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Category: Utilities

Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

Cursus – stores your history and makes it searchable

March 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Cursus writes your commands into an sqlite database.

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Selection of utilities

taproom – TUI for Homebrew

March 1, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

taproom is a terminal user interface (TUI) for Homebrew. It provides a way to explore formulae and casks directly in your terminal.

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Wallpaper Setter

awtwall – fast TUI wallpaper picker for Wayland

February 28, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

awtwall is a fast TUI wallpaper picker for Wayland with image previews, saved settings, and a keyboard-first workflow.

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Selection of utilities

cargo-seek – search, add and install cargo crates

February 28, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

cargo-seek is a terminal user interface (TUI) for searching, adding and installing cargo crates.

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Wallpaper Setter

Wallrus – generate colorful abstract wallpapers

February 27, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Wallrus is a user-friendly GNOME (GTK4) application for generating colorful abstract wallpapers based on different patterns and effects.

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Selection of utilities

SPM – simple package manager

February 27, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

SPM is a TUI wrapper for pacman and yay that makes package management visual and interactive.

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Hypervisors

RVVM – RISC-V virtual machine

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

RVVM is a virtual machine / emulator for RISC-V guests, which emphasizes on performance, security, lean code and portability.

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Best Free and Open Source Navigation Tools

fzf – command-line fuzzy finder

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

fzf is a general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder released under an open source license. It’s an interactive Unix filter for command-line.

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Find Duplicates

FSearch – inspired by Everything Search Engine

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

FSearch is a fast file search open source utility for Linux operating systems, inspired by Everything Search Engine, a desktop search utility.

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Find Duplicates

ANGRYsearch – Linux version of Everything Search Engine

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

ANGRYsearch is a fast file search open source utility written in Python for Linux operating systems, inspired by Everything Search Engine.

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Batch Renamers

renux – terminal-based bulk file renamer

February 25, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

renux is a tool with a text-based (terminal) user interface (TUI) that automates file renaming.

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Application Launchers

AppManager – install and uninstall AppImages

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

AppManager is a GTK/Libadwaita developed desktop utility in Vala that makes installing and uninstalling AppImages on Linux desktop painless.

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3D Printer

QIDIStudio – 3D printer slicing software

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

QIDIStudio is a professional 3D printer slicing software,which is compatible with all printers and 3D printing filaments of QIDI Technology.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

bfree – human-friendly view of Linux memory and swap

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

bfree is a human-friendly view of Linux memory and swap. Inspired by tools like btop, bfree gives you memory and swap stats.

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Luminance – control brightness of displays

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Luminance is a simple GTK application to control brightness of displays including external displays supporting DDC/CI.

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Documentation

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: more

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to more.

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Documentation

lore – less-like terminal pager

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lore is a very basic less-like terminal pager.

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Selection of utilities

swaptop – real-time swap usage monitor

February 22, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

swaptop is a real-time swap usage monitor for Linux and Windows systems with a TUI interface.

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Noise

qmassa – display GPU usage stats

February 22, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

qmassa is a Rust terminal-based tool for displaying GPUs usage stats on Linux.

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Clipboard

cclip – clipboard manager for Wayland

February 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cclip is a clipboard manager for Wayland that consists of two tools

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