We consider popular Windows proprietary software and recommend great open source replacements that run under Linux.
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Best Free Alternatives to YouTube
YouTube has over 2 billion monthly logged-in users with people watching over a billion hours of video a day. What open source alternatives are available?
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Lucas Chess – play and train chess
Lucas Chess is a chess GUI. It lets you play against lots of chess engines and train to improve your game.
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Best Free and Open Source Software – June 2021 Updates
June 2021 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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Best Free Alternatives to Google Public DNS
A DNS, short for domain name system, is used to resolve a particular domain name to its IP equivalent. Here’s alternatives to Google’s DNS.
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Excellent Utilities: duf – disk usage utility
duf is a simple disk usage utility that offers a more attractive representation than the classic df utility. It’s written in Go.
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Emulate the Atari ST home computer with Linux
The Atari ST was a line of personal computers from Atari Corporation. We recommend open source emulators for the Atari ST.
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Videomass – cross-platform GUI for FFmpeg and youtube-dl
Videomass is a cross-platform GUI for FFmpeg and youtube-dl. Here’s our verdict on this open source program.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Earth Pro
Google Earth Pro lets you fly anywhere to see satellite imagery, 3D buildings, 3D trees, terrain, Street View, planets and much more. Here our recommended open source alternatives.
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Linux Candy: Fondo – wallpaper tool
Fondo lets you quickly find beautiful wallpapers from Unsplash. Enjoy your new wallpaper with a single click.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Drive
In this series, we’ll explore how you can migrate from Google without missing out on anything. We’ll recommend open source solutions.
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Best Free and Open Source Software – April and May 2021 Updates
April and May 2021 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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qytdl – Qt frontend for Youtube-DL
qytdl (long-form: qYoutube-DL) is a Qt frontend to Youtube-DL. Here’s our verdict on this open source program.
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Foliate – simple and modern GTK eBook viewer
Foliate is a simple and modern eBook viewer written in JavaScript. Here’s our review of this free and open source software.
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Best Free Android Apps: Orgzly – outliner for taking notes and managing to-do lists
Orgzly is an outliner for taking notes and managing to-do lists. Orgzly is free and open source software for Android.
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Compact Text Editors Great for Remote Editing and Much More
A text editor is software used for editing plain text files.
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Best Free Android Apps: Joplin – note taking and to-do application
Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organized into notebooks.
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mmtc – minimal mpd terminal client
mmtc is billed as a minimal MPD terminal client that aims to be simple yet highly configurable.
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Reco – audio recording app designed for elementary OS
Reco is an audio recording app designed for elementary OS. Reco is free and open source software. Here’s our review of Reco.
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Best Free and Open Source Software – March 2021 Updates
March 2021 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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