91 stars today 🐧 A curated list of awesome applications, softwares, tools and other materials for Ubuntu/Linux.
Awesome Ubuntu/Linux
🐧 This repo is a collection of AWESOME Ubuntu/Linux applications and tools for any users/developers.
🐧 Feel free to contribute / star / fork / pull request . Any recommendations and suggestions are welcomed.
System Rescue CD - SystemRescueCd is a Linux system rescue disk available as a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash.
Test Disk - TestDisk is powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software.
Photorec - PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures (thus the Photo Recovery name) from digital camera memory.
Desktop customization
Compiz Config settings manager - The OpenCompositing Project brings 3D desktop visual effects that improve usability of the X Window System and provide increased productivity.
Mate - The MATE Desktop Environment is the continuation of GNOME 2. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditional metaphors for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.
Arduino IDE - The open-source Arduino Software (IDE) makes it easy to write code and upload it to the board.
Code::Blocks - Code::Blocks is a free C, C++ and Fortran IDE built to meet the most demanding needs of its users. It is designed to be very extensible and fully configurable.
Codelite - A Free, open source, cross platform C,C++,PHP and Node.js IDE.
Eclipse Eclipse is famous for our Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE), but our C/C++ IDE and PHP IDE are pretty cool too
Geany - Geany is a text editor using the GTK+ toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages.
Git - Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
VSCode - Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, OS X and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages (C++, C#, Python, PHP) and runtimes.
Calibre - Incredibly ugly but powerful software for ebook management and conversion.
Evince - Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats. The goal of evince is to replace the multiple document viewers that exist on the GNOME Desktop with a single simple application.
Foxit - Foxit Reader 8.0—Award-winning PDF Reader.
Lucidor - Lucidor is a computer program for reading and handling e-books. Lucidor supports e-books in the EPUB file format, and catalogs in the OPDS format.
Okular - Okular is a universal document viewer based developed by KDE. Okular works on multiple platforms, including but not limited to Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, *BSD, etc.
Sigil - Sigil is a multi-platform EPUB ebook editor.
Bluefish - Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdevelopers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code.
Brackets - A modern text editor that understands web design.
Emacs - An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor — and more.
Geany - Geany is a text editor using the GTK+ toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages.
Gedit -gedit is the GNOME text editor. While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, gedit is a powerful general purpose text editor.
Kate - Kate is a multi-document editor part of KDE since release 2.2.
Lighttable -the next generation code editor! Support live coding.
Sublime - One of the best text editor of all time.
VSCode - Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, OS X and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages (C++, C#, Python, PHP) and runtimes.
Vim -Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. It's useful whether you're already using vi or using a different editor.
Email
Evolution - Evolution is a personal information management application that provides integrated mail, calendaring and address book functionality.
Geary - Geary is an email application built for GNOME 3. It allows you to read and send email with a simple, modern interface.
Thunderbird - Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize and it’s loaded with great features.
Wmail - Gmail & Google Inbox unofficial desktop client for linux
AngrySearch - Linux file search, instant results as you type.
Double Commander - Double Commander is a cross platform open source file manager with two panels side by side. It is inspired by Total Commander and features some new ideas.
Marlin - The sexiest fish in the large sea of file managers, Marlin is well-designed with a focus on speed, simplicity, ease of use.
Nautilus - Nautilus (Files) is a file manager designed to fit the Gnome desktop design and behaviour, giving the user a simple way to navigate and manage its files.
Nemo - Nemo is the file manager for the Cinnamon desktop environment.
Ranger - Ranger is a console file manager with VI key bindings.
Civilization5 - Sid Meier’s Civilization® is recognized as one of the greatest strategy franchises of all-time.
Cockatrice - Cockatrice is an open-source multiplatform supported program for playing tabletop card games over a network.
Minecraft - Minecraft is a game about placing blocks and going on adventures. Explore randomly generated worlds and build amazing things from the simplest of homes to the grandest of castles.
Steam - Awesome Gaming platform, which open the gates to many games.
