong passwords. Log in to sites and fill forms securely with a single click
authpass/authpass2,322almost 2 years agoPassword Manager based on Flutter for all platforms
A cross-platform password management service which also support self-hosting
buttercup/buttercup-desktop4,338almost 2 years agoButtercup is a free, open-source and cross-platform password manager, built on NodeJS with Typescript
EnpassEnpass makes your life easy by securely managing your passwords and important information
gopasspw/gopass5,968almost 2 years agoThe slightly more awesome standard unix password manager for teams
Windows focused password manager, with some cross platform support through Mono
keepassxreboot/keepassxc21,609almost 2 years agoCross platform password manager. A Community-maintained fork of KeePassX
KeeperThe leading cybersecurity platform that protects passwords, secrets and access to infrastructure
keeweb/keeweb12,384almost 2 years agoFree cross-platform password manager compatible with KeePass
LastPassLastPass is a crossplatform freemium password management service that stores encrypted passwords in private accounts
NordPassA secure and simple password manager for a stress-free online experience. Optimized for Linux devices
padloc/padloc2,710about 2 years agoA modern, open source password manager for individuals and teams
The standard Unix password manager
Password Safe allows you to safely and easily create a secured and encrypted user name/password list
Psono is an open source and self hosted password manager to help keep your data safe
Secrets is a password manager which integrates perfectly with the GNOME desktop and provides an easy and uncluttered interface for the management of password databases
dani-garcia/vaultwarden39,941almost 2 years agoUnofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs
rizinorg/cutter15,972almost 2 years agoCutter's goal is to be an advanced FREE and open-source reverse-engineering platform while keeping the user experience at mind
eteran/edb-debugger2,725about 2 years agoedb is a cross platform AArch32/x86/x86-64 debugger. It was inspired by Ollydbg
GDB, the GNU Project debugger, allows you to see what is going on `inside' another program while it executes
NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra52,492almost 2 years agoA software reverse engineering (SRE) suite of tools developed by NSA's Research Directorate in support of the Cybersecurity mission
radareorg/radare220,862almost 2 years agoA free/libre toolchain for easing several low level tasks like forensics, software reverse engineering, exploiting, debugging
Simple application for generating Two-Factor Authentication Codes
Cisco-Talos/clamav-devel4,526almost 2 years agoClamAV is an open source antivirus engine for detecting trojans, viruses, malware & other malicious threats
cryptomator/cryptomator11,982almost 2 years agoMulti-platform transparent client-side encryption of your files in the cloud
Fancy yet simple QR Codes scanner and generator
fail2ban/fail2ban12,607almost 2 years agoFail2ban scans log files (e.g. /var/log/apache/error_log) and bans IPs that show the malicious signs -- too many password failures, seeking for exploits, etc
Linux QoS ( ) manager for humans
GnuPG allows to encrypt and sign your data and communication, features a versatile key management system as well as access modules for all kinds of public key directories
firehol/iprange199over 5 years agoA very fast command line utility for processing IP lists (merge, compare, exclude, etc)
jarun/spy641over 4 years agoLinux kernel mode debugfs keylogger
CISOfy/lynis13,563almost 2 years agoSecurity auditing tool for Linux, macOS, and UNIX-based systems. Assists with compliance testing (HIPAA/ISO27001/PCI DSS) and system hardening. Agentless, and installation optional
Obfuscate lets you redact your private information from any image
OpenSSH Secure Shell Server and Client
zaproxy/zaproxy12,847almost 2 years agoOWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) web security testing tool
A GNOME frontend for GnuPG
mhogomchungu/sirikali785almost 2 years agoA Qt/C++ GUI front end to cryfs,gocryptfs,securefs,ecryptfs and encfs
usbkey9/uktools96over 5 years agoKeep your system up-to-date with last kernel available. Possibility to clean old kernel too
firehol/blocklist-ipsets3,240almost 2 years agoA manager for all cybercrime IP feeds that can download, convert and install netfilter
veracrypt/VeraCrypt7,042almost 2 years agoVeraCrypt is a free open source disk encryption software for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / Sharing Files

DropboxDropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily
meganz/MEGAsync1,661almost 2 years agoEasy automated syncing between your computers and your MEGA cloud drive
An actively maintained fork of ownCloud, a suite of client-server software for creating and using file hosting services
The goal of ownCloud is to give you access to your files wherever you are
haiwen/seafile12,493almost 2 years agoSeafile is an enterprise file hosting platform with high reliability and performance. Put files on your own server. Sync and share files across different devices, or access all the files as a virtual disk
aria2/aria236,144about 2 years agoaria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility
setvisible/ArrowDL641almost 2 years agoArrowDL is a mass download manager for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It helps you to select, organize, prioritize and run your downloads in parallel
FlaregetFull featured, multi-threaded download manager and accelerator
Free Download ManagerFree Download Manager is a powerful modern cross-platform download accelerator and organizer for Windows, Mac and Linux
JDownloaderJDownloader is a free download management tool with a huge community of developers that makes downloading as easy and fast as it should be
KGet is a versatile and user-friendly download manager
agalwood/Motrix46,045about 2 years agoMotrix is a full-featured clean and easy to use interface download manager that supports downloading HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, Magnet, etc
A download manager that can monitor the clipboard for downloadable links, and can create a list of downloads, and run them in parallel
subhra74/xdm6,872over 2 years agoA good download manager with fresh UI for Linux
mafintosh/airpaste823about 5 years agoA 1-1 network pipe that auto discovers other peers using mdns
schollz/croc28,340almost 2 years agoEasily and securely send things from one computer to another
CrossFTPCrossFTP makes it extremely simple to manage the FTP related tasks
D-lanA free LAN file sharing software
The free FTP solution
localsend/localsend54,434almost 2 years agoAn open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop
nitroshare/nitroshare-desktop1,588over 5 years agoCross-Platform network file transfer application
micahflee/onionshare6,346almost 2 years agoSecurely and anonymously share a file of any size
sidneys/pb-for-desktop508over 3 years agoThe missing Desktop application for Pushbullet
QuazaaA cross platform multi-network peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing client
SpiderOakReal-time collaboration for teams and businesses that care about privacy
syncthing/syncthing66,155almost 2 years agoSyncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized
Warp allows you to securely send files to each other via the internet or local network by exchanging a word-based code
linuxmint/warpinator1,243almost 2 years agoShare files across LAN
warner/magic-wormhole20,587almost 2 years agoGet arbitrary-sized files and directories (or short pieces of text) from one computer to another safely
AnyDeskAnyDesk ensures secure and reliable remote desktop connections for IT professionals and on-the-go individuals alike
debauchee/barrier27,791over 2 years agoShare mouse and keyboard over the local network
Connections allows you to connect to and use other desktops. This can be a great way to access content or software on a different desktop operating system
PushBulletPushbullet connects your devices, making them feel like one
rustdesk/rustdesk77,703almost 2 years agoOpen source virtual / remote desktop infrastructure for everyone! The open source TeamViewer alternative
TeamviewerPC remote control/remote access software, free for personal use
Deluge is a lightweight, Free Software, cross-platform BitTorrent client
Fragments is an easy to use BitTorrent client for the GNOME desktop environment
KTorrent is a BitTorrent application by KDE which allows you to download files using the BitTorrent protocol
qbittorrent/qBittorrent28,871almost 2 years agoThe qBittorrent project aims to provide a Free Software alternative to µTorrent
c0re100/qBittorrent-Enhanced-Edition20,151almost 2 years agoqBittorrent Enhanced is fork of qBittorrent that features peer whitelist/blacklist, auto update public tracker list and more
TixatiFreeware, advanced featured torrent client, a web user interface is included
Simple, lightweight, multi-platform torrent client
transmission-remote-gui/transgui3,273almost 2 years agoTransmission Remote GUI is a feature rich cross platform front-end to remotely control a Transmission Bit-Torrent client daemon via its RPC protocol
VuzeVuze is a BitTorrent client used to transfer files via the BitTorrent protocol
webtorrent/webtorrent-desktop9,748almost 2 years agoWeb Torrent Desktop is for streaming torrents which connects to both BitTorrent and WebTorrent peers

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / Terminal

jwilm/alacritty56,937almost 2 years agoA cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator
A beautiful GTK 4 terminal
A simple user-friendly terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop
contour-terminal/contour2,478almost 2 years agoContour is a modern and actually fast, modal, virtual terminal emulator, for everyday use. It is aiming for power users with a modern feature mindset
Swordfish90/cool-retro-term22,488over 2 years agoA good looking terminal that mimicks the old cathode display
GitSquared/edex-ui40,964almost 5 years agoeDEX-UI is a fullscreen, cross-platform terminal emulator and system monitor that looks and feels like a sci-fi computer interface
A widely preinstalled terminal emulator in Linux world
Guake/guake4,457about 2 years agoGuake is a top-down terminal for GNOME
zeit/hyper43,516about 2 years agoA terminal built on web technologies
orhun/kermit138over 2 years agoA VTE-based, simple and froggy terminal emulator
kovidgoyal/kitty25,038almost 2 years agoCross-platform, fast, feature full, OpenGL based terminal emulator
An alternative terminal emulator for KDE desktop environment
A terminal emulator for X11, a popular replacement for the standard ā€˜xterm’
rxvt-unicode is a fork of the well known terminal emulator
Simple but powerful libvte based terminal emulator, supporting utf-8 and input methods as provided by gtk+ and pango libraries
st is a simple terminal implementation for X
gnome-terminator/terminator2,155almost 2 years agoFeature filled terminal emulator that supports tabs and grids
Eugeny/tabby60,329almost 2 years agoModern, highly configurable terminal app based on web technologies
billiob/terminology669almost 2 years agoThe pretty and lightweight terminal from the Enlightenment Desktop, it's highly configurable, it works in X11, under a Wayland compositor and even directly in the framebuffer on Linux. Replace your boring text-mode VT with a graphical one that requires no display system
nonstop/termit143almost 3 years agoSimple terminal emulator based on vte library, extensible via Lua
TermiusCross-platform terminal with built-in SSH and Telnet
lanoxx/tilda1,283almost 2 years agoA Gtk based drop down terminal for Linux and Unix
gnunn1/tilix5,430almost 2 years agoA tiling terminal emulator for Linux using GTK+ 3
cosmos72/twin668almost 3 years agoFast, lightweight text-mode window environment with mouse support. Enables multiple terminals in a single Linux console, terminal or X11 window. It can be detached (keeps running in background) and reattached to a different console, terminal or X11 server. Works on Linux, Mac OS X and BSD
saulpw/visidata7,962almost 2 years agoA terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data
warpdotdev/Warp21,678almost 2 years agoWarp is the intelligent terminal with AI and your dev team's knowledge built-in
wavetermdev/waveterm6,709almost 2 years agoWave is an open-source, AI-native terminal built for seamless developer workflows with inline rendering, a modern UI, and persistent sessions
wez/wezterm18,374almost 2 years agoA GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust
The Xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can't use the window system directly
A Quake-style terminal emulator based on KDE Konsole technology
zellij-org/zellij22,243almost 2 years agoA terminal workspace and multiplexer. Letting you open several panes and tabs to run different programs, share a terminal session with others and more. Very user friendly and intuitive

