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Awesome Linux Software / Applications / 3D Printing

Ultimaker/Cura 6,091 8 days ago The world's most advanced 3D printer software
An open source parametric 3D CAD modeler
prusa3d/PrusaSlicer 7,657 16 days ago A slicer based on Slic3r by Alessandro Ranellucci and the RepRap community
slic3r/Slic3r 3,330 4 months ago Open Source toolpath generator for 3D printers

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / Audio

Ardour/ardour 3,861 12 days ago Record, Edit, and Mix on Linux
audacity/audacity 12,311 3 days ago Free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds
Simple audio recorder available in an Ubuntu PPA
Bitwig DAW for music production
wwmm/easyeffects 6,429 9 days ago EasyEffects 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/helm 2,359 about 2 years ago A software synthesizer, that runs either standalone, or as an LV2, VST, VST3 or AU plugin
hydrogen-music/hydrogen 1,034 9 days ago Advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux
KXStudio/Repository 75 14 days ago A collection of applications and plugins for professional audio production
LMMS/lmms 8,000 15 days ago Making music on your PC by creating melodies and beats, synthesizing and mixing sounds, arranging samples and much more
mixxxdj/mixxx 4,425 8 days ago Free DJ software that gives you everything you need to perform live mixes; veritable alternative to Traktor
musescore/MuseScore 12,118 11 days ago Create, play and print beautiful sheet music
Reaper Audio Production without Limits
VCVRack/Rack 4,040 2 months ago An open-source virtual modular synthesizer
Audio4Linux/Viper4Linux-GUI 162 5 months ago An 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 computerā€™s resources from other tasks
Feature-rich YouTube Music client for KDE, built with Kirigami
beetbox/beets 12,768 12 days ago Beets is the media library management system for obsessive-compulsive music geeks
CDrummond/cantata 1,035 over 2 years ago Qt5 Graphical MPD (Music Player Daemon) Client for Linux, Windows, MacOS
ciderapp/cider 7,153 5 months ago A new cross-platform Apple Music experience based on Electron and Vue.js written from scratch with performance in mind
clementine-player/Clementine 3,733 21 days ago Play numerous lossy and lossless audio formats
cmus/cmus 5,514 6 days ago A small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems
DeaDBeeF-Player/deadbeef 1,617 18 days ago DeaDBeeF is a modular audio player for GNU/Linux, BSD, OpenSolaris, macOS, and other UNIX-like systems
linuxdeepin/deepin-music 188 10 days ago An 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/gpodder 1,275 3 days ago Media aggregator and podcast client
harmonoid/harmonoid 3,582 14 days ago Plays & manages your music library. Looks beautiful & juicy. Playlists, visuals, synced lyrics, pitch shift, volume boost & more
trazyn/ieaseMusic 8,769 over 1 year ago iEaseMusic is a multiplatform program built in electron for listening to NetEase Music
Jukebox music player for managing audio and editing metadata
LibreTime/libretime 800 8 days ago The 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/Moosync 1,148 14 days ago Customizable Desktop Music Player with a clean interface for streaming local music as well as music from online sources such as YouTube and Spotify,
mopidy/mopidy 8,023 18 days ago An extensible music server written in Python
staniel359/muffon 1,299 8 days ago muffon 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/museeks 1,656 3 days ago A simple, clean and cross-platform music player
metabrainz/picard 3,718 11 days ago Picard is a cross-platform music tagger written in Python
Netease Music A music player of Netease - a cloud music service in China
nukeop/nuclear 12,016 6 days ago An Electron-based, multiplatform music player app that streams from multiple sources
Ocenaudio A 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/parlatype 168 about 2 months ago GNOME audio player for transcription
pithos/pithos 507 7 months ago A native Pandora client for Linux
quodlibet/quodlibet 1,433 15 days ago GTK+ music player written with huge libraries in mind. Supports search-based dynamic playlists, regular expressions, tagging, Replay Gain, podcasts & Internet radio
GNOME/rhythmbox 198 11 days ago Music player from GNOME
A small, clear and fast audio player for Linux written in C++, supported by the Qt framework
multani/sonata 124 5 months ago A Music player that is designed to be an elegant and intuitive interface for your music collection via the Music Player Daemon (MPD)
Soundnode/soundnode-app 5,135 8 days ago An open source SoundCloud app for desktop
xou816/spot 2,283 2 months ago Native Spotify client for the GNOME desktop
Spotify Spotify is the best way to listen to music and podcasts on pc, mobile or tablet
krtirtho/spotube 29,558 5 days ago Spotube 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/strawberry 2,668 8 days ago Strawberry is a fork of Clementine aimed at music collectors and audiophiles. It's written in C++ using the Qt toolkit
Mastermindzh/tidal-hifi 1,003 9 days ago The web version of Tidal running in electron with hifi support thanks to widevine
th-ch/youtube-music 8,190 11 days ago YouTube Music Desktop App bundled with custom plugins (and built-in ad blocker / downloader)
chronitis/curseradio 192 over 4 years ago Command line radio player
Feature-rich, convergent podcast client for Linux Desktop and Mobile
ebruck/radiotray-ng 255 6 months ago An 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/vocal 346 about 1 month ago Podcast client for the modern desktop
karlstav/cava 4,156 22 days ago Cava is a Cross-platform Audio Visualizer
Small and simple audio file tag editor
GNOME/easytag 70 about 2 months ago Edit audio file metadata
enzo1982/freac 1,388 6 days ago fre: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/k3b 145 12 days ago The 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/linuxwave 521 3 months ago Generate music from the entropy of Linux
SeaDve/Mousai 990 8 days ago Mousai is a simple application that can identify songs similar to Shazam
MusixMatch A Capable lyrics app with synchronized lyrics function
osdlyrics/osdlyrics 347 6 months ago Show 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/Soundux 1,487 12 months ago A cross-platform soundboard
spicetify/spicetify-cli 18,327 5 days ago Command-line tool to customize the official Spotify client. Supports Windows, MacOS and Linux

