Text editors remain a controversial area. Here are our recommended Vim-like text editors. They are all released under an open source license.
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Category: Utilities
mmry – local-first memory system for humans and AI agents
mmry is a local-first memory system. Store any text and find it again with multiple search strategies, pipe it anywhere with JSON.
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nocb – nearly optimal clipboard manager
nocb describes itself as a nearly optimal clipboard manager – fast, compressed, hash-based storage.
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mackup – keeps application settings in sync
mackup is a tool for backup and keeping your application settings in sync.
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SimplyToast – startup and background process manager
SimplyToast is a minimal, fast, and visually clean tool designed to give you full control over startup applications, background processes, and more.
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gSlapper – wallpaper utility
gSlapper is a wallpaper utility for Wayland that combines the best of swww and mpvpaper by allowing both static and video wallpapers.
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orphanhunter – identify and remove orphaned packages
OrphanHunter is a lightweight utility for Arch Linux designed to identify and remove orphaned packages and files that clutter your system
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cron
This article spotlights alternative tools to cron, a daemon to execute scheduled commands.
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Watchman – file watching service
Watchman watches files and record when they change. It can also trigger actions (such as rebuilding assets) when matching files change.
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fileformat – tool for recognizing file formats
fileformat is a tool for detecting and identifying file formats.
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10 Best Free and Open Source Neovim GUIs
Neovim’s RPC support lets developers create new front-ends (GUIs) for Neovim that are outside of the terminal. We make our recommendations.
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Bobcat – terminal emulator
Bobcat is a modern, feature-rich terminal emulator that works across all major operating systems.
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5 Best Free and Open Source X10 Home Automation Software
X10 is an open standard for controlling home electrical equipment remotely. It works across home power lines and is extremely low-bandwidth.
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ufo – universal file opener
ufo is a universal file opener, an alternative instrument for opening files from a command line.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: sudo
This article spotlights alternative tools to sudo, a command which lets you execute a command as another user.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: ping
This article spotlights alternative tools to ping. All software featured here is free and open source goodness.
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syca – minimal sudo-like privilege elevation tool
syca is a minimal sudo-like privilege elevation tool for Linux with PAM authentication and system-wide secure password caching.
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ripunzip – unzip an archive in parallel
This is a Rust library (and command-line tool) which uses the power of Rust’s rayon library to unzip a zip file in parallel.
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9 Best Free and Open Source Compositing Window Managers
A compositing window manager, or compositor, is a window manager that provides applications with an off-screen buffer for each window.
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dtrx – intelligent archive extraction tool
dtrx cleanly extract many archive types.
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