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Category: Utilities
Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple DiskImageMounter
DiskImageMounter is a utility that takes care of disk volume images. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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Awesome Linux Game Tools: GOverlay
GOverlay is a GUI tool used to manage MangoHud, vkBasalt and ReplaySorcery on Linux.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Fonts
Google Fonts is a font and web font service. It offers font families and an interactive web directory. We recommend open source alternatives.
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Excellent Utilities: noti – notification tool
noti is a small tool written in Go that monitors a command or process and triggers a notification.
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Excellent Utilities: pastel – generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors
pastel is a command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors. This tool supports a variety of color formats and color spaces.
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Awesome Linux Game Tools: ProtonUp-Qt
ProtonUp-Qt is software which helps you install custom builds of Proton such as GE-Proton. ProtonUp-Qt sports a graphical front-end
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Awesome Linux Game Tools: MangoHud
MangoHud is a Vulkan and OpenGL overlay to help you monitor FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load, and more besides.
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Awesome Linux Game Tools: gpu-screen-recorder-gtk
gpu-screen-recorder-gtk is a GTK frontend for GPU Screen Recorder. It’s billed as a screen recorder that minimizes system performance by recording using the GPU only.
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Opal – listen to relaxing background music
Opal is a small utility that’s designed to do one thing — listen to relaxing background music. It’s written in Java.
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Flemozi – lightweight emoji picker
Flemozi is a simple, fast, and lightweight picker for desktop operating systems. It’s written in Dart.
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Junction – application/browser chooser
Junction is an application/browser chooser. It’s designed to improve your workflow by making it easier to switch applications.
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Excellent Utilities: nvitop – GPU process management
nvitop is an interactive NVIDIA GPU process viewer and more besides. It’s free and open source software written in Python.
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tuc – drop-in replacement for cut
tuc is a similar tool to cut but offers additional functionality. It’s free and open source software written in Rust.
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Linux Candy: catclock – xclock with an enhanced cat mode
catclock is a fork of xclock which adds a ‘cat mode’. It’s free and open source, and part of our Linux Candy series.
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Excellent Utilities: Nushell – flexible cross-platform shell with a modern feel
Nushell is billed as a new type of shell. The aim is to adopt the Unix philosophy of shells where pipes connect command together.
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Excellent Utilities: Oh My Zsh – framework to manage your Zsh configuration
Oh My Zsh is an open source, community-driven framework for managing your Zsh configuration.
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Excellent Utilities: Zellij – terminal workspace with batteries included
Zellij is billed as “a workspace aimed at developers, ops-oriented people and anyone who loves the terminal”. It’s written in Rust.
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Excellent Utilities: Rnote – sketch and take handwritten notes
Rnote is a vector-based drawing app for sketching, handwritten notes and to annotate documents and pictures. Here’s our review.
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Excellent Utilities: Cerebro – productivity tool
Cerebro is billed as a launcher to improve your productivity and efficiency. This is free and open source software.
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