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Category: GUI

Best Free and Open Source Compact Editors

Janus – simple notepad

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Janus is a simple native Linux notepad meant for text editing. It supports UTF-8 and binary data.

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Diff Tools

objdiff – local diffing tool for decompilation project

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

objdiff is a local diffing tool for decompilation projects. There is also a GUI available.

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Sync-in – file sync and server management

September 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Internet

Sync-in is available as a desktop application (Linux, macOS, and Windows and a command line interface (CLI), Sync-in adapts to your workflow

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Embellish – install nerd fonts

September 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Embellish is a user-friendly application designed for managing Nerd Fonts on your system.

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GPS

AAT Activity Tracker – GPS-tracking application

September 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Scientific

AAT is a GPS-tracking application for tracking sportive activities, with an emphasis on cycling.

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Free and Open Source Board Games

Hunt – word search game

September 17, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Hunt is an easy word search game. You can play with or without a timer, or a blitz mode,

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Selection of utilities

Aurea – Flatpak metainfo banner previewer

September 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Aurea is a simple preview banner made to read metainfo files from Flatpak apps and represent them as they would on Flathub.

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Octopi – powerful Pacman Qt frontend

September 16, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Octopi consists of a package browser, sudo helper, notifier, cache cleaner and repository editor.

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Password Managers

Key Rack – view and edit passwords

September 16, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Key Rack allows you to view, create and edit secrets, such as passwords or tokens, stored by apps. It supports both Flatpak secrets and system-wide keyrings.

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Text Editor

Looksyk – simple personal knowledge platform

September 14, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Looksyk is a simple personal knowledge platform with a focus on clean markdown files, simple queries and a journal. This is free and open source software. Features include: Local Storage: Your information is always exclusively in Markdown files (currently in

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Software

Pamac – Gtk and CLI front ends of libpamac

September 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

Pamac offers lpm, AUR, Appstream, Flatpak, and Snap support.

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OS-Level Virtualization - Containers

4 Useful Free and Open Source Distrobox GUI Tools

September 14, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet, Roundup

Distrobox is software which creates and manages container-based development environments without root privileges.

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Machine Learning in Linux

Gerbil – desktop app to easily run Large Language Models locally

September 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Scientific

Gerbil lets you run LLMs locally powered by KoboldCpp which itself is a highly modified fork of llama.cpp.

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Application Launchers

Vicinae – native launcher for the desktop

September 12, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop, GUI

Vicinae is a high-performance, native launcher for your desktop — built with C++ and Qt.

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Text Editor

NovProg – graph your progress in writing a novel

September 12, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

NovProg is a tool to graph your progress in writing a novel. You enter your wordcount and it updates a graph showing you how much progress you have made. It also shows you how far you are through your daily

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Musical instruments

GrandOrgue – pipe organ simulator

September 11, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

GrandOrgue is a virtual pipe organ sample player application supporting a HW1 compatible file format.

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Command Schedulers

4 Useful Free and Open Source systemd GUI Configuration Tools

September 9, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Roundup, System Software

systemd is a Linux init system and system manager that’s used by most modern Linux distributions. We pick our favourite GUI tools.

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Chemistry

Periodic Table Tools: 6 Best Free and Open Source Linux Tools

September 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Roundup, Scientific

The periodic table, also known as the periodic table of the elements, is a rows and columns arrangement of the chemical elements.

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Notes

Bookup – streamline notes with Markdown

September 8, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Bookup is a simple and efficient note-taking application designed as a clone of Notes-up.

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Notes

Notorious – keyboard centric notes

September 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Notorious is a keyboard centric notes app made for power users.

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