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / Chat Clients

sindresorhus/caprine 7,001 about 2 months ago Elegant Facebook Messenger desktop app
chatterino/chatterino2 2,029 18 days ago Chatterino is a chat client for Twitch chat. It aims to be an improved/extended version of the Twitch web chat
chatty/chatty 848 2 months ago Chatty 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/nheko 1,905 10 days ago Desktop client for Matrix using Qt and C++20
Tokodon is a Mastodon client for Plasma and Plasma Mobile
SpacingBat3/WebCord 1,905 about 1 month ago A Discord and Fosscord web-based client made with the electron
WhatsDesk is a unofficial client of WhatsApp
ferdium/ferdium-app 2,824 13 days ago Fork 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/franz 4,537 11 months ago Franz is a free messaging app that combines many chat & messaging services into one application
A universal chat client
Rambox Free and Cross Platform messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one
sonnyp/Tangram 898 about 1 month ago Tangram is a new kind of browser. It is designed to organize and run your Web applications
BetterDiscord/BetterDiscord 7,902 19 days ago BetterDiscord extends the functionality of DiscordApp by enhancing it with new features
trigg/Discover 644 about 2 months ago Yet another Discord overlay for Linux written in Python using GTK3
jagrosh/MusicBot 5,245 10 days ago A Discord music bot that's easy to set up and run yourself
Cog-Creators/Red-DiscordBot 4,742 21 days ago Red 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/Vencord 8,688 8 days ago The cutest Discord client mod
HexChat is an IRC client based on XChat, but unlike XChat itā€™s completely free for both Windows and Unix-like system
irssi/irssi 2,870 4 months ago Irssi is a modular chat client that is most commonly known for its text mode user interface
User-friendly and fully-featured IRC client
kvirc/KVIrc 239 25 days ago KVIrc 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/weechat 2,927 10 days ago WeeChat 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/dino 2,208 13 days ago Clean and modern Jabber/XMPP chat client
Discord All-in-one voice and text chat for gamers thatā€™s free, secure, and works on both your desktop and phone
vector-im/element-web 11,045 3 days ago A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web
Gitter ā€” Where developers come to talk. Gitter is designed to make community messaging, collaboration and discovery as smooth and simple as possible
Guilded Guilded 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/qTox 4,712 over 1 year ago A simple distributed, secure messenger with audio and video chat capabilities
Revolt is an open source user-first chat platform
RocketChat/Rocket.Chat 40,143 8 days ago Rocket.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
Skype Skype keeps the world talking, for free
Slack Real-time messaging, archiving and search for modern teams
telegramdesktop/tdesktop 26,000 4 days ago A messaging app with a focus on speed and security, itā€™s super fast, simple and free
linagora/Twake 1,787 24 days ago Open-source alternative to Microsoft Teams
Viber Viber 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/zulip 21,254 10 days ago Zulip 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/backintime 2,025 12 days ago A simple backup tool for Linux, inspired by "flyback project"
A deduplicating backup program with compression and authenticated encryption
bup/bup 7,131 about 1 month ago Very 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/duplicacy 5,133 2 months ago Duplicacy 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/kopia 7,439 8 days ago Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication
cgsecurity/testdisk 1,595 about 1 month ago PhotoRec 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/rclone 46,437 4 days ago Rclone is a command line program to sync files and directories to and from various cloud storage solutions. It also allows encrypted backups
restic/restic 25,980 5 days ago restic 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/rsnapshot 3,211 about 1 month ago rsnapshot 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/testdisk 1,595 about 1 month ago TestDisk 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/timeshift 2,369 3 months ago System 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/vorta 1,978 18 days ago Vorta 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-icons 1,078 18 days ago An icon theme colored with sweet gradients
daniruiz/Flat-Remix 1,675 4 months ago Flat 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-theme 614 about 1 month ago Fluent icon theme for linux desktops
keeferrourke/la-capitaine-icon-theme 1,940 almost 3 years ago A macOS and Material design inspired icon theme designed to fit into most desktop environments
snwh/moka-icon-theme 451 over 2 years ago Moka was created with simplicity in mind. With the use simple geometry & bright colours
numixproject/numix-icon-theme 777 17 days ago A flat icon theme that comes in two varieties, Numix Main, and Numix circle
PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-icon-theme 6,618 23 days ago SVG 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-theme 744 about 1 month ago A flat colorful design icon theme for linux desktops
yeyushengfan258/Reversal-icon-theme 460 5 months ago A colorful design icon theme for linux desktops
vinceliuice/Tela-icon-theme 1,500 about 1 month ago A flat colorful Design icon theme
vinceliuice/WhiteSur-icon-theme 1,306 24 days ago MacOS Big Sur style icon theme for linux desktops
zayronxio/Zafiro-icons 440 9 months ago Minimalist icons created with the flat-desing technique, utilizing washed out colors and always accompanied by white
EliverLara/Ant 819 25 days ago Ant is a flat GTK theme for Ubuntu and other GNOME-based Linux desktops it comes in three varieties: vanilla, Bloody, or Dracula
jnsh/arc-theme 902 6 months ago A 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/gtk 929 11 days ago A dark theme using the awesome Dracula color pallete
daniruiz/Flat-Remix-GTK 848 2 months ago Flat Remix is a GTK application theme inspired by material design
vinceliuice/Graphite-gtk-theme 1,003 26 days ago Graphite GTK theme
Fausto-Korpsvart/Gruvbox-GTK-Theme 549 23 days ago A GTK theme based on the Gruvbox colour palette
EliverLara/Kimi 62 14 days ago Kimi is a light Gtk3.20+ theme
vinceliuice/Layan-gtk-theme 542 about 1 month ago Layan 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-ocean 106 7 months ago A material design theme with oceanic colors(GTK, QT)
vinceliuice/Mojave-gtk-theme 1,488 22 days ago Mojave 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/Nordic 2,306 13 days ago Dark Gtk3.20+ theme created using the awesome Nord color pallete
vinceliuice/Orchis-theme 2,944 12 days ago Orchis is a Material Design theme for GNOME/GTK based desktop environments
vinceliuice/Qogir-theme 1,560 13 days ago Qogir is a flat Design theme for GTK
EliverLara/Sweet 1,437 12 days ago Light and dark colorful Gtk3.20+ theme
vinceliuice/WhiteSur-gtk-theme 5,800 10 days ago MacOS Big Sur like theme for GNOME desktops
brndnmtthws/conky 7,167 12 days ago Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any kind of information on your desktop
mjakeman/extension-manager 999 8 days ago A utility for browsing and installing GNOME Shell Extensions
GNOME Extensions Extensions for the GNOME Desktop Environment
GNOME Look A 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/Gradience 1,295 2 months ago Gradience is a tool for customizing Libadwaita applications and the adw-gtk3 theme
bilelmoussaoui/Hardcode-Tray 864 3 months ago This 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/bar 1,617 about 1 month ago Super fast, lightweight, and mnml status bar for Linux
realmazharhussain/gdm-settings 705 13 days ago A settings app for GNOME's Login Manager, GDM
themix-project/themix-gui 2,088 11 days ago A 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/polybar 14,092 21 days ago Fast and easy-to-use status bar
deviantfero/wpgtk 2,044 4 months ago A 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/anbox 8,865 8 months ago Run 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/waydroid 7,756 about 1 month ago Waydroid uses a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system like Ubuntu
CLion A 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-creator 2,564 10 days ago Fully-stocked cross-platform integrated development environment for easy creation of connected devices, UIs and applications
apache/cassandra 8,719 12 days ago Apache 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/couchdb 6,180 15 days ago Seamless multi-master sync, that scales from Big Data to Mobile, with an Intuitive HTTP/JSON API and designed for Reliability
DataGrip DataGrip 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/dbeaver 39,430 8 days ago A 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/mongo 26,120 12 days ago MongoDB is a free and open-source cross-platform document-oriented database program, uses JSON-like documents with schemas
dbcli/mycli 11,421 about 2 months ago MyCLI is a command line interface for MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona with auto-completion and syntax highlighting
mysql/mysql-server 10,733 about 2 months ago MySQL 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-workbench 891 3 months ago MySQL 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/oceanbase 8,274 8 days ago Distributed relational database. Based on the Paxos protocol and its distributed structure, it provides high availability and linear scalability
OmniDB/OmniDB 3,164 over 1 year ago Browser-based tool that visually create, manage, and view databases
OracleDB Object-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation, one of the most trusted and widely-used relational database engines
percona/percona-server-mongodb 211 9 days ago Percona Server for MongoDB provides all features and benefits of MongoDB Community Server
percona/pmm-server 186 about 2 years ago Percona 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-server 1,139 9 days ago Percona 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-cluster 340 11 days ago Percona 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/pgcli 12,038 3 months ago Pgcli is a command line interface for Postgres with auto-completion and syntax highlighting
postgres/postgres 15,921 1 day ago PostgreSQL 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/sqlitebrowser 21,058 4 days ago Visually create, manage, and view sqlite database files
WebDB-App/app 168 8 days ago Open 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/bevy 35,472 3 days ago A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust
defold/defold 4,084 11 days ago Defold is a completely free to use game engine for development of desktop, mobile and web games
AchetaGames/Epic-Asset-Manager 386 10 days ago An unofficial client to install Unreal Engine, download and manage purchased assets, projects, plugins and games from the Epic Games Store
FlaxEngine/FlaxEngine 5,700 11 days ago Flax Engine ā€“ multi-platform 3D game engine
GameMaker The Ultimate 2D Game Development Environment
4ian/GDevelop 10,420 5 days ago Open-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/flixel 1,967 11 days ago 2D game engine written in
HeapsIO/heaps 3,188 11 days ago Heaps 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/o3de 7,674 10 days ago Open 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/stride 6,483 10 days ago Stride is an open-source C# game engine for realistic rendering and VR
Unity The worldā€™s leading platform for real-time content creation
Unreal Engine The worldā€™s most open and advanced real-time 3D creation tool
turanszkij/WickedEngine 5,710 11 days ago 3D 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/Gisto 1,025 about 1 year ago Gisto 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/git 52,012 1 day ago Git 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-cola 2,249 28 days ago Git 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
GitKraken The downright luxurious Git GUI client for Windows, Mac & Linux
gitlabhq/gitlabhq 23,742 11 days ago GitLab is a web-based Git repository manager with wiki and issue tracking features
sitaramc/gitolite 8,383 4 months ago Gitolite allows you to setup git hosting on a central server, with fine-grained access control and many more powerful features
Murmele/Gittyup 1,487 27 days ago Gittyup is a graphical Git client designed to help you understand and manage your source code history
gogs/gogs 44,914 3 days ago A painless self-hosted Git service
jesseduffield/lazygit 51,292 7 days ago A simple terminal UI for git commands, written in Go with the gocui library
SmartGit SmartGit is a Git client with support for GitHub Pull Requests+Comments and SVN
GoLand Commercial IDE by JetBrains aimed at providing an ergonomic environment for Go development
visualfc/liteide 7,570 2 months ago LiteIDE 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-community 17,133 3 days ago Open source IDE by Jetbrains for JVM and Android development
IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Commercial IDE by Jetbrains for web and enterprise JAVA development
Webstorm Powerful IDE for modern JavaScript development, made by JetBrains
arduino/arduino-ide 2,227 13 days ago The open-source Arduino Software (IDE) makes it easy to write code and upload it to the board
fritzing/fritzing-app 3,968 29 days ago Fritzing is an open-source hardware initiative that makes electronics accessible as a creative material for anyone
Sloeber/arduino-eclipse-plugin 419 12 days ago Sloeber IDE. The Arduino IDE for Eclipse
aptana/studio3 1,073 over 1 year ago Aptana 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
PHPStorm Lightning-smart and powerful PHP IDE from Jetbrains
JetBrains/intellij-community 17,133 3 days ago Open source IDE by Jetbrains for pure Python development
PyCharm Professional Commercial IDE by Jetbrains for scientific and web Python development
RubyMine Professional Ruby and Rails IDE
fish-shell/fish-shell 25,784 11 days ago A smart and user-friendly command-line shell
jorgebucaran/fisher 7,670 25 days ago A plugin manager for fish shell
ipython/ipython 16,260 15 days ago Powerful Python shell
nushell/nushell 31,825 4 days ago A new type of shell
oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish 10,415 16 days ago Provides various packages and themes to extend the functionality of your fish shell
robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh 172,670 12 days ago A delightful community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration
oilshell/oil 2,818 10 days ago Oil is a new Unix shell for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!
koalaman/shellcheck 36,201 28 days ago ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts
zimfw/zimfw 3,802 19 days ago Modular, customizable, and blazing fast Zsh framework
A powerful command line shell
kspalaiologos/bzip3 677 5 months ago A versatile statistical compressor with better compression ratio than standard Linux tools (gzip, bzip2, etc...)
GeopJr/Collision 145 2 months ago Collision 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/Curtail 360 13 days ago Curtail is an useful image compressor, supporting PNG, JPEG and WEBP file types
qarmin/czkawka 19,611 8 days ago Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc
cytopia/devilbox 4,378 6 months ago The 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/dialect 597 19 days ago A 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-linux 77 over 1 year ago Docker is a set of platform as a service products that use OS-level virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers
flox/flox 2,450 3 days ago Flox 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/gaphor 1,838 4 days ago A simple and fast software and systems modeling tool
Genymotion Genymotion is a fast third-party emulator that can be used instead of the default Android emulator
GNOME/glade 226 2 months ago GTK+ User Interface Builder
A heap memory profiler for Linux
WindSoilder/hors 239 6 months ago Instant coding answers via the command line
Kong/insomnia 34,476 4 days ago A simple, beautiful, and free REST API client
IntelĀ® VTuneā„¢ Profiler GUI 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/lazydocker 36,603 about 2 months ago A 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
Mockitt Mockitt is an easy-to-use prototyping tool
Hex Editor for viewing and editing the raw data of files
evolus/pencil 9,049 25 days ago An open-source GUI prototyping tool that's available for ALL platforms
stuartlangridge/ColourPicker 279 4 months ago Simple color picker
Postman Postman, allows a user to develop and test APIs quickly
rabbitvcs/rabbitvcs 371 2 months ago RabbitVCS is a set of graphical tools written to provide simple and straightforward access to the version control systems you use
CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail 14,815 almost 3 years ago Sourcetrail is a free and open-source cross-platform source explorer that helps you get productive on unfamiliar source code
StarUML A sophisticated software modeler
uncrustify/uncrustify 2,853 16 days ago Source 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
GitBreeze GitBreeze 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/Workbench 700 9 days ago Workbench 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/zeal 11,385 27 days ago Zeal 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/bookworm 1,323 3 months ago A simple, focused eBook reader
oguzhaninan/Buka 1,090 over 1 year ago A program for EBook Management
kovidgoyal/calibre 19,444 3 days ago Incredibly ugly but powerful software for ebook management and conversion
janeczku/calibre-web 12,707 9 days ago Calibre Web is a web app providing a clean interface for browsing, reading and downloading eBooks using an existing Calibre database
michaldaniel/Ebook-Viewer 409 8 months ago Modern 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/FBReader 540 about 4 years ago One of the most popular eReader apps
johnfactotum/foliate 6,210 9 days ago Foliate is a simple and modern GTK eBook viewer
Foxit Foxit Reader 8.0ā€”Award-winning PDF Reader
martahilmar/gnome-books 51 over 5 years ago GNOME 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
Lucidor Lucidor 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 editor Master PDF Editor a convenient and smart PDF editor for Linux
GTK+ comic book viewer
A lightweight PDF and XPS viewer
KDE/okular 860 9 days ago Okular 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/pdfarranger 3,426 14 days ago PDF 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/pdfsam 3,351 12 days ago A desktop application to split, extract pages, rotate, mix and merge PDF files
junrrein/pdfslicer 147 4 months ago PDF Slicer is a simple application to extract, merge, rotate and reorder pages of PDF documents
PDF Studio An 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/Sigil 5,875 22 days ago Sigil is a multi-platform EPUB ebook editor
pwmt/zathura 2,047 30 days ago Zathura 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-evolution 4,774 5 days ago Graphical 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/bibletime 328 3 months ago BibleTime is a Bible study application based on the Sword library and Qt toolkit
CelestiaProject/Celestia 1,813 about 1 month ago The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions
opp11/chemtool 1 over 10 years ago Chemtool 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/gap 801 12 days ago A 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/geogebra 1,617 10 days ago The 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 Earth Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program
GPeriodic is a periodic table application for Linux
KDE Edu Suite Free 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
MAPLE Maple 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
MapTiler MapTiler generates zoomable raster maps from images in user-defined coordinate system
KDE/marble 127 8 days ago Marble is a virtual globe and world atlas ā€” your swiss army knife for maps
MATLAB The 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
Mathematica The 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
Mendeley Mendeley is a program for managing and sharing research papers, finding research data and collaborating online
moodle/moodle 5,662 8 days ago Course 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/sage 1,341 13 days ago A mathematical software with features covering many aspects of mathematics, including algebra, combinatorics, numerical mathematics, number theory, and calculus
scipy/scipy 12,934 8 days ago SciPy is a Python-based ecosystem of open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering
LLK/scratch-flash 1,331 over 5 years ago With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations ā€” and share your creations with others in the online community
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer
sugarlabs/sugar 255 9 days ago Sugar 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/ugene 210 10 days ago UGENE is free open-source cross-platform integrated GUI-based bioinformatics software
veyon/veyon 1,283 15 days ago Veyon 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/ElectronMail 1,491 17 days ago ElectronMail 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
Hiri Hiri 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/mailnag 253 3 months ago Mailnag is a daemon program that checks POP3 and IMAP servers for new mail
Mailspring A 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 thatā€™s easy to set up and customize and itā€™s loaded with great features
KDE/trojita 35 30 days ago A super fast desktop email client for Linux
danchoi/vmail 786 almost 4 years ago Vim-like Gmail client

