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100 Great Free and Open Source GUI Applications for Linux

Discover 100 outstanding free and open source Linux GUI applications for productivity, creativity, multimedia, development, and more.

dskDitto scans for duplicate files in parallel, with interactive review, SHA-256 or BLAKE3 hashing and export or cleanup actions.

Periscope indexes duplicate files and lets you inspect, report and safely delete redundant copies using familiar terminal commands.

Go Find Duplicates scans directories for matching files and directories, providing fast comparisons, exclusions and detailed reports.

Dupster provides an interactive terminal interface for finding identical files, reviewing duplicate groups and previewing deletion.

Bonsai visualises disk usage with a terminal pie chart, directory sidebar, asynchronous scanning, file highlighting and deletion.

duple compares file contents to locate duplicates, creates an editable deletion plan and performs cleanup only after review.

backdown finds identical files and guides selection of redundant copies, staging removals for review before applying changes.

sdupes accepts file paths on standard input and reports duplicate files, with grouping, delimiter and comparison controls.

rmdupes detects duplicate files within a target or against a reference directory, with dry runs, backups and selective removal options.

dupefi finds duplicate files and formats the results for shell pipelines, with reference-directory matching and regex filters.

fclones detects duplicate files using parallel scans and configurable filters, with safe previews, linking, moving and JSON reports.

jdupes finds exactly matching files using hashes and byte comparisons, with deletion, linking and filesystem-level deduplication options.

rdfind identifies redundant files by content, prioritises originals and can replace duplicates with symbolic links or hard links.

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