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Image Viewers

41 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Image Viewers

November 22, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

Images are part of every day internet usage. We recommend the finest free and open source graphical image viewers available for Linux.

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Password Managers

18 Best Free and Open Source Linux GUI Password Managers

November 21, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

A password manager is a utility which helps users store and retrieve passwords and other data. Here’s our open source recommendations.

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boxunbox – simple symlinker inspired by stow

November 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

boxunbox is a simple symlinker inspired by stow with more control over where each individual folder gets linked.

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Images of shells by the sea

sh – shell parser, formatter, and interpreter

November 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sh is a shell parser, formatter, and interpreter. It supports POSIX Shell, Bash, and mksh. It requires Go 1.24 or later.

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Laptop

RogPerfTuner – utility to manage Asus ROG laptop performance and RGB lighting

November 19, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

RogPerfTuner is here to simplify your life and help you enjoy gaming on your Asus ROG laptop once and for all.

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Annotation tool

wayscriber – screen annotation tool for Wayland compositors

November 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

wayscriber is a ZoomIt-like screen annotation tool for Wayland compositors, written in Rust.

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Wallpaper Setter

randwall – randomly changes the desktop wallpaper

November 18, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

randwall periodically fetches and sets random wallpapers from Wallhaven’s toplist

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Selection of utilities

ReflectorTK – simple GUI for reflector

November 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

ReflectorTK provides a straightforward graphical interface for configuring and running the reflector to update Arch Linux’s mirrorlist.

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brush – POSIX- and bash compatible shell

November 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

brush (Bo(u)rn(e) RUsty SHell) is a POSIX- and bash-compatible shell, implemented in Rust. It’s built and tested on Linux, macOS, and WSL.

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Foreign Languages

Useful Ubuntu Touch Apps – Translate

November 17, 2025 Steve Emms Reviews, Ubuntu Touch, Utilities

Translate for Ubuntu Touch is an app that offers good translations with more privacy than with Google Translate.

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Selection of utilities

Spruce – clean up application caches

November 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Spruce is a lightweight cache cleaner and system maintenance tool designed for Linux.

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CPU

zeptofetch – ultra-minimal system information tool

November 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

zeptofetch delivers system information in under 2ms* with a 28KB binary*. No scripts, no bloat, just pure C doing exactly what you need.

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Monitor System

Lyvoxa Stellar – Linux system monitor

November 16, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Built in Rust, it aims to offer an intuitive Terminal User Interface (TUI) with advanced features for modern system administration.

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Selection of utilities

shiny-mirrors – find the best mirrors for Arch-based distros

November 16, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

shiny-mirrors is an alternative to Manjaro’s pacman-mirrors and Arch’s reflector, written in Rust.

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Software

paclog – Pacman log parser

November 15, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

paclog is a Pacman log parser written in the Rust language.

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Selection of utilities

reflector-cacheserver – retrieve up-to-date Arch Linux mirror data

November 15, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

reflector is a Python 3 module and script to retrieve and filter the latest Pacman mirror list.

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Essential System Utils

process-map – visualize the virtual memory of a process

November 15, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

process map is tool to visualize the virtual memory of a process. Thread activity is drawn as small dots jumping around on the map.

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Selection of utilities

rate-mirrors – client-side map-aware mirror ranking tool

November 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rate-mirrors is a tool, which tests mirror speed for: Arch Linux, ArcoLinux, Artix, BlackArch, CachyOS, EndeavourOS, Manjaro, and others.

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Monitoring

Open Alert Viewer – fetch and display server alerts

November 14, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Open Alert Viewer displays server and network alerts from servers running Prometheus, Nagios, Icinga or Zabbix.

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Essential System Utils

mstat – measure memory usage of a program over time

November 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mstat uses the cgroups kernel API (also used by container infrastructure like Docker) to record memory usage of a set of processes over time.

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