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / File Manager

A very capable program that can unzip nearly any file archiving format
mate-desktop/caja 263 13 days ago Is the default file manager for the MATE desktop environment, it is very fast and simple to use
leo-arch/clifm 1,334 4 days ago The 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/mc 2,536 5 days ago A feature rich full-screen file manager that allows you to copy, move and delete files and whole directory trees
GNOME/nautilus 339 12 days ago Nautilus (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/nemo 1,199 about 1 month ago Nemo is the file manager for the Cinnamon desktop environment
jarun/nnn 19,086 6 days ago A very lightweight and fast terminal file browser with excellent desktop integration
shundhammer/qdirstat 1,702 2 months ago Qt-based directory statistics - KDirStat without any KDE, from the original KDirStat author
ranger/ranger 15,447 about 2 months ago Ranger is a console file manager with VI key bindings
IgnorantGuru/spacefm 486 6 months ago Multi-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/vifm 2,714 24 days ago Vifm is an ncurses based file manager with VI like keybindings, which also borrows some useful ideas from mutt

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / Games

Dwarf Fortress A famously complex simulation of a High Fantasy Dwarf Fortress, fight goblins, and slay massive legendary beasts. Strike the earth!
OpenTTD/OpenTTD 6,249 11 days ago An open-source clone of Transport Tycoon Plus with major improvements
aburch/simutrans 434 8 days ago Simutrans is a freeware and open-source transportation simulator
unknown-horizons/unknown-horizons 1,420 10 months ago A 2D realtime strategy simulation with an emphasis on economy and city building. Multiplayer currently broken
mydzor/bash2048 897 5 months ago Play the famous 2048 in commandline
fph/bastet 272 almost 2 years ago Play Tetris in commandline
maaslalani/gambit 812 8 months ago Play chess in your terminal
alexdantas/nsnake 196 about 1 year ago Play the classic Nokia snake game on the command line
alexdantas/pacman4console.debian 2 almost 2 years ago Play Pacman game in console
lxgr-linux/pokete 2,872 5 days ago A terminal based Pokemon like game
mpereira/tty-solitaire 277 13 days ago Play solitaire in your terminal!
wheybags/freeablo 2,158 over 1 year ago A 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-evo 487 4 months ago A somewhat upgraded/refactored version of NXEngine by Caitlin Shaw
SFTtech/openage 12,665 13 days ago Free (as in freedom) open source clone of the Age of Empires II engine, source needs to be built
OpenMW/openmw 5,327 8 days ago A recreation of the Morrowind engine, expanding upon the original. It can be used to play legitimate copies of original game
OpenRA/OpenRA 14,595 12 days ago Classic strategy games, rebuilt for the modern era. Open source
OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2 13,351 3 days ago A 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/freedoom 1,048 19 days ago Free 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/base 432 20 days ago Red 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 Terror A "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/gzdoom 2,453 15 days ago ZDoom 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/Mudlet 730 8 days ago A cross-platform, open source, and super fast MUD (text-only MMORPGs) client with scripting in Lua
Neverball/neverball 342 17 days ago Addictive ball-rolling game with many levels, avatars and an ability to record replays
OhMyGiraffe A delightful game of survival. A game about a giraffe eating fruit while being chased by lions
alemart/opensurge 374 13 days ago A 2D platformer and game creation engine inspired by the 16-bit Sonic the Hedgehog games
alpcoskun/snake 30 over 1 year ago Cross-platform Classic Snake Game based on Node.js
SuperTux/supertux 2,500 13 days ago Clone of the popular sidescrolling Super Mario games
Cockatrice/Cockatrice 1,528 20 days ago Cockatrice 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/pingus 162 3 months ago 2D puzzle game that clones the popular Lemmings. Your goal is to guide a group of penguins safely across the game map
drwhut/tabletop-club 1,277 12 days ago An open-source platform for playing tabletop games in a physics-based 3D environment for Windows, macOS, and Linux! Made with the Godot Engine
KartKrewDev/RingRacers 198 about 1 month ago A 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-code 4,468 16 days ago SuperTuxKart 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-engine 1,102 14 days ago Singleplayer Diablo clone with beautiful original graphics
Sci-fi 2D top-down RPG inspired by Diablo games
Ryzom Free 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 Majā€™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/ZeldaClassic 12 6 months ago A 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/Mindustry 22,449 1 day ago The automation tower defense RTS, written in Java
Open-source rogue-like with ASCII graphics
triplea-game/triplea 1,333 9 days ago Open source grand strategy game with "Axis and Allies" game rules
Warzone2100/warzone2100 3,178 12 days ago Open-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
Factorio A factory building sandbox game
minecraft-linux/mcpelauncher-manifest 936 9 days ago Unoffical Open-source launcher for Minecraft: Bedrock edition
Minecraft Minecraft 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/minetest 10,637 15 days ago Open-source Minecraft written in C++ (uses less resources) and includes modding API
MultiMC/Launcher 4,260 2 months ago MultiMC 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/PrismLauncher 5,586 9 days ago A custom launcher for Minecraft that allows you to easily manage multiple installations of Minecraft at once (Fork of MultiMC and PolyMC)
viewizard/astromenace 221 over 1 year ago Hardcore 3D space scroll-shooter with spaceship upgrade possibilities
cxong/cdogs-sdl 897 11 days ago Classic overhead run-and-gun game in beautiful pixel-art
wesnoth/wesnoth 5,485 3 days ago The 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/freeciv 1,256 11 days ago Freeciv is a Free and Open Source empire-building strategy game inspired by the history of human civilization
HedgeWars 2D game where teams compete in the style of the popular Worms games
Tanks of Freedom Pixel-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/cartridges 624 17 days ago A GTK4 + Libadwaita game launcher
tkashkin/GameHub 2,231 about 1 month ago GameHub 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/itch 2,354 14 days ago The itch.io app. All of your downloads are kept in a single place and are automatically updated. Plenty of free games
lutris/lutris 7,744 9 days ago Lutris is an open gaming platform for Linux. It helps you install and manage your games in a unified interface
sharkwouter/minigalaxy 1,104 about 1 month ago A simple GOG client for Linux
A front-end for Wine
Steam Gaming store, which opens the gates to many games
PhilipK/BoilR 1,400 6 months ago Synchronize games from other platforms into your Steam library
dreamer/boxtron 406 over 1 year ago Steam Play compatibility tool to run DOS games using native Linux DOSBox. It is a sister project of Luxtorpeda and DOSBox Staging
CryoByte33/steam-deck-utilities 3,195 8 months ago A utility to improve performance and help manage storage on Steam Deck
SteamDeckHomebrew/decky-loader 4,580 13 days ago A plugin loader for the Steam Deck
dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging 1,294 11 days ago DOSBox Staging is a modern continuation of DOSBox with advanced features and current development practices
FeralInteractive/gamemode 4,710 about 1 month ago Optimise Linux system performance on demand
benjamimgois/goverlay 584 2 months ago GOverlay is an open source project that aims to create a Graphical UI to help manage Linux overlays
luxtorpeda-dev/luxtorpeda 716 11 days ago Suite of Steam Play compatibility tools to run games using native Linux engines
flightlessmango/MangoHud 6,375 13 days ago A Vulkan and OpenGL overlay for monitoring FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load and more
Merrit/nyrna 902 10 days ago Suspend games and applications
dreamer/roberta 165 over 3 years ago Steam Play compatibility tool to run adventure games using native Linux ScummVM. It is a sister project of Luxtorpeda
kozec/sc-controller 1,526 about 1 year ago User-mode driver, mapper and GTK3 based GUI for Steam Controller, DualShock 4, and similar controllers
scummvm/scummvm 2,289 8 days ago ScummVM 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-manager 70 12 months ago Install boot videos to your Steam Deck using Steam Deck Repo website API
SteamGridDB/steam-rom-manager 1,877 10 days ago An app for managing ROMs in Steam
sonic2kk/steamtinkerlaunch 2,128 about 1 month ago Linux wrapper tool for use with the Steam client for custom launch options and 3rd party programs
fastrizwaan/WineZGUI 70 5 months ago GUI Frontend using Zenity for running Windows games with Wine that allows you to create, manage, and share game prefixes
GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom 9,919 11 days ago Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components
Kron4ek/Wine-Builds 700 13 days ago Custom Wine builds and build scripts for Vanilla, Wine Staging, Wine-tkg and Proton
ValveSoftware/Proton 24,032 12 days ago Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components, primarily developed by Valve and CodeWeavers
Vysp3r/ProtonPlus 218 9 days ago A simple Wine and Proton manager for GNOME
Matoking/protontricks 1,630 9 days ago This 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/protonup 574 12 months ago CLI program and API to automate the installation and update of GE-Proton
DavidoTek/ProtonUp-Qt 1,246 15 days ago Install 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-custom 2,081 8 months ago Custom build of wine, made to use with lutris. Built with lutris's buildbot
Frogging-Family/wine-tkg-git 866 14 days ago The wine-tkg build systems, to create custom Wine and Proton builds
Winetricks/winetricks 2,745 13 days ago Winetricks is an easy way to work around problems in Wine
varmd/wine-wayland 739 7 months ago Wine-wayland allows playing DX9/DX11 and Vulkan games using pure wayland and Wine/DXVK
ares-emulator/ares 939 17 days ago A multi-system console emulation suite
dragoonDorise/EmuDeck 2,863 5 days ago Emulator configurator for Steam Deck
GNOME Video Arcade is a simple Mame frontend for any freedesktop.org compliant desktop environment
byuu/higan 7 over 3 years ago Higan 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/mame 7,991 9 days ago MAME is an Arcade Cabinet emulator that strives for accuracy, and can play a huge number of different arcade games
qmc2/qmc2-mame-fe 40 3 months ago QMC2 is the successor to QMamecat, it is a gui for MAME and a ROM manager
