What Are The Best Linux Apps?

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/linuxquestions

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  • Motrix

    A full-featured download manager.

  • Motrix: FOSS download manager supports torrent files. (Cross platform not neccessary for linux)

  • percollate

    A command-line tool to turn web pages into readable PDF, EPUB, HTML, or Markdown docs.

  • WorkOS

    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.

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  • st

    build of the suckless simple terminal with patches for alpha, font2, copyurl, openclipboard, invert, appsync, xresources, scrollback, w3m, keyboard select, boxdraw (by mrdotx)

  • Several months ago I often used suckless programs as ST which is the best terminal that I used and I recommend giving a try, too. It's written in a few C lines of code because the philosophy of suckless is minimalist but you can extend the st through patches.

  • 0ad

    Git mirror of the 0 A.D. source code (http://trac.wildfiregames.com/browser)

  • 0 A.D

  • fish-shell

    The user-friendly command line shell.

  • fish!

  • FeatherPad

    Lightweight Qt Plain-Text Editor for Linux

  • FeatherPad as a text editor

  • gImageReader

    A Gtk/Qt front-end to tesseract-ocr.

  • gImageReader as a simple OCR application

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  • hypnotix

    An M3U IPTV Player

  • Hypnotix for watching IPTV

  • pure-maps

    Maps and navigation

  • Pure Maps with OSM Scout Server for offline mapping and geolocation

  • osmscout-server

    Maps server providing tiles, geocoder, and router

  • Pure Maps with OSM Scout Server for offline mapping and geolocation

  • warpinator

    Share files across the LAN

  • Warpinator for sharing files over a local network without fiddling too much with text files

  • webapp-manager

  • Web App Manager for creating SSBs without using electron

  • thefuck

    Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.

  • Although bash-insults looks interesting, I think that The Fuck is more useful.

  • tg

    `telegram-cli` for Telegram IM (by kenorb-contrib)

  • bleachbit

    BleachBit system cleaner for Windows and Linux

  • Bleachbit is something like ccleaner, for those who know it, for those who don't it helps you clean your pc from not needed things.

  • micro-editor

    A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

  • micro text editor I didn't want to include terminal programs, but I'll make an exception: This is a wonderful text editor, it's really easy to use, I prefer it over more advanced tools just because of how simple it is. I'd recommend it to any new user who doesn't feel comfortable with vim or nano.

  • lutris

    Lutris desktop client

  • Lutris is something you just need if you're a gamer.

  • Bitwarden

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

  • Bitwarden is for storing your password, it's on the cloud so you may not trust it, and I get you, I don't trust cloud things much myself, but I'm such a mess that I don't trust myself to handle something like my own password myself, I know I'd lose them.

  • Tabby

    A terminal for a more modern age

  • I am quite enamored of the Tabby terminal (https://tabby.sh/) as of late. I was using Terminator, which is awesome so put away your pitchforks, but Tabby has all the functionality I needed from Terminator in a package that is much more aesthetically and ergonomically pleasing, IMO.

  • keepassxc

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

  • I'm a bit surprised nobody mentioned: KeyPassXC

  • BorgBackup

    Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.

  • feh

    a fast and light image viewer

  • feh for viewing images in a directory. The best quick image viewer I've found.

  • tmux

    tmux source code

  • I'm using sakura for my terminal: it's lightweight, and neat. But really, tmux is the star here; it really takes the terminal into another region of excellence, power, and functionality. I now couldn't live with tmux.

  • calc

    C-style arbitrary precision calculator

  • calc: a command line calculator with arbitrary precision. GNU bc is good too, but calc has more built-in commands (combinatorial, number theory functions for example). You can use it interactively, or simply to provide the results of a calculation. Try this: in your terminal, enter

  • tilda

    A Gtk based drop down terminal for Linux and Unix

  • I haven't seen anyone mention it, but a fantastic terminal i recommend you guys should give a try is Tilda. It's a drop down terminal and is so much fun to use if you spend a lot of time in the terminal.

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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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