Trying to discover new/unheard Linux desktop programs (Sorry for the confusion).
Edit: I apologise for confusing a lot of people. I meant Linux desktop “programs” coming from Windows/Mac. I’m used to calling them “apps”.
Edit: 🙌 I’m overwhelmed with the great “programs” people have recommended in the comment section. Thank you guys.
- LibreWolf as my browser (it’s a more secure and private version of Firefox, comes with a pre-installed adblocker and removes all the unnecessary junk) (Flatpak) with some of the following extensions:
- LibRedirect for redirecting privacy-invasive websites to private frontends
- ff2mpv
- Read Aloud (text-to-speech)
- Buster for solving CAPTCHAs
- Dark Reader
- Violentmonkey for userscripts like Lemmy Universal Link Switcher (it’s really useful)
- DownThemAll
- Search by Image
- Server-Status (GitHub) shows information about a web server like country/region (via local GeoIP database lookup), SSL certificate information and more. Good open source alternative to Flagfox.
- Thunderbird for emails (Flatpak)
- Proton Mail Bridge (Flatpak)
- Merkuro Calendar
- Ptyxis (Flatpak) as my terminal. It’s optimized for containers (e.g. distrobox). foot is a pretty good alternative if you want something more minimalistic and don’t care about containers. There are countless other good options like Kitty, Alacritty, Konsole, WezTerm and many others.
- Emacs as my IDE
- KWrite, Kate or NotepadQQ for quickly editing text documents. There’s also Apostrophe for GNOME.
- QOwnNotes for local/Nextcloud-synced notes (Iotas for GNOME) There are other good options like Trilium Notes or Joplin.
- Speech Note speech-to-text note-taking (https://piped.video/watch?v=zlLVgTB42Bo)
- Akregator as my RSS client (Newsflash for GNOME)
- Strawberry as my music player (Amberol or Rhythmbox if you’re on GNOME)
- Spot for Spotify (Flatpak)
- Cider for Apple Music (unfortunately not FOSS anymore)
- Feishin for connecting to my self-hosted Navidrome music server
- rescrobbled for saving my music listening history to Last.fm. Also works with self-hosted ListenBrainz.
- Jellyfin Desktop for connecting to my self-hosted Jellyfin media server
- mpv as my video player (Celluloid on GNOME)
- FreeTube for watching YouTube videos
- This modded YouTube Music client that has an adblocker and many other cool features: https://th-ch.github.io/youtube-music/
- Kasts for listening to podcasts (also has the ability to sync with gpodder.net or self-hosted GPodder on Nextcloud)
- LibreOffice (Flatpak) There’s also OnlyOffice.
- Skanpage for scanning documents
- GNUcash for accounting
- Notesnook or Standard Notes for end-to-end encrypted note-taking
- Anki Flashcards (Flatpak)
- Logseq (FOSS Obsidian alternative)
- Flameshot for screenshots (GitHub, Flatpak)
- Kdenlive for video editing
- GIMP, Krita and Inkscape for graphics stuff
- Blender for animation stuff
- Natron for VFX
- LMMS and Ardour for music production
- Virtual Machine Manager for creating/managing KVM/QEMU VMs (Boxes for GNOME)
- Nextcloud Desktop for connecting to my home server
- Signal Desktop (Flatpak) There’s also Flare for GNOME, which uses GTK instead of Electron and feels more native (Flatpak)
- Element (or NeoChat if you use KDE, Fractal for GNOME) for Matrix
- WebCord for Discord. There are some native GTK clients like Abaddon and Dissent.
- Paper Planes (Native GTK Telegram client)
- Konversation or HexChat for IRC (Polari on GNOME)
- Tokodon as my Mastodon client
- qBittorrent for downloading torrent content. (You can use KTorrent on KDE and Fragments on GNOME)
- Pika Backup for taking backups (There’s a pretty good video about it: https://piped.video/watch?v=W30wzKVwCHo)
- Timeshift for btrfs snapshots
- Gradience to customize GTK4 appearance
- Bitwarden for syncing my password database with my self-hosted Vaultwarden server (also works with their public cloud syncing option). Use KeePassXC if you prefer something entirely local.
