Discover Hidden Gems: Open-Source Software You Should Know About
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We all love open-source software, but there are so many amazing projects out there that often go unnoticed. Let's change that! Share your favorite open-source software that you think more people should know about. Here’s how you can contribute:
- Single Option Per Comment: Mention one open-source software per comment to be able to easily find the most popular software.
- No Duplicates: Avoid duplicating software that has already been mentioned to ensure a wide variety of options.
- Upvote What You Love: If you see a software that you also appreciate, upvote it to help others discover it more easily.
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Let's create a comprehensive list of open-source software that everyone should know about!
OsmAnd: This map application is popular enough that it probably doesn't need mentioning, but good golly is it a powerful tool. Great options for downloading maps and having them offline, and while the car navigation might be missing one or two key features that you'd expect from proprietary alternatives (like live traffic), the sheer amount of detail that has been crowdsourced is mindblowing. There are a wealth of trails and cycle routes, low level details like park benches, bridges, and lookout spots, and the various map profiles you can build are very customizable. I'm personally a huge fan of the trip recording plugin for tracking all my hikes, runs, bike rides, canoe trips, and even swims.
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Czkawka: A free, fast, and open-source tool for finding and removing duplicate files, cleaning empty folders, and optimizing storage by content-based file comparison across multiple platforms.
Ooh, that sounds handy, I'll have to look into it.
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We all love open-source software, but there are so many amazing projects out there that often go unnoticed. Let's change that! Share your favorite open-source software that you think more people should know about. Here’s how you can contribute:
- Single Option Per Comment: Mention one open-source software per comment to be able to easily find the most popular software.
- No Duplicates: Avoid duplicating software that has already been mentioned to ensure a wide variety of options.
- Upvote What You Love: If you see a software that you also appreciate, upvote it to help others discover it more easily.
Check out last year's post for more inspiration: Last Year's Post
Let's create a comprehensive list of open-source software that everyone should know about!
Tenacity - a pre-enshitification fork of Audacity. An audio recorder and editor that does multi-track recording, effects and much more in a really simple UI.
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LocalSend should be called God Send because it'll save your life. It's AirDrop, but for everything and open source. Works really well, no setup, no server.
Looks awesome. Found it for Android on fdroid.
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LocalSend should be called God Send because it'll save your life. It's AirDrop, but for everything and open source. Works really well, no setup, no server.
I love LocalSend, the only downside is that both devices must be on the same network. So it won't work for sending a file to someone else at a bar.
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Tenacity - a pre-enshitification fork of Audacity. An audio recorder and editor that does multi-track recording, effects and much more in a really simple UI.
isn't this dead?
personally i quite like the ui improvements of audacity, and since the telemetry is opt-in on first launch i don't really have any other problems with it either.
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emacs, the text editor. it's so powerful and customizable that I feel listing any feature would do so many others a disservice
Yeah, Emacs is the best. Better than any windows Operating System can ever be.
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Nicotine+: A lightweight, free, and open-source graphical client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer file-sharing network.
What is Soulseek primarily used for?
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isn't this dead?
personally i quite like the ui improvements of audacity, and since the telemetry is opt-in on first launch i don't really have any other problems with it either.
wrote last edited by [email protected]There were commits yesterday.
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KDE Connect: An app for iOS, android, pretty much every flavor of linux, windows, etc. that lets you connect any devices together to share files, show notifications of other devices, use your phone as an input device(keyboard, mouse), control multimedia applications(start, play, stop, etc.), trigger commands, and everything else if you make a plugin for it.
This might read as a stupid question but ; Do you have to use KDE Plasma as a DE for it to work ?
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tmux: A terminal multiplexer that enables managing multiple terminal sessions within a single window, allowing detaching and reattaching sessions to keep programs running in the background.
On a similar note: zellij.
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This might read as a stupid question but ; Do you have to use KDE Plasma as a DE for it to work ?
no! there is GSConnect which is a gnome extension that provides the protocol as well
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This might read as a stupid question but ; Do you have to use KDE Plasma as a DE for it to work ?
I use it on Fedora with GNOME. Its available as a GNOME extension
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We all love open-source software, but there are so many amazing projects out there that often go unnoticed. Let's change that! Share your favorite open-source software that you think more people should know about. Here’s how you can contribute:
- Single Option Per Comment: Mention one open-source software per comment to be able to easily find the most popular software.
- No Duplicates: Avoid duplicating software that has already been mentioned to ensure a wide variety of options.
- Upvote What You Love: If you see a software that you also appreciate, upvote it to help others discover it more easily.
Check out last year's post for more inspiration: Last Year's Post
Let's create a comprehensive list of open-source software that everyone should know about!
zoxide: A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells.
This is such a handy tool, and the database can be queried for other tools too. Like project switchers or fzf for example.
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We all love open-source software, but there are so many amazing projects out there that often go unnoticed. Let's change that! Share your favorite open-source software that you think more people should know about. Here’s how you can contribute:
- Single Option Per Comment: Mention one open-source software per comment to be able to easily find the most popular software.
- No Duplicates: Avoid duplicating software that has already been mentioned to ensure a wide variety of options.
- Upvote What You Love: If you see a software that you also appreciate, upvote it to help others discover it more easily.
Check out last year's post for more inspiration: Last Year's Post
Let's create a comprehensive list of open-source software that everyone should know about!
wezterm: A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust
This is my favorite terminal emulator and very configurable with lua.
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LocalSend should be called God Send because it'll save your life. It's AirDrop, but for everything and open source. Works really well, no setup, no server.
Unfortunately, its not reliable. For large media files it gets stuck. Also, sometimes the local server is not discoverable on the other end. Even though I tried the troubleshooting step.
I had tested with windows and android so it could be different on Linux.
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We all love open-source software, but there are so many amazing projects out there that often go unnoticed. Let's change that! Share your favorite open-source software that you think more people should know about. Here’s how you can contribute:
- Single Option Per Comment: Mention one open-source software per comment to be able to easily find the most popular software.
- No Duplicates: Avoid duplicating software that has already been mentioned to ensure a wide variety of options.
- Upvote What You Love: If you see a software that you also appreciate, upvote it to help others discover it more easily.
Check out last year's post for more inspiration: Last Year's Post
Let's create a comprehensive list of open-source software that everyone should know about!
wrote last edited by [email protected]I think android HealthConnect doesn't get enough notice as it is a kind of silent background service.
It is local, opt-in, and privacy respecting connection API for sharing data between fitness apps with fine control over what gets shared where. You can have the shittiest privacy-violating fitness app and it can't just steal all of the data from your smartwatch or whatever because you connect the two apps via a stupid cloud integration.
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Czkawka: A free, fast, and open-source tool for finding and removing duplicate files, cleaning empty folders, and optimizing storage by content-based file comparison across multiple platforms.
Ooh, that looks polished, I’ll have to look into i- why is hiccup from how to train your dragon there
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This might read as a stupid question but ; Do you have to use KDE Plasma as a DE for it to work ?
No, it works on other setups too! I have used the regular kde connect app with enlightenment DE for example.
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I think android HealthConnect doesn't get enough notice as it is a kind of silent background service.
It is local, opt-in, and privacy respecting connection API for sharing data between fitness apps with fine control over what gets shared where. You can have the shittiest privacy-violating fitness app and it can't just steal all of the data from your smartwatch or whatever because you connect the two apps via a stupid cloud integration.
Open source though?
