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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Windows Media Player

February 4, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia

Windows Media Player is a video and audio player. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives for Linux.

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Gum – tool for glamorous shell scripts

February 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Gum lets you leverage the power of Bubbles and Lip Gloss in your scripts and aliases without writing any Go code.

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QIV – Quick Image Viewer

February 4, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

Quick Image Viewer (QIV) is a very small and pretty fast open source gdk/imlib image viewer.

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Sign files

Minisign – sign files and verify signatures

February 3, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Minisign is a very simple tool to sign files and verify digital signatures.

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VoIP

17 Best Free and Open Source GUI Matrix Clients

February 3, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Multimedia, Roundup

Matrix is an open standard for interoperable, decentralised, real-time communication over IP. Here’s our recommended free and open source GUI Matrix clients.

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Brazil

Mirage – fast and simple GTK+ image viewer

February 3, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

Mirage is a fast and simple GTK+ image viewer which only depends on PyGTK.

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Keyboard

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Universal Control

February 3, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Universal Control is software which lets you use the keyboard and mouse to control up to two other nearby Mac or iPad devices.

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Painting tools

Drawing – simple image editor

February 3, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Drawing is a basic raster image editor is similar to Microsoft Paint, but aiming at the GNOME desktop.

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Vulnerability Detection

grype – vulnerability scanner

February 3, 2025 Steve Emms Security

grype is a vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems.

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Email

bower – curses frontend for the Notmuch email system

February 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

bower is a curses frontend for the Notmuch email system. There are two main views: the index, and the combined thread/pager.

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The Way – code snippets manager

February 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

the-way is a terminal-based code snippets manager.Record and retrieve snippets you use every day, or occasionally, without starting a browser.

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Encryption

Kryptor – simple, modern, and secure file encryption and signing tool

February 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Kryptor lets you encrypt multiple files/directories with a passphrase, symmetric key, or asymmetric keys.

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Files

Docfd – TUI multiline fuzzy document finder

February 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Docfd is a text user interface multiline fuzzy document finder written in OCaml.

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Black – Python code formatter

February 2, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Black is an uncompromising PEP 8 compliant opinionated formatter.

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massCode – code snippets manager for developers

February 2, 2025 Steve Emms Programming, Utilities

massCode is a code snippets manager. It helps you create and organize your own personal snippet collection and have quick access to it.

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Calculators

22 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Linux Calculators

February 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Roundup

One of the basic utilities supplied with any operating system is the calculator. We recommend the finest terminal-based calculators.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: January 2025 Updates

February 1, 2025 Steve Emms Software

January 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Tools that help you

wat offers instant, central, community-built docs

February 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Wat is an interactive app built to drastically reduce time spent searching for syntax and code usage questions.

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Encryption software

Kleopatra – KDE tool for managing X.509 and OpenPGP certificates

February 1, 2025 Steve Emms Security

Kleopatra is the KDE tool for managing X.509 and OpenPGP certificates in the GpgSM and GPG keyboxes and for retrieving certificates.

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Monitor System

xfce4-taskmanager – monitor system resources

January 31, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

xfce4-taskmanager is an easy to use task manager.

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