Top 23 C++ Linux Projects

• Kodi Home Theater Software

  58 12,513 9.9 C++

  Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS and Windows.

  

  Project mention: What is the best way to watch or stream a video file from Google Drive (without download)? | reddit.com/r/Piracy | 2021-06-13

  rclone mount the drive locally and play media from it or you can use the Google Drive plugin for Kodi to stream.

• keepassxc

  94 10,459 8.7 C++

  KeePassXC is a cross-platform community-driven port of the Windows application “Keepass Password Safe”.

  

  Project mention: What password manager do you use? | reddit.com/r/xfce | 2021-06-10

  keepassxc https://keepassxc.org/

• Scout APM

  Sponsored scoutapm.com

  Scout APM - Leading-edge performance monitoring starting at $39/month. Scout APM uses tracing logic that ties bottlenecks to source code so you know the exact line of code causing performance issues and can get back to building a great product faster.

• OpenRCT2

  40 9,530 9.9 C++

  An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 🎢

  

  Project mention: Build fails at 100% | reddit.com/r/openrct2 | 2021-06-15

  I followed this guide and reinstalled all the packages. It works now :)

• FreeCAD

  36 9,446 9.9 C++

  This is the official source code of FreeCAD, a free and opensource multiplatform 3D parametric modeler. Issues are managed on our own bug tracker at https://www.freecadweb.org/tracker

  

  Project mention: What level of python knowledge is needed for these dream project | reddit.com/r/learnpython | 2021-06-15

  A good alternative to paid CAD software is FreeCAD. It's open source and free, and it runs on Linux, MacOS, and Windows where the paid closed source stuff usually only works on Windows. I would definitely recommend checking it out

• polybar

  119 8,688 8.7 C++

  A fast and easy-to-use status bar

  

  Project mention: I made firefox's navbar look like the latest safari's navbar with userChrome.css. I just copy-pasted navbar_tabs_onlinear.css from https://github.com/MrOtherGuy/firefox-csshacks. And yeah it means firefox had this feature before safari (sort of). | reddit.com/r/firefox | 2021-06-09

  It is a separate application mostly used in window managers(from my experience). I have used it on my i3 build. here is the repo. It's easy to customize.

• OpenFrameworks

  6 8,406 8.2 C++

  openFrameworks is a community-developed cross platform toolkit for creative coding in C++.

  

  Project mention: Ask HN: Getting back to C++ and looking for ideas | news.ycombinator.com | 2021-05-08

  If you're interested in working with graphics or sounds, I'd recommend checking out openFrameworks, which bills itself as a "creative coding toolkit". https://openframeworks.cc

  For a taste of what is possible with openFramworks, take a peek at this youtube series by Lewis Lepton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwt2NAd1ZYY&list=PL4neAtv21W...

• Stacer

  8 7,008 4.2 C++

  Linux System Optimizer and Monitoring - https://oguzhaninan.github.io/Stacer-Web

  Project mention: Stacer 32 bit required. | reddit.com/r/linuxquestions | 2021-06-07

• SaaSHub

  Sponsored www.saashub.com

  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

• TrinityCore

  10 6,711 9.7 C++

  TrinityCore Open Source MMO Framework (master = 9.0.5.38556, 3.3.5 = 3.3.5a.12340)

  

  Project mention: How private servers work (technically) and why IMHO they are still so bugged in 2021 | reddit.com/r/wowservers | 2021-06-05

  In 2009 another important project was born TrinityCore, based on MaNGOS.

• anbox

  9 6,418 7.0 C++

  Anbox is a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system

  

  Project mention: The new updates to Plasma Mobile introduce the first steps towards multiple homescreens, timers for KClock, new podcast and Mastodon apps, and more. | reddit.com/r/linux | 2021-06-10

  People have been using https://github.com/anbox/anbox to various success to run Android applications. One issue though is that it still doesn't support Wayland, there's actually a bounty of $230 USD for someone to do it: https://github.com/anbox/anbox/issues/1270

• dxvk

  126 6,334 9.3 C++

  Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10 and D3D11 for Linux / Wine

  Project mention: Is there a script that auto updates my dxvk every time I start my pc? | reddit.com/r/bash | 2021-06-15

  I want that every time I start my pc that it then replaces the files in my ~/dxvk (the folder I place my dxvk in) with the newest one from https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk if a new version is available.

