~ Linux applications ~

What is worth using on a linux pc in the long run ...

Gaming

• Games
  • Blockout II - 3D Block dropping game, that greatly exercises the 3d spatial capabilities of the human brain.
  • Boulder Caves - A Boulder Dash clone in pure python. Includes a cave editor so you can make your own game!
  • Dust Racing 2D - Cross-platform 2D racing game (OpenGL).
  • Frogatto - Action-adventure game, starring a certain quixotic frog.
  • Gweled - Free version of the popular puzzle game called Bejeweled or Diamond Mine.
  • Klickety - A simple, yet challenging color matching game.
  • Price Of Persia Original Trilogy - A classic platform and adventure game ported to many systems. For linux, it's possible to download the sdlpop here https://www.popot.org/get_the_games.php?game=SDLPoP
  • Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries - Seven Kingdoms is a series of "fantasy real-time strategy" computer games.
  • Shattered Pixel Dungeon - Roguelike RPG, with pixel art graphics and lots of variety and replayability.
  • SuperTuxKart - 3D arcade racer with a variety characters, tracks, and modes to play.
  • Tales of Maj'Eyal - Roguelike RPG fantasy game featuring turn-based combat and character building.
  • Tanks of Freedom - Indie Turn Based Strategy in Isometric Pixel Art.
• Emulators - old gaming emulators and front-ends
  • C64
    • jGameBase - Retro-gaming emu­lator front­end and game data­base utility (for C64 and other emulators).
    • VICE - Cross-platform emulator for old 8-bit computers: C64, C64DTV, C128, VIC20.
    • Websites with C64 games
      • c64.com
      • gamebase64.com
      • edicola 8-bit by Sovox
      • edicolac64.com
      • Software Library: C64 - Internet Archive repository of more than 32000 playable Commodore 64 games and programs, online.
  • DosBox - dos emulator used to play old pc dos games and apps
    • DBGL - Multi-platform frontend for DOSBox.
    • DOSBox - DOS-emulator that uses the SDL-library.
  • M.A.M.E. - Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator
    • QMC2 - Qt based multi-platform GUI front end for MAME and SDLMAME.
    • SDLMAME - Port of the popular MAME™ emulator to the SDL library.

Graphics

• 2D
  • Alchemy - Explore and experiment with alternative ways of drawing.
  • Aseprite - Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool.
  • Evolvotron - An interactive "generative art" application for Linux. Since it is not maintained anymore, a fixed version due to evolving component libraries has been created by me here: https://gitlab.com/saveriobran/evolvotron_fixed/tree/master. I also created the script evolvotron_picgen.py contained in the same gitlab repository. Check it out for more details.
  • Gimp - GNU Image Manipulation Program.
    • Bimp - Batch Image Manipulation Plugin for GIMP, it has a git repository.
    • Export Layers - Exports layers as separate images. A use case: when importing a pdf document with multiple pages on separate layers and then the user can export the layers as separate images.
  • Gravit Designer - A cross-platform design tool.
  • Krita - A professional FREE and open source painting program.
  • Inkscape - Open-source vector graphics editor, Also used to modify pdf documents.
  • Photopea - Free online image editor similar to photoshop.
• 3D
  • Blender - 3D creation suite.
  • FreeCAD - A parametric 3D modeler made primarily to design real-life objects of any size.
• Color tools
  • Gcolor2 - GTK+2 color selector.
  • Gpick - Advanced color picker and palette editing tool.

Internet

• Chromium - An open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all Internet users to experience the web.
• Firefox - Web browser developed by Mozilla Foundation.
  • Feedbro plugin - Tree-based RSS feed navigation with folders and drag & drop support.
  • Flagfox plugin - Button for RSS feed subscription on url bar.
  • Translation Comparison (Im Translator) - Translation Comparison translates text and compares translations between Google, Microsoft, Yandex and other translators.
  • Video DownloadHelper plugin - Download and convert Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites.
• JDownloader - JDownloader is a free, open-source download management tool
• qBittorrent - Bittorrent client programmed in C++ / Qt that uses libtorrent and useful plugins.
• qTox - QTox provides an easy to use application that allows you to connect with friends and family without anyone else listening in. Instant messaging, video conferencing, and more.

