Kasts is billed as a “convergent podcast application”. It is written in C++ and QML and uses the Kirigami UI Framework. It’s free and open source software.
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spotify-qt – lightweight Spotify client
spotify-qt is billed as a lightweight Spotify client. As its name indicates it’s built using Qt. Here’s our review of this open source client.
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HBud – simple audio and video player
HBud is billed as a simple music/video/karaoke app. It’s written in Python, uses GTK4 for its GUI framework, and GStreamer for its multimedia backend.
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Streaming with Linux: Amazon Music Unlimited
This is a new series that surveys popular streaming services from a Linux perspective. We start with Amazon Music Unlimited.
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G4Music – lightweight music player
G4Music is billed as a beautiful, fast, fluent, lightweight music player. Here’s our review.
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Mélodie – no frills music player
Mélodie is billed as a no frills free and open source music player. Luke put it through its paces.
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yt-dlp – fork of youtube-dl
yt-dlp is a fork of youtube-dl that’s under active development. It focuses on adding new features and patches and maintaining compatibility.
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Essential System Tools: gWakeOnLAN – turn machines on through Wake On LAN
gWakeOnLAN is a small utility that lets you wake up machines using the Wake on LAN (WOL) feature. WOL lets you wake a computer from a low-power state.
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Excellent Utilities: Extension Manager – Browse, Install and Manage GNOME Shell Extensions
Extensions Manager is a small utility that lets browse and install GNOME extensions without using a web browser.
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Chafa – terminal graphics image viewer
This review looks at a terminal-based image viewer that supports the Kitty Graphics Protocol. It’s named Chafa, shorthand for Character Art Facsimile.
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timg – Terminal Image and Video Viewer
timg is an image and video viewer with support for high resolution graphics in the terminal.
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viu – Terminal Image Viewer with Kitty Graphics Protocol support
viu is different from the vast majority of image viewers. It’s a small command-line program to view images from the terminal.
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Surge XT – virtual synthesizer
Surge XT is a hybrid polyphonic synthesizer which supports MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) and runs as an LV2 plugin, or as a VST.
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Essential System Tools: btop++ – resource monitor
btop++ is an alternative to top. It’s a resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes.
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Excellent Utilities: horcrux – file splitter with encryption and redundancy
horcrux is an open source tool that’s designed to split files and keep them secure with encryption.
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Excellent Utilities: Whoogle Search – self-hosted metasearch engine
Whoogle Search is a privacy-focused search engine. It displays the same results as Google Search but without ads/sponsored content, JavaScript, cookies, or tracking.
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Linux Candy: projectM – music visualizer originally based on Milkdrop
projectM is a music visualizer originally based on Milkdrop. The software enters our Linux Candy series.
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Warble – word-guessing game
Fancy playing Wordle on your desktop? Warble is inspired by (and not affiliated with) by Wordle. It differs from Warble in a few respects, notably that you’re not limited to one puzzle a day.
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Moosync – music player
Moosync is a simple open source music player designed to play local audio as well as from YouYube and Spotify. Here’s our verdict.
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Amberol – small and simple music player
Amberol seeks to be a small and simple music players. Nothing more, nothing less. It’s written in Rust and built with GTK4.
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