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trxsh – trash manager

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

trxsh is a simple and efficient command-line trash manager written in Go.

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Tools that help you

Outfieldr – TLDR client

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

Outfieldr is a TLDR client written in Zig. TLDR offers an alternative to man pages.

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Video-Emulators

Amiberry – optimized Amiga emulator

January 5, 2026 Steve Emms Emulators

Amiberry is an optimized Amiga emulator for Intel/AMD, ARM (32bit and 64bit) and RISC-V platforms.

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Desktop

Wardrobe – prettify your desktop

January 5, 2026 Steve Emms Desktop

Wardrobe is a utility for installing community-made Gnome Shell, GTK3/4, icon, and cursor themes as well as wallpapers.

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Notes

Jotit – simple note taking

January 4, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

Jotit is a command-line tool for quick note capture and browsing, built with Go. One of the problems with taking notes is thinking about what file you’re creating, where you’re going to put it, what to name it, folder structures,

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Files

Ekphos – terminal-based research tool

January 4, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

Ekphos is a lightweight, fast, terminal-based markdown research tool built with Rust.

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Backup software

OtoClone – automatic backup and sync utility

January 4, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

OtoClone is an automatic backup and sync utility that watches directories.

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Alaska

simagef – find similar images

January 4, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

simagef finds similar images. It takes a list of image paths and returns either groups or pairs of images that are similar.

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Audio Editors

unflac – audio image and cue sheet splitting

January 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

unflac is a command line tool for fast frame accurate audio image and cue sheet splitting. You need Go and ffmpeg installed.

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Application Launchers

MRunner – keyboard-first application runner

January 3, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

MRunner is a fast, keyboard-driven application runner designed for Linux users who prefer speed, simplicity, and minimalism.

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044-time management

pomo – simple customizable Pomodoro timer

January 3, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

pomo is a simple, customizable Pomodoro timer for your terminal, built with Bubble Tea.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

SoS – data collection tool

January 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

SoS is an extensible, portable, support data collection tool primarily aimed at Linux distributions and other UNIX-like operating systems.

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FTP Client

FTPGrab – grah files from FTP or SFTP servers

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

FTPGrab is a CLI application written in Go and delivered as a single executable (and a Docker image) to grab your files from a remote FTP or SFTP server to your NAS, server or computer. With Go, this can be

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Backup software

mackup – keeps application settings in sync

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mackup is a tool for backup and keeping your application settings in sync.

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Application Launchers

SimplyToast – startup and background process manager

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

SimplyToast is a minimal, fast, and visually clean tool designed to give you full control over startup applications, background processes, and more.

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Selection of utilities

orphanhunter – identify and remove orphaned packages

January 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

OrphanHunter is a lightweight utility for Arch Linux designed to identify and remove orphaned packages and files that clutter your system

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Data Science

Alchemist – extensible simulator for pervasive computing

December 31, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

Alchemist is a simulator for pervasive, aggregate, and nature-inspired computing.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: December 2025 Updates

December 31, 2025 Steve Emms Software

December 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

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Pyroscope – continuous profiling platform

December 31, 2025 Steve Emms Programming

Pyroscope is a continuous profiling platform designed to surface performance insights from your applications.

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Rare – graphical interface for Legendary

December 31, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Rare is a graphical interface for Legendary, a command line alternative to Epic Games launcher, written in PySide6.

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