Software

AppImage

• AppImageLauncher - Provides desktop integration of AppImages (entries show up in the menu)

Command Line Utilities

• bat - A cat clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration.
  • called/invoked using batcat on some distros
• vivid - a generator for the LS_COLORS environment variable that controls the colorized output of ls, tree, fd, bfs, dust and many other tools.

Desktop Environments

KDE/Plasma 6

• Weather Widget

File Sharing

• Maestral - a lightweight Dropbox client.

Financial

• tstock - tool to easily generate stock charts from the command line.
• ticker - terminal stock watcher and stock position tracker.

Genealogy

• Gramps - Open Source genealogy program
  • Written in Python, using the GTK/GNOME interface.
  • It is an extremely flexible program fitting the needs for both the amateur genealogist and serious genealogical researcher.
  • Gramps has the ability to import GEDCOM files exported from many proprietary genealogy programs and can produce a large number of reports in many popular formats.
  • Can be used to create genograms - going to test this myself
  • Flatpak install is recommended: packages in repos are "likely to be out-of-date".

Graphics

• gThumb - GTK image viewer and image organizer with simple editing functions.

GUI System Information

• hardinfo

Internet and Networking

• Angry IP Scanner
• Fragments torrent client
• SftpMan GTK - GTK frontend for SftpMan (application that handles sshfs/sftp file systems mounting).
  • Not in Ubuntu repos.
• Sirikali provides a Qt/C++ GUI front end to cryfs, gocryptfs, securefs, sshfs, and encfs, allowing the user to create, mount, and unmount encrypted volumes.
  • In Ubuntu repos.
• GetFlix proxy

Messaging

• Whatsie - Lightweight, open-source, and feature-rich desktop client for WhatsApp Web, designed specifically for Linux.
  • Built using the Qt framework.

Multimedia

• Amberol
  • A small and simple sound and music player that is well integrated with GNOME.
  • Amberol aspires to be as small, unintrusive, and simple as possible.
  • It does not manage your music collection; it does not let you manage playlists, smart or otherwise; it does not let you edit the metadata for your songs; it does not show you lyrics for your songs, or the Wikipedia page for your bands.
• Monophony
  • Monophony is a free and open source Linux app for streaming music from YouTube.
  • It has no ads and does not require an account.
• Parabolic
  • A basic yt-dlp frontend
  • Flatpak install/run instructions:
    • flatpak install flathub org.nickvision.tubeconverter
    • flatpak run org.nickvision.tubeconverter
• Subsonic:
  • Stream from your own computer.
  • Your media — your terms.
  • Use a browser on any computer to play music and movies.
• Harmonoid
  • Plays and manages your music library.
  • Cross-platform
  • Very strictly follows Material Design UI guidelines.
  • D-Bus MPRIS controls for Linux.
• MusicPod
  • Flashy-looking Flutter app designed exclusively for the Ubuntu desktop.
• Tube Converter:
  • Get video and audio from the web.
  • The recommended way to get the app is to install Tube Converter from Flathub.
• SoX
  • Swiss army knife of sound processing
  • Can be used to generate white noise, pink noise, etc.
• MAFA
  • MPD client app for android
• Jellyfin
  • Jellyfin is the volunteer-built media solution that puts you in control of your media. Stream to any device from your own server, with no strings attached. Your media, your server, your way.