libretro/RetroArch 10,137 5 days ago A front-end for a lot of game emulators
XargonWan/RetroDECK 770 8 days ago Everything you need for emulation on Steam Deck
stella-emu/stella 608 9 days ago Is an Atari 2600 Emulator that is multiplatform
mborgerson/xemu 2,737 about 2 months ago Original Xbox Emulator for Windows, macOS, and Linux (Active Development)
cemu-project/Cemu 7,138 19 days ago Software to emulate Wii U games and applications on PC
TASEmulators/desmume 2,936 4 days ago DeSmuME is a Nintendo DS emulator
dolphin-emu/dolphin 12,759 4 days ago Dolphin is a GameCube / Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements
Arisotura/melonDS 3,164 17 days ago melonDS aims at providing fast and accurate Nintendo DS emulation
mGBA is an open-source Game Boy Advance emulator
0ldsk00l/nestopia 680 about 1 month ago nestopia is a Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicon emulator
Ryujinx is an open-source Nintendo Switch emulator created by gdkchan and written in C#
snes9xgit/snes9x 2,625 20 days ago Is a multiplatform Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulator that has gone through many incarnations, but is still being actively developed
visualboyadvance-m/visualboyadvance-m 3,331 16 days ago A 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- 2,118 12 days ago Play! is a PlayStation2 emulator for Windows, macOS, UNIX, Android, iOS and web browser platforms
hrydgard/ppsspp 11,092 4 days ago PPSSPP 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/Vita3K 3,889 8 days ago Vita3K 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

Aftershot A powerful alternative to Adobe Photoshop
darktable-org/darktable 9,590 11 days ago Darktable 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/ImageMagick 12,016 10 days ago ImageMagick is a suite of command-line utilities for modifying and working with images
jarun/imgp 1,030 4 months ago Blazing fast terminal image resizer and rotator
LuminanceHDR/LuminanceHDR 598 4 months ago Luminance HDR is an open source graphical user interface application that aims to provide a workflow for HDR imaging
google-code-export/photivo 3 over 9 years ago Photivo 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/piskel 11,088 5 months ago Browser-based editor for animated sprites and pixel art. Available as offline application
lbalazscs/Pixelitor 180 14 days ago Pixelitor is a free and open source image editing software that supports layers, layer masks, text layers, filters, multiple undo etc
Beep6581/RawTherapee 2,771 12 days ago A good looking but lesser known photo editing app
DigiKam is an advanced digital photo management application for Linux
szTheory/exifcleaner 1,857 12 months ago Remove 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/geeqie 466 14 days ago Image 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/Imagine 3,576 about 1 year ago An open source image optimizer that can shrink the size of images with a minimal loss of quality
nomacs/nomacs 1,949 9 days ago nomacs is an image viewer that is able to view nearly any image format, and has powerful renaming and sorting tools
peterlevi/ojo 35 12 days ago A fast and pretty image viewer
ivandokov/phockup 844 5 months ago Command line sorting tool to organize photos and videos from your camera in folders by year, month and day
oferkv/phototonic 159 over 1 year ago Phototonic is image viewer and organizer
kanryu/quickviewer 536 over 2 years ago Very fast image/comic viewer by using OpenGL
yurijmikhalevich/rclip 733 about 2 months ago AI-Powered Command-Line Photo Search Tool
Shotwell is a photo manager for GNOME
FreeCAD/FreeCAD 19,326 5 days ago FreeCAD is a free and opensource multiplatform 3D parametric modeler
HandBrake/HandBrake 17,452 3 days ago HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs
Diolinux/PhotoGIMP 4,035 about 2 months ago A patch for optimizing GIMP 2.10+ for Adobe Photoshop users
Gictorbit/photoshopCClinux 4,178 3 months ago Photoshop CC v19 installer for Gnu/Linux
MiMillieuh/Photoshop-CC2022-Linux 911 6 months ago Installer 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
Avocode Avocode - Share and inspect Photoshop and Sketch designs in a heart beat
asciinema/asciinema 13,995 15 days ago Terminal session recorder
dvershinin/green-recorder 58 7 months ago A 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/Kooha 2,529 8 days ago A simple screen recorder written with GTK. It allows you to record your screen and also audio from your microphone or desktop
orhun/menyoki 599 4 months ago Screen{shot,cast} and perform ImageOps on the command line
obsproject/obs-studio 59,144 8 days ago Free 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/peek 10,250 4 months ago Simple animated GIF screen recorder with an easy to use interface
colinkeenan/silentcast 513 about 2 years ago Silentcast can create MKV screencasts and also output to an animated GIF
MaartenBaert/ssr 2,534 about 2 months ago SimpleScreenRecorder is a feature-rich screen recorder that supports X11 and OpenGL. It has a Qt-based graphical user interface
vkohaupt/vokoscreen 3 over 3 years ago A free, multilingual and easy to use screencast recorder with audio for Linux. It has many features
lupoDharkael/flameshot 24,644 about 1 month ago Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software
ksnip/ksnip 2,128 8 days ago Ksnip is a Qt-based cross-platform screenshot tool that provides many annotation features for your screenshots
olav-st/screencloud 637 6 months ago ScreenCloud is an easy to use screenshot sharing tool consisting of a cross-platform client and a sharing website
shutter-project/shutter 519 28 days ago Shutter 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/vpuppr 738 9 months ago VTuber application made with Godot 3.4
cinelerra-cv-team/cinelerra-cv 22 5 months ago Professional video editing and compositing environment
Davinci Resolve Revolutionary tools for editing, color correction, audio post and now visual effects, all in a single application
jliljebl/flowblade 2,640 26 days ago A multitrack non-linear video editor for Linux
Kdenlive is a Non-Linear Video Editor, which is much more powerful than beginnersā€™ (linear) editors
Lightworks Professional non-linear video editing program with a free version available
olive-editor/olive 8,158 about 1 month ago Olive is a free non-linear video editor aiming to provide a fully-featured alternative to high-end professional video editing software
OpenShot/openshot-qt 4,293 4 days ago OpenShot 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/shotcut 10,819 10 days ago Shotcut 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/vidcutter 1,786 about 1 month ago Cross-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-browser 17,623 3 days ago Brave is a fast, good desktop browser for macOS, Windows, and Linux
Chrome A 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 Edge Microsoft Edge is a cross-platform web browser created and developed by Microsoft
A lightweight free browser that runs well on low spec systems
minbrowser/min 7,897 6 days ago A smarter, faster web browser
The Mullvad Browser is a privacy-focused web browser developed in a collaboration between Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project. Itā€™s designed to minimize tracking and fingerprinting
Opera Opera browser is everything you need to do more on the web
qutebrowser/qutebrowser 9,629 8 days ago A 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-chromium 20,319 12 days ago ungoogled-chromium is Google Chromium, sans dependency on Google web services
Vivaldi A new and rising browser with a lot of customizations
WaterfoxCo/Waterfox 3,743 11 days ago Fork of Firefox. Waterfox gives you a sane way to browse the web. Built with you, the user, in mind
Wavebox A 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
Yandex Fast and convenient browser
Clipgrab A friendly downloader for YouTube and other sites
NickvisionApps/Parabolic 862 8 days ago Download web video and audio
spotDL/spotify-downloader 17,080 29 days ago Download your Spotify playlists and songs along with album art and metadata (from YouTube if a match is found)
Unrud/video-downloader 750 about 1 month ago Download videos from websites like YouTube and many others (based on yt-dlp)
jely2002/youtube-dl-gui 6,561 about 1 year ago A cross-platform GUI for youtube-dl made in Electron and node.js
aandrew-me/ytdownloader 998 5 days ago A cross-platform GUI for yt-dlp with advanced options and a modern UI
zerotier/ZeroTierOne 14,277 9 days ago Zerotier 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/FeedTheMonkey 126 over 3 years ago FeedTheMonkey is a desktop client for TinyTinyRSS
yang991178/fluent-reader 7,506 6 months ago Modern desktop RSS reader built with Electron, React, and Fluent UI
FreeTubeApp/FreeTube 13,212 12 days ago FreeTube is a YouTube client for Windows, Mac, and Linux built around using YouTube more privately
EragonJ/Kaku 1,071 about 4 years ago An 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-desktop 9,408 19 days ago Watch torrent movies instantly
martinrotter/rssguard 1,554 8 days ago Feed reader which supports RSS/ATOM/JSON and many web-based feed services
streamlink/streamlink-twitch-gui 2,664 23 days ago A multi platform Twitch.tv browser for
pystardust/ytfzf 3,752 8 days ago Terminal 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/hledger 2,950 10 days ago Easy-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 office A 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/gummi 750 2 months ago Simple 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/texstudio 2,765 8 days ago TeXstudio's goal is to make writing LaTeX documents as easy and comfortable as possible
TeXworks/texworks 689 27 days ago TeXworks 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/ghostwriter 4,309 11 days ago A distraction-free Markdown editor for Windows and Linux
fabiocolacio/Marker 833 24 days ago Marker is a markdown editor for linux made with GTK+-3.0
marktext/marktext 46,623 about 2 months ago MarkText 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/remarkable 1,962 13 days ago A capable markdown editor that uses a variant of GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM)
retext-project/retext 1,862 about 1 month ago A Simple but powerful editor for Markdown and reStructuredText
Typora A Minimal markdown editor
andreafeccomandi/bibisco 682 about 1 year ago A novel writing software with focus on ideas and characters
olivierkes/manuskript 1,749 20 days ago Manuskript is a perfect tool for those writer who like to organize and plan everything before writing
jacquetc/skribisto 141 24 days ago Software for writers
scribusproject/scribus 401 17 days ago Scribus 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/trelby 169 15 days ago Trelby is simple, fast and elegantly laid out to make screenwriting simple