- LocalSend for sharing files on the local network (basically works like AirDrop) (also works over NetBird or Tailscale btw)
- NetBird for creating a flat VPN network between my devices
- KDE Connect for better integration with my phone. Also works over NetBird btw. Check out GSConnect if you’re on GNOME.
- KRunner for quickly finding files or applications (Ulauncher for other desktops, rofi for window managers)
- Safing Portmaster (Firewall and DNS blocking solution. Check out OpenSnitch if you just need a firewall)
- LACT for controlling AMD GPUs
- Flatseal for managing Flatpak permissions (On KDE this is integrated in the system settings)
- Bottles for managing Wine prefixes (Flatpak)
If you like gaming:
- Lutris for managing my games
- Heroic for Epic Games and GOG
- Prism Launcher for Minecraft
- Dolphin for emulating Wii and GameCube
- Ryujinx for emulating the Switch
- RPCS3 for PS3 emulation
- Vita3K for PSVita emulation
- PPSSPP for PSP
- Cemu for Wii U emulation
For the CLI:
Brilliant list! Starred this to go through it in detail later.
EDIT: A good deal of overlap with me on the type of applications I already use, so looking forward to discovering other hidden gems I haven’t yet found.
Amazing list, thanks for sharing.
This is fantastic! Thank you for taking the time to write all that down.
Abaddon is light weight gtk discord app. Also has voice support.
Added it to the list.
I also like lutris. But it being “for games” doesn’t do it justice I think. It is basically just a wine environment manager. It advertises as being for games but it should work with just about any windows executable.
- LibreWolf as my browser (it’s a more secure and private version of Firefox, comes with a pre-installed adblocker and removes all the unnecessary junk) (Flatpak) with some of the following extensions:
Logseq.
What is Logseq?
It’s a non-linear note taking app that allows smart linking and is made as a second brain.
It makes use of the Zettelkasten system, where, in theory, you make notes of everything and categorize it. Over time, you offload your brain and make it free for more productive stuff.
Logseq is often considered as a FOSS alternative to Obsidian.
Do you feel like offloading stuff into your notes helps your cognition?
Yeah, definitely, especially at work.
It really helped me to switch off my “work brain”, because I know, that everything I did today is written down, and I don’t have to keep things in my mind anymore after work. Doing that was a blessing for my stress level and mental health.It also gives me the edge above my colleagues that I “remember” everything I did in the last months, which is nice when my boss wants to know details of a project I did a year ago.
I basically can’t even remember what I did 5 minutes ago (ADHD says hello), but I know exactly where I can find that knowledge. This frees up my working memory (psychological term, not related to work) immensely. It’s basically like transfering more tasks onto your hard drive instead of keeping it in the RAM.
It’s also great to give me an graphical overview of all I think and work on all day, and unveals connections I never thought of between different topics.
For private use, it’s also great as a journal, though I gave up on that because I’m too busy for it and it cost too much time in my everyday life. But I still use it daily for normal note taking, e.g. results of some experiments at home, hobbies, thoughts, and much more.
Fuck you I’m sold. That sounds so useful if I can stick with it enough.
That sounds so useful if I can stick with it enough.
That’s my main issue for private use. At my job, I never had problems sticking with the habit of writing everything down. I work in a science job, and documentation is key there. So, I basically get paid for exactly that.
But in my free time, the whole concept of task management, knowledge offloading, and more, is a bit harder for me, especially when I come home tired.
