awesome-linux-apps
github.com/cuongndc9/awesome-linux-apps ↗🚀 A list of awesome applications for 🐧 Linux distributions.
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Terminal
- Alacritty
Cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator. 👏
- Certificate Ripper
A CLI tool to extract server certificates from a URL. 👏
- Fzf command-line fuzzy finder
General-purpose command-line fuzzy finder that makes searching in history way easier. 👏
- Hyper
Terminal built on web technologies. 👏
- Kitty
Fast, feature-rich, cross-platform, GPU based terminal. 👏
- Konsole
Terminal emulator for the K Desktop Environment. 👏
Music
- Amarok
Powerful music player for Linux with an intuitive interface. 👏
- Audacious
Open source audio player that is low resource and has a minimal feature interface. 👏
- Clementine
Cross-platform music player and library organizer forked from Amarok 1.4. 👏
- cmus
Small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems. 👏
- Lollypop
Modern music player for GNOME. 👏
- ocp
Music visualizer for various tracked music formats, chiptunes and other formats related to demoscene. 👏
Audio
- Amarok
A cross-platform and opensource audio player. 👏
- Ardour
Free, open source audio workstation for recording, editing and Mixing. 👏
- Audacity
Free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds. 👏
- Clementine
A cross-platform feature-rich music player.
- Frinika
Free, complete music workstation software.
- LMMS
Free cross-platform music production software. 👏
IDEs
- Android Studio
The fastest tools for building apps on every type of Android device.
- CLion
Cross-platform IDE for C and C++.
- DataGrip
Many databases, one tool.
- Eclipse
Free, open source, written by Java and plugin architecture allows Eclipse to be extended in other languages.
- GoLand
Cross-platform IDE built specially for Go developers.
- IntelliJ IDEA
Powerful IDE for JVM languages.
Code Editors
- Atom
Hackable text editor for the 21st Century. 👏
- BlueFish
Powerful editor targeted towards programmers and web developers.
- Brackets
Modern, open source text editor that understands web design. 👏
- Kakoune
Modal editor with multi selection and fewer keystroke 👏
- neovim
Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability. 👏
- Oni
Modern Modal Editing - powered by Neovim. 👏
Backup
- attic
Efficient and secure way to backup data. 👏
- Back In Time
Simple backup solution. 👏
- backup
Powerful backup tool distributed using RubyGems. 👏
- BackupPC
High-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up to a server's disk. 👏
- bup
Efficient backup system, provide fast incremental saves and global deduplication. 👏
- Déjà Dup
Simple backup tool, hides the complexity of backing up the right way and uses duplicity as the backend. 👏
Version Control
- Aurees
Easy, fast and free.
- CodeReview
Git GUI tool to perform code review. 👏
- GitAhead
Graphical Git client designed to help you understand and manage your source code history. 👏
- Git Cola
Powerful Git GUI with a slick and intuitive user interface. 👏
- Git Extensions
Standalone UI tool for managing git repositories. 👏
- Git Horizon
Cross-platform, Actionable, Graphical Git Dashboard.
Video
- Bomi
Powerful and Easy-to-use multimedia player. 👏
- Kodi
Free and open source media player application. 👏
- Miro
Beautiful, open-source music and video player that lets you break free! 👏
- mpv
Free, open source, and cross-platform media player. 👏
- OBS Studio
Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. 👏
- SimpleScreenRecorder
Free and open source screen recording is easy to do. 👏
Showing a sample of 165 resources. View the full list on GitHub →