Useful Linux applications

See also: CLI Applications for admins

• rofi – fast application launcher and window switcher
• uLauncher – another application launcher with lots of plugins. Looks sexy and is based on Python and HTML, so it's a bit slow.
• xfce4-terminal – terminal emulator
• Zim Wiki – personal desktop wiki
• Qalculate! – calculator
• Geany – fast mini-IDE / Editor
• Lutris – game installer and runner

• Firefox – Browser
• Element – chat application

• LibreOffice
• Kexi – fast database application

• Recoll – fast indexing file search
• Ark – File archiver for Zip, 7z and more, integrates well in Qt/KDE desktop

• mpv – video player with minimal UI
• VLC – video player with good playlist GUI
• guayadeque – music player with smart playlist feature, handles huge music collections
• VideoMorph – Python GUI for transcoding videos
• soundKonverter – transcode audio files

• vscode – IDE with lots of plugins (based on electron, sadly)

• Barrier – share mouse and keyboard between two PCs (client-server), "software KVM"
• Krunner – launch applications
• Albert – Spotlight/Everything replacement for Linux. Extensible Application Launcher written in Qt.