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Nøughty Linux is an unconventional Linux desktop experience that combines Ubuntu's familiarity and broad hardware compatibility with Nix's declarative configuration and vast software library all wrapped in a user-friendly interface that requires zero Nix knowledge.
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A lightweight code editor with vim mode, Git integration, and agentic AI editing.
A desktop app for isolated, parallel agentic development.
mux (Coding Agent Multiplexer) is a cross-platform desktop application for AI-assisted development with isolated workspace management.
An executable file that runs a harmless program most of the time, but will run a different, hidden code if deployed on a specific target host.
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A high-quality visual cross-platform gemini browser.
Kristall is a browser without support for css/js/wasm or graphical websites. It can display user-styled documents in several formats, including gemini, html, markdown, … provided by a server via gemini, gopher, http, finger, …
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Vulkan-based implementation of D3D7 for Linux / Wine, spun off from DXVK.
A Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 7, which allows running 3D applications on Linux using Wine. It uses DXVK's d3d9 backend as well as Wine's ddraw implementation (or the windows native ddraw) and acts as a proxy between the two, providing a minimal d3d7-on-d3d9 implementation. The project is currently in its early days. Expect most things to run, but not necessarily correctly or optimally.
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Free Malware Scanner for Linux Servers.
Find out what’s hiding on your server, absolutely free. Your first step to a secure server starts here.
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A desktop app to easily run Large Language Models locally.
Run Windows in a Bottle. Run Windows software and games on Linux.
Easily run Windows software on Linux with Bottles!
Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser.
Dillo is a multi-platform graphical web browser, known for its speed and small footprint, that is developed with a focus on personal security and privacy.
Privacy-first and free Speech-to-Text.
Murmure is an AI-powered, offline speech-to-text tool designed with Privacy first in mind and powered by NVIDIA Parakeet 🦜. Your voice always stays yours.
SQL & noSQL database manager.
Powerful and easy to use (no)SQL database client for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, SQLite, MongoDB, Redis, …
DbGate is cross-platform database manager. It's designed to be simple to use and effective, when working with more databases simultaneously. But there are also many advanced features like schema compare, visual query designer, chart visualisation or batch export and import.
Universal AI coding agent manager for 10x engineers.
cmux lets you run Claude Code, Codex CLI, Amp, Gemini CLI, Cursor CLI, Opencode, and other coding agent CLIs in parallel across multiple tasks
A customizable TUI display/login manager written in Rust 🐒
Lemurs is a Terminal User Interface (TUI) Display/Login Managers written in Rust that works on most GNU/Linux and BSD distributions. It can work both with or without SystemD.
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rtcqs is a Python utility to analyze your system and detect possible bottlenecks that could have a negative impact on the performance of your system when working with Linux audio.
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Offline Documentation Browser.
Zeal is an offline documentation browser for software developers.
😎 A curated list of the best resources in the Nix community
A fast, private, open-source S3 GUI built with Tauri.
We got tired of using the AWS console and CLI to manage files in S3. Sometimes you want a simple file browser that just works. So we built one.
NTFS filesystem userspace utilities.
ntfsprogs-plus project focus on filesystem utilities based on ntfs-3g project to support kernel ntfs filesystem. ntfsprogs-plus takes some utilities from ntfs-3g only what it need. (ntfs-3g consist of several useful utilities and user-level filesystem code using FUSE).
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A lightweight security threat scanner intended to make malware detection more accessible and efficient.
Lenspect is a lightweight security threat scanner powered by VirusTotal.
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A gesture-based launcher for Wayland. Launch apps by casting spells! 🪄
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Sandboxing for Nix.
NixPak is essentially a fancy declarative wrapper around bwrap. You can use it to sandbox all sorts of Nix-packaged applications, including graphical ones.
❄️ Simplify Nix Flakes with the module system.
flake-parts provides the options that represent standard flake attributes and establishes a way of working with system. Opinionated features are provided by an ecosystem of modules that you can import.
A Nix companion to improve developer experience.
Omnix aims to supplement the Nix CLI to improve developer experience.
save links, notes, and images. private & open source.
vault is a desktop app to collect and organize links, notes, and images. it’s open source, private, and everything is stored locally.
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nixos-unified is a flake-parts module to unify NixOS + nix-darwin + home-manager configuration in a single flake, while providing a consistent interface at DX and UX level.
a free messaging app for Slack, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram and more.
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Anvil is a graphical, multi-pane tiling editor that makes bold use of the mouse and integrates closely with the shell. It supports syntax highlighting, multiple cursors and selections, remote file editing, and contains a powerful text manipulation language.
This script uses the i3ipc-python library to switch the layout splith/splitv depending on the currently focused window dimensions. It works on both sway and i3 window managers.
The script does one thing: it checks the window height / width ratio, and executes the equivalent of either swaymsg splitv or swaymsg splith. Nothing less, nothing more. This may make stack and tabbed layouts behave oddly.
Private, fast, and honest web browser.
The Chromium-based web browser made for people, with love. Best privacy by default, unbiased ad-blocking, no bloat and no noise.
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Foundational software for designing beautiful user experiences. Use it on your favorite distro!
Impress users with the tools you build for them. COSMIC offers better performance, efficiency, and in-depth personalization to empower a wide variety of use cases.
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poop is a command line tool that uses Linux's perf_event_open functionality to compare the performance of multiple commands with a colorful terminal user interface.
