System Tools

Terminal Emulators

Note

A terminal emulator is a software application that allows you to interact with your computer’s operating system using text commands.

• ⭐ kitty - Fast and feature-rich GPU accelerated terminal
• WezTerm - Powerful terminal written in Rust
• Alacritty - OpenGL terminal emulator
• Guake - Dropdown terminal for GNOME desktop environment
• Konsole - Lightweight terminal emulator for KDE desktop environment
• yakuake - Dropdown terminal based on Konsole
• Hyper - Electron-based terminal emulator
• zutty - High-end terminal for low-end system

Terminal Shells

• ⭐ bash - Simple and popular command-line shell
• ⭐ zsh - Shell designed for interactive use
• dash - Fast shell designed to be as small as possible
• fish - Smart command-line shell

Package Managers

Note

If you want information on how to install, update and remove packages in each package manager. check out 🔗 package manager reference, or their respective documentation

Distro Agnostic

• ⭐ Nix - Huge package manager with many features, from the same developers as NixOS
• ⭐ Flatpak - Contained applications
• zap - AppImage package manager
• Homebrew - Package manager firstly made for MacOS
• pip - Package manager for Python programming language
• pipx - pip but in isolated environments
• npm - JavaScript package manager
• yarn - Open-source package manager for JavaScript
• GNU Guix - GNU-developed based on Nix package manager

Arch

• ⭐ Pacman - Default package manager for Arch
• ⭐ yay - Most popular AUR helper
• ⭐ paru - Feature packed AUR helper
• aura - Secure AUR helper
• pikaur - AUR helper with minimal dependencies

Debian/Ubuntu

• ⭐ apt - Default package manager for Debian
• Pacstall - Arch-styled package manager for Ubuntu

GUI for managing packages

• ⭐ KDE Discover - KDE package management utility
• GNOME Software - GNOME package management utility
• AppImage Pool - Store for AppImages
• Pamac - Made by Manjaro package management utility Arch-based systems only
• Synaptic - Advanced package management software apt only

Desktop Environments

Note

Desktop Environment (DE) is a bundle of application sharing common graphical user interface (GUI)

Desktop

• ⭐ KDE Plasma - Sleek and modern desktop environment
• ⭐ XFCE - Lightweight desktop environment
• GNOME - Attractive and intuitive desktop environment
• Budgie - Modern desktop environment
• Cinnamon - Desktop with traditional user experience
• LXDE - Lightweight desktop environment
• LXQt - Even more lightweight desktop based on LXDE
• MATE - Desktop environment which started as a fork of GNOME 2

Mobile

• ⭐ Plasma Mobile - Mobile version of KDE Plasma
• Phosh - GNOME on mobile

Window Managers

Wayland Compositors

Tiling

• ⭐ Hyprland - Tiling manager with eye-candy
• ⭐ Sway - i3 compatible wayland compositor / SwayFX
• river - Dynamic tiling wayland compositor
• Qtile - Hackable tiling manager

Stacking

• Kwin - KDE window manager used in KDE Plasma
• wayfire

X11

Tiling

• ⭐ i3 - Most popular tiling window manager
• Bspwm - Represents windows as leaves of a full binary tree
• Awesome - Highly configurable, next generation window manager for X11
• Qtile - Hackable tiling manager
• xmonad - DYnamic tiling window manager

Stacking

• Fluxbox - Extremely fast window manager
• xfwm4 - XFCE window manager

System Info

Fetch

• ⭐ neofetch - Classis fetch style program Discontinued
• ⭐ fastfetch - Fast fetch program written in C
• hyfetch - Pride flags in neofetch/fastfetch
• macchina - Simple and customizable fetch written in Rust

Monitors

Graphical

• Mission Center - System resources monitor similar to Windows one
• AMDGPU_TOP - Tool for displaying usage of your AMD graphics card using AMDGPU driver

CLI

• ⭐ htop - Interactive process viewer
• vtop - Monitor system resources usage
• bashtop - Customizable and extensive resource monitor

Virtual Machines

• ⭐ QEMU - Generic open-source virtual machines
• ⭐ virt-manager - Tool for managing KVM virtual machines
• VirtualBox - Easy to use virtual machine

File Manager

Graphical

• ⭐ Dolphin - File manager for KDE Plasma desktop environment
• ⭐ Thunar - Extensible file manager for XFCE desktop environment
• Nemo - File manager for Cinnamon desktop environment
• fm - Small general-purpose file manager

CLI

• ⭐ ranger - File manager with VI keybindings
• nnn - Blazingly fast file manager
• mc - Classic file manager
• joshuto - ranger-like file manager written in Rust
• fff - Fast file manager Discontinued

Archiving tools

Graphical

• ⭐ Ark - Archiving tool for KDE Plasma
• PeaZip - Alternative to WinRAR for linux
• Xarchiver - Lightweight archiving utility
• LXQt-archiver - Archiver for LXQt desktop

CLI

• ⭐ GNU tar - GNU software for compressions
• p7zip - POSIX variant of 7-zip

Text Editors

Graphical

• ⭐ Kate - Customizable KDE Plasma text editor
• ⭐ VSCodium - FLOSS version of VSCode
• zed - High-performance code editor
• Notepadqq - Notepad++ alternative for linux
• FeatherPad - Minimal graphical text editor
• gedit - GTK text editor for GNOME desktop environment
• Howl - Lightweight text editor
• GNU Emacs - Extensible and customizable text editor
• GNU Zile - Lightweight clone of Emacs
• neovim Qt - GUI for neovim based on Qt

CLI

• ⭐ GNU nano - Classic text editor
• micro - Intuitive editor based on nano
• neovim - Modern version of vim with Lua plugins
• vim - Improved version of vi
• vi - Classic text editor
• Helix - neovim inspired editor written in Rust

Disks

Mounting

• KDiskFree - KDE Plasma’s utility for mounting disks
• udevil - Mounts devices as a regular user
• pmount - Easy-mounting utility

Disk usage

• Filelight - Disk usage analizer for KDE Plasma desktop
• 🖥️ dust - Alternative to du, written in Rust