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / Text Editors

Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and web developers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code
adobe/brackets33,236over 4 years agoA modern text editor that understands web design
Alexey-T/CudaText2,559almost 2 years agoCudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Object Pascal
FleetThe Code Editor and IDE for Any Language
Geany is a text editor using the GTK+ toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages
Gedit is the GNOME text editor. While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, gedit is a powerful general purpose text editor
GNOME/gnome-builder242almost 2 years agoPowerful IDE for modern C / C++ / Bash / JavaScript development, made by Gnome Team. One of the best IDE for C/C++ development (Cmake integrated)
helix-editor/helix34,224almost 2 years agoA post-modern modal text editor
Kate is a multi-document editor part of KDE since release 2.2
Komodo/KomodoEdit2,164almost 3 years agoFree and open source multilanguage development environment
lapce/lapce34,785almost 2 years agoLightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust
LightTable/LightTable11,718over 4 years agoThe next generation code editor! Support live coding
pulsar-edit/pulsar3,370almost 2 years agoA Community-led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor, Forked from Atom, built on Electron
SublimeA very capable text editor with advanced search capabilities, and many powerful plugins to improve its functionality
orbitalquark/textadept665almost 2 years agoMinimalist text editor for programmers. Textadept is extensible with Lua programming language
Microsoft/vscode165,346almost 2 years agoVisual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, OS X and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages (C++, C#, Python, PHP, Golang) and runtimes
VSCodium/vscodium25,840almost 2 years agoBinary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing
pkulchenko/ZeroBraneStudio2,627over 2 years agoA mature, lightweight, cross-platform Lua IDE with modern development features
emacs-mirror/emacs4,473almost 2 years agoAn extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor — and more
mawww/kakoune10,024almost 2 years agoKakoune code editor - Vim inspired. Faster as in less keystrokes. Multiple selections. Orthogonal design. Has a strong focus on interactivity
LunarVim/LunarVim18,480about 2 years agoLunarVim is an opinionated, extensible, and fast IDE layer for Neovim
neovide/neovide13,212almost 2 years agoNeovide is a cross-platform GUI for Neovim written in Rust with graphical improvements and more visual flair
neovim/neovim84,107almost 2 years agoNeovim is a fork of Vim aiming to improve user experience, plugins, and GUIs
NvChad/NvChad25,147almost 2 years agoAn attempt to make neovim cli functional like an IDE while being very beautiful and blazing fast
syl20bnr/spacemacs23,735almost 2 years agoA community-driven Emacs distribution
SpaceVim/SpaceVim20,352almost 2 years agoA community-driven modular vim distribution
vim/vim36,910almost 2 years agoVim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. It's useful whether you're already using vi or using a different editor
zyedidia/micro25,313almost 2 years agoMicro is a terminal-based text editor that aims to be easy to use and intuitive, while also taking advantage of the full capabilities of modern terminals
GNU Nano is a text editor which aims to introduce a simple interface and intuitive command options to console based text editing
KWrite is a text editor by KDE, based on the Kate's editor component
notepadqq/notepadqq2,116almost 2 years agoNotepadqq is a Notepad++-like editor for the Linux desktop
dail8859/NotepadNext9,339almost 2 years agoA cross-platform, reimplementation of Notepad++

