An opinionated list of awesome FOSS :

This is a bookmark for great open-source software and utilities i know, i’ll try to only mention good software thats a bit unkown or under apprecieted and organize the list over time, for now lets start small.

Editors :

  • Marktext : A dead-simple, Elegant and feature rich markdown editor.
  • Micro : A successor for Nano, it fully supports mouse integration and common shortcuts like ctrl+c and ctrl+v , useful for quickly editing files.
  • Neovim : The true best foss code editor, a “build your own IDE” software.
  • Notepad++ : another dead simple good code editor, can be used as a replacement for Micro on Windows.

Windows specific :

  • SumatraPDF : Lightweight and efficient pdf reader for windows,not available for Linux but runs fine with wine.
  • windirstat : A windows directory and files analyzer.
  • Cygwin : Use GNU utilities but on Windows.
  • PowerToys : A collection of utilities to customize windows.

Image / Video tools :

  • XnView MP : This is NOT FOSS but a FREEWARE for private and non-commercial use, but the program is just too good not to mention.
  • VLC : The well known Audio and Video player.
  • OpenShot : dead simple video editor if you’re just looking to cut videos and apply basic editing.
  • HandBrake : Extremely efficient video transcoder, useful for video compression.
  • Clementine : a PERFECT music player.

Gaming :

  • Sunshine : A game streaming host application.
  • Moonlight : A game streaming client application.
  • PCSX2 : Feature rich ps2 emulator with a clean interface.
  • LucasChessR2 : not exactly gaming but a chess swiss-army knife.

Disk Utilities :

  • Ventoy : Run multiple isos from the same USB without burning any iso.
  • gparted : Versatile disk management and partitioning utility.
  • Timeshift : make backups of your system.
  • Rufus : make bootable usbs fast on windows.

whiteboarding :

  • xournal++ : Awesome software for handwriting.
  • Mermaid : Make graphs and UML diagrams with text, very compatible with markdown.
  • excalidraw : The best whiteboarding site ( can be self-hosted ) out there.
  • drawdb : awesome for database design.

Documents management :

  • Okular : very good PDF reader for linux systems.
  • Stirling-pdf : An all in one pdf management tools and swiss-army knife.
  • Pandoc : A cheatcode for converting files from a format to another.
  • Reaveal.js : Make stunning presentations using HTML.
  • ocrmypdf : A tesseract wrapper for ocring pdfs.

Terminal :

  • Alacritty : Fast and simple terminal emulator, very compatible with tmux.
  • fish : User friendly and a no-config shell, yet still customizable.
  • SauceCodePro nerdfont.
  • Cheat.sh : You have the internet and curl ? access concise docs from the terminal.
  • Tmux : Never quit the terminal :-)

File transfer :

Misc :

  • uv : An all in one python packages and projects manager.
  • pypy : python but JIT compiled.
  • Flameshot : awesome and multi-feature screenshots program.
  • yt-dlp : video / audio downloader.
  • gallery-dl : image downloader.
  • Manim : Make beautiful Math animations.

Android specific :

  • Seal : a video and audio downloader.
  • Termux : A linux environement on Android.