Welcome in the life of someone with ADHD. I need my life to be organized, but have a hard time with exactly that. It’s like needing to find your contact lenses because you dropped them…
All of this makes sense, but I still can’t wrap my head around the “finding” of information. How do you search for it? Do you remember keywords or the location of the note (this I feel like maybe defeats the purpose of Logseq’s write anywhere idea)
I use a mix of
- Search bar, very powerful
- The graph overview, which allows me to “hunt” for the thing I need
- Filters
- And a lot of tags, aliases and crosslinks
I don’t use Logseq, I use Silverbullet, and yes, it helps A LOT. I have lots of random notes on random pages on how to do things at work, or on my personal servers or whatever. You know that feeling of “I’ve already had to deal with this, how the hell did I do it?” It’s completely gone.
If you use a good organization system with a hierarchy that makes sense and tags you can easily find stuff, so you can turn off your brain from having to remember all of that and it can focus on the thing you need to actually solve now. Don’t know if you’re old enough to remember a time before cellphones, we had to remember our friends number, nowadays this is not a concern, because your phone will remember the number for you, it’s like that but for everything, very liberating.
I was never able to fully get into Logseq, might give it another try at some point.
Have you tried QOwnNotes? I think it’s pretty good
QOwnNotes
Thank you for recommending this. I started using Joplin about week or two ago, but this one seems even better for me.
I have not, I’m using Standard Notes at the moment. I’ll have a look at QOwnNotes though, thanks for the recommendation
Do it!
I had some initial problems in the beginning, because I was used to linear note taking apps like OneNote or Joplin, but once I watched a guide on how it works, it clicked and now it’s my second nature. I even began to write my hand written notes in Logseq style!
TL;DR, if you don’t wanna watch any guides/ read docs:
- Indentation matters. Logseq works with a parent-child hierarchy
- You usually don’t open or create new pages, you write everything in your journal and link stuff there.
- Use links, either with
[[Link]]or#Tag, which are the same. They crosslink different topics and reveal connections. - Make use of plugins. There are thousands of it. Especially the Graph Analysis plugin should be included by default.
I used Obsidian extensively at a previous job. The linking of notes was super helpful! I don’t think it’ll work as well for my needs at the moment (at work) but I’ll give it a go
What do you do at your job? As long as you don’t work at an assembly belt in a factory, you will still probably get benefits out of it.
Examples:
- Notes about colleagues or customers
- Project ideas
- Random thoughts
- Writing down meetings and mails
- And much more!
I tried it and really wanted to like it, but the Android client’s UI is just unusable for me. as much as I prefer going FOSS whenever I can, I tried Obsidian and stuck with it. it’s electron on desktop and definitely not native UI on mobile, but feels much more polished.
Yeah, the Android app is horrible. I only use it if I don’t have my PC in arm’s reach.
It feels sluggish, buggy, is overloaded, I always get sync issues (usually the last words I just typed go missing), and some features (especially the graph overview) don’t work at all sometimes. And the whole app sometimes feels like an alpha version, which is just a no-go…
I really hope the mobile app gets polished more over the next months. Many people nowadays mostly use mobile devices, and having such an unpolished app really hurts the image. And, PLEASE devs, test your software before shipping it out. Especially the mobile app is broken half the time.
I still gladly pay the 5$/ month for the optional sync and to support the devs.
I tried it on desktop but the fact that it’s “paragraph-based” so to say is annoying. I’d like to format text freely and hit return to go to a new line, not create bullet points for everything I write. It seems a bit contrived in this way, but perhaps I just haven’t found how to make it work the way I want yet
I’m actively looking for a Logseq replacement, since they require CLA singing and can pull the rug at any moment.
We discovered Trilium and will be trying it out to see if we can migrate.
Trillium is great. I’ve been scrolling through here to see if anyone mentioned it, and was gonna put it out there if nobody had.
I haven’t tried it out on android (if that even exists), though.
Well, I just realized they don’t support multi user which is kind of a deal breaker for us, since we are a couple sharing a homelab. We always wanted to share a few files when using Logseq and it seems this won’t be solved with Trilium either. This sucks.