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Diffuse is a graphical tool for comparing and merging text files. It can retrieve files for comparison from Bazaar, CVS, Darcs, Git, Mercurial, Monotone, RCS, Subversion, and SVK repositories.
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Visual diff and merge tool.
Meld helps you compare files, directories, and version controlled projects. It provides two- and three-way comparison of both files and directories, and has support for many popular version control systems.
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A Wayland layer-shell logout prompt, now ported to GTK4! A fork of wlogout with a bunch of quality-of-life features.
CudaText is a cross-platform text editor, written in Object Pascal. It is open source project and can be used free of charge, even for business. It starts quite fast: ~0.3 sec with ~30 plugins, on Linux on CPU Intel Core i3 3GHz. It is extensible by Python add-ons: plugins, linters, code tree parsers, external tools. Syntax parser is feature-rich, from EControl engine.
Select an operating system and let Boxes download and install it for you in a virtual machine.
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Light-weight control pane to run CLI coding agents(Claude Code, Codex) in parallel.
A desktop terminal application for running multiple CLI coding agents simultaneously, each in isolated git worktrees.
This manual describes how to install, use and extend NixOS, a Linux distribution based on the purely functional package management system Nix, that is composed using modules and packages defined in the Nixpkgs project.
a better way to work with systemd units.
Simplify systemd management with isd! isd is a TUI offering fuzzy search for units, auto-refreshing previews, smart sudo handling, and a fully customizable interface for power-users and newcomers alike.
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📦 Lightweight, ephemeral, sandboxes for Linux.
Create lightweight sandboxes for Linux with host isolation, rootfs images, and networking.
Microbox is a sandbox runtime that creates ephemeral and isolated execution environments on Linux by combining specific kernel features such as namespaces, cgroups, seccomp, and capabilities. It provides lightweight sandboxes to run container-like applications securely.
Retroshare establish encrypted connections between you and your friends to create a network of computers, and provides various distributed services on top of it: forums, channels, chat, mail... Retroshare is fully decentralized, and designed to provide maximum security and anonymity to its users beyond direct friends. Retroshare is entirely free and open-source software. It is available on Android, Linux, MacOS and Windows. There are no hidden costs, no ads and no terms of service.
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The Ultimate Desktop Companion for Your Immich Server.
ImmichSafe is a user-friendly, cross-platform desktop application for Windows, macOS, and Linux, designed to simplify the management, backup, and restoration of your self-hosted Immich photo and video management server. It provides a graphical user interface for complex Docker commands, making Immich administration accessible to everyone.
More than an edge OS . The immutable Linux meta-distribution for edge Kubernetes.
Transform your Linux system and preferred Kubernetes distribution into a secure bootable image for your edge devices.
With Kairos you can build immutable, bootable Kubernetes and OS images for your edge devices as easily as writing a Dockerfile. Optional P2P mesh with distributed ledger automates node bootstrapping and coordination. Updating nodes is as easy as CI/CD: push a new image to your container registry and let secure, risk-free A/B atomic upgrades do the rest. Kairos is part of the Secure Edge-Native Architecture (SENA) to securely run workloads at the Edge.
speak into any text field.
A free, open source, and extensible speech-to-text application that works completely offline.
Handy is a cross-platform desktop application built with Tauri (Rust + React/TypeScript) that provides simple, privacy-focused speech transcription. Press a shortcut, speak, and have your words appear in any text field—all without sending your voice to the cloud.
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Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software 🖥️ 📸. Open Source Screenshot Software.
Flameshot is a free and open-source, cross-platform tool to take screenshots with many built-in features to save you time.
Stress-Terminal UI, s-tui, monitors CPU temperature, frequency, power and utilization in a graphical way from the terminal.
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Compress your pictures up to 90% without visible quality loss.
Caesium is an image compression software that helps you store, send and share digital pictures, supporting JPG, PNG, WebP and TIFF formats. You can quickly reduce the file size (and resolution, if you want) by preserving the overall quality of the image.
Audio Production Without Limits.
REAPER is a complete digital audio production application for computers, offering a full multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing and mastering toolset.
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User-friendly SSH Connection Manager.
SSH Pilot is a user-friendly, lightweight SSH connection manager with an integrated terminal and SFTP client.
No more memorizing host aliases or complex SSH commands to manage your machines, deploy keys or set up port forwarding.
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Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, and Fedora based Webtop images, Linux in a web browser supporting popular desktop environments.
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Linux Patch Monitoring made Simple.
PatchMon provides centralized patch management across diverse server environments. Agents communicate outbound-only to the PatchMon server, eliminating inbound ports on monitored hosts while delivering comprehensive visibility and safe automation.
KVM Management, Reimagined. Lightweight tool for managing linux virtual machines.
A single <11MB binary with a modern Web UI, CLI, and API for KVM. No XML. No bloat. Just VMs.
Containers and Kubernetes.
The best free and open source tool for developers to work with containers and Kubernetes. Simplify container management, streamline Kubernetes workflows, and transition from local development to production with ease.
Linux shell for iOS.
A project to get a Linux shell running on iOS, using usermode x86 emulation and syscall translation.
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Tails is a portable operating system that protects against surveillance and censorship.
Tails uses the Tor network to protect your privacy online and help you avoid censorship.
Open source Dropbox client
Maestral is a lightweight Dropbox client for macOS and Linux. It provides powerful command line tools, supports gitignore patterns to exclude local files from syncing and allows syncing multiple Dropbox accounts.
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A modern GUI for yt-dlp (and other youtube-dl forks).
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