Linux software list. Discussion and advice welcome!

• Proton

  1,448 22,655 9.6 C++

  Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components

  

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

• zotero

  254 9,176 9.9 JavaScript

  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

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• VideoLAN Client (VLC)

  379 12,959 0.0 C

  VLC media player - All pull requests are ignored, please follow https://wiki.videolan.org/Sending_Patches_VLC/

  

VLC - multimedia player and framework

• youtube-dl-gui

  128 6,289 0.0 JavaScript

  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

• tartube

  71 1,847 6.4 Python

  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

• strawberry

  100 2,428 9.6 C++

  :strawberry: Strawberry Music Player (by strawberrymusicplayer)

  

Strawberry - music player and music collection organizer

• torsocks

  563 498 0.0 C

  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

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• PhotoGIMP

  136 3,582 4.2 Python

  A Patch for GIMP 2.10+ for Photoshop Users

PhotoGIMP - patch to theme and mimic GIMP like Adobe Photoshop

• manuskript

  53 1,668 7.8 Python

  A open-source tool for writers

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

• barrier

  616 26,119 0.0 C

  Open-source KVM software

  

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

• QEMU

  190 9,236 10.0 C

  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

• qBittorrent

  709 25,051 9.6 C++

  qBittorrent BitTorrent client

  

qBittorrent - FOSS BitTorrent client

• LibreOffice

  584 2,423 10.0

  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

• darktable

  389 8,769 10.0 C

  darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer

  

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

• bleachbit

  144 2,701 8.7 Python

  BleachBit system cleaner for Windows and Linux

  

Bleachbit - system cleaner

• telegram-cli

  41 16 10.0 C

  Command line interface for Telegram protocol

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

• syncthing-android

  1,233 3,025 9.2 Java

  Wrapper of syncthing for Android.

  

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

• app

  125 4,893 9.9 TypeScript

  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

• mpv

  830 25,874 9.9 C

  🎥 Command line video player

  

MPV - powerful minimalist video player

• meld

  38 17 4.3 Python

  Meld (by noamraph)

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

• Joplin

  771 42,770 9.9 TypeScript

  Joplin - the secure note taking and to-do app with synchronisation capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.

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

• Jellyfin

  1,034 29,579 9.9 C#

  The Free Software Media System

  

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

• HandBrake

  981 15,530 9.8 C

  HandBrake's main development repository

  

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

• FreeTube

  497 11,709 9.9 JavaScript

  An Open Source YouTube app for privacy

  

Freetube - YouTube desktop client using data from Invidious

• exifcleaner

  42 1,663 0.0 TypeScript

  Cross-platform desktop GUI app to clean image metadata

ExifCleaner - remove most metadata from popular file types

• dolphin

  386 12,118 9.9 C++

  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

• Cryptomator

  491 10,619 9.7 Java

  Multi-platform transparent client-side encryption of your files in the cloud

  

Cryptomator - data encryption for all file types and folders

• Bitwarden

  1,055 14,318 9.8 C#

  The core infrastructure backend (API, database, Docker, etc). (by bitwarden)

  

Bitwarden - FOSS password manager

• jami-cli

  136 15 0.0 Rust

  Jami client for terminal

• Awesome-Linux-Software

  48 21,135 8.0 Python

  🐧 A list of awesome Linux softwares

Awesome Linux Software

• awesome-sysadmin

  25 23,438 0.0

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

Awesome sysadmin

• linuxapps

  1 22 10.0

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

linuxapps

• paper

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• keepassxc

  512 19,176 8.7 C++

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

  

KeePassXC and its browsers' extensions

• picosnitch

  33 587 8.6 Python

  Monitor Network Traffic Per Executable, Beautifully Visualized

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

• ColorPicker

  1 71 3.0 C++

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

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com sponsored

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

  

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