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Category: Utilities

Sticky Notes

12 Best Free and Open Source Sticky Note Applications

June 8, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop, Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

A sticky note (often known as a Post-it Note) is a small piece of paper with a strip of glue on its back. Here’s our verdict.

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Food and Drink Software

wger is a fitness and nutrition manager

June 8, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific, Utilities, Web Apps

wger is a fitness and nutrition manager, with a comprehensive list of exercises and ingredients.It can be self-hosted.

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Selection of utilities

chezmoi manages your dotfiles across multiple machines

June 7, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

chezmoi helps you manage your personal configuration files (dotfiles, like ~/.gitconfig) across multiple machines.

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Compositing Window Managers

Waycheck shows Wayland compositor details

June 6, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Waycheck is a simple Qt6 application that displays all of the Wayland protocols that your compositor supports and doesn’t support.

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Diary

8 Best Free and Open Source Diary Software

June 6, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

This article identifies flexible and useful diary tools for the Linux desktop. Free and open source software only.

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Shell prompt

Antidote is a Zsh implementation of the legacy Antibody plugin manager

June 5, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Antidote is a feature-complete Zsh implementation of the legacy Antibody plugin manager, which in turn was derived from Antigen.

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Shell prompt

zgenom – lightweight and fast plugin manager for Zsh

June 4, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Zgenom provides you simple commands for managing plugins. It installs your plugins and generates a static init script that will source them

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Process Explorer

June 4, 2025 Steve Emms System Software, Utilities

Process Explorer is a task manager and system monitor It provides the functionality of Windows Task Manager along with additional features.

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Best Free GUI Diff Tools

jdDiff is a graphical cross platform diff viewer

June 4, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

jdDiff shows the difference between two files or two directories.

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Shell prompt

zplug is a next-generation plugin manager for zsh

June 3, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

zplug has a good feature set including lazy loading, branch/tag/commit support, and many more.

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