My favorite Linux software (tiling window manager setup)

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  1. river icon
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    Dynamic tiling Wayland compositor built in Zig with Master&Stack layout, tag-based window organization, and XWayland compatibility.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    river screenshot 1
  2. Sway icon
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    You need a good tiling window manager for all your terminals. Sway is an i3-compatible Wayland compositor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  3. foot icon
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    Fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator. Supports daemon mode, Sixel, and scrollback search.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
  4. Kakoune icon
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    Vim inspired text editor with support for multiple selections and scores of other "out of the box" features.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Cygwin
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    Kakoune screenshot 1
  5. MPV icon
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    Versatile media player supporting multiple video formats, wide codec range, subtitles, hardware acceleration, OpenGL output, and intuitive CLI controls.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • F-Droid
    • Haiku
    • Xfce
    • Chocolatey
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  6. pass icon
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    Pass is the standard unix password manager, a lightweight password manager that uses GnuPG icon GnuPG and Git icon Git for Linux, BSD, and Mac OS X. With pass, each password lives inside of a gpg encrypted file whose filename is...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Git
    • GnuPG
  7. Pandoc icon
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    Pandoc is a Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another, and a command-line tool that uses this library.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. fish icon
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    Fish is a user-friendly command line shell for UNIX-like operating systems such as Linux

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Rust
    • Linux Mobile
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    fish screenshot 1
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  9. fzf icon
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    A command-line fuzzy finder written in Go.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Vim
    fzf screenshot 1
    fzf screenshot 1
  10. fd icon
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    A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
  11. nnn icon
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    Initially forked from noice file browser icon noice file browser, nnn is a super fast and resource-sensitive, terminal-based file browser.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    nnn screenshot 1
    nnn screenshot 1
  12. zathura icon
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    Zathura is a highly customizable and functional document viewer. It provides a minimalistic and space saving interface as well as an easy usage that mainly focuses on keyboard interaction.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • MacPorts
    • Homebrew
    Bestfit
    Command completion
  13. OpenDoas icon
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    A portable fork of the OpenBSD doas command. Very minimal alternative to sudo.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
  14. FFmpeg icon
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    Cross-platform multimedia framework performing decoding, encoding, transcoding, muxing, demuxing, streaming, filtering, and playback for nearly all media formats.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Linux Mobile
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  15. ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (about 100) including GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, TIFF, and DPX.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Xfce
    ImageMagick screenshot 1
    ImageMagick screenshot 1
  16. aerc icon
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    aerc is an email client that runs in your terminal. It's highly efficient and extensible, perfect for the discerning hacker.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    HTML support
    Main screen
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    Client/server software, human language dictionary databases, and tools supporting the DICT protocol (RFC 2229).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
  18. SC-IM icon
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    SC-IM - Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised – An ncurses spreadsheet program for the terminal.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    SC-IM screenshot 1
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