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Author: Steve Emms

Game Tools

Modrinth – game launcher

November 22, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Modrinth is a unique launcher that allows you to play your favorite mods, and keep them up to date, all in one neat little package.

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WiFi

Gazelle – minimal NetworkManager TUI

November 22, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Gazelle is a minimal NetworkManager TUI for Linux with complete 802.1X enterprise WiFi support.

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Image Viewers

41 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Image Viewers

November 22, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

Images are part of every day internet usage. We recommend the finest free and open source graphical image viewers available for Linux.

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Selection of utilities

Aeryth – AppImage to Package Converter

November 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI

Aeryth is a shell script designed to convert .AppImage files into distribution packages (.deb for Debian and .pkg.tar.zst for Arch Linux).

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YouTube

Feather – YouTube Music TUI

November 21, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, TUI

Feather is a lightweight, efficient, and locally hosted YouTube Music TUI built with Rust.

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Network

netcheck – checks network connectivity

November 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

netcheck is designed to be run periodically, saving results to files from which netcheck-plot can be used to create plots.

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Game Engines

Prefixer – Proton prefix management tool

November 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Games

Prefixer is a tool for managing Steam Proton prefixes, seeking to replace protontricks with a friendlier interface, faster responses and modular approach.

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Image Viewers

Imagot – image viewer

November 21, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Imagot is a basic graphical image viewer. It’s sort of an alternative to xnview/irfanview. It’s built with Godot.

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boxunbox – simple symlinker inspired by stow

November 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

boxunbox is a simple symlinker inspired by stow with more control over where each individual folder gets linked.

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Images of shells by the sea

sh – shell parser, formatter, and interpreter

November 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sh is a shell parser, formatter, and interpreter. It supports POSIX Shell, Bash, and mksh. It requires Go 1.24 or later.

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Reins: Chat for Ollama – private AI chat

November 20, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

Reins is a chat client for a self-hosted Ollama AI models. Connect remotely, customize prompts, adjust parameters, and more.

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Game Tools

Palapeli – single-player jigsaw puzzle game

November 20, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Palapeli is a single-player jigsaw puzzle game. Unlike other games in that genre, you are not limited to aligning pieces on imaginary grids.

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Laptop serie

HP ProBook 440 G8 Laptop running Linux: Specifications in detail

November 20, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Laptops, Reviews

Let’s look at the specifications of the laptop in more detail. I’ll use a popular system profiler, inxi, to help delve into the laptop’s specs.

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Linux Distributions

ObsidianOS – Arch-Linux based distribution

November 20, 2025 Steve Emms Distro

ObsidianOS is a UEFI‑only, systemd‑based operating system for x86_64 systems, designed with an A/B partition layout for reliability.

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Emacs

Scimax – Emacs starterkit for scientists and engineers

November 20, 2025 Steve Emms Documents

Scimax is an Emacs starterkit for scientists and engineers offering configuration of Emacs for scientific programming and publishing.

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RAW Tools

flix-cli – movie scraper

November 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

flix-cli is billed as a highly efficient, powerful and fast movie scraper.

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WiFi

connex – modern Wi-Fi manager

November 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Internet

connex is a modern Wi-Fi manager designed for Hyprland and Arch Linux, built with GTK3 and NetworkManager.

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Role-Play Games

MapTool – more than a map

November 19, 2025 Steve Emms Games

MapTool is an extremely flexible Virtual Table Top with all the bells and whistles.

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Selection of utilities

OliveTin – give safe and simple access to predefined shell commands from a web interface

November 19, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

Safely give access to commands, for less technical people. Simplify complex commands, make them accessible and repeatable.

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OrangePi SBC ARM

Orange Pi 6 Plus Running Linux: Introduction to the Series

November 19, 2025 Steve Emms Hardware, Mini PC, Reviews

This is the first article in a new series looking at the latest piece of kit from Orange Pi. It’s the Orange Pi 6 Plus development board.

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