OS and desktop
Operating systems, desktops, file systems and backups.
153 tools, most recommended first
brew
Homebrew/brew
🍺 The Package Manager for Everywhere
“- Homebrew: - Free Software Foundation (FSF): - LibreOffice:”
- Recommended by
- 9
- Stars
- 50k
- Licence
- BSD-2-Clause
immich
immich-app/immich
High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.
“I self-host Immich, and run the iPhone app to back up my photos. I used this guide for the initial import.”
- Recommended by
- 7
- Stars
- 118k
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
fd
sharkdp/fd
A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
“I'll add two really simple, but also very effective tools. Search: in the form of things like "the silver searcher" or "fd". And, Replace: with tools like sed…”
- Recommended by
- 6
- Stars
- 45k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
OpenAdapt
OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt
For EHRs, payer portals, and any app your team clicks through. A person or an agent shows the task; OpenAdapt turns it into a local program that repeats the steps with no model calls, checks each save, and stops when something doesn't match.
“See for an open source alternative that runs segmentation locally.”
- Recommended by
- 5
- Stars
- 1.9k
- Licence
- MIT
ImHex
WerWolv/ImHex
🔍 A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.
“Look for tracing/profiling/binary analysis UIs: - - - 3D modeling / CAD software: - Blender/Rhino etc - Similar for audio you can search for 'DAWs' (…”
- Recommended by
- 4
- Stars
- 56k
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
Strata
Niko1221/Strata
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on any consumer hardware: one-click install for Windows / Linux. Strata inference engine, OpenAI/Anthropic API on localhost, optional image input.
“Any chance you could try qwen3.8 flash next? That is currently the best local model for actual coding tasks in my + many coworkers experience. It will run reasonably fast if you have 64+ gb ram and use strata or a strata fork (vram not super important with this method).…”
- Recommended by
- 4
- Stars
- 38k
- Licence
- MIT
magnitude
magnitudedev/magnitude
Open source inference engine that tunes its kernels on your hardware to find the fastest way to run each model. 2x faster than Ollama. Works on Apple Silicon, NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, or just a CPU.
“We have a retrieval benchmark based on RULER which we've been using to ensure that the model maintains complete awareness of the full context window. All our benchmarks are open source so you can check it out here if you'd like:…”
- Recommended by
- 4
- Stars
- 7.7k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
teams-for-linux
IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux
Unofficial Microsoft Teams for Linux client
“I have used before, it is quite a nice experience (better than the official app!) and it might be something suitable when the web client is broken with no clear reason why.”
- Recommended by
- 4
- Stars
- 5.2k
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
openrecall
openrecall/openrecall
OpenRecall is a fully open-source, privacy-first alternative to proprietary solutions like Microsoft's Windows Recall. With OpenRecall, you can easily access your digital history, enhancing your memory and productivity without compromising your privacy.
“We've launched a FOSS alternative with OpenRecall to (hopefully) work towards addressing some of the concerns people have with Windows Recall. We think it could be a useful feature but it must be (1) fully auditable/open source (2) using o…”
- Recommended by
- 4
- Stars
- 3.0k
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
ohmyzsh
ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh
🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,500+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.
“The oh-my-zsh git plugin aliases have become second nature. No need to install oh-my-zsh you can just take the file or cherry pick (!) the useful ones. I may drop oh-my-zsh completely and just set up zsh with the small subset of plugins I use.…”
- Recommended by
- 3
- Stars
- 190k
- Licence
- MIT
hoppscotch
hoppscotch/hoppscotch
Open-Source API Development Ecosystem • https://hoppscotch.io • Offline, On-Prem & Cloud • Web, Desktop & CLI • Open-Source Alternative to Postman, Insomnia
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- Recommended by
- 3
- Stars
- 81k
- Licence
- MIT
stats
exelban/stats
macOS system monitor in your menu bar
“I’ve found stats to be a great open source alternative to the iStat Menus system monitor app mentioned in the article.”