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / Utilities

GNOME/brasero61almost 2 years agoA capable CD/DVD burner
Clonezilla is a partition and disk imaging/cloning program similar to True ImageĀ® or Norton GhostĀ®
Delete information stored on hard disk drives (HDDs) in PC laptops, desktops or servers
imsnif/diskonaut2,500over 2 years agoA disk space visualizer and navigator for the terminal
zevv/duc608almost 2 years agoDuc, a library and suite of tools for indexing, and visualizing inspecting disk usage
balena-io/etcher30,094almost 2 years agoFlash OS images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily
GNOME/gparted290almost 2 years agoDisk Partition utility for Linux
JonMagon/KDiskMark1,132almost 2 years agoA simple open-source disk benchmark tool for Linux distros, similar to CrystalDiskmark on Windows
Graphical utility to format 3.5" and 5.25" floppy disks
mbusb/multibootusb1,400over 5 years agoMultiBootUSB allows you to install multiple live linux on a USB disk
pop-os/popsicle661about 2 years agoPopsicle is a Linux utility for flashing multiple USB devices in parallel, written in Rust
unetbootin/unetbootin2,341about 2 years agoUNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. You can either let UNetbootin download one of the many distributions supported out-of-the-box for you, or supply your own Linux .iso file
ventoy/Ventoy63,527almost 2 years agoA new bootable USB solution
A tool for you to organize your Favorite PPAs and manage Packages Easily
TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher5,764almost 2 years agoHelper application for Linux distributions serving as a kind of "entry point" for running and integrating AppImages
prateekmedia/appimagepool651about 2 years agoA simple, modern AppImageHub Client
vinifmor/bauh1,029almost 2 years agoGraphical user interface for managing your Linux applications. Supports AppImage, Arch packages (including AUR), Debian packages, Flatpak, Snap and native Web applications
bleachbit/bleachbit3,131almost 2 years agoBleachBit quickly frees disk space and tirelessly guards your privacy. Free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and more
GNOME/dconf-editor37almost 2 years agoSimple configuration storage system - graphical editor
Nala is a front-end for libapt-pkg. Specifically we interface using the python-apt api.Especially for newer users it can be hard to understand what apt is trying to do when installing or upgrading
NixOS/nix13,064almost 2 years agoNix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible
morganamilo/paru6,328almost 2 years agoParu is your standard pacman wrapping AUR helper with lots of features and minimal interaction
sahib/rmlint1,963almost 2 years agormlint finds space waste and other broken things on your filesystem and offers to remove it
oguzhaninan/Stacer8,900over 2 years agoThe most well known Ubuntu System Optimizer
Synaptic is a graphical package management program for apt
gerardpuig/ubuntu-cleaner228over 4 years agoUbuntu Cleaner is a tool that makes it easy to clean your Ubuntu system
Jguer/yay11,295almost 2 years agoYet another Yogurt - An AUR Helper written in Go
imsnif/bandwhich10,180almost 2 years agoTerminal bandwidth utilization tool
CoreCtrl is a Free and Open Source GNU/Linux application that allows you to control with ease your computer hardware using application profiles. It aims to be flexible, comfortable and accessible to regular users
Easy monitoring the battery life of your Ubuntu laptop
vagnum08/cpupower-gui479about 3 years agoGraphical program to easily change the frequency limits and governors of the CPU, similar to cpupower
TheTumultuousUnicornOfDarkness/CPU-X2,071almost 2 years agoCPU-X is a Free software that gathers information on CPU, motherboard and more
Filelight is an application to visualize the disk usage on your computer by showing folders using an easy-to-understand view of concentric rings. Filelight makes it simple to free up space!
GD mapA tool to visualize disk usage
It provides the same functionality as the GNOME CPU frequency applet, but doesn't require GNOME panel and works under Unity
Graphical system load indicator for CPU, ram, etc
fossfreedom/indicator-sysmonitor735over 2 years agoAn Application Indicator showing cpu temperature, memory, network speed, cpu usage, public IP address and internet connection status
A disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface
KrispyCamel4u/SysMonTask690over 3 years agoLinux system monitor with the compactness and usefulness of windows task manager to allow higher control and monitoring
netdata/netdata72,607almost 2 years agoNext-gen web based real-time performance and health monitoring for physical and virtual servers, containers and IoT devices. It is also a distributed server with automatic visualization for APM (applications performance monitoring)
A program that shows current system load in a status bar
vergoh/vnstat1,462about 2 years agovnStat is a console-based network traffic monitor that uses the network interface statistics provided by the kernel as information source. This means that vnStat won't actually be sniffing any traffic and also ensures light use of system resources regardless of network traffic rate
Package converter. Converts between RPM, DPKG, SLP, and TGZ package formats
angryip/ipscan4,219almost 2 years agoFast and friendly network scanner
AntiMicroX/antimicrox2,566almost 2 years agoGraphical program used to map keyboard buttons and mouse controls to a gamepad. Useful for playing games with no gamepad support
Official Linux Bluetooth protocol stack
cheat/cheat12,489about 2 years agoCheat allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line
A program that can convert many units of measurement to other units
chamfay/Curlew65almost 7 years agoA GTK media converter for the GNOME desktop
wimpysworld/deb-get1,356almost 2 years agoDeb-get makes is easy to install and update .debs published in 3rd party apt repositories or made available via direct download on websites or GitHub release pages
dmenu is a dynamic menu for X, originally designed for dwm. It manages large numbers of user-defined menu items efficiently
dev47apps/droidcam1,091over 2 years agoDroidCam turns your Android device into a wireless webcam for your PC
thjaeger/easystroke515almost 3 years agoEasystroke is a gesture-recognition application for X11
OzymandiasTheGreat/emoji-keyboard285about 2 years agoVirtual keyboard-like emoji picker for Linux
sindresorhus/fast-cli2,609over 2 years agoTest your download and upload speed using fast.com
tchx84/flatseal1,230almost 2 years agoFlatseal is a graphical utility to review and modify permissions from your Flatpak applications
FreeRDP/FreeRDP11,131almost 2 years agoFreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)
Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! šŸ’…šŸ»
Simmesimme/Gnome-Pie310over 4 years agoThe circular app launcher for Linux desktops
nomic-ai/gpt4all71,176almost 2 years agogpt4all: an ecosystem of open-source chatbots trained on a massive collections of clean assistant data including code, stories and dialogue
gramps-project/gramps2,224almost 2 years agoResearch, organize and share your family tree with Gramps
GSConnect/gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect3,240almost 2 years agoKDE Connect implementation for GNOME
Wallpaper manager with multi monitor support
A tool, that allows one to integrate the Linux desktop with an Android smartphone and can be used to send files to and from the phone and the linux desktop, use the phone as a trackpad, control the desktop media player using the phone, and lots more
jordansissel/keynav595over 2 years agoKeynav is a piece of an on-going experiment to make pointer-driven interfaces easier and faster for users to operate. It lets you move the pointer quickly to most points on the screen with only a few keystrokes
cheesecakeufo/komorebi3,431over 4 years agoKomorebi is a background manager for all Linux platforms, provides fully customizable backgrounds that can be tweaked at any time
rastapasta/mapscii7,974almost 2 years agoMapSCII is a Braille & ASCII world map renderer for your console
mobile-shell/mosh12,730about 2 years agoMosh is a Remote terminal application that allows roaming, supports intermittent connectivity, and provides intelligent local echo and line editing of user keystrokes
nmap/nmap10,341almost 2 years agoNmap is a free, open-source tool for network exploration, management, and security auditing
jiahaog/nativefier34,976almost 3 years agoMake any web page a desktop application
A utility designed to unzip files and be as frictionless as possible, and easy to use as possible
A utility to unzip any of a huge variety of compression formats
pi-hole/pi-hole49,492almost 2 years agoNetwork-wide ad blocking via your own Linux hardware, using DNS filtering and re-direction Pi-Hole can block ads on a whole network, so Smartphones and Game Consoles can benefit from it in addition to computers
PipeWire is a project that aims to greatly improve handling of audio and video under Linux
PlexyDeskPlexydesk supports multiple widget workspaces/desktops on Linux
fenrus75/powertop1,078over 2 years agoA tool that can help diagnose issues with power consumption in Linux
pulseaudio/pulseaudio452almost 2 years agoImprove Linux Audio with customized Profiles
FreeRDP/Remmina2,244almost 2 years agoA feature-rich remote desktop application for Linux and other UNIXes
davatorium/rofi13,424almost 2 years agoA window switcher, Application launcher and dmenu replacement
Genymobile/scrcpy114,421almost 2 years agoDisplay and control your Android device
pwr-Solaar/Solaar5,655almost 2 years agoLogitech Unifying Receiver peripherals manager for Linux
Sushi is a quick previewer for Nautilus, the GNOME desktop file manager
JoseExposito/touche565almost 2 years agoEasily configure your touchpad and touchscreen multi-touch gestures using TouchƩgg with this GTK graphical user interface
A Free, Lightweight, Fast and Reliable Remote Control / Remote Desktop Software
TLPAn application that can help optimize battery life on Linux
oniony/TMSU2,051over 2 years agoTMSU lets you tags your files and then access them through a nifty virtual filesystem from any other application
Kilian/Trimage709over 5 years agoA cross-platform tool for losslessly optimizing PNG and JPG files
adgellida/ubunsys81about 5 years agoAn application designed to allow you to change in-depth system features without the command line
popey/unsnap1,012over 2 years agoQuickly migrate from using snap packages to flatpaks
upscayl/upscayl31,796almost 2 years agoFree and Open Source AI Image Upscaler
USB network gateAllows you to share USB ports over a Network on Linux
peterlevi/variety-slideshow60over 6 years agoVariety is an open-source wallpaper changer for Linux, packed with great features, yet slim and easy to use
Wayland is intended as a simpler replacement for X, easier to develop and maintain
rcaelers/workrave1,617almost 2 years agoA program that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI)

