Openbox is a highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD








The must haves for anyone using Linux!
Openbox is a highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support.



Automates physical to VMware VM conversion, supports migrating other virtual formats and disk images, enables backup cloning, and manages multiple tasks centrally.



GDebi lets you install local deb packages resolving and installing its dependencies. apt does the same, but only for remote (http, ftp) located packages.



Fixes the pain of finding dependencies for youself!
Launchpad is a collaboration and Bazaar code hosting platform for (primarily open-source) software projects.

Manage partitions with ease, supporting resizing, moving, and copying. Utilize GParted Live for cross-platform use on x86 machines.




Makes Partitioning so much easier and supports many filesystems!
Usability-focused file manager with tabbed browsing, dual panes, remote protocol support, archive browsing, integrated renaming, and file type previews.




It has built in support for checkboxes like in Windows Explorer!


Makes it easy to create and share your own distro!
A free, open-source compatibility layer allowing Windows applications to run on Linux and other systems, offering configuration and community support.




Runs Windows Application by Right Click, or Double Click runs really well does all the work for you.
Open-source browser with Gecko engine, supporting HTML add-ons and providing privacy features like Enhanced Tracking Protection and third-party cookie blocking.




Open Source Web Brower
Florence is an extensible scalable virtual keyboard for GNOME. You need it if you can't use a real hardware keyboard, for example because you are disabled, your keyboard is broken or because you use a tablet PC, but you must be able to use a pointing device (as a mouse, a...


Incase you need a Virtual Keyboard and also as an anti-keylogger.
KolourPaint is a simple painting program to quickly create raster images. It is useful as a touch-up tool and for simple image editing tasks.

Easy to use if you are used to Microsoft Paint.
GNOME Files, formerly known as Nautilus, is the official file manager for the GNOME desktop, giving the user a simple way to navigate and manage its files.




Really stable and I like how easy to is to transfer files with. Lacks checkboxes though.
Linux, Windows, and Apple Mac GUI that enables rapid selection & hashing of files (individually or recursively), text and physical disks.

Makes it really easy to hash files in folders.
KDE Partition Manager is a utility program to help you manage the disk devices, partitions and file systems on your computer. It allows you to easily create, copy, move, delete, resize without losing data, backup and restore partitions.

Good like Gparted and has some additional features to check out.


Essential for using the computer at night.
Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security.


Essential to protect your privacy. Can support routing all traffic through tor, or select applications.
OpenVPN Connect provides flexible VPN solutions to secure your data communications, whether it's for Internet privacy, remote access for employees, securing IoT, or for networking Cloud data centers.




You should route all your traffic through a VPN at least! Lacks GUI for Linux though. I'll make a bash script to do that one day.
Encrypts online activity, provides anonymous IPs, has a strict no-logs policy, open-source VPN protocols, large server network, fast speeds, and multi-device support.



You should route all your traffic through a VPN at least! $3.33 a month, but gives you so many locations, its fast and has a GUI!
The Tor software protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, it prevents the sites you visit from learning...




Keeps you anonymous, and is great for web browsing. Streaming might be a bit slow so use VPN's and Firefox for that.
Cross-platform, free media player supports multimedia files, DVDs, streaming, offers hardware acceleration, 4K, lossless audio, and more.




Really good for playing Videos because supports so many formats! Also use it for playing music and it lets you adjust the bass and treble with advanced contol!
Open source virtualization tool supporting x86/AMD64, runs on Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris. Offers portable, lightweight, ad-free use.




The must have if you like Virtualizing, and you should get into it. Also if your Windows Apps don't work in Wine or Play on Linux you can use a Minimalized Windows like Windows Vista as a last resort.
RedshiftGUI changes the color temperature of your monitor to better match that of your surrounding. This means that it sets a cooler color temperature during the daytime (due to natural lighting) and sets a warmer temperature at night (due to indoor lighting). Similar to f.



Great at night so all that blue light doesn't bother your eyes!
Synaptic is a graphical package management program for apt. It provides the same features as the apt-get command line utility with a GUI front-end based on Gtk+.




Finnaly! A GUI to find packages, and its not a single store, It lets you add repositories if you can't get what you are looking for!
Alien is a program that converts between the rpm, dpkg, stampede slp, and slackware tgz file formats. If you want to use a package from another distribution than the one you have installed on your system, you can use alien to convert it to your preferred package format and...
Really useful if you are trying to get something work that's an RPM made for RedHat based distros on Debian based distros! Its a way to convert packages between the two. Its a Command Line Interface, but its easy to use because you only need like two commands.
PlayOnLinux is a graphical frontend for the Wine software compatibility layer which allows Linux and Mac users to install Windows-based video games, Microsoft Office (2000 to 2010), Microsoft Internet Explorer, as well as many other applications.




If it doesn't run on Wine, you can manually configure it to run. Also has some Windows Apps preconfigured for you.
Fast, secure browser with built-in ad block, privacy controls, and global tracking protections. Optimizes data, speed, and battery life.




Its based off of Chromium just degooglified. It protects your privacy, and I like it because you can get Chrome Apps to work in it.
The Snap Store gives you instant access to thousands of free and open-source applications. And now you can buy apps from some of the leading providers too. All our software is easy to find and install so you can have a customised desktop that suits you in no time.


Ubuntu Software Center has Hundreds of Applications to Choose From. It is my favorite store to get free software!
Linux and Linux distros don't have much applications out of the box they expect you to download them manually and search for repositories yourself and edit config files to make things work. Its 2018 and also why should you waste time manually configuring things and looking for the software you need to make Linux usable for you? That's why I have created this list.
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