- Recommended by
- 3
- Stars
- 43k
- Licence
- MIT
raylib
raysan5/raylib
A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
“Raylib v6.0 (226 points)”
- Recommended by
- 3
- Stars
- 36k
- Licence
- Zlib
Ice
jordanbaird/Ice
Powerful menu bar manager for macOS
“Seems to be a nice option, but the way it handles the notch... I think the second bar that Bartender has and Ice will eventually have works better. For now, I'll support Ice because it's open source. I'll donate more than the $10 Vanilla Pro costs just to have an open source a…”
- Recommended by
- 3
- Stars
- 30k
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
yabai
asmvik/yabai
A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning
“This is disproven by the fact that Yabai can instantly swap spaces with SIP disabled.”
- Recommended by
- 3
- Stars
- 30k
- Licence
- MIT
nixpkgs
NixOS/nixpkgs
Nix Packages collection & NixOS
“Pinboard (still decent, just don't expect your money back if you pay for the permanently broken PDF export feature) until I can self-host Linkding.”
- Recommended by
- 3
- Stars
- 27k
- Licence
- MIT
cosmopolitan
jart/cosmopolitan
build-once run-anywhere c library
“Cosmopolitan and Some genius realized that you can actually embed valid win32 programs inside valid posix shell scripts, and found a way to make a C cross-platform solution out of it, meaning that yo…”
- Recommended by
- 3
- Stars
- 21k
- Licence
- ISC
RemoveMacAI
omlahore/RemoveMacAI
Debloat macOS: turn off Apple Intelligence, analytics, ads and pop-ups. A native app and CLI, and every change can be undone.
“I don't want AI. I am preparing for a jump (back) to Linux. "Choice" disappeared, and yes, I know about the "fix" Maybe this idea may be foreign to many, but personal computers were something I built from bags of parts socketed and/or soldered onto S-100 cards, and that exper…”
- Recommended by
- 3
- Stars
- 5.7k
- Licence
- MIT
Mezzano
froggey/Mezzano
An operating system written in Common Lisp
“The MIT Lisp machine system: Mezzano, a much more recent OS written in Common Lisp that runs on Arm rather than special hardware:”
- Recommended by
- 3
- Stars
- 3.9k
- Licence
- MIT
electron
electron/electron
:electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
“not OP, but electon apps: apps based on the Electron framework:”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 124k
- Licence
- MIT
tauri
tauri-apps/tauri
Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop and mobile applications with a web frontend.
“IME Tauri performance sucks on Linux so thats something worth keeping in mind if you go that route”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 112k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
terminal
microsoft/terminal
The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!
“Another option worth trying is Microsoft's Windows Terminal.”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 105k
- Licence
- MIT
Ventoy
ventoy/Ventoy
A new bootable USB solution.
“Ventoy: Create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI Files (289 points)”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 81k
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
winutil
ChrisTitusTech/winutil
Chris Titus Tech's Windows Utility - Install Programs, Tweaks, Fixes, and Updates
“You gave me some more ideas. Christitus Winutil Windows MMC consoles like Computer management, Cert manager etc. Windows ADUC Attribute Editor and ADUC in general…”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 65k
- Licence
- MIT
drawio-desktop
jgraph/drawio-desktop
Official electron build of draw.io
“hi there, draw.io is a free tool both available online at or you can download a desktop version from Quite fast and good.”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 64k
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
marktext
marktext/marktext
📝A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows.
“What you are looking for is usually called live-preview or WYSIWYG Markdown editing. You edit the formatted document while the application updates and saves the underlying Markdown file. Markdific is a Markdown viewer and editor that lets you open a normal.md file, edit it in a…”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 64k
- Licence
- MIT
Win11Debloat
Raphire/Win11Debloat
A simple, lightweight PowerShell script that allows you to remove pre-installed apps, disable telemetry, as well as perform various other changes to declutter and customize your Windows experience. Win11Debloat works for both Windows 10 and Windows 11.