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / Video

xylosper/bomi426almost 6 years agoA powerful and easy-to-use multimedia player
celluloid-player/celluloid1,171almost 2 years agoSimple GTK+ frontend for mpv
GNOME/cheese63almost 2 years agoCheese uses your webcam to take photos and videos, applies fancy special effects and lets you share the fun with others
Rafostar/clapper800almost 2 years agoA GNOME media player built using GJS with GTK4 toolkit and powered by GStreamer with OpenGL rendering
Emby TheaterEmby Server's official media player
FFmpeg/FFmpeg46,702almost 2 years agoFFmpeg is a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata
Open source video player built with Qt/QML and libmpv
jellyfin/jellyfin-media-player3,339almost 2 years agoJellyfin Desktop Client based on Plex Media Player
Kamoso is a simple and friendly program to use your camera. Use it to take pictures and make videos to share
xbmc/xbmc18,641almost 2 years agoAn award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media center for playing videos, music, pictures, games, and more
mifi/lossless-cut28,520almost 2 years agoThe swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing
pculture/miro243almost 7 years agoFree, and open video, music and internet TV application; it brings video channels from thousands of sources and has more free HD than any other platform
lettier/movie-monad423over 6 years agoA free and simple to use video player made with Haskell
MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems, play any kind of videos
mpv-player/mpv28,974almost 2 years agoA free, open source, and cross-platform media player
PlexPlex is a media server and streaming platform that organizes, streams, and shares your digital media content
Free Media Player with built-in codecs. Play all audio and video formats
Stremio is a modern media center that's a one-stop solution for your video entertainment
Subtitld is an open source software to edit, transcribe and create subtitles
SVPSVP allows you to watch any video on your desktop computer using frame interpolation as it is available on high-end TVs and projectors
VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / VPN

CyberGhostCyberGhost VPN allows you to surf the Internet freely, as if in disguise, regardless of the type of application you use and from where you log in
ExpressVPNExpressVPN is the worlds fastest VPN service. It is both safe and reliable to watch and stream movies abroad, or simply access your favourite sites
IVPNIVPN offers a secure VPN service to privacy minded individuals including multi-hop technology and fast bandwidth
mozilla-mobile/mozilla-vpn-client483almost 2 years agoProtect your web history, feel safer on public Wi-Fi, and limit ad tracking by increasing the security of your network connection
mullvad/mullvadvpn-app5,198almost 2 years agoMullvad is a VPN service that helps keep your online activity, identity, and location private
NordVPNNordVPN gives you military-grade protection online, and you can access all your favorite sites without restriction
OpenVPN is a virtual private network (VPN) system that implements techniques to create secure point-to-point or site-to-site connections in routed or bridged configurations and remote access facilities. It implements both client and server applications
pia-foss/desktop288about 2 years agoPrivate Internet Access provides state of the art, multi-layered security with advanced privacy protection using VPN tunneling
High-speed Swiss VPN that safeguards your privacy
PureVPNPureVPN is much more than your usual VPN services provider. It offers unparalleled security and anonymity, making it your only choice for a secure online browsing experience
SurfsharkAll you need in a VPN and more in one easy-to-use app
Tailscale is a WireGuard-based app that makes secure, private networks easy for teams of any scale
Windscribe/Desktop-App646almost 2 years agoBrowse the web privately as it was meant to be
WireGuard is an extremely simple yet fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography. It aims to be faster, simpler, leaner, and more useful than IPsec, while avoiding the massive headache

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / Wiki Software

splitbrain/dokuwiki4,196almost 2 years agoA popular self-hostable wiki software with a large number of plugins
ikiwiki is a wiki compiler. It converts wiki pages into HTML pages suitable for publishing on a website. Ikiwiki stores pages and history in a revision control system such as Subversion or Git
Jermolene/TiddlyDesktop1,730almost 2 years agoA desktop app for TiddlyWiki, an open-source personal wiki written in javascript, great if you're still searching for a good note-taking (and more) app
A graphical text editor used to maintain a collection of wiki pages, great for notes and documents. Stored in plain text files for easy version control