• rr

  22 6,034 9.0 C++

  Record and Replay Framework

  

  Project mention: Gnome is fantastic. Kudos to designers and developers! (trying Linux again, first time since 2005) | reddit.com/r/linux | 2021-06-07

  Last time I used a Linux distro as my main OS was back in ~2005 with Ubuntu 5.10. I recently decided to try is again so I could use the excellent rr debugger,. I somewhat expected it to be a hodgepodge of mismatched icons and cluttered user interfaces, but what a positive surprise it has been!

• drogon

  6 5,641 9.0 C++

  Drogon: A C++14/17 based HTTP web application framework running on Linux/macOS/Unix/Windows

  Project mention: Easiest way to get values and run C++ code through a webpage | reddit.com/r/AskProgramming | 2021-06-10

  You also have https://github.com/an-tao/drogon

• DearPyGui

  90 5,248 9.9 C++

  Dear PyGui: A fast and powerful Graphical User Interface Toolkit for Python with minimal dependencies

  Project mention: Question about GUI python programming ressources and LICENCES | reddit.com/r/learnprogramming | 2021-06-09

• olive

  27 5,081 9.8 C++

  Free open-source non-linear video editor

  

  Project mention: Lycopene supplements UK | reddit.com/r/olive | 2021-05-27

  Yes: You're lost. This is the subreddit for the Olive Video Editor: https://github.com/olive-editor/olive

• openscad

  20 4,075 9.5 C++

  OpenSCAD - The Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller

  

  Project mention: rotate_extrude problems | reddit.com/r/openscad | 2021-06-06

• Mumble

  28 3,928 9.8 C++

  Mumble is an open-source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software.

  

  Project mention: Fill in the blanks: You may be using _______, but should be using _______. | reddit.com/r/selfhosted | 2021-06-03

  You may be using Discord, but you should be using Mumble.

• cuberite

  1 3,714 9.2 C++

  A lightweight, fast and extensible game server for Minecraft

  

  Project mention: Is it possible to write a Minecraft server in a language OTHER than Java? | reddit.com/r/admincraft | 2021-03-01

  There were a bunch of attempts in the past. Cuberite is still actively maintained but I have never tried them: https://github.com/cuberite/cuberite

• Boost.Beast

  2 3,041 7.7 C++

  HTTP and WebSocket built on Boost.Asio in C++11

  

  Project mention: cpprestsdk in maintenance mode | reddit.com/r/cpp | 2021-06-08

  If you need an embedded C++ HTTP server then there are plenty of libraries/frameworks (in random order): Crow, RESTinio, Boost.Beast, cpp-httplib, http_backend, Pistache, RestBed, served, proxygen, Simple-Web-Server, drogon, oat++.

• Clementine

  16 2,957 9.3 C++

  :tangerine: Clementine Music Player

  

  Project mention: anybody know good music Player with Spotify integration | reddit.com/r/archlinux | 2021-06-13

• multipass

  11 2,940 9.9 C++

  Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances

  

  Project mention: Deploy a MicroK8s cluster with cloud-init | dev.to | 2021-06-09

  The script can be used in many different environments. The low hanging fruit to use it is wth multipass, another handy tool from Ubuntu to launch virtual machines in multiple environments.

• PJON

  19 2,561 7.8 C++

  PJON® (Padded Jittering Operative Network) is an experimental, arduino-compatible, multi-master, multi-media network protocol.

  Project mention: The operative system for a decarbonised, decentralised, digitised energy system | news.ycombinator.com | 2021-03-22

  When the physical layer of devices in the home don’t offer Wireless connectivity, hardware communication modules needs to be adopted to bridge the existing connectivity.

  This protocol exists already is called PJON: https://github.com/gioblu/PJON

• lumixengine

  1 2,437 9.7 C++

  3D C++ Game Engine - yet another open source game engine

  Project mention: Thinking of creating a Game Engine for my game... | reddit.com/r/gamedev | 2021-04-19

• MangoHud

  51 2,418 8.4 C++

  A Vulkan and OpenGL overlay for monitoring FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load and more. Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/Gj5YmBb

  Project mention: Is there any way to use mangohud globally for OpenGL applications? | reddit.com/r/archlinux | 2021-06-15

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