“You can easily get rid of most Windows annoyances in <10 minutes without AI. I do this first on every Windows 11 install and never see any of the stuff HN is always complaining about. I use agentic tools myself but I really don't understand…”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 62k
- Licence
- MIT
container
apple/container
A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It is written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon.
“macOS Container Machines (1269 points)”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 51k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
textgen
oobabooga/textgen
Open-source desktop app for local LLMs. Text, vision, tool-calling, OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible API. 100% private.
“Guanaco is indeed very capable and can replace GPT 3.5 in almost all scenarios, based on my tests. Easy way to self-host it is to use text-generation-webui and 33B 4-bit quantized GGML model from TheBloke.…”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 48k
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
puter
HeyPuter/puter
🌐 The Internet Computer! Free, Open-Source, and Self-Hostable.
“Hello! I'm the founder. Your understanding of how Puter.js works is correct. We call it the "User-Pays Model": in short if you build your app using Puter.js, users cover their own infra cost, not just limited to AI. The idea is that infra cost will become essentially free for…”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 44k
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
sniffnet
GyulyVGC/sniffnet
Comfortably monitor your network traffic 🕵️♂️
“Sniffnet – monitor your Internet traffic (256 points)”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 42k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
spacedrive
spacedriveapp/spacedrive
Spacedrive is an open source cross-platform file explorer, powered by a virtual distributed filesystem written in Rust.
“Spotlight Search: File Explorer: Rust/GraphQL Server: Dataflow Engine: CRDT Generator:…”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 39k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
wails
wailsapp/wails
Create beautiful applications using Go
“For Go, I've been using Wails and Fyne. The former uses a web view for the UI, the latter is Go only.”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 37k
- Licence
- MIT
UTM
utmapp/UTM
Virtual machines for iOS and macOS
“UTM is another great example of this, which is basically a GUI for QEMU. They have a Mac App store $9.99 version and the free open source version:”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 37k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
ntfy
binwiederhier/ntfy
Send push notifications to your phone or desktop using PUT/POST
“Not quite as cheap as $5 but I've been running at Hetzner CAX31 for a couple of years now and I run the following services / apps. Actual Budget - AirTrail - Beszel - Co…”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 35k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
WSL
microsoft/WSL
Windows Subsystem for Linux
“Great job in benchmarking! I wasn't even aware of the WSLc (WSL3) release. For others, the release info is available here: EDIT: stumbled on the previous HN post here:”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 34k
- Licence
- MIT
cua
trycua/cua
Scale computer-use 2.0 with open-source drivers, cross-OS sandboxes, and benchmarks for training, evaluation, and data generation.
“Launch HN: Cua (YC X25) – Open-Source Docker Container for Computer-Use Agents (172 points)”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 32k
- Licence
- MIT
colima
abiosoft/colima
Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup
“for fuzzy shell history (ctrl+r) (nice coloured cat replacement) (so I don't need docker desktop) (performant database that lets you directly query…”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 31k
- Licence
- MIT
flameshot
flameshot-org/flameshot
Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software :desktop_computer: :camera_flash:
“Flameshot Super easy to use. I mapped it to my PrtSc.”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 31k
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
helm
helm/helm
The Kubernetes Package Manager
“Helm 4.0 (167 points)”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 30k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
ArchiveBox
ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox
🗃 Open source self-hosted web archiving. Takes URLs/browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more...
“Two projects I greatly appreciate, allowing me to easily archive my bandcamp and GOG purchases (after the initial setup anyways): And I recently learned about archivebox, which I think is going to…”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 29k
- Licence
- MIT
niri
niri-wm/niri
A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.