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / Productivity

Jmgr/actiona 510 about 2 months ago An utility for task automation Ubuntu/Linux. (Previously Actionaz)
autokey/autokey 3,386 21 days ago A desktop automation utility for Linux allows you to manage collection of scripts and phrases, and assign abbreviations and hotkeys to these
rafaelmardojai/blanket 1,352 about 1 month ago Improve focus and increase your productivity by listening to different sounds
Prevents Ubuntu from automatically going to sleep
federico-terzi/espanso 9,854 16 days ago Cross-platform Text Expander written in Rust
mautosoft/maxautoclicker 3 7 months ago Automate your mouse clicks easily with this awesome cross-platform application (for Windows and Linux Desktops)
robiot/xclicker 468 26 days ago A 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/albert 7,209 11 days ago An awesome keyboard launcher for the Linux desktop
DoTheEvo/ANGRYsearch 1,042 3 months ago Linux file search, instant results as you type
Catfish is a versatile file searching tool
KELiON/cerebro 8,325 5 months ago Open-source productivity booster with a brain / MacOS-Spotlight alternative
cboxdoerfer/fsearch 3,277 5 months ago A fast file search utility for Unix-like systems based on GTK+3. Wildcard support, RegEx support, Filter support
p-e-w/plotinus 1,016 over 3 years ago A 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/Ulauncher 3,652 14 days ago Ulauncher is a fast application launcher for Linux. It's is written in Python, using GTK+
costales/anoise 37 almost 2 years ago An ambient noise generator for Linux
jarun/bcal 630 4 months ago Perform storage conversions and calculations
hluk/CopyQ 8,623 9 days ago -CopyQ is advanced clipboard manager with editing and scripting features
f.lux A program that reddens your display to help you sleep better
thezbyg/gpick 378 4 months ago Gpick allows you to sample any color from anywhere on your desktop, and it also provides some other advanced features!
jarun/pdd 377 4 months ago Tiny date, time diff calculator
jonls/redshift 5,868 4 months ago Redshift 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-me 539 almost 2 years ago Notifies you when long-running terminal commands complete
Xmind A mind mapping tool
anyproto/anytype-ts 4,134 12 days ago A 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-Notes 591 11 days ago A multi-platform, open-source, privacy-first, community-driven, note-taking app and personal knowledge manager
BoostIO/BoostNote-App 3,779 over 1 year ago Boostnote is an open source note-taking app made for programmers just like you
giuspen/cherrytree 3,374 11 days ago A hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in a single xml or sqlite file
Inkdrop The Note-Taking App for Markdown Lovers with simple interface, seemless security and powerful APIs
laurent22/joplin 45,339 5 days ago A note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS
logseq/logseq 32,216 11 days ago Logseq 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/mindforger 2,249 about 2 months ago Thinking notebook and Markdown editor
An open source client for Evernote
nuttyartist/notes 3,744 23 days ago A clean simple note taking app for Linux
streetwriters/notesnook 9,504 11 days ago A fully open source & end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote
Obsidian Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files
patrikx3/onenote 1,860 3 months ago Linux 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/planify 3,515 8 days ago Task manager with Todoist and Nextcloud support designed for GNU/Linux
pbek/QOwnNotes 4,632 5 days ago QOwnNotes is a plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with markdown support and ownCloud / Nextcloud integration
Simplenote A Cross platform notetaking app and Evernote competitor
spsdco/notes 559 almost 7 years ago Simple 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 lifeā€™s work all in one secure place
Standard-Unix-Notes/unix-notes 11 over 2 years ago GPG Encrypted Notes/Notebook manager for BSD/Linux
Sticky notes on your Linux desktop
tomboy-notes/tomboy 126 about 6 years ago Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application which is simple and easy to use
zadam/trilium 26,912 about 2 months ago Trilium Notes is a hierarchical note taking application with focus on building large personal knowledge bases
The secure, collaborative notebook
Typora A minimalistic Markdown viewer and editor
klaussinani/tusk 3,149 about 1 month ago Refined Evernote desktop app
wizteam/wizqtclient 2,627 over 3 years ago A cross-platform cloud based note-taking client
alarm-clock-applet/alarm-clock 120 over 1 year ago Alarm Clock is a fully-featured alarm clock for your GNOME panel or equivalent
A break timer application for GNOME
tom-james-watson/breaktimer-app 1,013 19 days ago BreakTimer 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
Everdo TODO list and Getting Things DoneĀ® app for all platforms. Beautiful, powerful, not SaaS, free version available
codito/gnome-pomodoro 1,981 11 days ago A full-featured pomodoro timer for GNOME
JMoerman/Go-For-It 139 4 months ago Go 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 App RoundPie 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/sleek 1,357 14 days ago Cross platform todo manager based on the todo.txt syntax
A pomodoro timer for the GNOME desktop
johannesjo/super-productivity 11,470 4 days ago The simple free flexible ToDo List / Time Tracker / personal Jira and Github Task Manager
Taskade Real-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/taskbook 8,956 about 1 month ago Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat
GothenburgBitFactory/taskwarrior 4,311 13 days ago Taskwarrior is Free and Open Source Software that manages your TODO list from the command line
todotxt/todo.txt-android 1,243 about 4 years ago Todo.txt is a set of focused editors which help you manage your tasks with as few keystrokes and taps possible
kamhix/todoist-linux 184 almost 2 years ago Unofficial client of Todoist, the cross-platform to-do manager with mobile apps, great UI and has some optional premium features
ActivityWatch/activitywatch 11,934 6 days ago ActivityWatch is an app that automatically tracks how you spend time on your devices
hamaluik/timecop 819 about 2 months ago A 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-switcher 368 about 2 months ago Sound input/output selector indicator for Ubuntu/Unity

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / Proxy

mitmproxy/mitmproxy 36,030 13 days ago mitmproxy 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/proxychains 6,544 4 months ago A 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-qt5 7,970 almost 5 years ago A secure socks5 proxy, designed to protect your Internet traffic

