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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Category: Reviews
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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termusic – terminal-based music player
termusic is a music player written in Rust. Here’s our review of this open source software.
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Rembg – background segmentation tool using machine learning
Rembg is a tool to remove the backgrounds from images. It’s written in Python and published under an open source license.
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