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Turn Based Strategy Games

Feudal Tactics – medieval strategy game

September 23, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Feudal Tactics is a medieval strategy game with countless unique and challenging levels. You play on an randomly generated island made of hexagons.

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Musical instruments

Danceinterpreter – display songs and dances at ballroom dance events

September 22, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Multimedia

The Danceinterpreter is a utility to display songs and their according dances at ballroom dance events.

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Paru – feature packed AUR helper

September 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Paru is a standard Pacman wrapping AUR helper with lots of features and minimal interaction.

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pacseek – search and install Arch Linux packages

September 21, 2025 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

pacseek is terminal user interface software which allows you to browse and search through the Arch Linux package databases as well as the AUR/

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buildaur – AUR helper with asp support

September 21, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

The AUR is an software repository for Arch Linux users and their self created or packaged software which is not in an official repository.

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SSHM – SSH connection manager

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

SSHM is an enterprise-grade SSH connection manager with integrated tmux sessions and intuitive TUI.

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Personal finance

Actual Budget – fast and privacy-focused app to manage your finances

September 19, 2025 Steve Emms Financial

Actual Budget is a fast and privacy-focused app for managing your finances.

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Yay – AUR helper

September 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Yay (Yet Another Yogurt) is an Arch User Repository (AUR) helper tool.

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Sync-in – file sync and server management

September 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Internet

Sync-in is available as a desktop application (Linux, macOS, and Windows and a command line interface (CLI), Sync-in adapts to your workflow

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Embellish – install nerd fonts

September 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Embellish is a user-friendly application designed for managing Nerd Fonts on your system.

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Linux Distributions

Vinari OS – Debian-based Linux distribution

September 18, 2025 Erik Karlsson Distro

Featuring the GNOME 43.9 desktop environment, it comes preloaded with essential development tools and everyday utilities.

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micro-racing

Pixel Wheels – retro top-down race game

September 18, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Pixel Wheels is a retro top-down race game for Linux, macOS, Windows and Android.

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Free and Open Source Board Games

Hunt – word search game

September 17, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Hunt is an easy word search game. You can play with or without a timer, or a blitz mode,

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Selection of utilities

Aurea – Flatpak metainfo banner previewer

September 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Aurea is a simple preview banner made to read metainfo files from Flatpak apps and represent them as they would on Flathub.

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Software

Octopi – powerful Pacman Qt frontend

September 16, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Octopi consists of a package browser, sudo helper, notifier, cache cleaner and repository editor.

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Software

cylon – Arch Linux maintenance program

September 15, 2025 Steve Emms System Software, TUI, Utilities

cylon is a TUI (terminal user interface) which provides updates and maintains an Arch based Linux distribution.

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Software

Pamac – Gtk and CLI front ends of libpamac

September 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

Pamac offers lpm, AUR, Appstream, Flatpak, and Snap support.

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Software

aurto – Arch Linux AUR tool

September 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

aurto is an Arch Linux AUR tool for managing an auto-updating local ‘aurto’ package repository using aurutils.

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Gamer Utilities

Candy Wrapper – screen-wrapping arcade action

September 13, 2025 Steve Emms Games

Candy Wrapper is a looping platformer arcade game. It’s built with Godot Engine 4.4.1.

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Machine Learning in Linux

Gerbil – desktop app to easily run Large Language Models locally

September 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Scientific

Gerbil lets you run LLMs locally powered by KoboldCpp which itself is a highly modified fork of llama.cpp.

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