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InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads
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  1. Proton

    Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components

    Proton - Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components

  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

    InfluxDB logo
  3. zotero

    Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share your research sources.

    Zotero - organizes research, creates references and bibliographies

  4. VideoLAN Client (VLC)

    VLC media player - All pull requests are ignored, please use MRs on https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc

    VLC - multimedia player and framework

  5. youtube-dl-gui

    A cross-platform GUI for youtube-dl made in Electron and node.js (by jely2002)

    Open Video Downloader - GUI for youtube-dl made in Electron and node.js

  6. tartube

    A GUI front-end for youtube-dl, partly based on youtube-dl-gui and written in Python 3 / Gtk 3

    Tartube - GUI front-end for youtube-dl made with Python

  7. strawberry

    :strawberry: Strawberry Music Player (by strawberrymusicplayer)

    Strawberry - music player and music collection organizer

  8. torsocks

    Library to torify application - NOTE: upstream has been moved to https://gitweb.torproject.org/torsocks.git

    Tor Browser - anonymous web browsing allowing access to 'onion' websites

  9. SaaSHub

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

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  10. PhotoGIMP

    A Patch for GIMP 3+ for Photoshop Users

    PhotoGIMP - patch to theme and mimic GIMP like Adobe Photoshop

  11. manuskript

    A open-source tool for writers

    Manuskript - planner and organization tool for writing; keep track of details

  12. barrier

    Open-source KVM software

    Barrier - use a single keyboard and mouse to control multiple computers

  13. QEMU

    Official QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website.

    QEMU - machine emulator and virtualizer

  14. qBittorrent

    qBittorrent BitTorrent client

    qBittorrent - FOSS BitTorrent client

  15. LibreOffice

    Read-only LibreOffice core repo - no pull request (use gerrit instead https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/) - don't download zip, use https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/bundles/ instead (by LibreOffice)

    LibreOffice - productivity software suite; a FOSS implementation of MS Office

  16. darktable

    darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer

    Darktable - photography workflow application, raw developer, and basic photo editor

  17. bleachbit

    BleachBit system cleaner for Windows and Linux

    Bleachbit - system cleaner

  18. telegram-cli

    Command line interface for Telegram protocol

    Telegram - encrypted instant messaging service (with backdoors), cloud-based and centralized

  19. syncthing-android

    Discontinued Wrapper of syncthing for Android.

    Syncthing - synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time

  20. app

    Think fearlessly with end-to-end encrypted notes and files. For issues, visit https://standardnotes.com/forum or https://standardnotes.com/help.

    standard notes - advanced e2ee notation software

  21. mpv

    🎥 Command line media player

    MPV - powerful minimalist video player

  22. meld

    Meld (by noamraph)

    Meld - visual diff and merge tool: compare files, directories, and version controlled projects

  23. Joplin

    Joplin - the privacy-focused note taking app with sync capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.

    Joplin - open source note-taking app with e2ee over p2p sync

  24. Jellyfin

    The Free Software Media System - Server Backend & API

    Jellyfin - media server and suite of multimedia applications for sharing and organizing media

  25. HandBrake

    HandBrake's main development repository

    Handbrake - video transcode which can convert video from nearly any format

  26. FreeTube

    An Open Source YouTube app for privacy

    Freetube - YouTube desktop client using data from Invidious

  27. exifcleaner

    Cross-platform desktop GUI app to clean image metadata

    ExifCleaner - remove most metadata from popular file types

  28. dolphin

    Dolphin is a GameCube / Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements.

    Dolphin - emulator for GameCube and Wii

  29. Cryptomator

    Cryptomator for Windows, macOS, and Linux: Secure client-side encryption for your cloud storage, ensuring privacy and control over your data.

    Cryptomator - data encryption for all file types and folders

  30. Bitwarden

    Bitwarden infrastructure/backend (API, database, Docker, etc). (by bitwarden)

    Bitwarden - FOSS password manager

  31. jami-cli

    Jami client for terminal

  32. Awesome-Linux-Software

    🐧 A list of awesome Linux softwares

    Awesome Linux Software

  33. awesome-sysadmin

    A curated list of amazingly awesome open source sysadmin resources inspired by Awesome PHP.

    Awesome sysadmin

  34. linuxapps

    Personal list of useful linux software, to be used as a reference or remind when installing a new linux system.

    linuxapps

  35. paper

  36. keepassxc

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

    KeePassXC and its browsers' extensions

  37. picosnitch

    Monitor Network Traffic Per Executable, Beautifully Visualized

    picosnitch - monitors and hashes programs that connect to the internet, and can check them with VirusTotal.

  38. ColorPicker

    Powerful screen ColorPicker/Chooser application for Linux Desktop (by keshavbhatt)

  39. SaaSHub

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

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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