“Actually for me it's different. I've been using Tmux and later Zellij for many years, while I was on Ubuntu's Unity, then Gnome, KDE, i3 and lastly sway. Until I switched to niri... since then I haven't used tmux at all. Very weird, come to th…”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 29k
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
GoodbyeDPI
ValdikSS/GoodbyeDPI
GoodbyeDPI — Deep Packet Inspection circumvention utility (for Windows)
“People in Turkey use together with DNS over HTTPS (DoH).”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 29k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
libuv
libuv/libuv
Cross-platform asynchronous I/O
“Libuv is one of my favourites”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 27k
- Licence
- MIT
firefly-iii
firefly-iii/firefly-iii
Firefly III: a personal finances manager
“Also take a look at Firefly for another self hosted alternative. Good middle ground between flexibility and ease of use.”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 25k
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
AeroSpace
nikitabobko/AeroSpace
AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS
“If you like this idea, also check out aerospace, a full on window manager for macOS. I've been using it for a couple of years now, and it's great. You can navigate between windows with the keyboard, etc etc.”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 24k
- Licence
- MIT
maui
dotnet/maui
.NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop.
“Have you looked into.NET MAUI yet? I'm cautiously optimistic, but haven't dug into it. Should be releasing Q2 this year.”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 23k
- Licence
- MIT
nnn
jarun/nnn
n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager
“nnn with dvtm - Even without dvtm you can have mutiple contexts. nnn is extremely fast with tons of features. Many plugins are available already and it's easy to add new ones.”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 22k
- Licence
- BSD-2-Clause
desktop
desktop/desktop
Focus on what matters instead of fighting with Git.
“At the beginning of the year I was rewriting a SPA and looking for ideas on how to structure a web app. One project I looked at was Github Desktop and I think it has very clean code for an app.”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 22k
- Licence
- MIT
runtime
dotnet/runtime
.NET is a cross-platform runtime for cloud, mobile, desktop, and IoT apps.
“Here's the issue which gives an overview of the problems: Further discussion can be found here: Turning off destructors will not help even a little because the biggest pain points are suppo…”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 18k
- Licence
- MIT
systemd
systemd/systemd
The systemd System and Service Manager
“Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes (264 points)”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 17k
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
quickemu
quickemu-project/quickemu
Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines
“Quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux VMs (217 points)”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 17k
- Licence
- MIT
homebrew-core
Homebrew/homebrew-core
🍻 Default and OSS formulae (built-from-source packages) for the package manager for everywhere
“> If Postgres has an unversioned dependency to PackageX, the only time I might expect Postgres to be updated automatically is if I update PackageX across a major version boundary, risking breaking changes. Homebrew doesn't meaningfully have versioned or unversioned dependencies,…”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 16k
- Licence
- BSD-2-Clause
mackup
lra/mackup
Backup and keep your application settings in sync.
“+ dropbox”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 15k
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
NotepadNext
dail8859/NotepadNext
A cross-platform, reimplementation of Notepad++
“there is another OpenSource - Cross-Platform (Windows, Linux, etc) - Notepad/Notepad++ Alternative:”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 15k
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
juicefs
juicedata/juicefs
JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3.
“I use JuiceFS if you think the Chinese are worth the trust”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 15k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
BrowserOS
browseros-ai/BrowserOS
🌐 The open-source Agentic browser; alternative to ChatGPT Atlas, Perplexity Comet, Dia.
“You should try us:) open-source and privacy-first alternative to Atlas --”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 14k
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
openhaystack
seemoo-lab/openhaystack
Build your own 'AirTags' 🏷 today! Framework for tracking personal Bluetooth devices via Apple's massive Find My network.
“> 1. "Don't use safari" Why? Like everything else, it's tied to your Apple account. You risk losing your browser history etc. You _can_ export it if it happens, but it's easier to not have the issue in the first place. > 2. Is there an alternative to "Find My" that I can use with…”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 14k
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
LuLu
objective-see/LuLu
LuLu is the free open-source macOS firewall
“> LittleSnitch is great for MacOS; it is easily configured to alert you every time your machine makes ip/domain connections, which can then be accepted, denied, or rules made For an open-source alternative, consider checking out - Lulu. It's not as feature rich nor has impres…”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 13k
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
ubicloud
ubicloud/ubicloud
Open source alternative to AWS. Elastic compute, block storage (non replicated), firewall and load balancer, managed Postgres, K8s, AI inference, and IAM services.
