What are some lesser-known Linux software that are absolutely life changing?

• eog-modified-date-plugin

  3 35 0.0 Python

  GNOME Image Viewer (EOG) Plugin - Sort by Modified Date : Plug-in for Eye of GNOME to navigate images based on modified date.

I wrote a plugin for the GNOME image viewer (default on Ubuntu and other GNOME distros) so the order of images is by the modified date. So if you have a bunch on images in a folder, you can press the arrow keys and it will move from the newest to the oldest (rather than alphabetically). https://github.com/cybereality/eog-modified-date-plugin

• task-spooler

  4 222 4.4 C

  A scheduler for GPU/CPU tasks

• 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.

  

• thefuck

  305 82,689 4.8 Python

  Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.

thefuck

• explainshell

  7 12,796 2.3 Python

  match command-line arguments to their help text

• Task

  113 9,977 9.6 MDX

  A task runner / simpler Make alternative written in Go

  

Taskfile https://taskfile.dev/

• jaro

  5 66 1.1 Scheme

  a highly customizable xdg-open alternative

Another alternative to xdgopen is jaro. There is a config that overrides xdgopen system-wide and it can handle alternative programs inside and outside of terminal. It also has alternative openers selector, but i haven't tried it yet as probably it's better to use mimeopen --ask as it lists all possible openers, but jaro can use dmenu (or maybe even rofi) as selector outside terminal

• lsd

  62 12,239 8.2 Rust

  The next gen ls command

  

Just in case people don’t get the sarcasm here https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd

• 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.

  

• x11pygrid

  3 322 3.6 Python

  Quickly move windows around the an X11 desktop

not for wayland but this windowmanager-agnostic grid tool is very helpful https://github.com/pkkid/x11pygrid

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