OCR

• Graphical GTK+ front-end to tesseract-ocr

Operating Systems

• Atlas is a Windows version designed for gamers. Atlas users can enjoy higher framerate, lowered input delay & latency. Great for people on a low-end system, or high-end gaming machine.
• Murena is an umbrella name for the /e/OS operating system, associated open source powered smartphones, and cloud-based services. The Murena project provides open source images for common smartphones, open source cloud-based storage, calendar, and backup solutions, and sells phones with /e/OS pre-installed. The project's operating system is based on LineageOS, itself based on Android. The Murena team removes closed source applications, trackers, and Google-specific elements of Android and replaces them with open source alternatives.
• Chimera Linux is based on the Linux kernel but it bills itself as non-GNU/Linux becuase it uses FreeBSD userland tools, LLVM compiler and toolchain, and musl C library.
• tiny11, according to its web site, "has everything you need for a comfortable computing experience without the bloat and clutter of a standard Windows installation."
• ChromeOS Flex is a distribution of ChromeOS that can be installed on conventional PC hardware.
• SDesk
  • Arch-based
  • GNOME 45
  • Wayland
  • Swirl Web Browser
• AxOS
  • Arch-based
  • uses the Hyprland-based Sleex (developed in-house) as the default desktop environment
• BlueStar Linux
  • Arch-based
  • pretty snappy performance for Plasma
• FerenOS
  • Custom KDE Plasma theme
  • Uses Vivaldi as default browser
• Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC (Long-Term Servicing Channel)
• PhoenixPE
  • PhoenixPE is a WinPE Rescue/Recovery Environment based on Win10/Win11. It can be booted via USB, CD/DVD, PXE/Network, or hard disk.
• StormOS
  • This distro's goal is to help bring new users over to the world of Arch Linux by offering an easy to install, out of the box Arch Linux experience.
  • Xfce
  • Zen kernel (modified for performance and responsiveness)

Package Management

• Nala
  • Nala is a front-end for libapt-pkg. Specifically we interface using the python-apt api.
  • sudo nala fetch This command works similar to how most people use netselect and netselect-apt. nala fetch will check if your distro is either Debian or Ubuntu. Nala will then go get all the mirrors from the respective master list. Once done we test the latency and score each mirror. Nala will choose the fastest 3 mirrors (configurable) and write them to a file.
• Pacstall is the AUR Ubuntu wishes it had. It takes the concept of AUR and puts a spin on it, making it easier to install programs without scouring github repos and the likes.
• winget (Windows Package Manager) - free and open-source package manager designed by Microsoft for Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server 2025.

Password Managers

• Bitwarden Unified is a self-hosted instance of a Bitwarden vault (Docker image) currently in beta. Can be run on Raspberry Pi.

PDF

• Xournal++
  • Primarily, Xournal++ is a tool for handwritten notes.
  • But Xournal++ provides a PDF annotation tool, which can be used for basic PDF editing like highlighting, adding text, drawing figures, etc.
• PDFsam
  • PDFsam (basic edition) is a free and open-source tool that lets you easily split, merge, rotate, and extract PDF files.
  • Nice GUI.
• Xournal
  • Note-taking program supporting pen & PDF annotation
• PDF Arranger
  • Merge, split, shuffle, and crop PDFs
  • Flatpak

Screenshot

• Greenshot

Search

• FSearch — a fast graphical file search utility
  • sudo add-apt-repository ppa:christian-boxdoerfer/fsearch-stable
  • sudo apt update && sudo apt install fsearch or
  • sudo nala update && sudo nala install fsearch

Shells

• Nushell
  • Pipelines to control any OS
  • Everything is data
    • Nu pipelines use structured data so you can safely select, filter, and sort the same way every time.

Stocks

• JStock

Terminal Emulators

• Termux
  • Combines powerful terminal emulation with an extensive Linux package collection.

Web Browsers

• BadWolf - BadWolf is a minimalist and privacy-oriented WebKitGTK+ browser. JavaScript is off by default.
  • No debs — needs to be compiled from source...
• Dillo
• Thorium - The fastest browser on Earth
  • Chromium fork
  • compiled with optimizations that "nets 8-38% performance improvement over vanilla Chromium, depending on the benchmark"
  • supposedly has built-in ad blocking - but "UI Changes and Patches for Linux and Windows that fix bugs, enhance useability, and strengthen privacy/security"
• LibreWolf - a custom and independent version of Firefox, with the primary goals of privacy, security and user freedom.
  • Comes with uBlock Origin already installed.
• Helium Browser
  • Best privacy and unbiased ad-blocking by default.
  • Handy features like native !bangs and split view.
  • No adware, no bloat, no noise.
  • People-first and fully open source.

Windows Software

• Sparkle
  • A Windows optimization tool that can remove bloatware, help you run system maintenance, and has a bunch of useful Windows tweaks.

WYSIWYG HTML Editor

• BlueGriffon