Here’s our recommended GNOME shell extensions. Most of the extensions are not officially supported by GNOME. But they all take the desktop to the next level, either by adding useful functionality, improving your workflow, or simply offering a touch of panache to the desktop. All the extensions all compatible with the latest release of GNOME. Naturally there’s only open source goodness on offer.
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Essential System Tools: QJournalctl – Graphical User Interface for systemd’s journalctl
This is the latest in our series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small, indispensable utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems. The series examines both graphical and text based open source utilities.
Read moreEssential System Tools: f3 – detect and fix counterfeit flash storage
f3 is a set of 5 open source utilities that detect and repair counterfeit flash storage. It achieves this by testing the flash cards’ capacity and performance.
Read moreaux.app – desktop music player
aux.app plays music from YouTube, SoundCloud and Deezer. It’s built with web technologies including Electron. How does it fare?
Read moreShortwave – GTK3 internet radio software
Shortwave (previously known as Gradio) is open source goodness that lets you find and listen to 20,000 radio stations over the net.
Read moreCrow Translate – free desktop translation software
Crow Translate bills itself as a cross-platform, lightweight, translator supporting 117 different languages.
Read moreodio – free to download radio streaming software
odio is a free (no-charge) radio streaming software with more than 20,000 radio stations from around the world.
Read moreEssential System Tools: nmon – Curses based Performance Monitor
nmon is short for Nigel’s performance Monitor for Linux. It’s a very versatile tool that can be shaped to your exact requirements. It fully warrants its place in our Essential System Tools feature.
Read moreMellowPlayer – multi-platform cloud music integration
MellowPlayer integrates a whole raft of music streaming services. It’s Qt-based software.
Read moreEssential System Tools: Krusader – KDE file manager
Krusader is an advanced, twin-panel (commander-style) file manager designed for KDE Plasma. Krusader also runs on other popular Linux desktop environments such as GNOME.
Read moreKaku – web technologies-based music player
Kaku bills itself as the next generation music client. Let’s see what this means. Does this music player float our boat?
Read moreStrawberry – audio player and music collection organizer
Strawberry is an audio player and music collection organizer. It was originally forked from Clementine. The main goal was to create a player for playing local music files that looked a bit more like Amarok with advanced soundcard options. The music player is designed for music collectors, audio enthusiasts and audiophiles.
Read moreEssential System Tools: fdupes – find or delete duplicate files
fdupes finds duplicate files in the given set of directories and sub-directories. It recognizes duplicates by comparing MD5 signature of files followed by a byte-to-byte comparison. The utility offers a lot of options to list, delete and replace files.
Read moreEssential System Tools: Clonezilla – partition and disk cloning software
Clonezilla is a free and open source ncurses partition and disk imaging/cloning program. The software offers system deployment, bare metal backup and recovery.
Read moreHeadset – YouTube / Reddit desktop music player
Headset is a music player for the desktop that connects with the huge catalogue of music available from YouTube. Users can search through this collection of music, play what they find and save tracks/playlists. Headset can also read popular music subreddits and play the tracks in sequence.
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