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / Security

noahbliss/mortar 226 about 2 months ago Mortar 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/Atoms 403 4 months ago Easily manage Linux Chroot(s) and Containers with Atoms
89luca89/distrobox 9,857 about 2 months ago Use any linux distribution inside your terminal
netblue30/firejail 5,709 4 days ago Firejail 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/ops 1,273 11 days ago OPS is a tool that builds, runs and deploys ordinary linux applications as unikernels
marhkb/pods 736 8 days ago Interact with Podman using an intuitive desktop application
quickemu-project/quickemu 10,476 21 days ago Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop virtual machines
containers/toolbox 2,495 15 days ago Tool 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-manager 2,350 12 days ago Desktop tool for managing virtual machines via libvirt
VMware Workstation Player Easily run multiple operating systems as virtual machines on your Windows or Linux PC with VMware Workstation Player
firehol/firehol 1,482 28 days ago Linux firewall ( ) manager for humans
firewalld/firewalld 865 25 days ago Firewalld provides a dynamically managed firewall with support for network or firewall zones to define the trust level of network connections or interfaces
costales/gufw 129 2 months ago One of the easiest firewalls in the world of Linux
evilsocket/opensnitch 10,747 15 days ago OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux interactive application firewall inspired by Little Snitch
safing/portmaster 9,189 8 days ago Portmaster 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/termshark 9,023 5 months ago A 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
1Password 1Password is the easiest way to store and use strong passwords. Log in to sites and fill forms securely with a single click
authpass/authpass 2,266 about 1 month ago Password Manager based on Flutter for all platforms
A cross-platform password management service which also support self-hosting
buttercup/buttercup-desktop 4,285 5 days ago Buttercup is a free, open-source and cross-platform password manager, built on NodeJS with Typescript
Enpass Enpass makes your life easy by securely managing your passwords and important information
gopasspw/gopass 5,844 5 days ago The slightly more awesome standard unix password manager for teams
Windows focused password manager, with some cross platform support through Mono
keepassxreboot/keepassxc 20,931 4 days ago Cross platform password manager. A Community-maintained fork of KeePassX
Keeper The leading cybersecurity platform that protects passwords, secrets and access to infrastructure
keeweb/keeweb 12,270 about 1 month ago Free cross-platform password manager compatible with KeePass
LastPass LastPass is a crossplatform freemium password management service that stores encrypted passwords in private accounts
NordPass A secure and simple password manager for a stress-free online experience. Optimized for Linux devices
padloc/padloc 2,651 2 months ago A 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/vaultwarden 37,241 12 days ago Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs
rizinorg/cutter 15,670 22 days ago Cutter's goal is to be an advanced FREE and open-source reverse-engineering platform while keeping the user experience at mind
eteran/edb-debugger 2,680 about 2 months ago edb 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/ghidra 50,710 13 days ago A software reverse engineering (SRE) suite of tools developed by NSA's Research Directorate in support of the Cybersecurity mission
radareorg/radare2 20,462 1 day ago A 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-devel 4,250 22 days ago ClamAV is an open source antivirus engine for detecting trojans, viruses, malware & other malicious threats
cryptomator/cryptomator 11,593 3 days ago Multi-platform transparent client-side encryption of your files in the cloud
Fancy yet simple QR Codes scanner and generator
fail2ban/fail2ban 11,790 28 days ago Fail2ban 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/iprange 197 almost 4 years ago A very fast command line utility for processing IP lists (merge, compare, exclude, etc)
jarun/spy 632 over 2 years ago Linux kernel mode debugfs keylogger
CISOfy/lynis 13,075 25 days ago Security 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/zaproxy 12,560 5 days ago OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) web security testing tool
A GNOME frontend for GnuPG
mhogomchungu/sirikali 749 9 days ago A Qt/C++ GUI front end to cryfs,gocryptfs,securefs,ecryptfs and encfs
usbkey9/uktools 96 over 3 years ago Keep your system up-to-date with last kernel available. Possibility to clean old kernel too
firehol/blocklist-ipsets 3,148 10 days ago A manager for all cybercrime IP feeds that can download, convert and install netfilter
veracrypt/VeraCrypt 6,802 6 days ago VeraCrypt is a free open source disk encryption software for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / Sharing Files

Dropbox Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily
meganz/MEGAsync 1,617 about 2 months ago Easy 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/seafile 12,192 14 days ago Seafile 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/aria2 35,286 2 months ago aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility
setvisible/ArrowDL 609 28 days ago ArrowDL 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
Flareget Full featured, multi-threaded download manager and accelerator
Free Download Manager Free Download Manager is a powerful modern cross-platform download accelerator and organizer for Windows, Mac and Linux
JDownloader JDownloader 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/Motrix 45,120 3 months ago Motrix 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/xdm 6,695 9 months ago A good download manager with fresh UI for Linux
mafintosh/airpaste 823 about 3 years ago A 1-1 network pipe that auto discovers other peers using mdns
schollz/croc 27,753 1 day ago Easily and securely send things from one computer to another
CrossFTP CrossFTP makes it extremely simple to manage the FTP related tasks
D-lan A free LAN file sharing software
The free FTP solution
localsend/localsend 47,210 5 days ago An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop
nitroshare/nitroshare-desktop 1,574 over 3 years ago Cross-Platform network file transfer application
micahflee/onionshare 6,241 9 days ago Securely and anonymously share a file of any size
sidneys/pb-for-desktop 507 over 1 year ago The missing Desktop application for Pushbullet
Quazaa A cross platform multi-network peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing client
SpiderOak Real-time collaboration for teams and businesses that care about privacy
syncthing/syncthing 64,264 4 days ago Syncthing 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/warpinator 1,211 3 months ago Share files across LAN
warner/magic-wormhole 20,154 11 days ago Get arbitrary-sized files and directories (or short pieces of text) from one computer to another safely
AnyDesk AnyDesk ensures secure and reliable remote desktop connections for IT professionals and on-the-go individuals alike
debauchee/barrier 27,300 4 months ago Share 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
PushBullet Pushbullet connects your devices, making them feel like one
rustdesk/rustdesk 73,528 4 days ago Open source virtual / remote desktop infrastructure for everyone! The open source TeamViewer alternative
Teamviewer PC 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/qBittorrent 27,359 4 days ago The qBittorrent project aims to provide a Free Software alternative to ĀµTorrent
c0re100/qBittorrent-Enhanced-Edition 18,531 15 days ago qBittorrent Enhanced is fork of qBittorrent that features peer whitelist/blacklist, auto update public tracker list and more
Tixati Freeware, advanced featured torrent client, a web user interface is included
Simple, lightweight, multi-platform torrent client
transmission-remote-gui/transgui 3,224 7 months ago Transmission Remote GUI is a feature rich cross platform front-end to remotely control a Transmission Bit-Torrent client daemon via its RPC protocol
Vuze Vuze is a BitTorrent client used to transfer files via the BitTorrent protocol
webtorrent/webtorrent-desktop 9,691 8 days ago Web Torrent Desktop is for streaming torrents which connects to both BitTorrent and WebTorrent peers

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / Terminal

jwilm/alacritty 55,835 5 days ago A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator
A beautiful GTK 4 terminal
A simple user-friendly terminal emulator for the GNOME desktop
contour-terminal/contour 2,387 11 days ago Contour 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-term 22,198 4 months ago A good looking terminal that mimicks the old cathode display
GitSquared/edex-ui 40,549 almost 3 years ago eDEX-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/guake 4,411 19 days ago Guake is a top-down terminal for GNOME
zeit/hyper 43,232 about 2 months ago A terminal built on web technologies
orhun/kermit 134 4 months ago A VTE-based, simple and froggy terminal emulator
kovidgoyal/kitty 24,010 4 days ago Cross-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€˜xtermā€™
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/terminator 2,090 3 months ago Feature filled terminal emulator that supports tabs and grids
Eugeny/tabby 58,624 4 days ago Modern, highly configurable terminal app based on web technologies
billiob/terminology 660 4 months ago The 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/termit 143 11 months ago Simple terminal emulator based on vte library, extensible via Lua
Termius Cross-platform terminal with built-in SSH and Telnet
lanoxx/tilda 1,272 3 months ago A Gtk based drop down terminal for Linux and Unix
gnunn1/tilix 5,395 about 1 month ago A tiling terminal emulator for Linux using GTK+ 3
cosmos72/twin 652 11 months ago Fast, 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/visidata 7,835 4 days ago A terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data
wavetermdev/waveterm 4,052 3 days ago Wave is an open-source, AI-native terminal built for seamless developer workflows with inline rendering, a modern UI, and persistent sessions
wez/wezterm 16,973 5 days ago A 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/zellij 20,913 3 days ago A 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/brackets 33,260 over 2 years ago A modern text editor that understands web design
Alexey-T/CudaText 2,483 5 days ago CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Object Pascal
Fleet The 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-builder 242 16 days ago Powerful 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/helix 33,094 5 days ago A post-modern modal text editor
Kate is a multi-document editor part of KDE since release 2.2
Komodo/KomodoEdit 2,151 11 months ago Free and open source multilanguage development environment
lapce/lapce 34,303 3 days ago Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust
LightTable/LightTable 11,725 over 2 years ago The next generation code editor! Support live coding
pulsar-edit/pulsar 3,235 10 days ago A Community-led Hyper-Hackable Text Editor, Forked from Atom, built on Electron
Sublime A very capable text editor with advanced search capabilities, and many powerful plugins to improve its functionality
orbitalquark/textadept 645 8 days ago Minimalist text editor for programmers. Textadept is extensible with Lua programming language
Microsoft/vscode 163,045 3 days ago Visual 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/vscodium 24,995 10 days ago Binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing
pkulchenko/ZeroBraneStudio 2,615 5 months ago A mature, lightweight, cross-platform Lua IDE with modern development features
emacs-mirror/emacs 4,396 4 days ago An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor ā€” and more
mawww/kakoune 9,898 13 days ago Kakoune code editor - Vim inspired. Faster as in less keystrokes. Multiple selections. Orthogonal design. Has a strong focus on interactivity
LunarVim/LunarVim 18,154 3 months ago LunarVim is an opinionated, extensible, and fast IDE layer for Neovim
neovide/neovide 12,787 10 days ago Neovide is a cross-platform GUI for Neovim written in Rust with graphical improvements and more visual flair
neovim/neovim 82,131 4 days ago Neovim is a fork of Vim aiming to improve user experience, plugins, and GUIs
NvChad/NvChad 24,411 20 days ago An attempt to make neovim cli functional like an IDE while being very beautiful and blazing fast
syl20bnr/spacemacs 23,654 14 days ago A community-driven Emacs distribution
SpaceVim/SpaceVim 20,266 18 days ago A community-driven modular vim distribution
vim/vim 36,226 4 days ago Vim 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/micro 24,922 5 days ago Micro 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/notepadqq 2,096 over 1 year ago Notepadqq is a Notepad++-like editor for the Linux desktop
dail8859/NotepadNext 9,020 15 days ago A cross-platform, reimplementation of Notepad++

