
I’ve tried hard to make this list different from the majority of similar posts online. This list in intended as a reference when building a fresh Linux system or just looking to discover software that one was not aware existed. We can’t recall every application, so hopefully this will fill that void as well as those that are curious.
Applications
I’ve sorted the list by application use or category for ease of browsing. All software applications listed must meet the following criteria.
- A graphical user interface
- A native application
- Does not require container or virtualization
- Does not require a client/server configuration
- Runs locally
- Active project development
- Has an open source license (not freeware)
- Runs on the Linux operating system
Animation
Archive Manager
Audio Editor
Document Viewer
- Foliate
- GNOME Document Viewer (evince)
- Okular
Email Client
File Manager
- Dolphin
- Double Commader
- GNOME Commander
- GNOME Files (nautilus)
- Krusader
- Nemo
- Thunar
Image Viewer
- GNOME Image Viewer (Eye of GNOME)
- gThumb
- Gwenview
- HDRView
- KPhotoAlbum
- Sushi for GNOME Files (nautilus)
Image Editor
Media Player
- Celluloid
- Clapper
- Dragon Player
- Haruna
- Kaffeine
- MPlayer
- MPV
- Parole
- QMPlay2
- SMPlayer
- VLC Media Player
Messaging
- Dino (Jabber/XMPP)
- Element (Matrix)
- Fractal (Matrix)
- Gajim (Jabber/XMPP)
- HexChat (IRC)
- Konversation (IRC)
- Nheko (Matrix)
- Pidgin (ICQ, IRC, Jabber/XMPP, etc.)
- Polari (IRC)
- SchildiChat (Matrix)
- Session
- Status
Password Manager
Presentation
Screenshot Tool
Spreadsheets
System Backup
System Monitoring
- Conky
- GNOME System Monitor
- KDE System Monitor (KSysGuard)
- Stacer
- Sysmon
- System Monitoring Center
- XFCE Task Manager
Text Editor
Video Editor
Web Browser
- Brave (chromium)
- Chromium (chromium)
- GNOME Web (Epiphany, WebKit)
- Konqueror (KHTML)
- LibreWolf (gecko)
- Mozilla Firefox (gecko)
- Qutebrowser (chromium)
- Waterfox (gecko)
Word Prosessor
This is post 70 of 100, and is round 2 of the 100 Days To Offload challenge.
References
- Yoda: May the FOSS Be With You, image by unknown, published unknown, Wallpaper Flare
Changelog
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