A list of apps that shows what is possible on Linux. 90% or users wouldn't miss a thing, for the rest just use this website for alternatives!
SchildiChat is a Matrix client based on Element with a more traditional instant messaging experience.
More stable than Element, Flatpak
Cross-platform email client providing POP/IMAP support, robust filtering, multiple accounts, and chat. Extendable via add-ons with RSS/Atom, etc.
Flatseal is a graphical utility to review and modify basic permissions from your Flatpak applications.
Essential permission management for Flatpak-isolated apps
CryptPad is a private-by-design alternative to popular office tools and cloud services. All the content stored on CryptPad is encrypted before being sent, which means nobody can access your data unless you give them the keys.
Google Translate alternative frontend that enhances privacy, supports 108 languages and includes Text-To-Speech features for versatile language translation needs.
Leading online translator with neural networks capturing subtle nuances, blind-tested to outperform competitors 3:1. Secure data compliance with EU laws.
Analyse suspicious files, domains, IPs and URLs to detect malware and other breaches, automatically share them with the security community.
BigBlueButton enables universities and colleges to deliver a high-quality learning experience to remote students.
In the Browser, use a server you trust. Its better than Jitsi for many purposes
Browse, search and edit worldwide map data for roads, paths, places, buildings and natural features, then reuse it under an open data licence.
Gnome Maps, Organicmaps (early development) or in the Browser
Tails is a Debian based live CD/USB with the goal of providing complete Internet anonymity for the user.
A must have on a USB stick
Ideal for creating bootable USBs and SD cards, ensuring safe, cross-platform use. Open-source, lightweight, and portable with a user-friendly interface.
Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO files. With ventoy, you don't need to format the disk again and again, you just need to copy the iso file to the USB drive and boot it.
Very handy. Flash the ventoy .iso to a big USB stick and just copy the OS isos instead of always flashing them
Decentralized messenger with end-to-end encryption, no registration, no tracking, metadata protection, secure file sharing, and multi-device syncing.
Available as Appimage
Kotlin Multiplatform Music Downloader, Supports Spotify / Gaana / Youtube Music / Jio Saavn.
For testing purposes only ;D jokes, download everything you can and share publically!
Cross-platform free audio player and library organizer supporting local and internet radio playback, smart playlists, projectM visualizations, tagging, and transcoding.
A free, open-source painting program for professional artists offering customizable UI, 9 brush engines, layer support, and color management.
For drawing Tablets, a fork of Gimp
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.
Good alternative to MSPaint
Free open-source suite with advanced photo retouching, composition, batch processing, plugin extensibility, custom scripting, and wide file format compatibility.
Seafile is an open-source file management and collaboration platform that goes beyond sync and share, offering extensible metadata, multi-level tagging, flexible file views, and AI-powered organization for smarter teamwork.
On-premises file sync, universal access, integrated collaboration, real-time communication with privacy and data control focus.
Open-source, ad-free torrent client offering a polished user interface, integrated multi-site search, RSS support, remote web control, and cross-platform availability.
FreeFileSync is a folder comparison and synchronization software that creates and manages backup copies of all your important files. Instead of copying every file every time, FreeFileSync determines the differences between a source and a target folder and transfers only the...
Open-source, decentralized alternative ensuring data ownership with encrypted communication and peer-to-peer sync, void of central server reliance.
Use Syncthing-GTK
Open source virtualization tool supporting x86/AMD64, runs on Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris. Offers portable, lightweight, ad-free use.
run different Distros, Windows, Android, what you want
Share files, host sites, and chat securely and anonymously via Tor using direct, password-protected onion services. No third-party servers or metadata stored.
Create .onion Sites easily, chat, share files, receive files, create a website
This repository contains a build file to generate FLOSS release binaries of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code - Open Source ("Code - OSS") project, the open source core of the proprietary 
Visual Studio Code.
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.
Not trivial but possible to run Windows apps. Use the lowest version and 32bit if possible.
Small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split pdf documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface.
High-precision scientific calculator for systems, supporting complex numbers, units, matrices, custom functions, and editable calculation history.
Simple Scan is an easy-to-use application, designed to let users connect their scanner and quickly have the image/document in an appropriate format.
Very good cutting and merging in the process
LabPlot is a free, open source and cross-platform Data Visualization and Analysis software accessible to everyone and trusted by professionals.
Free and open-source office suite with advanced word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, vector graphics, math formula editor, and database tools.
LUKS is the standard for Linux hard disk encryption. By providing a standard on-disk-format, it does not only facilitate compatibility among distributions, but also provides secure management of multiple user passwords.
Integrated in KDE, configurable on installation. It encrypts your whole storage.
Cryptomator provides transparent, client-side encryption for your cloud. Protect your documents from unauthorized access. Cryptomator is free and open source software, so you can rest assured there are no backdoors.
very good for folder-encryption, especially Cloud-storages
Open-source password manager storing passwords, notes, and attachments offline with AES-256 encryption, browser extensions, cross-platform support, and TOTP.
Ark is a program for viewing, extracting, creating and modifying archives. Ark can handle various archive formats such as tar, gzip, bzip2, zip, rar, 7zip, xz, rpm, cab and deb (support for certain archive formats depend on the appropriate command-line programs being installed).
preinstalled on Kubuntu
Waydroid uses Linux namespaces (user, pid, uts, net, mount, ipc) to run a full Android system in a container and provide Android applications on any GNU/Linux-based platform.
only works on Wayland
Usability-focused file manager with tabbed browsing, dual panes, remote protocol support, archive browsing, integrated renaming, and file type previews.
preinstalled in Kubuntu
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...
Open-source browser with Gecko engine, supporting HTML add-ons and providing privacy features like Enhanced Tracking Protection and third-party cookie blocking.
#just copy paste this into your terminal #snap remove firefox sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/ppa
echo ' Package: * Pin: release o=LP-PPA-mozillateam Pin-Priority: 1001 ' | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozilla-firefox
echo 'Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins:: "LP-PPA-mozillateam:${distro_codename}";' | sudo tee /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/51unattended-upgrades-firefox
sudo apt-fast install firefox
Cross-platform, free media player supports multimedia files, DVDs, streaming, offers hardware acceleration, 4K, lossless audio, and more.
Comprehensive photo management software for viewing, batch converting, editing and resizing images and creating thumbnail sheets.
Flatpak suppors Wayland
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.
snap install snapd
Distributing applications on Linux is a pain: different distributions in multiple versions, each with their own versions of libraries and packaging formats. Flatpak is here to change all that. It allows the same app to be installed on different Linux distributions, including...
#just copy paste all this to your terminal #Add it:
sudo apt install flatpak && sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alexlarsson/flatpak && flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://www.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo && flatpak update &&
#Add it to Discover (KDE desktop in Kubuntu):
sudo apt install plasma-discover-backend-flatpak
Experience YouTube ad-free on desktop with enhanced privacy. FreeTube prevents Google tracking and works seamlessly across Windows, Mac, and Linux.
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