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / Others

Open Source Display Calibration and Characterization powered by ArgyllCMS
fontforge/fontforge6,594almost 2 years agoFree (libre) font editor for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU+Linux
Grub Customizer is a graphical interface to configure the GRUB2/BURG settings and menuentries
LabPlot is a KDE-application for interactive graphing and analysis of scientific data
MycroftAI/mycroft-core6,543about 2 years agoMycroft is a hackable open source voice assistant
Open source RGB lighting control that doesn't depend on manufacturer software. For Windows, Linux, MacOS
libratbag/piper4,850almost 2 years agoPiper is a GTK+ application to configure gaming mice
polychromatic/polychromatic1,057almost 2 years agoGraphical front end and tray applet for configuring Razer peripherals on GNU/Linux
rEFInd is a fork of the rEFIt boot manager. Like rEFIt, rEFInd can auto-detect your installed EFI boot loaders and it presents a pretty GUI menu of boot options
z411/trackma781about 2 years agoOpen multi-site list manager for Unix-like systems

Awesome Linux Software / Command Line Utilities / Internet

federicotorrielli/Daily-Reddit-Wallpaper8almost 2 years agoChange your wallpaper to the most upvoted image of the day from /r/wallpapers or any other subreddit on system startup
jarun/ddgr2,975about 2 years agoDuckDuckGo from the command line
DNS proxy with support for encrypted DNS protocols,cross platform
mikf/gallery-dl12,209almost 2 years agoCommand-line program to download image galleries and collections from pixiv, exhentai, danbooru and more
jarun/googler6,112almost 5 years agoA program that can Google anything right in the command line
I2P daemon written in C++
mps-youtube/mps-youtube8,154about 2 years agoA terminal based program for searching, streaming and downloading music. This implementation uses YouTube as a source of content and can play and download video as well as audio
A terminal based mail client with vim keybindings and great flexibility and customizability
newsboat/newsboat3,041almost 2 years agoNewsboat is a fork of Newsbeuter, an RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console
orakaro/rainbowstream3,545almost 4 years agoA smart and nice Twitter client on terminal written in Python
A command-line interface for Reddit written in POSIX sh
streamlink/streamlink10,152almost 2 years agoStreamlink is a CLI utility which pipes video streams from various services into a video player
sdushantha/tmpmail3,912about 2 years agoA temporary email right from your terminal written in POSIX sh
soimort/translate-shell7,025almost 2 years agoCommand-line translator using Google Translate, Bing Translator, Yandex.Translate, etc
vasani-arpit/WBOT991about 2 years agoA simple CLI based BOT for WhatsAppā„¢ in NodeJS. reply to your friends quickly and have fun along the way
iamtalhaasghar/yewtube246over 3 years agoTerminal based YouTube player and downloader. No Youtube API key required. Forked from mps-youtube. Can be installed using pip as described
rg3/youtube-dl132,961almost 2 years agoyoutube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites. It requires the Python interpreter (2.6, 2.7, or 3.2+), and it is not platform specific
yt-dlp/yt-dlp92,706almost 2 years agoA youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes
deepjyoti30/ytmdl3,234about 2 years agoA simple app to get songs from YouTube in mp3 format with artist name, album name etc from sources like iTunes, Spotify, LastFM, Deezer, Gaana etc

Awesome Linux Software / Command Line Utilities / System Info / Monitoring

AdnanHodzic/auto-cpufreq5,881almost 2 years agoAutomatic CPU speed & power optimizer for Linux
ClementTsang/bottom10,428almost 2 years agoYet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor
aristocratos/bpytop10,219over 2 years agoResource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes. Python port and continuation of bashtop
aristocratos/btop21,529almost 2 years agoResource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes
fastfetch-cli/fastfetch11,230almost 2 years agoFastfetch is a Neofetch-like tool for fetching system information and displaying it prettily. It is written mainly in C, with performance and customizability in mind
nicolargo/glances27,127almost 2 years agoGlances is a system monitoring terminal application that shows you your disk usage, ram usage, and cpu usage in a very friendly way using the Ncurses programming library. It is tolerant to windows resizing, and very low on system ram usage
aksakalli/gtop9,741over 2 years agoA system monitoring dashboard for terminal. Think 'graphical top', with bar charts, line graphs, pie charts, and etc
hishamhm/htop5,850almost 6 years agoAn interactive process viewer for Unix systems with improved features and user experience
sharkdp/hyperfine23,321almost 2 years agoA command-line benchmarking tool
orhun/kmon2,573almost 2 years agoLinux Kernel Manager and Activity Monitor
Syllo/nvtop8,353almost 2 years agoGPUs process monitoring for AMD, Intel and NVIDIA
dylanaraps/pfetch2,065over 2 years agoA pretty system information tool written in POSIX sh
KittyKatt/screenFetch3,892almost 2 years agoFetches system/theme information in terminal for Linux desktop screenshots
amanusk/s-tui4,285over 2 years agos-tui is an UI for monitoring your computer's CPU temperature, frequency and utilization in a graphical way from the terminal