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The first things I install on a fresh linux install are always
htop(task manager) andmicro(nano but better).Have you looked at btop by chance? More visually appealing to me, but still in terminal.
I find it really hard to read for getting the information I need quickly, too much going on with too much useless info.
I have used both, but have stuck with nano. Why do you personally choose micro over nano?
It has shortcuts that feel a little more natural to me and the ootb theming makes files more easy to navigate.
I know you can also theme nano but I’m lazyOh no judgment, purely curiosity here.
Never felt it as judgement :)
NewPipe
Have you ever tried grayjay? Its like freetube but pipes into all services like twitch, odysse,rumble, kick And youtube. All into one app Its also is open sourced
I have but found it clunky…
It’s not really FOSS, just the software-equivalent of CC-BY-NC or CC-BY-NC-ND.
KDE Itinerary. To keep all your travel (rail tickets, hotel reservations…) documents and Infos in one place.
Tokodon/Tuba a great mastodon client for KDE and GNOME respectively
Lollypop a beautiful and useful Mediaplayer and Jukebox for GNOME.
Geary a great mail client by the same developer as Lollypop, also for GNOME.
Emacs.
Emacs is an app platform in and of itself, and the vanilla installation comes with dozens of its own apps pre-installed. Like how web apps are all programmed in JavaScript, Emacs apps are all programmed in Lisp. All Emacs apps are scriptable and composable in Lisp. Unlike on the web, Emacs encourages you to script your apps to automate things yourself.
Emacs apps are all text based, so they all work equally well in both the GUI and the terminal.
Emacs comes with the following apps pre-installed:
- a text editor for both prose and computer code
- note taking and organizer called Org-mode (sort of like Obsidian, or Logseq)
- a file browser and batch file renamer called Dired
- a CLI console and terminal emulator
- a terminal multiplexer (sort-of like “Tmux”)
- a process manager (sort-of like “Htop”)
- a simple HTML-only web browser
- man-page and info page browser
- a wrapper around the Grep and Find CLI tools
- a wrapper around SSH called “Tramp”
- e-mail client
- IRC client
- revion control system, including a Git porcelain called “Magit”
- a “diff” tool
- ASCII art drawing program
- keystroke recorder and playback
Some apps that I install into Emacs include:
- “Mastodon.el” Mastodon client
- “Elfeed” RSS feed reader
- “consult” app launcher (sort-of like “Dmenu”)
I’ll stick with nano over Esc+Meta+Alt+Ctrl+Shift, thanks. I mean, it’s an interesting operating system, but too bad its default text editor sucks.
(This from someone who used to use “pull the power plug to exit” vim…)
It comes also with a doctor, you can invoke it with “M-x doctor”. I discovered Emacs in the 80s, used it a lot in uni in the 90s, Emacs is a religion, or an OS, it’s so powerful it’s incredible. Nowadays I’m mostly using code for coding, or simply nano for small scripts/text.
Doctor, Doctor, my brother thinks he’s a chicken!
Too much fun! Like many other Comp. Sci. students, I spent way too many hours trying to get Eliza, an automated psychiatrist from MIT, to say something shocking. Weizenbaum, the developer, “was surprised and shocked that individuals, including his secretary, attributed human-like feelings to the computer program.” In this sense AI is nothing new because Eliza passed the Turing Test in 1967.
Was gonna recommend Emacs, myself, but looks like you got it covered! Emacs is an amazing tool and is worth the journey
How do you think one should get started with Emacs? Should they start start with regular GNU Emacs or should they install one of the “distros”?
How do you think one should get started with Emacs? Should they start start with regular GNU Emacs or should they install one of the “distros”?
I always recommend using the default setup for any software. The same goes for learning GIMP, Krita, Blender, FreeCAD, or whatever else, even though you can customize them all to your liking.
It is usually a good idea to try and learn the workflow that was intended by the people who developed this software, you could learn something from trying to use the computer in the same way that the professionals do. Same for Emacs: professional software developers have used it for almost 50 years, the default keyboard shortcuts are set the way they are partially for random historical reasons, but partially because they often make a lot of sense.
