A simple list of Applications I use daily, hopefully you haven't seen all of these before. But, in this list you'll generally find apps that look modern, as UI is pretty important to me. I know there aren't too many "Linux with Pretty UI" lists, so here's this one. Let me know if there are any you'd add!
Fedora creates an innovative, free, and open source platform for hardware, clouds, and containers that enables software developers and community members to build tailored solutions for their users.
Fedora KDE, my main, all these applications will work on Fedora.
ScrcpyGUI v4 is a modern, feature-rich GUI for scrcpy, completely rebuilt from the ground up using Tauri v2, React 19, and Rust. It transforms your Android device into a professional tool for gaming, development, and content creation.
Mirror and control Android devices on PC with up to 120fps performance and resolutions above 1920x1080. Available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Synchronizes clipboard content in real-time across desktop and mobile, with peer-to-peer, end-to-end encrypted syncing, local first storage, and no central servers.
Send anything in a click. Blip lets you send any size files and folders fast by maximizing your speed and keeping your progress if you lose connection.
Unifies chats from 14 messaging networks in a single inbox, ensures privacy with on-device connections, and offers reminders, scheduling, and sync across devices.
Facilitates device communication, enabling notifications, SMS replies, file sharing, and remote control across multiple operating systems.
Dynamic wallpaper solution for Linux desktops providing live, animated, and customizable backgrounds with support for Wayland compositors and user scripts.
It allows you to use wallpaper engine library, or any other I believe, and apply it to your desktop, it allows app icons over it, unlike some other options.
An encrypted messaging app focused on privacy, supporting texts, calls, photos, videos, files, and group chats, with no ads or trackers.
Replaces SMS, Imessage, and provides universal support.
Instant messaging with text, voice, video calling, screen sharing, privacy controls, customizable permissions, moderation, bots, and open-source design.
Privacy Focused discord Alternative that is upcoming.
Tailored Discord app enhancing performance and Linux compatibility, offering efficient experience with pre-installed Vencord and data security.
Discord but designed for Linux by the community
Sunshine is a self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight. Offering low latency, cloud gaming server capabilities with support for AMD, Intel, and Nvidia GPUs for hardware encoding. Software encoding is also available.
Moonlight allows you to stream your collection of games from your GameStream-compatible PC to any supported device and play them remotely. Moonlight is perfect for gameplay on the go without sacrificing the graphics quality of your gaming computer.
For all you gaming needs, you've come to the right place
Goverlay is an easy graphical interface to configure MangoHud, vkBasalt, and OptiScaler. Goverlay helps Linux gamers get the most out of their systems by providing an easy-to-use graphical interface to configure MangoHud, vkBasalt, and OptiScaler.
Really useful gaming tweaks, FPS Tracking, and I believe upscalling support.
This is a screen recorder that has minimal impact on system performance by recording a monitor using the GPU only, similar to shadowplay on windows.
Look's just like NVIDIA Shadow play, with folder organization for games as well, your clipping needs have never been easier
Simple, cross platform video editor for lossless trimming / cutting of videos. Great for rough processing of large video files taken from a video camera, GoPro, drone, etc. Lets you quickly extract the good parts from your videos and discard GB of data without losing quality.
A simple software to quickly and easily cut footage. Works great in pair with GPU Screen Recorder for keeping clips clean and tidy!
Steam is a digital distribution, digital rights management, multiplayer and communications platform developed by Valve Corporation. It is used to distribute a wide range of games and related media entirely over the internet, stretching from one-man independent efforts to some of...
We're testing Sober, a brand new way to get Roblox on your Linux desktop. It's a novel approach, separate to other compatibility software like Wine, Android emulators, or virtual machines. Sober works by creating a specialized runtime just for Roblox's code, ensuring...
Roblox, but for Linux
Compatibility tool for running Windows games on Linux, featuring media foundation patches, FSR support, 'protonfixes' automation, Nvidia CUDA, and raw input.
Generally recommended over normal Proton, community forked Proton
For downloading ProtonGE and any other compatibility layers
Open source, controller-native launcher and overlay with game library management, input remapping to keyboard or mouse, and seamless Godot-engine integration.
Limo is a general-purpose mod manager for games and other applications. Built-in support for the Load Order Optimization Tool (LOOT) allows modding various Bethesda titles such as Skyrim or Fallout 4.
Daily Browsing
Privacy-centric, open-source browser with unique UI features like vertical tabs, Split View, and Zen Glance, focusing on security and tranquility.
Fast, secure browser with built-in ad block, privacy controls, and global tracking protections. Optimizes data, speed, and battery life.
Spectacle is a simple application for capturing desktop screenshots. It can capture images of the entire desktop, a single monitor, the currently active window, the window currently under the mouse, or a rectangular region of the screen.
Cine combines a clean interface with a high-performance engine to deliver a seamless viewing experience.
I swear, THE ONLY GOOD LOOKING, imo, VIDEO PLAYER ON LINUX
Amberol is a music player with no delusions of grandeur. If you just want to play music available on your local system then Amberol is the music player you are looking for.
A simple, lightweight Markdown viewer and text editor for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
I like it as a generic text editor. Not overwhelming at all, looks good, and more feature rich than windows notepad. Other Good Option: Zed Editor
Applications that every system needs.
With this app, you can easily download files from anywhere. Enjoy fast, free downloads with seamless browser extension support.
It's been the first download manager that just really worked for me, though I recommended using the installation script on the GitHub page, for some reason the website doesn't push you that way, even though they recommend you install it that way lol
Developed by Mijorus, an Italian developer participating in the GNOME project, Gear Lever is available as a flatpak on Flathub.
If you're a fan of App Images, this allows them to be better integrated to the system, updates, envs, very useful.
Shutter Encoder is a free professional encoding and conversion software for everyone, developed with video editors.
Pika Backup is designed to save your personal data and does not support complete system recovery. Pika Backup is powered by the well-tested BorgBackup software.
For backing up your data, not your system.
Creates incremental snapshots of Linux systems, protecting system files and settings while allowing full system restoration without impacting personal files.
Windows themed task manager
Flatseal is a graphical utility to review and modify basic permissions from your Flatpak applications.
Permission Manager for Flatpaks
Bazaar is a new app store for GNOME with a focus on discovering and installing applications and add-ons from Flatpak remotes, particularly Flathub. It emphasizes supporting the developers who make the Linux desktop possible.
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