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The vast majority of Linux users would never be satisfied without access to a graphical user interface. However, even in 2020 there remain many reasons why console based applications can be extremely desirable. Although console applications are very useful for updating, configuring, and repairing a system, their benefits are not only confined to system administration.
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exa is a replacement for the venerable ls command. exa sports more features and arguably better defaults than ls.
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We’ve run through our statistics, and found our ten most well received posts/series that saw the highest page views for 2019.
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Golly is a free and open source cross-platform application for exploring Conway’s Game of Life and many other types of cellular automata.
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ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches your current directory for a regex pattern. It’s free and open source software.
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CMatrix is an ncurses program that simulates the display from “The Matrix”, and is based on the screensaver from the movie’s website.
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nuclear is a modern music player (Electron based) focused on streaming from free sources. The software is released under a free and open source license.
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If you use Linux on a notebook, TLP is for you. It saves laptop battery power with a wide variety of features. There’s processor frequency scaling, Wifi power saving, hard disk advanced power management, GPU power management and much more.
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lolcat applies rainbow colors to text output in the terminal. It works in a similar way to the venerable cat command but jazzes things up.
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Siren is a text-based audio player with one of the lowest system footprints. Luke Baker reviews this free and open source music player.
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