If you are interested, please check out my blog series on getting started with Emacs, called Emacs for Professionals
Honestly, just download/install from your package manager and then start using it. One of the best built-in modes is called Org mode. Don’t try anything crazy because it’s easy to get overwhelmed. It took me some periods of stopping and starting before things felt natural and became my daily driver.
Someone already mentioned Logseq, but I’m really enjoying Obsidian for my note taking needs. It’s similar, but I have found Obsidian to be very nice. Not FOSS, but I really like what the devs are doing.
Same I tried logsec but it needs a bit more polishing and most importantly the excalidraw plugin is not that good.
Yeah I’ve tried One Note, Evernote and notion before coming across Logseq and Obsidian. I’m really enjoying it. I haven’t given Excalidraw much use in obsidian but I may do so in the future.
Same here. I have tried:
- Joplin
- Standard Notes
- loqseq
- simple notes
- craft and a few others, but I keep coming back to obsidian. Currently self-hosting it using one of the plugins, that helps me easily sync between pc, MacBook, android and iOS.
Nice! Yeah you’ve definitely tried a bunch of apps.
What service are you using to self host obsidian? And is it cheaper than paying for obsidian sync?
Because you asked about “apps”, people are replying with mobile apps. I think you wanted to write “programs” considering the community. Maybe you should edit this
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I would say apps are software run with a runtime (PortableApps, Android apps, Windows Apps) while software runs by itself.
Another interpretation could be “little (software) tools”. I assumed with “apps” you wanted some shell tools.
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Software is the antonym of hardware.
I would assume that “application” (or its short form “app”) implies some kind of GUI.
That makes sense. Maybe I’m just old but they are called as programs since punched cards, as well as on Unix, Linux, Windows (until recently apparently).
Not exactly sure but I think the term “application >> apps” started with mobile phones. So, to me they are different. At least that evokes this meaning in my mind. It seems not with younger people though.
Go search Usenet posts from the 80s. We’ve used the short term “app” for “application” for goddamn forever.
True but isn’t it safe to assume the OP meant desktop (considering the community)? There aren’t that many people using Linux phones.
I suppose since more than one response is related to mobile apps, it’s not a safe assumption that the OP intended for desktop apps/programs.
Considering the community, that’s what should happen. However sometimes people don’t realize which community they are in and they just look at the title. If the first person who replied started with mobile apps, others possibly didn’t notice because of them and continued adding up.
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People started saying apps to programs on computer as well. No idea who’s fault it is. Apple’s? Only old people call it software or so.
Not exactly sure whose fault is this but if OP still wants to use the term “app”, they should at least mention it’s “desktop apps”, or just go with “programs” which is the proper term. Because even with “desktop apps” I still understand it is as web apps more likely.
Distrobox supports waydroid to use android apps on wayland. There are many small purpose built apps for android than can be useful on desktop.
No one seems to be mentioning apps in this specific kind of context, and I don’t consider a locked down and stripped orphan kernel to be “Linux” but a lot of this stuff it FOSS and can now run on both.
Well the list turned out a bit longer than I expected. I guess I’m a needy person on mobile 😅
Metro - music player
Fossify calendar - calendaring
Joplin - notes
Immich - photo management (requires server)
Les pas - photo management that works in conjunction with Nextcloud
Molly - signal client with enhanced security and useability features
Mull - web browser
Cromite - web browser
Aegis - 2fa provider
FUTO Voice - speech to text replacement for google speech services
Heliboard - awesome keyboard
Seal - YouTube downloader
Magic earth - google maps replacement
Thunder - Lemmy clientYou should try Organic Maps.
On linux?
Whoops, didn’t notice the /c this was posted to 🤦♂️
Hahaha if Aegis was available on Linux I’d switch to it instantly.
I second that. It’s been brutal trying to find a good FOSS 2FA app for desktop.