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / Utilities

GNOME/brasero 59 4 months ago A 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/diskonaut 2,411 7 months ago A disk space visualizer and navigator for the terminal
zevv/duc 586 about 1 month ago Duc, a library and suite of tools for indexing, and visualizing inspecting disk usage
balena-io/etcher 29,468 15 days ago Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily
GNOME/gparted 280 11 days ago Disk Partition utility for Linux
JonMagon/KDiskMark 1,055 about 1 month ago A 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/multibootusb 1,382 over 3 years ago MultiBootUSB allows you to install multiple live linux on a USB disk
pop-os/popsicle 645 about 2 months ago Popsicle is a Linux utility for flashing multiple USB devices in parallel, written in Rust
unetbootin/unetbootin 2,301 about 2 months ago UNetbootin 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/Ventoy 61,888 about 2 months ago A new bootable USB solution
A tool for you to organize your Favorite PPAs and manage Packages Easily
TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher 5,465 about 1 month ago Helper application for Linux distributions serving as a kind of "entry point" for running and integrating AppImages
prateekmedia/appimagepool 636 2 months ago A simple, modern AppImageHub Client
vinifmor/bauh 971 3 months ago Graphical user interface for managing your Linux applications. Supports AppImage, Arch packages (including AUR), Debian packages, Flatpak, Snap and native Web applications
bleachbit/bleachbit 2,981 20 days ago BleachBit 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-editor 36 20 days ago Simple 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/nix 12,286 4 days ago Nix is a powerful package manager for Linux and other Unix systems that makes package management reliable and reproducible
morganamilo/paru 6,101 16 days ago Paru is your standard pacman wrapping AUR helper with lots of features and minimal interaction
sahib/rmlint 1,908 4 months ago rmlint finds space waste and other broken things on your filesystem and offers to remove it
oguzhaninan/Stacer 8,851 8 months ago The most well known Ubuntu System Optimizer
Synaptic is a graphical package management program for apt
gerardpuig/ubuntu-cleaner 224 over 2 years ago Ubuntu Cleaner is a tool that makes it easy to clean your Ubuntu system
Jguer/yay 11,035 5 days ago Yet another Yogurt - An AUR Helper written in Go
imsnif/bandwhich 9,962 4 days ago Terminal 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-gui 462 about 1 year ago Graphical program to easily change the frequency limits and governors of the CPU, similar to cpupower
TheTumultuousUnicornOfDarkness/CPU-X 2,008 6 days ago CPU-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 map A 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-sysmonitor 721 4 months ago An 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/SysMonTask 681 over 1 year ago Linux system monitor with the compactness and usefulness of windows task manager to allow higher control and monitoring
netdata/netdata 70,559 11 days ago Next-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/vnstat 1,412 29 days ago vnStat 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/ipscan 4,093 4 months ago Fast and friendly network scanner
AntiMicroX/antimicrox 2,410 16 days ago Graphical 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/cheat 12,303 2 months ago Cheat 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/Curlew 65 almost 5 years ago A GTK media converter for the GNOME desktop
wimpysworld/deb-get 1,321 28 days ago Deb-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/droidcam 1,068 5 months ago DroidCam turns your Android device into a wireless webcam for your PC
thjaeger/easystroke 508 12 months ago Easystroke is a gesture-recognition application for X11
OzymandiasTheGreat/emoji-keyboard 285 3 months ago Virtual keyboard-like emoji picker for Linux
sindresorhus/fast-cli 2,588 5 months ago Test your download and upload speed using fast.com
tchx84/flatseal 1,168 9 days ago Flatseal is a graphical utility to review and modify permissions from your Flatpak applications
FreeRDP/FreeRDP 10,835 11 days ago FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)
Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! šŸ’…šŸ»
Simmesimme/Gnome-Pie 308 over 2 years ago The circular app launcher for Linux desktops
nomic-ai/gpt4all 69,594 9 days ago gpt4all: an ecosystem of open-source chatbots trained on a massive collections of clean assistant data including code, stories and dialogue
gramps-project/gramps 2,156 20 days ago Research, organize and share your family tree with Gramps
GSConnect/gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect 3,168 19 days ago KDE 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/keynav 587 6 months ago Keynav 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/komorebi 3,368 over 2 years ago Komorebi is a background manager for all Linux platforms, provides fully customizable backgrounds that can be tweaked at any time
rastapasta/mapscii 7,841 3 months ago MapSCII is a Braille & ASCII world map renderer for your console
mobile-shell/mosh 12,581 3 months ago Mosh is a Remote terminal application that allows roaming, supports intermittent connectivity, and provides intelligent local echo and line editing of user keystrokes
nmap/nmap 9,980 8 days ago Nmap is a free, open-source tool for network exploration, management, and security auditing
jiahaog/nativefier 34,865 about 1 year ago Make 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-hole 48,563 14 days ago Network-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
PlexyDesk Plexydesk supports multiple widget workspaces/desktops on Linux
fenrus75/powertop 1,043 7 months ago A tool that can help diagnose issues with power consumption in Linux
pulseaudio/pulseaudio 438 18 days ago Improve Linux Audio with customized Profiles
FreeRDP/Remmina 2,206 11 days ago A feature-rich remote desktop application for Linux and other UNIXes
davatorium/rofi 13,096 9 days ago A window switcher, Application launcher and dmenu replacement
Genymobile/scrcpy 109,429 12 days ago Display and control your Android device
pwr-Solaar/Solaar 5,385 20 days ago Logitech Unifying Receiver peripherals manager for Linux
Sushi is a quick previewer for Nautilus, the GNOME desktop file manager
JoseExposito/touche 545 about 1 month ago Easily 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
TLP An application that can help optimize battery life on Linux
oniony/TMSU 2,024 5 months ago TMSU lets you tags your files and then access them through a nifty virtual filesystem from any other application
Kilian/Trimage 707 over 3 years ago A cross-platform tool for losslessly optimizing PNG and JPG files
adgellida/ubunsys 79 about 3 years ago An application designed to allow you to change in-depth system features without the command line
popey/unsnap 997 5 months ago Quickly migrate from using snap packages to flatpaks
upscayl/upscayl 30,130 11 days ago Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler
USB network gate Allows you to share USB ports over a Network on Linux
peterlevi/variety-slideshow 60 over 4 years ago Variety 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/workrave 1,597 9 days ago A program that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI)

Awesome Linux Software / Applications / Video

xylosper/bomi 424 almost 4 years ago A powerful and easy-to-use multimedia player
celluloid-player/celluloid 1,133 20 days ago Simple GTK+ frontend for mpv
GNOME/cheese 62 11 days ago Cheese uses your webcam to take photos and videos, applies fancy special effects and lets you share the fun with others
Rafostar/clapper 772 25 days ago A GNOME media player built using GJS with GTK4 toolkit and powered by GStreamer with OpenGL rendering
Emby Theater Emby Server's official media player
FFmpeg/FFmpeg 45,078 11 days ago FFmpeg 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-player 3,100 15 days ago Jellyfin 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/xbmc 18,287 11 days ago An award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media center for playing videos, music, pictures, games, and more
mifi/lossless-cut 26,695 6 days ago The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing
pculture/miro 240 about 5 years ago Free, 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-monad 421 over 4 years ago A 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/mpv 28,033 4 days ago A free, open source, and cross-platform media player
Plex Plex 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
SVP SVP 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

CyberGhost CyberGhost 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
ExpressVPN ExpressVPN is the worlds fastest VPN service. It is both safe and reliable to watch and stream movies abroad, or simply access your favourite sites
IVPN IVPN offers a secure VPN service to privacy minded individuals including multi-hop technology and fast bandwidth
mozilla-mobile/mozilla-vpn-client 456 8 days ago Protect your web history, feel safer on public Wi-Fi, and limit ad tracking by increasing the security of your network connection
mullvad/mullvadvpn-app 4,910 11 days ago Mullvad is a VPN service that helps keep your online activity, identity, and location private
NordVPN NordVPN 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/desktop 278 19 days ago Private 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
PureVPN PureVPN 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
Surfshark All 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-App 614 11 days ago Browse 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/dokuwiki 4,138 20 days ago A 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/TiddlyDesktop 1,690 3 months ago A 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/fontforge 6,395 about 2 months ago Free (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-core 6,512 27 days ago Mycroft is a hackable open source voice assistant
Open source RGB lighting control that doesn't depend on manufacturer software. For Windows, Linux, MacOS
libratbag/piper 4,711 11 days ago Piper is a GTK+ application to configure gaming mice
polychromatic/polychromatic 1,039 about 1 month ago Graphical 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/trackma 773 about 2 months ago Open multi-site list manager for Unix-like systems