Awesome Linux Software / Command Line Utilities / Tools

FiloSottile/age17,611almost 2 years agoSimple, Modern, Secure encryption tool
sharkdp/bat50,076almost 2 years agoA cat clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration
Canop/broot10,858almost 2 years agoA new way to see and navigate directory trees
jarun/Buku6,546almost 2 years agoA Command line bookmark manager
owenthereal/ccat3,168about 4 years agoColorizing
Slackadays/Clipboard4,895almost 2 years agoCut, copy, and paste anything, anywhere, anytime
AlDanial/cloc19,866almost 2 years agoCount Lines of Code: cloc counts blank lines, comment lines, and physical lines of source code in many programming languages
athityakumar/colorls4,940almost 2 years agoColor Ls is a Ruby Gem that spices up the ls command and shows more visually than ls does without additional commands
maaslalani/draw473almost 3 years agoDraw in your terminal
muesli/duf12,977about 2 years agoDisk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative
ogham/exa23,694almost 2 years agoexa is a modern replacement for ls
sharkdp/fd34,453almost 2 years agoA simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
LubuntuFu/fishfry51about 10 years agoReplaces fish history with a history tailored to pentesters for efficiency and newbie pentesters for learning
junegunn/fzf66,191almost 2 years agoA general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder with interactive filter and preview feature for things like files, command history, git commits, hostnames, etc
sindresorhus/fkill-cli6,888over 2 years agoFabulously kill processes. Cross-platform
heppu/gkill316over 9 years agoAn interactive process killer for Linux
orf/gping10,949almost 2 years agoping but with graph, cross platform
oguzhaninan/korkut373almost 4 years agoQuick and simple image processing at the command line
nojhan/liquidprompt4,516almost 2 years agoA full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh
busyloop/lolcat6,143over 2 years agoDisplays text in rainbow colors
Peltoche/lsd13,683almost 2 years agoThe next gen ls command
Hardware Lister for Linux
denisidoro/navi15,273almost 2 years agoAn interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line
o2sh/onefetch10,473almost 2 years agoGit repository summary on your terminal
facebook/PathPicker5,133about 2 years agoA command that lets you select files that were output from a previous command in the command line, so you can then run another command or edit them
dylanaraps/pywal8,469over 2 years agopywal is a script that takes an image (or a directory of images), generates a colorscheme (using imagemagick) and then changes all of your open terminal's colors to the new colorscheme on the fly, allowing you to have your terminal colors change with your wallpaper, or other criteria
BurntSushi/ripgrep49,203almost 2 years agoRipgrep is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches the current directory for a regex pattern
maaslalani/slides10,162about 2 years agoTerminal based presentation tool
ggreer/the_silver_searcher26,229over 2 years agoA code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster
A minimal, blazingly fast and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell, cross-platform
nvbn/thefuck85,858about 2 years agoMagnificent app which corrects your previous console command
tldr-pages/tldr51,693almost 2 years agoThe tldr-pages project is a collection of community-maintained help pages for command-line tools, that aims to be a simpler, more approachable complement to traditional man pages
dbrgn/tealdeer4,554almost 2 years agoA very fast implementation of tldr written in Rust
tmux/tmux35,762almost 2 years agoIt lets you switch easily between several programs in one terminal, detach them (they keep running in the background) and reattach them to a different terminal. And do a lot more
jml/undistract-me543almost 4 years agoA command line program that plays a sound or sends a notification when a long command has finished running in the command line
hashicorp/vagrant26,356almost 2 years agoVagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments
charmbracelet/vhs15,483almost 2 years agoYour CLI home video recorder vhs
wicd-cursesCommand line WiFi connection manager
BurntSushi/xsv10,430over 2 years agoA fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust
skywind3000/z.lua3,016almost 2 years agoA new cd command that helps you navigate faster by learning your habits
ajeetdsouza/zoxide23,350almost 2 years agoA better way to navigate your filesystem written in Rust
maximumadmin/zramd98over 4 years agoAutomatically setup swap on zram sparkles with optional systemd support, a simpler alternative to zram-generator and systemd-swap

Awesome Linux Software / Custom Linux Kernels

GNU Linux-libre is a project to maintain and publish 100% Free distributions of Linux, suitable for use in Free System Distributions
anthraxx/linux-hardened574almost 2 years agoA security-focused Linux kernel applying a set of hardening patches to mitigate kernel and userspace exploits. It also enables more upstream kernel hardening features than linux
Frogging-Family/linux-tkg1,367almost 2 years agoScripts to automatically download, patch and compile the Linux Kernel from the official Linux git repository, with a selection of patches aiming for better desktop/gaming experience
damentz/liquorix-package288almost 2 years agoLiquorix is a distro kernel replacement built using the best configuration and kernel sources for desktop, multimedia, and gaming workloads
XanMod is a general-purpose Linux kernel distribution with custom settings and new features. Built to provide a stable, responsive and smooth desktop experience
zen-kernel/zen-kernel2,061almost 2 years agoResult of a collaborative effort of kernel hackers to provide the best Linux kernel possible for everyday systems

Awesome Linux Software / Desktop Environments

BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop984almost 2 years agoBudgie is a desktop environment designed with the modern user in mind, it focuses on simplicity and elegance
linuxmint/Cinnamon4,611almost 2 years agoCinnamon strives to provide a traditional user experience. Cinnamon is a fork of GNOME 3
linuxdeepin/dde-file-manager384almost 2 years agoDDE (Deepin Desktop Environment) is the default desktop environment originally created for the Linux Deepin distribution
A lightweight and pretty desktop environment that is designed to run fast and look good, while retaining a large degree of customization
The GNOME desktop environment is an attractive and intuitive desktop with both a modern (GNOME) and a classic (GNOME Classic) session
GNOME Flashback is a shell for GNOME 3 which was initially called GNOME fallback mode. The desktop layout and the underlying technology is similar to GNOME 2
The KDE Plasma desktop environment is a familiar working environment. Plasma Desktop offers all the tools required for a modern desktop computing experience so you can be productive right from the start
The Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment is a fast and energy-saving desktop environment
lxqt/lxqt1,656almost 2 years agoLXQt is the Qt port and the upcoming version of LXDE, the Lightweight Desktop Environment
Mate provides an intuitive and attractive desktop to Linux users using traditional metaphors. MATE is a fork of GNOME 2
Pantheon is the default desktop environment originally created for the elementary OS distribution
ukui/ukui-desktop-environment147over 4 years agoUKUI is a desktop environment for Linux distributions and other UNIX-like operating systems, originally developed for Ubuntu Kylin, and written using the Qt framework
ubports/unity8728over 3 years agoUnity is a shell for GNOME designed by Canonical for Ubuntu
Xfce embodies the traditional UNIX philosophy of modularity and re-usability

