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Files

Caja – file manager for the MATE desktop

February 29, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity

Caja is the official file manager for the MATE desktop, the continuation of GNOME 2.

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Files

Nemo – file manager for the Cinnamon desktop environment

February 29, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity

Nemo is a file manager for the Cinnamon desktop environment. This is free and open source software written in C.

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Bible

Unbound Bible – multilingual Bible-reader software

February 20, 2024 Steve Emms Other

The Unbound Bible is a multilingual Bible-reader program.

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Task Manager

Done – To-do lists reimagined

February 16, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity

Done is a simple task management solution for seamless organization and efficiency.

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Recording Studio

Blue Recorder – simple screen recorder written in Rust

February 9, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

Blue Recorder is billed as a simple desktop recorder for Linux systems. It’s built using GTK4 and FFmpeg.

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Git Clients

Giggle – graphical frontend for the git content tracker

January 23, 2024 Steve Emms Programming

Giggle is a Gtk frontend to the git content tracker. Giggle is written in C and uses the GTK+ toolkit.

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YouTube

pipe-viewer – lightweight YouTube client

January 8, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia, Reviews

pipe-viewer is a lightweight YouTube client for Linux, without requiring an API key. It’s free and open source software.

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Television

Glide – simple and minimalistic media player

January 5, 2024 Steve Emms Multimedia, Reviews

Glide is designed to be a simple media player. It doesn’t have a ton of features. That’s by design. It’s free and open source software.

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Celeste – GUI file synchronization client

December 23, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Celeste is a GUI file synchronization client that can connect to virtually any cloud provider.

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Internet

Transmission – BitTorrent Client

December 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Transmission is a fast, easy, and free BitTorrent client with an easy-to-use interface on top of a cross-platform backend.

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Internet

Deluge – cross-platform ​BitTorrent client

December 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Deluge is a lightweight, cross-platform BitTorrent client. It uses libtorrent at its core to handle the BitTorrent protocol.

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Internet

Fragments – BitTorrent client for the GNOME desktop environment

December 19, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Fragments is an easy to use BitTorrent client. It can be used to transfer files via the BitTorrent protocol, such as videos, music or installation images for Linux distributions.

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Image Viewers

GPicView – simple and fast image viewer

November 18, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

GPicView is a simple and fast image viewer for X. It’s the standard image viewer for LXDE.

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Image Viewers

Loupe – image viewer

November 18, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Image Viewer (Loupe) is an image viewer application written with GTK 4, Libadwaita and Rust.

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Music

Pragha – lightweight music player

November 16, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Pragha is a lightweight open source music player based on Gtk, sqlite, and completely written in C. It is designed to be fast and light.

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Music

Aqualung – advanced music player

November 16, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Aqualung is an advanced, gapless Gtk-based audio player. Aqualung plays audio CDs, internet radio streams and podcasts and soundfiles in popular formats.

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Music

Xnoise – media player for Gtk

November 16, 2023 Steve Emms Multimedia

Xnoise is a media player for Gtk+ with an attractive graphical user interface, fast performance, and bags of features.

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Text Editor

medit – text editor

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Documents

medit is an open source programming and around-programming text editor. It’s a GTK text editor released under an open source license.

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Text Editor

Howl – keyboard-focused programmable text editor

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Howl is a keyboard-focused programmable text editor with multiple views, syntax modes, inspections, regex search and external commands.

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File Managers

PCMan File Manager – replacement for Nautilus, Konqueror and Thunar

November 12, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

PCMan File Manager is a file manager with a tabbed interface. The goal of this application is to be slim and useful

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