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🚀 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. 👏

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