Awesome Linux Software / Display manager / Console

evertiro/cdm432over 5 years agoA ultra-minimalistic, yet full-featured login manager written in Bash
dopsi/console-tdm133over 6 years agoAn extension for xinit written in pure Bash
coastalwhite/lemurs774about 2 years agoA customizable TUI display/login manager written in Rust
cylgom/ly5,553almost 2 years agoLy is a lightweight, TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux
spanezz/nodm144almost 7 years agoA minimalistic display manager for automatic logins

Awesome Linux Software / Display manager / Graphic

tomas/entrance14over 5 years agoAn EFL based display manager, highly experimental
GNOME/gdm99almost 2 years agoThe GNOME display manager
davvid/lightdm10over 11 years agoA cross-desktop display manager, can use various front-ends written in any toolkit
The LXDE display manager. Can be used independent of the LXDE desktop environment
linuxmint/mdm95almost 8 years agoThe MDM display manager, used in Linux Mint, a fork of GDM 2
sddm/sddm1,924almost 2 years agoThe QML-based display manager and successor to KDE4's kdm; recommended for Plasma 5 and LXQt
gsingh93/slim-display-manager15over 11 years agoLightweight and elegant graphical login solution. (Discontinued)
bbidulock/xdm11about 7 years agoThe X display manager with support for XDMCP, and host chooser

Awesome Linux Software / Window Managers / Compositors

yshui/picom4,211almost 2 years agoPicom is a standalone composite manager, suitable for use with window managers that do not natively provide compositing functionality
Plagman/gamescope3,228almost 2 years agoGamescope is a micro-compositor that provides a sandboxed Xwayland desktop with independent input, resolution, and refresh rate
hyprwm/Hyprland22,191almost 2 years agoHyprland is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks
riverwm/river3,345almost 2 years agoRiver is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor with flexible runtime configuration
swaywm/sway14,816almost 2 years agoSway is tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11
WayfireWM/wayfire2,453almost 2 years agoWayfire is a wayland compositor based on wlroots. It aims to create a customizable, extendable and lightweight environment without sacrificing its appearance
Xcompmgr is a simple composite manager capable of rendering drop shadows and, with the use of the transset utility, primitive window transparency

Awesome Linux Software / Window Managers / Stacking Window Managers

venam/2bwm796over 2 years agoA fast floating WM, with the particularity of having 2 borders, written over the XCB library and derived from mcwm
bbidulock/blackboxwm169over 2 years agoA fast, lightweight window manager for the X Window System, without all those annoying library dependencies
fluxbox/fluxbox327almost 2 years agoA window manager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code
ice-wm/icewm292over 2 years agoA window manager for the X Window System. The goal of IceWM is speed, simplicity, and not getting in the user’s way
danakj/openbox640about 2 years agoA highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support

Awesome Linux Software / Window Managers / Tiling Window Managers

Bismuth-Forge/bismuth2,400over 2 years agoMaking tiling window management easy. On KDE Plasma
baskerville/bspwm7,817about 2 years agoBspwm is a tiling window manager that represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree
herbstluftwm/herbstluftwm1,106almost 2 years agoIs a Manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib
i3/i39,613almost 2 years agoA better tiling and dynamic window manager. It's completely written from scratch. The target platforms are GNU/Linux and BSD operating systems
pop-os/shell4,910almost 2 years agoPop Shell is a keyboard-driven auto-tiling window manager that run on top of the GNOME shell
qtile/qtile4,851almost 2 years agoQtile is a full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python

Awesome Linux Software / Window Managers / Dynamic Window Managers

awesomeWM/awesome6,424almost 2 years agoA highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X
cdown/dwm60almost 2 years agoA dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts
esjeon/krohnkite1,724about 3 years agoA dynamic tiling extension for KWin
conformal/spectrwm1,338about 2 years agoA small dynamic tiling window manager for X11, largely inspired by xmonad and dwm
codic12/worm710over 2 years agoA dynamic, tag-based window manager written in Nim
xmonad/xmonad3,383almost 2 years agoA dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell

Awesome Linux Software / Linux News, Apps, and more:

9To5Linux
AllTop
ArchiveOS
Are We Anti-Cheat Yet?
Dedoimedo
DistroTube
DistroWatch
FAMILUG
GamingOnLinux
How-To Geek
ITSFOSS
Lemmy c/Linux
Liliputing
Linoxide
LinuxHandbook
LinuxLinks
Linux official
LinuxStans
Linux Timeline1,744almost 2 years ago
LWN
Make use of
Nixcraft forum
Nixcraft
Noobslab
OMG!Linux
OMG!Ubuntu
Open Source
Phoronix
ProtonDB
Repology
Slashdot
TecMint
Ubuntu Geek
UbuntuHandbook
Unixmen
Webupd8
WineDB

Awesome Linux Software / Reddit

AlmaLinux
Arch Linux
Asahi Linux
AwesomeWM
CentOS
Cinnamon DE
Command Line
Debian
Deepin
elementary OS
EndeavourOS
Fedora
FreeBSD
Garuda Linux
Gentoo Linux
GNOME
Haiku
i3 Window Manager
Kali Linux
KDE
Kubuntu
Linux4Noobs
Linux
Linux From Scratch
Linux Gaming
Linux Hardware
Linux Kernel
Linux Mint
Linux Questions
Manjaro
Nix
NixOS
Open Source
openSUSE
Pop!_OS
Qubes OS
Red Hat
Rocky Linux
Slackware
Solus Project
Sway Window Manager
Tails
Ubuntu
Unix Porn
Void Linux
Whonix
Xfce
Xubuntu
Zorin OS

Awesome Linux Software / Unsure how to contribute?

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