You could try https://2fas.com/ open source mobile application with browser extensions and cloud sync for backups.
Or www.bitwarden.com password manager is also open source and for a small “premium” supports 2FA for mobile/desktop/browser.
If you’re already using keepassxc, you can import OTP codes and use that. That’s what I do when my phone is not around to use aegis. It’s not as pretty, but it works.
If you’re in the GNOME ecosystem, you could give Authenticator a shot. It’s worked quite well for me so far.
Thrown away your current ssh client and get
edir to mass-rename
fd is more convenient than find
aria2 makes downloads go brr with parameters
-x 10 -k 5Mand is integrated with multiple tools like yt-tlp, yayOh, and pass for password-management
ssu makes root console tools password-less. That and rdo for gui-tools (both a bit over 100 loc) made me uninstall sudo.
Making a note of fd and edir for later. Thanks.
- sshfs. I use it for everything.
- autossh
- git. It always annoys me how Debian doesn’t come with it out of the box. Gets me every time I set up a new server.
- Signal desktop app.
Any flavor of vi, Gnu Screen, lrzsz, bash with the usual cli tools (awk, sed, grep, tail, head, rev, cat, tac, and recently jq and yq). Also openssh client. Some flavor of netcat is also crazy useful too. This is a good home for me to do my thing.
Edir: oh, and git. How did I forget git?!
There’s no doubt there are a great variety of Linux packages in use.
Recently I did a CD install of Debian 12 (Bookworm) desktop with Gnome, which loads a bunch of stuff over the Net. Here are extra packages that I installed manually. The first set is used by and with an automated configuration script that I wrote, so they have to come in to begin with.
Title Description Purpose info Gnu info processor “Config” curl Command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax “Config” dbus-x11 Simple interprocess messaging system (X11 deps) “Config” emacs Editor “Config” gconf2 GNOME configuration database system (support tools) “Config” mc Midnight Commander - a powerful file manager “Config” python3-iniparse Access and modify configuration data in INI files “Config” python-lxml-doc Python XML documentation “Config” python3-lxml Pythonic binding for the libxml2 and libxslt libraries “Config” sakura Simple but powerful libvte-based terminal emulator “Config” Title Description Purpose “apcupsd” “APC UPS Power Management” “Monitor” “artha” “Handy off-line thesaurus based on WordNet” “Utils” “backintime” “Simple backup/snapshot system” “Utils” “brasero” “CD/DVD burning application for GNOME” “Utils” “bwm-ng” “Small and simple console-based bandwidth monitor” “Monitor” “ccze” “Robust, modular log coloriser” “Utils” “certbot” "Automatically configure HTTPS using Let’s Encrypt " “Utils” “claws-mail-dillo-viewer” “HTML viewer plugin for Claws Mail using Dillo” “Mail” “claws-mail-feeds-reader” “Feeds (RSS/atom) reader plugin for claws mail” “Mail” “claws-mail-plugins” “Claws mail” “Mail” “claws-mail-spam-report” “Spam reporting plugin for claws mail” “Mail” “cmake” “Cross-platform, open-source make system” “Retroshare” “conky-all” “Highly configurable system monitor” “Monitor” “copyq” “Advanced clipboard manager with editing and scripting features” “Utils” “cups” "Common UNIX Printing System™ - PPD/driver support, web interface " “Utils” “dcraw” “Decode raw digital camera images” “Photo” “devilspie” “Automatically resize windows” “Utils” “dict” “Dictionary client/server and a selection of dictionaries, too” “Utils” “dictd” “Dictionary server” “Utils” “diction” “Utilities to help with style and diction” “Utils” “exiv2” “EXIF/IPTC