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Category: Utilities

Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

ShellCheck is a shell script static analysis tool

April 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ShellCheck is a tool that gives warnings and suggestions for bash/sh shell scripts. It’s written in Haskell.

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SSD

crossdirstat is a file and directory statistics tool

April 20, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

crossdirstat is a cross-platform file and directory statistics written using Electron.

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Screen Capture

9 Best Free Linux Screen Capture GUI Tools

April 20, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

We recommend the best free and open source GUI software for taking screenshots.

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Password Managers

passage – age-backed password manager

April 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

passage is a fork of password-store that uses age as a backend instead of GnuPG.

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SSD

whalespotter finds big files and directories

April 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, TUI, Utilities

whalespotter is a convenient TUI application to quickly locate large files and folders. It’s written in Rust.

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Password Managers

passfzf is a simple fzf wrapper for pass

April 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

passfzf is a simple fzf wrapper for pass (the UNIX password-store).

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GoldenDict-ng is an advanced dictionary lookup program

April 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

GoldenDict-ng is an advanced dictionary lookup program, supporting many dictionary formats.

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Graphics card image

LACT configures and monitors AMD, NVIDIA and Intel GPUs

April 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

LACT lets you configure and monitor your AMD, Nvidia or Intel GPU on Linux.

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Find Duplicates

grex generates regular expressions from user-provided test cases

April 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

grex is a library and a command-line utility to simplify the often complicated and tedious task of creating regular expressions.

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Application Launchers

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Spotlight

April 18, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Apple Spotlight is a system-wide search feature on Apple devices. It lets users quickly find files, apps, contacts, and information.

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