Multimedia

• Audio
  • Audacity - Audio software for multi-track recording and editing.
  • Byte - A Music Player designed for elementary OS.
  • Clementine - Modern music player and library organizer.
  • Flacon - Extracts individual tracks from one big audio file (entire album).
  • LMMS - Produce music with your computer.
  • Lollypop - Modern muisc player and library organizer.
  • MusicBrainz Picard - Music tagger that recovers music info from internet.
  • PulseEffects - Audio effects for Pulseaudio applications (equalizer, autogain and a lot of other effects).
  • Soundconverter - The leading audio file converter for the GNOME Desktop, it reads and writes any format GStreamer can handle.
• Video
  • Avidemux - Free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.
  • Kdenlive - KDE Non-Linear Video Editor.
  • Handbrake - The open source video transcoder.
  • MPV - Cross-platform media player with GPU video decoding.
  • OBS Studio - Video recording and live streaming.
  • OpenShot - Video Editor easy to use, quick to learn, and surprisingly powerful.
  • VLC media player - Multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files.
  • youtube-dl - A command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other sites.

Office

• Cool Reader - Cross platform open source e-book reader (epub)
• LibreOffice - A powerful office suite.
• Master PDF Editor - Multifunctional PDF Editor (non-free).
• PDF Arranger - An application used to create a new multi-pages pdf document starting from single-page pdf files. Combined with Inkscape it can be used to edit pdf documents:
  1. In Inkscape, import and edit the pdf (single page);
  2. In Inkscape, save single pages as single pdf files;
  3. In PDF Arranger, drag and drop single pdf files;
  4. In PDF Arranger, re-join them into one document and save it.
• Scribus - Page layout and desktop publishing for Linux.
• Xournal++ - Handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation, supports pen input from devices such as Wacom Tablets.

Server

• Apache HTTP Server - HTTP (Web) server.
• Discourse - Modern discussion platform: forum, long-form chat room, mailing list and more!
• Jitsi - Build and deploy secure videoconferencing solutions.
• Nextcloud - Suite of client-server software for creating and using file hosting services.
• Wiki.js - An open source, modern and powerful wiki app built on Node.js, Git and Markdown.

School and Science

• Astronomy
  • Celestia - Real-time 3D visualization of space.
  • Stellarium - Solve equations, graph functions, create constructions, analyze data, explore 3D math!
• Math
  • GeoGebra - Solve equations, graph functions, create constructions, analyze data, explore 3D math!
  • Qalculate! - The ultimate desktop calculator.