Wine - Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD
Xonotic - Arena shooter inspired by Unreal Tournament and Quake.
Graphics
Aftershot - A powerful alternative to Adobe Photoshop!
Agave - Agave is a very simple application for the GNOME desktop that allows you to generate a variety of colorschemes from a single starting color
Blender - a free and open source complete 3D creation pipeline for artists and small teams.
Darktable - darktable is an open source photography workflow application and RAW developer
Digikam - digiKam is an advanced digital photo management application for Linux
Fotoxx - Fotoxx is a free open source Linux program for image editing and collection management.
GIMP - GIMP is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring
Hugin - an easy to use cross-platform panoramic imaging toolchain based on Panorama Tools.
Inkscape - A powerful, free design tool for you , whether you are an illustrator, designer, web designer or just someone who needs to create some vector imagery
Krita - Open Source Software for Concept Artists, Digital Painters, and Illustrators
Luminance HDR - Luminance HDR is an open source graphical user interface application that aims to provide a workflow for HDR imaging.
OpenShot - OpenShot is a free, simple-to-use, feature-rich video editor for Linux.
Pinta - Pinta is a free, open source program for drawing and image editing.
Pitivi - A free video editor with a beautiful and intuitive user interface, a clean codebase and a fantastic community.
Radiance - Radiance - A Validated Lighting Simulation Tool
RawTherapee - A good looking but lesser known photo editing app.
Shotwell - Shotwell is a photo manager for GNOME 3.
StopMotion - Linux Stopmotion is a Free Open Source application to create stop-motion animations. It helps you capture and edit the frames of your animation and export them as a single file.
Xara Extreme - Xara Xtreme for Linux is a powerful, general purpose graphics program for Unix platforms including Linux, FreeBSD
Internet
Brave - Brave is a fast, good desktop browser for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
Chrome - A popular Web Browsers with a lot of plugins/apps.
Chromium - Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all users to experience the web.
Firefox - A popular Web Browsers with a lot of plugins/apps.
Vivaldi - A new and rising browser with a lot of customizations.
Productivity
Ambient Noise - Install ambient noise for extra focus on Linux
Autokey - A desktop automation utility for Linux allows you to manage collection of scripts and phrases, and assign abbreviations and hotkeys to these.
Go For It - Go For It! is a simple and stylish productivity app, featuring a to-do list, merged with a timer that keeps your focus on the current task.
Plank - Plank is meant to be the simplest dock of apps on the planet.
Pomodone App - PomoDoneApp is the easiest way to track your workflow using Pomodoro technique®, on top of your current task management service.
Recent Noti - An indicator for recent notification.
Redshift - Redshift adjusts the color temperature of your screen according to your surroundings. This may help your eyes hurt less if you are working in front of the screen at night.
Shutter - Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program for Linux based operating systems such as Ubuntu.
Konsole - Best terminal for KDE dekstop environment.
RXVT - A terminal emulator for X11, a popular replacement for the standard ‘xterm’.
Terminator - it’s quite clear that the most powerful terminal emulator on Linux is the feature-filled Terminator.
Xterm - The xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can't use the window system directly.
Utilities
Actionaz - Automation tasks utility for ubuntu/Linux
Bleach bit -BleachBit quickly frees disk space and tirelessly guards your privacy. Free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and more ...
Bomi Player - A powerful and easy-to-use multimedia player.
Kodi - An award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media center for playing videos, music, pictures, games, and more.
MPlayer - MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems, play any kind of videos.
MPV - A free, open source, and cross-platform media player.
SMPlayer - Free Media Player with built-in codecs. Play all audio and video formats.
SVP - SVP allows you to watch any video on your desktop computer using frame interpolation as it is available on high-end TVs and projectors.
VLC - VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
Others
To be added later
Command Line Utilities
Fishfry - replaces fish history with a history tailored to pentesters for efficency and newbie pentesters for learning.
Tmux - It lets you switch easily between several programs in one terminal, detach them (they keep running in the background) and reattach them to a different terminal. And do a lot more.
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