photo metadata manipulation tool” “Photo” “festival” “General multi-lingual speech synthesis system” “Utils” “ftp” “Classical file transfer client” “Utils” “gedit” “Popular text editor for the GNOME desktop environment” “Editor” “gimp” “GNU Image Manipulation Program” “Photo” “git” “Fast, scalable, distributed revision control system” “Utils” “gnome-audio” “Audio files for GNOME” “Utils” “gnome-extra-icons” “Optional gnome icons” “Utils” “gnucash” “Personal bookkeeping and finance” “App” “golang” “Go programming language compiler” “yamn” “hplip” “HP Linux Printing and Imaging System (HPLIP)” “Utils” “hplip-gui” “HP Linux Printing and Imaging - GUI utilities (Qt-based)” “Utils” “hugin” “Panorama photo stitching program” “Photo” “imagemagick” “Image manipulation programs” “Photo” “libbz2-dev” “High-quality block-sorting file compressor library” “Retroshare” “libcurl4-openssl-dev” “Development files and documentation for libcurl (OpenSSL flavour)” “Retroshare” “libglib2.0-dev” “Development files for the GLib library” “Retroshare” “libjpeg-turbo-progs” “Programs for manipulating JPEG files including loss-less rotation” “Photo” “libmicrohttpd-dev” “Library embedding HTTP server functionality” “Retroshare” “libopencv-dev” “computer vision core library” “Retroshare” “libqt5opengl5-dev” “Qt 5 OpenGL library development files” “Retroshare” “libqt5multimedia5” “Qt 5 Multimedia module” “Retroshare” “libqt5network5” “Qt 5 network module” “Retroshare” “libqt5x11extras5-dev” “Qt 5 X11 extras” “Retroshare” “libreoffice-base” “Database component for LibreOffice” “Utils” “librsvg2-bin” “Command-line and graphical viewers for SVG files” “Photo” “libsqlcipher-dev” “Sqlcipher shared library” “Retroshare” “libssl-dev” “Secure Sockets Layer toolkit - development files” “Retroshare” “libspeex-dev” “The Speex codec library” “Retroshare” “libspeexdsp-dev” “The Speex extended library” “Retroshare” “libupnp-dev” “Portable SDK for UPnP devices” “Retroshare” “libxslt1-dev” “XSLT 1.0 processing library” “Retroshare” “libxss-dev” “X11 Screen Saver extension library (development headers)” “Retroshare” “lm-sensors” “Utilities to read temperature/voltage/fan sensors” “Monitor” “mosquitto” “MQTT version 5.0/3.1.1/3.1 compatible message broker” “Home Automation” “mosquitto-clients” “Mosquitto command line MQTT clients” “Home Automation” “net-tools” “NET-3 networking toolkit” “Utils” “numlockx” “Enable numlock in X11 sessions” “Unknown” “openhab-addons” “OpenHAB Home Automation” “Home Automation” “otpclient” “Simple GTK+ software to generate OTPs (TOTP and HOTP)” “Utils” “pandoc” “General markup converter” “Utils” “pcmanfm” “Extremely fast and lightweight file manager” “Utils” “python-is-python3” “Symlinks /usr/bin/python to python3” “Devel” “python3-babel” “Tools for internationalizing Python applications - Python 3.x” “Devel” “python3-calmjs” “Node.js Python framework for building toolchains and utilities” “Devel” “python3-cheetah” “Text-based template engine and Python code generator (Python 3)” “WeeWX” “python3-configobj” “Simple but powerful config file reader and writer for Python 3” “WeeWX” “python3-dateparser” “Python parser for human readable dates” “Devel” “python3-doc” “Python documentation” “Devel” “python3-ephem” “Compute positions of the planets and stars with Python 3” “WeeWX” “python3-nltk” “Natural language processing” “Utils” “python3-pycryptodome” “Cryptographic Python library” “eoas” “python3-pyqt5” “Python 3 bindings for Qt5” “Devel” “python3-pyqt5.qtmultimedia” “Python 3 bindings for Qt5’s Multimedia module” “Devel” “python3-serial” "pyserial - module encapsulating access for the serial port " “WeeWX” “python3-setuptools” “Python distutils enhancements (setuptools compatibility)” “Devel” “python3-tz” “The Olson timezone database” “Utils” “python3-usb” “USB interface for Python (Python3)” “WeeWX” “python3-venv” “Venv module for python3” “WeeWX” “python3-vobject” “Parse iCalendar and VCards in python” “Android” “python3-xdg” “Freedesktop.org standards” “Tonto2” “qgit” “Qt application for viewing GIT trees” “Utils” “qrencode” “QR code encoder into PNG image” “Photo” “qtcreator” “Integrated development environment (IDE) for Qt” “Retroshare” “qtmultimedia5-dev” “APIs for multimedia functionality” “RetroShare” “qtox” “Tox client” “Retroshare” “qttools5-dev” “Qt 5 tools development files” “Retroshare” “rapidjson-dev” “Fast JSON parser/generator for C++ with SAX/DOM style API” “Retroshare” “rblcheck” “Query real-time black list (RBL) servers” “Mail” “retroshare-gui” “Secure communication with friends” “Retroshare” “rsync” “Fast, versatile, remote (and local) file-copying tool” “Utils” “sane” “Scanner graphical frontends” “Photo” “sqlite3” “Command line interface for SQLite 3” “Firefox Devel” “sqlitebrowser” “GUI editor for sqlite databases” “Unknown” “ssh” “Secure shell client and server (metapackage)” “Utils” “tcl8.6-dev” “Tcl (the Tool Command Language) v8.6” “Retroshare” “tesseract-ocr” “Command line OCR tool” “Unknown” “timeshift” “System restore utility” “Utils” “torsocks” “Use socks-friendly applications with Tor” “QTox” “trash-cli” “Freedesktop.org trash implementation” “Utils” “tree” “Displays an indented directory tree, in color” “Utils” “ttf-bitstream-vera” “Bitstream Vera family of free Truetype fonts” “Utils” “whois” “Intelligent WHOIS client” “is_tout.py” “xsane” “Graphical frontend for Scanner Access Now Easy (SANE)” “Photo” “zbar-tools” “Bar Code Scanner and Decoder” “Photo” “zip” “Archiver for .zip files” “Utils” Here are third-party packages I admire. These are not available in Debian repositories although some provide Debian-compatible repositories of their own.
Tor Browser Bundle: Anonymizing Network Browser
This is available from https://dist.torproject.org/torbrowser/ as a tarball. This should be unpacked and the whole tor-browser_en-US directory moved to the ~user folder. This is so that the browser can auto-update at user authority as the need arises.
RetroShare: Secure Communications with Friends
This has its own Debian-compatible repository.
metar: A Package to Parse METAR Coded Weather Reports
~/lab_pip/bin/activate pip install metar --upgradeweeWX: Open source software for backyard weather stations.
From http://weewx.com/docs/debian.htm. Although a Debian package exists, doing any development practically requires that all the code be in user-space, so don’t install the package. Download it instead.
OpenHAB: Home Automation
This has its own Debian-compatible repository.
Ant: GTK3/4 Themes by eliverlara
From https://www.gnome-look.org/browse?cat=135&ord=latest.
This is for claws-mail. It provides better contrast.
OpenBSD user, in no particular order, definitely missing some stuff: pdksh (OpenBSD) or oksh (Linux/MacOS), su, unix/posix utils (man (most important), find (second most important), apropos, awk, grep, df, du, dd, ed, etc), mg, openssh, got, heirloom-doctools/troff, bc-gh (bc calculator with a bunch of extensions), xclip, xdotool, xeyes (very important), yt-dlp (youtube-dl seems dead these days), some C compiler (clang/gcc), httpd, opensmtp, ffmpeg, libressl/openssl, pf, tmux (I prefer to use my window manager, but if I’m in tty or need to retain a shell session, tmux is useful), ping, ifconfig, traceroute, netstat, nc/netcat, unwind (or other dns server like unbound)
