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
Internet
- Firefox – Browser
- Element – chat application
Office
- LibreOffice
- Kexi – fast database application
File management
- Recoll – fast indexing file search
- Ark – File archiver for Zip, 7z and more, integrates well in Qt/KDE desktop
Multimedia
- 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
coding
- vscode – IDE with lots of plugins (based on electron, sadly)
system tools
- 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.