Software development

• Eclipse - Cross-plattform and cross-language IDE with powerful tools.
  • ANSI Escape in Console plugin - This plugin interprets the ANSI escape sequences to color the console output. Useful to correctly read Cucumber Test results output on Eclipse Console. It can be installed from Eclipse Marketplace.
  • Cucumber Plugin - Official Eclipse plugin to use Cucumber. Cucumber is a tool that supports Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD). To install Cucumber in eclipse, don't use the Marketplace but install it as new software (Eclipse> Help> Install New Software...) using this site: http://cucumber.github.io/cucumber-eclipse/update-site/
  • DevStyle plugin - Modernizing tools for Eclipse (theming, breadcrumb navigation, etc).
  • EGit plugin - Git integration for Eclipse.
  • M2Eclipse plugin - M2Eclipse plugin provides integration for Apache Maven into the Eclipse IDE. To install it into Eclipse don't use the Marketplace but install a new software (Eclipse> Help> Install New Software...) using this site: http://download.eclipse.org/technology/m2e/releases/
  • PyDev plugin - Python IDE for Eclipse.
  • Subclipse plugin - Support for Subversion within the Eclipse IDE.
  • STS plugin - Environment for building Spring-powered enterprise applications.
  • WTP plugin - Web Developer Tools. Includes HTML, CSS, JSON, JavaScript, XML.
• Editor.md - Online Markdown editor.
• IntelliJ IDEA - Capable and ergonomic IDE for JVM.
  • Cucumber for Java plugin - Enables Cucumber support with step definitions written in Java.
  • Gherkin - Provides support for Gherkin language.
  • Maven Helper - A must have plugin for working with Maven. It also shows dependecy analyzer when pom.xml is selected.
  • Python Community Edition - The feature set of the plugin corresponding to PyCharm IDE Community Edition.
  • String Manipulation - Provides actions for text manipulations: Switch case (camelCase, kebab-lowercase, KEBAB-UPPERCASE, snake_case, SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE, dot.case, words lowercase, First word capitalized, Words Capitalized, PascalCase) and other functions.
• JSON Editor Online - Online editor to view, edit, and format JSON.
• OpenProject - Open source project management software. Powerful, easy-to-use, free.
• PlantUML - Utility to draw UML diagrams, using a simple and human readable text description.
• Restlet Client - Test & Automate your REST APIs (in Chrome/Chromium web browser or standalone)
• Python packages:
  • autopep8 - A tool that automatically formats Python code to conform to the PEP 8 style guide.
  • numpydoc - Sphinx extension to support docstrings in Numpy format.
  • pylint - A tool that checks for errors in Python code, tries to enforce a coding standard and looks for code smells.
  • rope - A python refactoring library.
  • yapf - A formatter for Python files (preferred formattig style: google or pep8).
• Visual Studio Code - A lightweight but powerful source code editor. (Preferred font: Hack, font size: 14)
  • Bracket Pair Colorizer - An extension for colorizing matching brackets and code blocks.
  • Color Themes
    • Atom One Light Theme - VSCode Theme based on Atom's One Light theme.
    • Quiet Light+ Theme - A good light theme for vs code, tuned a Bit "Quiet Light Theme"
    • Flat UI - A flat syntax theme for VS Code (it's one of the best light theme for vs code, especially the 'Immersed' variation included in it).
  • Icon Themes
    • Simple icons - A simple icon theme for Visual Studio Code that strives to be simple, taking inspiration from official logos when possible.
  • Code Outline - A code outline tree provider for VSCode.
  • ESLint - Integrates ESLint (pluggable linting utility for JavaScript and JSX) into VS Code.
  • GitLens — Git supercharged - Supercharge the Git capabilities built into Visual Studio Code.
  • Insert Numbers - Insert increasing numbers.
  • Markdown Preview Enhanced - Markdown Preview Enhanced ported to vscode.
  • Partial Diff - Compare (diff) text selections within a file, across files, or to the clipboard.
  • Prettier - VS Code package to format your JavaScript / TypeScript / CSS using Prettier.
  • Python Extension Pack - Popular Visual Studio Code extensions for Python.
  • Rewrap - Reformats text/code comments to a given line length or wrap margin (splits multirow lines at word wrap limit).
• Typora - Minimalistic Markdown editor with good reference documentation (app-menu> Help> Markdown Reference).

System

• Antivirus
  • ClamAV - Antivirus engine for detecting trojans, viruses, malware & other malicious threats.
  • Rootkit Hunter - Checks computers running UNIX (clones) for the presence of rootkits and other unwanted tools.
• Arch Linux related
  • yay - An AUR Helper written in Go.
• Backup
  • luckyBackup - App to backup and/or synchronize any directories with the power of rsync.
• Command line
  • OpenSSH - The premier connectivity tool for remote login with the SSH protocol (ssh, sftp).
  • screenfetch - Fetches system/theme information in terminal for Linux desktop screenshots.
• Customizations
  • FontManager - A simple font management application for GTK+ Desktop Environments.
  • Fonts
    • Droid Sans Mono - Droid is a font family created by Ascender Corporation for use by the Open Handset Alliance platform, Android.
    • Fantasque Sans Mono - Programming font, designed with functionality in mind.
    • Hack - A typeface designed for source code.
    • Hermit - Monospace font designed to be clear, pragmatic and very readable. For programming.
    • Liberation Mono - Liberation Mono aims at metric compatibility with Courier New. It is sponsored by Red Hat.
    • Nerd Fonts - A set of fonts for programmers and nerds (in Arch linux there is the package nerd-fonts).
    • Source Code Pro - Monospaced font family for user interface and coding environments.
  • Themes
    • Adapta-gtk-theme - GTK Theme based on Material Design Guidelines.
    • Arc theme - A clean, readable theme supporting desktop environments like GNOME, XFCE, MATE, etc. There's also a variant with greenish colors (Arc Maia) made by Manjaro Linux team.
    • Papirus icon theme - SVG icon theme for Linux, based on Paper Icon Set, with more stuff.
    • Plane icon theme - Modern icon theme for gnome linux versions.
• Utilities
  • QDirStat - Graphical application to show where your disk space has gone and to help you to clean it up.
  • Variety - Beautiful and quick wallpaper manager/changer for Linux systems. It supports numerous desktops and wallpaper sources, including local files and online services: Flickr, Wallhaven, Unsplash, and more.
  • Wine - A compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on POSIX-compliant operating systems.
  • Winetricks - An easy tool to work around problems in Wine.