GNU/Linux software
KDE
Qt, beautiful and customizable desktop environnement
https://kde.org
- Dolphin, file manager (with support for SFTP)
- Gwenview, image viewer
- Okular, document viewer (PDF, Markdown…)
- KColorChooser, color picker
- Kontrast, contrast color checker
- Akregator, RSS reader
- Filelight, displays disk usage with a diagram
- KRuler, a rule for the screen
- Kate, code editor
- KCharSelect
- KDE Connect, access your Android device features from your GNU/Linux, and vice versa
- Krita, drawing
- Kdenlive, video editor
Communication
Thunderbird
Mail client
https://www.thunderbird.net
Nheko
Qt, Matrix client
https://nheko-reborn.github.io
SchildiChat Desktop
Electron, Matrix client, fork of Element
https://schildi.chat/desktop
Downloaders
qBittorrent
Qt, torrent client
https://www.qbittorrent.org
Nicotine+
GTK, Soulseek alternative client, P2P proprietary network aimed at sharing files, especially music
Warning: as far as I know, network traffic is not encrypted
https://nicotine-plus.org
FileZilla
GTK, FTP/FTPS/SFTP client
https://filezilla-project.org
Hypertext browsers
Kristall
Qt, customizable and privacy friendly hypertext client supporting HTTP/Gemini and HTML/Markdown/Gemtext (and more)
https://github.com/MasterQ32/kristall
LibreWolf
Privacy enhanced Firefox fork
https://librewolf.net
Tor Browser
Privacy enhanced Firefox fork, using the Tor network
https://www.torproject.org
Ungoogled Chromium
Chromium fork, without any communication or link to Google servers
https://ungoogled-software.github.io
Graphics
GIMP
GTK, image manipulation program
https://www.gimp.org
Inkscape
SVG image editor
https://inkscape.org
LibreSprite
Animated pixel art creator
https://libresprite.github.io
Audio & video
Clementine
Qt, music player
https://www.clementine-player.org
VLC
Video/audio player
https://www.videolan.org/vlc
Audacity
Audio recorder and editor
Text
ghostwriter
Qt, markdown editor
https://wereturtle.github.io/ghostwriter
Meld
GTK, compare similar files
Miscellaneous
Bitwarden
Electron, password manager
https://bitwarden.com
Lector
Qt, ebooks reader (PDF, EPUB)
Zeal
Qt and webview, Offline programmation language documentation reader
https://zealdocs.org
Kiwix
Webview, offline ZIM files reader, works with Wikipedia, Wiktionnary, Stack Exchange
https://www.kiwix.org
MultiMC
Qt, Minecraft launcher
QtQR
Qt, QR code generator
AppImage launcher
Integrate AppImages to system
FSearch
GTK, indexes all your filesystem in order to search in it
Octopi
Qt, Arch Linux package manager
https://bitwarden.com
DB Browser for SQLite
Qt, edit SQLite databases
CLI
- vim, a text editor (exit with Escap, :, q, Enter)
- neovim, a fork of vim
- htop, top enhanced
- bpytop, more things displayed than htop
- croc, securely transfert files over Internet
- nmap, scan IP’s open ports
- pngquant, optimize PNG images
- screen, hard to use, but usefull to avoid command being dropped when an SSH connection is unexpectedly closed
- speedtest-cli, test network speed with speedtest.net
- testssl.sh, scan a TLS server and analyse multiple aspects
- tree, displays a directory tree
- nload, displays live network usage
- vnstat, displays network usage over time
- whois, query the WHOIS domain database
- curl, a complete network transfert tool, supporting HTTP and many more protocols
- wget, HTTP downloader
- torsocks, run another program through Tor
- ufw, uncomplicated firewall
- rage, Rust implementation of the age cryptography system
- neofetch
- screenfetch
- ssh-audit
Fun with CLI
- sl, a steam locomotive through your terminal. Warning: if your terminal displays the list of your files instead, you wrote ls, not sl
- asciiquarium, what’s more useful than an aquarium with ASCII characters?
- nyancat, nyan nyan nyan…
- cowsay, 🎵 what does the cow say?