Awesome Linux Software / Command Line Utilities / Internet

federicotorrielli/Daily-Reddit-Wallpaper 8 over 1 year ago Change your wallpaper to the most upvoted image of the day from /r/wallpapers or any other subreddit on system startup
jarun/ddgr 2,927 about 1 month ago DuckDuckGo from the command line
DNS proxy with support for encrypted DNS protocols,cross platform
mikf/gallery-dl 11,441 8 days ago Command-line program to download image galleries and collections from pixiv, exhentai, danbooru and more
jarun/googler 6,088 almost 3 years ago A program that can Google anything right in the command line
I2P daemon written in C++
mps-youtube/mps-youtube 8,082 24 days ago A 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/newsboat 2,963 4 days ago Newsboat is a fork of Newsbeuter, an RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console
orakaro/rainbowstream 3,539 about 2 years ago A smart and nice Twitter client on terminal written in Python
A command-line interface for Reddit written in POSIX sh
streamlink/streamlink 9,958 4 days ago Streamlink is a CLI utility which pipes video streams from various services into a video player
sdushantha/tmpmail 3,853 about 2 months ago A temporary email right from your terminal written in POSIX sh
soimort/translate-shell 6,934 6 months ago Command-line translator using Google Translate, Bing Translator, Yandex.Translate, etc
vasani-arpit/WBOT 986 2 months ago A simple CLI based BOT for WhatsAppā„¢ in NodeJS. reply to your friends quickly and have fun along the way
iamtalhaasghar/yewtube 245 over 1 year ago Terminal based YouTube player and downloader. No Youtube API key required. Forked from mps-youtube. Can be installed using pip as described
rg3/youtube-dl 131,622 about 2 months ago youtube-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-dlp 83,770 5 days ago A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes
deepjyoti30/ytmdl 3,163 about 2 months ago A 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-cpufreq 5,677 23 days ago Automatic CPU speed & power optimizer for Linux
ClementTsang/bottom 9,921 7 days ago Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor
aristocratos/bpytop 10,094 7 months ago Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes. Python port and continuation of bashtop
aristocratos/btop 19,950 11 days ago Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes
fastfetch-cli/fastfetch 9,821 11 days ago Fastfetch 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/glances 26,462 6 days ago Glances 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/gtop 9,695 6 months ago A system monitoring dashboard for terminal. Think 'graphical top', with bar charts, line graphs, pie charts, and etc
hishamhm/htop 5,839 almost 4 years ago An interactive process viewer for Unix systems with improved features and user experience
sharkdp/hyperfine 21,677 about 1 month ago A command-line benchmarking tool
orhun/kmon 2,520 about 1 month ago Linux Kernel Manager and Activity Monitor
Syllo/nvtop 8,006 about 1 month ago GPUs process monitoring for AMD, Intel and NVIDIA
dylanaraps/pfetch 2,049 8 months ago A pretty system information tool written in POSIX sh
KittyKatt/screenFetch 3,855 3 months ago Fetches system/theme information in terminal for Linux desktop screenshots
amanusk/s-tui 4,135 7 months ago s-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/age 17,024 9 days ago Simple, Modern, Secure encryption tool
sharkdp/bat 48,989 4 days ago A cat clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration
Canop/broot 10,605 12 days ago A new way to see and navigate directory trees
jarun/Buku 6,468 6 days ago A Command line bookmark manager
owenthereal/ccat 3,157 about 2 years ago Colorizing
Slackadays/Clipboard 4,667 2 months ago Cut, copy, and paste anything, anywhere, anytime
AlDanial/cloc 19,386 13 days ago Count Lines of Code: cloc counts blank lines, comment lines, and physical lines of source code in many programming languages
athityakumar/colorls 4,899 30 days ago Color Ls is a Ruby Gem that spices up the ls command and shows more visually than ls does without additional commands
maaslalani/draw 460 10 months ago Draw in your terminal
muesli/duf 12,745 2 months ago Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative
ogham/exa 23,578 11 days ago exa is a modern replacement for ls
sharkdp/fd 33,579 4 days ago A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
LubuntuFu/fishfry 51 over 8 years ago Replaces fish history with a history tailored to pentesters for efficiency and newbie pentesters for learning
junegunn/fzf 64,227 4 days ago A general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder with interactive filter and preview feature for things like files, command history, git commits, hostnames, etc
sindresorhus/fkill-cli 6,867 4 months ago Fabulously kill processes. Cross-platform
heppu/gkill 315 over 7 years ago An interactive process killer for Linux
orf/gping 10,708 12 days ago ping but with graph, cross platform
oguzhaninan/korkut 369 almost 2 years ago Quick and simple image processing at the command line
nojhan/liquidprompt 4,486 9 days ago A full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh
busyloop/lolcat 6,077 7 months ago Displays text in rainbow colors
Peltoche/lsd 13,277 7 days ago The next gen ls command
Hardware Lister for Linux
denisidoro/navi 14,901 7 days ago An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line
o2sh/onefetch 9,681 13 days ago Git repository summary on your terminal
facebook/PathPicker 5,119 about 1 month ago A 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/pywal 8,341 8 months ago pywal 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/ripgrep 47,924 5 days ago Ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches the current directory for a regex pattern
maaslalani/slides 9,715 about 2 months ago Terminal based presentation tool
ggreer/the_silver_searcher 26,096 4 months ago A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster
A minimal, blazingly fast and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell, cross-platform
nvbn/thefuck 84,883 3 months ago Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command
tldr-pages/tldr 50,621 4 days ago The 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/tealdeer 4,109 about 2 months ago A very fast implementation of tldr written in Rust
tmux/tmux 34,819 3 days ago It 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-me 539 almost 2 years ago A command line program that plays a sound or sends a notification when a long command has finished running in the command line
hashicorp/vagrant 26,210 12 days ago Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments
charmbracelet/vhs 14,889 29 days ago Your CLI home video recorder vhs
wicd-curses Command line WiFi connection manager
BurntSushi/xsv 10,336 4 months ago A fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust
skywind3000/z.lua 2,978 5 months ago A new cd command that helps you navigate faster by learning your habits
ajeetdsouza/zoxide 22,002 5 days ago A better way to navigate your filesystem written in Rust
maximumadmin/zramd 94 almost 3 years ago Automatically 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-hardened 566 21 days ago A 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-tkg 1,322 13 days ago Scripts 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-package 286 14 days ago Liquorix 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-kernel 1,989 11 days ago Result of a collaborative effort of kernel hackers to provide the best Linux kernel possible for everyday systems

Awesome Linux Software / Desktop Environments

BuddiesOfBudgie/budgie-desktop 938 3 months ago Budgie is a desktop environment designed with the modern user in mind, it focuses on simplicity and elegance
linuxmint/Cinnamon 4,500 12 days ago Cinnamon strives to provide a traditional user experience. Cinnamon is a fork of GNOME 3
linuxdeepin/dde-file-manager 385 8 days ago DDE (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/lxqt 1,618 about 1 month ago LXQt 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-environment 145 over 2 years ago UKUI 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/unity8 723 over 1 year ago Unity 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/cdm 425 over 3 years ago A ultra-minimalistic, yet full-featured login manager written in Bash
dopsi/console-tdm 134 over 4 years ago An extension for xinit written in pure Bash
coastalwhite/lemurs 711 2 months ago A customizable TUI display/login manager written in Rust
cylgom/ly 5,315 about 1 month ago Ly is a lightweight, TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux
spanezz/nodm 142 almost 5 years ago A minimalistic display manager for automatic logins

Awesome Linux Software / Display manager / Graphic

tomas/entrance 14 over 3 years ago An EFL based display manager, highly experimental
GNOME/gdm 97 11 days ago The GNOME display manager
davvid/lightdm 10 over 9 years ago A 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/mdm 95 almost 6 years ago The MDM display manager, used in Linux Mint, a fork of GDM 2
sddm/sddm 1,873 2 months ago The QML-based display manager and successor to KDE4's kdm; recommended for Plasma 5 and LXQt
gsingh93/slim-display-manager 15 over 9 years ago Lightweight and elegant graphical login solution. (Discontinued)
bbidulock/xdm 11 about 5 years ago The X display manager with support for XDMCP, and host chooser

Awesome Linux Software / Window Managers / Compositors

yshui/picom 4,092 8 days ago Picom is a standalone composite manager, suitable for use with window managers that do not natively provide compositing functionality
Plagman/gamescope 3,021 14 days ago Gamescope is a micro-compositor that provides a sandboxed Xwayland desktop with independent input, resolution, and refresh rate
hyprwm/Hyprland 19,844 8 days ago Hyprland is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks
riverwm/river 3,222 17 days ago River is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor with flexible runtime configuration
swaywm/sway 14,467 14 days ago Sway is tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11
WayfireWM/wayfire 2,369 8 days ago Wayfire 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/2bwm 791 5 months ago A fast floating WM, with the particularity of having 2 borders, written over the XCB library and derived from mcwm
bbidulock/blackboxwm 167 7 months ago A fast, lightweight window manager for the X Window System, without all those annoying library dependencies
fluxbox/fluxbox 316 4 months ago A window manager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code
ice-wm/icewm 287 4 months ago A window manager for the X Window System. The goal of IceWM is speed, simplicity, and not getting in the userā€™s way
danakj/openbox 624 about 2 months ago A highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support

Awesome Linux Software / Window Managers / Tiling Window Managers

Bismuth-Forge/bismuth 2,409 5 months ago Making tiling window management easy. On KDE Plasma
baskerville/bspwm 7,728 3 months ago Bspwm is a tiling window manager that represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree
herbstluftwm/herbstluftwm 1,093 14 days ago Is a Manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib
i3/i3 9,441 2 months ago A better tiling and dynamic window manager. It's completely written from scratch. The target platforms are GNU/Linux and BSD operating systems
pop-os/shell 4,844 17 days ago Pop Shell is a keyboard-driven auto-tiling window manager that run on top of the GNOME shell
qtile/qtile 4,775 13 days ago Qtile is a full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python

Awesome Linux Software / Window Managers / Dynamic Window Managers

awesomeWM/awesome 6,354 28 days ago A highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X
cdown/dwm 59 5 months ago A dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts
esjeon/krohnkite 1,666 about 1 year ago A dynamic tiling extension for KWin
conformal/spectrwm 1,327 3 months ago A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11, largely inspired by xmonad and dwm
codic12/worm 716 4 months ago A dynamic, tag-based window manager written in Nim
xmonad/xmonad 3,338 20 days ago A 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 Timeline 1,670 12 days 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
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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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