Software Bible

On this list you will found my most BRUTAL software recommendations, the software listed here is perfect.

My focus is functionality/usability, several software have annoying bloat (Electron) that reduce the portability/security and increase resource consumption, I try to replace it whenever I can.

• Operating Systems
• System
• Terminal
• Networking
• Files
• Video
• Image
• Audio
• Games
• Emulators
• Other

Operating Systems

• Redox OS - An Unix-like operating system written in Rust with a microkernel design.

  It aims to be correct, reliable and secure, a microkernel design move the system components to user-space (to reduce kernel panics and improve security) while the Rust compiler/syntax produce secure (memory-safety) and efficient code (inspired by Plan 9, Minix, BSD, seL4 and Linux).

• Pop!_OS - An Ubuntu-based distribution focused on hardware reliability and system efficiency.

  It updates the Linux kernel version as long all System76 hardware is reliable, bundle a customized CFS scheduler policy to avoid hangs on X11/Wayland interfaces and will offer its own desktop environment written in Rust.

• HardenedBSD - Hardened fork of FreeBSD with a implementation of the grsecurity exploit mitigations and many other state-of-the-art mitigations.

System

• topgrade - A tool to update the packages on many distribution formats (system packages, Flatpak, Snap, Cargo and many others).
• bottom - A terminal-based system monitor written in Rust.
• macchina - A system information tool focused on performance (like neofetch).

Terminal

• starship - A customizable prompt for Unix shells.

Networking

• Servo - A browser engine written in Rust with a focus on high-performance/security.

• Warp - A tool to share files using the Magic Wormhole protocol, it's a P2P file protocol without limits.

• OnionShare - Easily host your websites, files or chats on the Tor network (.onion websites), can be installed via pip with pip install onionshare-cli.

• ZeroTier - A program to share your LAN over the Internet (like Hamachi).

• Lokinet An protocol-agnostic onion-routing network layer (same network type of Tor but not dependent on TCP like Tor) which tries to be more decentralized using a blockchain and improving the servers uptime with compensation.

• Arti - The Rust implementation of Tor.

• Jami - Most decentralized messaging app of the world, yet supporting advanced features such as file sharing, screen sharing, voice/video calls, groups and moderation.

• Lagrange - small and beautiful Gemini browser.

• NeoSurf - A NetSurf fork with improvements to make more websites work.

• gping - A ping implementation with a graph.

• Sniffnet - A nice tool to monitor your Internet traffic.

• Manyverse - A revolutionary social network app based on the SSB protocol - Electron-based.

  It replicate messages/posts with your peers/followers, creating an endless chain of backup (can't be censored in any way).

• youtube-tui - A terminal-based YouTube frontend with advanced customization.

• yt-dlp - Fork of youtube-dl with improvements.

• NewPipe - The most complete streaming app for Android, it supports YouTube, SoundCloud, PeerTube and Bandcamp.

• Syncthing - BitTorrent-like file sharing tool with a cluster of connected devices with folder states.

Files

• XFE - Small yet powerful file manager, image viewer and text editor (low resource usage)
• jExifToolGUI - Tool to edit/remove EXIF from media files using the powerful ExifTool.
• tokei - A tool to count lines of each type of file in a folder.
• onefetch - Show the Git repository information (like neofetch).

Video

• Pitivi - A flexible and easy-to-use video editor with fast encoding.
• t-rec - A terminal recorder written in Rust (like asciinema).

Image

• Flameshot - The most complete screenshot tool of the world.
• Upscaler - AI-based image upscaler with a GTK interface (works offline).
• Upscayl - AI image upscaler with folder selection support (works offline) - Electron-based.

Audio

• Festival - Amazing music player written in Rust.
• Ardour - Powerful digital audio workstation similar to FL Studio and Ableton Live.

Games

• OpenSpades - Open source client for the Ace Of Spades protocol, a wonderful voxel FPS multiplayer game.
• ZeroSpades - fork of OpenSpades with improvements/fixes.
• Minetest - A voxel game engine with a game similar to Minecraft, it focus on modding.
• Mindustry - An advanced tower defense game written in Java.
• San Andreas Unity - A reimplementation of the Grand Theft Auto San Andreas on the Unity engine with improvements and unlimited modding.
• Xash3D FWGS - Clean-room implementation of GoldSrc from Half Life with wonderful improvements.
• GZDoom - The best Doom engine with advanced features and mod support.
• FlightGear - Most reallistic flight simulator of the world.
• Godot Engine - Powerful and flexible 2D/3D game engine with support for many programming languages (GDNative).
• GDevelop - The most easy game engine of the world - Electron-based.

Emulators

• DuckStation - Most complete PS1 emulator focused on accuracy and compatibility.
• RPCS3 - Wonderful PS3 emulator with advanced features.
• Ruffle - Flash Player emulator reimplementation in Rust with high performance.
• Libretro - A umbrella of emulators and games based on the libretro multimedia library, similar to SDL.
• RetroArch - Most complete libretro frontend, supporting dozens of libretro cores and bleeding-edge emulation features.
• Bottles - The best Wine manager of the world, it support many Wine forks, API translators and customization options.

Other

• fend - A unit-aware calculator (can understand unit names/symbols to do conversions).

• Virtual Machine Manager - A powerful virtual machine manager with advanced customization.

• OpenZFS - This implementation of ZFS aim to modernize the code for several Unix systems.

• Arcan - An overlay operating system that replace X11, Wayland, GTK, Qt, Electron and D-Bus.

  It aims to improve security, be fail-resistant and OS-agnostic.