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Name a program that doesn't get enough love!

Nethogs Syncthing exa app Angry IP Scanner fzf Shutter Audacious CoreCtrl Czkawka MusicBrainz Picard
  1. NetHogs is a small 'net top' tool.

    #Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Performance Monitoring 5 social mentions

  2. Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and...
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Cloud Storage #File Sharing #File Sharing And Backup 826 social mentions

  3. A Modern Replacement for ls
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Terminal Tools #Linux #Unix 20 social mentions

  4. Open-source and cross-platform network scanner designed to be fast and simple to use
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Angry IP Scanner Fast and friendly network scanner Scans local networks as well as Internet IP Range, Random or file in any format Exports results into many formats Extensible with many data fetchers Provides command-line interface Over 29 million downloads Free and open-source Works on Windows, Mac and Linux Installation not required Https://angryip.org/.

    #Monitoring Tools #Network Scanning #Network Security 32 social mentions

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    fzf

    A command-line fuzzy finder written in Go
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Productivity #LMS 214 social mentions

  6. Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Screenshot Annotation #Screenshots #Image Annotation 7 social mentions

  7. Audacious is an advanced audio player.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Audio Player #Media Player #Music Player 21 social mentions

  8. CoreCtrl is a Free and Open Source GNU/Linux application that allows you to control with ease your computer hardware using application profiles.
    Corectrl is the only program I’ve found to actually control the laptop fans, CPU, GPU correctly while gaming.

    #Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Device Management 103 social mentions

  9. Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc.
    Czkawka - I mostly use it to find duplicate and visually similar images to keep my dank memes free from dupes, but it also finds big files, broken files, empty directories, empty files, music duplicates, broken sym links, bad extensions, temporary files, and similar videos.

    #Hard Disk Usage #Hard Disk Management #Hard Drive Tools 171 social mentions

  10. Official website for MusicBrainz Picard, a cross-platform music tagger written in Python.‎Downloads · ‎MusicBrainz Blog · ‎Picard 2.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Musicbrainz Picard - Metadata lookup and organization for music files. Embeds tags and artwork, looks up metadata from an internet database.

    #Shopping #Music #Audio Player 160 social mentions

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    Flacon extracts individual tracks from one big audio file containing the entire album of music and...
    Flacon - I use it to split apart single-file FLAC or APE albums.

    #Video #Audio & Music #Product Presentation 3 social mentions

  12. Zim is a graphical text editor used to maintain a collection of wiki pages. Each page can contain links to other pages, simple formatting and images.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Zim - a Desktop Wiki it been around for so long before all these notes apps like Notion and Obsidian became popular. In Zim all the notes are stored in Text Files so it's easy to backup, port, and use git to manage changes.

    #WiKi #Note Taking #Task Management 115 social mentions

  13. Fast application launcher for Linux. Custom shortcuts for web URLs and scripts.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Ulauncher an application launcher for Applications. With numerous extensions. It's also not to difficult to write an extension, so you can customise it with your workflow.

    #App Launcher #Windows Tools #Mac 29 social mentions

  14. rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possibly over a network.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Rdiff Backup - Reverse differential backups that uses rsync, linking, and can tunnel via ssh. You get a full current backup with increments available to restore any version of the file with minimal storage space used.

    #Cloud Storage #Backup & Sync #File Sharing 15 social mentions

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    Bat

    A cat(1) clone with wings.
    Bat is a cat replacement with plenty of neat features.

    #Developer Tool #REST API #Service 103 social mentions

  16. command-line utility and library for lossy compression of PNG images
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Oxipng, pngquant and svgcleaner — optimizing images.

    #Image Optimisation #Image Editing #Image Effects 28 social mentions

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    Oxipng is a multithreaded lossless PNG compression optimizer. It can be used via a command-line interface or as a library in other Rust programs.
    Oxipng, pngquant and svgcleaner — optimizing images.

    #Image Optimisation #Image Editing #Image Effects 8 social mentions

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    Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform, non-linear video editor.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Not sure if Shotcut is getting enough love or not but it has completely replaced Adobe Premiere Pro for me. I use it for work.

    #Video #Video Editors #Video Editor 115 social mentions

  19. The AUR Ubuntu never had
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Lastly, deb-get + pacstall + bauh. All of these combined covers 99% of my software needs, much less need to find and install PPAs and .deb manually. Still not as convenient as AUR, but much better than it was before. Hopefully, eventually everything is on Flatpak, snap, or AppImage so I could just use Bauh for most apps, but for now, I'm glad that these tools exists.

    #Front End Package Manager #Software Marketplace #Work Music 13 social mentions

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    bauh (ba-oo), formerly known as fpakman, is a graphical interface for managing your Linux software (packages/applications). It currently supports the following formats: AppImage, ArchLinux repositories/AUR, Flatpak, Snap and Web applications.
    Lastly, deb-get + pacstall + bauh. All of these combined covers 99% of my software needs, much less need to find and install PPAs and .deb manually. Still not as convenient as AUR, but much better than it was before. Hopefully, eventually everything is on Flatpak, snap, or AppImage so I could just use Bauh for most apps, but for now, I'm glad that these tools exists.

    #Software Marketplace #Front End Package Manager #Code Collaboration 12 social mentions

  21. The Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Notable - Notes are written in Markdown, plus you can write KaTeX expressions, Mermaid diagrams, and more. Beautiful design.

    #Notes #Note Taking #Todos 33 social mentions

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    nnn

    Fast and resource-sensitive file manager for the terminal

    #FTP Client #File Manager #Robo-Advisor 75 social mentions

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    Simple image viewer written in qt. Supports webm playback.
    Qimgv - Image viewer. Fast, easy to use. Optional video support. Very powerful, qt app, best for me.

    #Photos & Graphics #Image Editing #Photo Editing 7 social mentions

  24. Emacs configuration similar to Spacemacs but faster and lighter.
    Doom-emacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn Martian hacker and vim lovers...

    #Text Editors #IDE #Knowledge Management 154 social mentions

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    Modern terminal-based text editor
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 76 social mentions

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    Dia

    Dia is a GTK+ based diagram creation program for GNU/Linux, MacOS X, Unix, and Windows, and is released under the GPL license.

    #Diagrams #Flowcharts #Wireframing 11 social mentions

  27. galculator is an open source scientific calculator with a modern GUI and a wide range of operation modes. It supports algebraic, reverse polish (RPN) and paper mode notations.

    #Calculator #Advanced Calculator #Knowledge Search 1 social mentions

  28. GPRename is a complete batch renamer for files and directories and is licensed under the terms of...

    #File Management #Office & Productivity #Graphic Design Software

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    Qmmp is an audio-player, written with help of Qt library. The user interface is similar to ...
    Qmmp: Audio player. With the according skin it looks like good old Winamp.

    #Audio Player #Media Player #Video Player 12 social mentions

  30. An Internet radio player for Linux.

    #Audio Player #Media Player #Music Palyer

  31. Share files across the LAN. Contribute to linuxmint/warpinator development by creating an account on GitHub.

    #Cloud Storage #File Sharing #File Explorer 14 social mentions

  32. Terminal file manager written in Go (programming language).
    I've used ranger for years, but recently replaced it with https://github.com/gokcehan/lf Mostly because the configuration is far, far simpler.

    #FTP Client #File Manager #Robo-Advisor 60 social mentions

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