“There is indeed a large gap in the market between outsourcing all your infrastructure to Hyperscalers vs. hosting it on DIY-bare-metal and/or VPC providers. An open source alternative to AWS would do much to fill that gap, and we are building just that at Ubicloud (I'm one of the…”
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- 2
- Stars
- 12k
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
popcorntime
popcorntime/popcorntime
Popcorn Time™ puts everything in one place. Your favorite platforms, your shows, your movies-ready when you are.
“Streaming doesn't break bittorrent that easily. It's not optimal for the health of a torrent cloud, but practice has shown that it's not a major issue. Plenty of torrent streaming apps, most notably Popcorn Time ( and source code at…”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 11k
- Licence
- MIT
easyeffects
wwmm/easyeffects
Limiter, compressor, convolver, equalizer and auto volume and many other plugins for PipeWire applications
“BespokeSynth is also built on JUCE. BespokeSynth supports VST3, AudioUnit, LV2,: One day, I found a number of open source patch bay implementations. They may be useful for building a GUI with pedalboard: -…”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 10k
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
fluent-reader
yang991178/fluent-reader
Modern desktop RSS reader built with Electron, React, and Fluent UI
“Fluent Reader is a nice FOSS reader”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 9.8k
- Licence
- BSD-3-Clause
mapscii
rastapasta/mapscii
🗺 MapSCII is a Braille & ASCII world map renderer for your console - enter => telnet mapscii.me <= on Mac (brew install telnet) and Linux, connect with PuTTY on Windows
“MapSCII – World map in terminal (218 points)”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 9.3k
- Licence
- MIT
progress
Xfennec/progress
Linux tool to show progress for cp, mv, dd, ... (formerly known as cv)
“Three tools I make sure are installed on everything I use via CLI: rsync, pv, & progress. rsync (usually over SSH): the kitchen sync of file transfer commands. In Linux-land it is quite common to find it already installed, and if not it is in the standard repos. Available for Win…”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 8.9k
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
laptop
thoughtbot/laptop
A shell script to set up a macOS laptop for web and mobile development.
“As a rails developer, I've used and recommended:)”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 8.6k
- Licence
- MIT
revery
revery-ui/revery
:zap: Native, high-performance, cross-platform desktop apps - built with Reason!
“There are a few options.”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 8.0k
- Licence
- MIT
backrest
garethgeorge/backrest
Backrest is a web UI and orchestrator for restic backup.
“I was using Restic + Backrest as well for my personal Windows machines and it was great. Then I found out that Backrest stores the vault password (among other things) in a simple plaintext file on your local hard drive. Not sure if this applies to all platforms but for Windows us…”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 7.8k
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
sshfs
libfuse/sshfs
A network filesystem client to connect to SSH servers
“daily-ish drivers of mine: - autossh - - sshfs - - pandoc - - exiftool - - htop - - tmux -…”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 7.7k
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
pifs
philipl/pifs
πfs - the data-free filesystem!
“πFS (963 points)”
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- 2
- Stars
- 7.5k
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
asterinas
asterinas/asterinas
Asterinas aims to be a production-grade Linux alternative—memory safe, high-performance, and more.
“> Guess what will happen. Throughput for storage networking and GPUs will continue gaining yet more orders of magnitude and radically increased efficiency? I look at this and cheer. I get some hesitancy but do folks really…”
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- 2
- Stars
- 5.1k
- Licence
- MPL-2.0
fselect
jhspetersson/fselect
Find files with SQL-like queries
“A tiny tool I wrote to search within file piles (mostly unsorted downloads, torrents, and such). I could never remember `find` options, and more advanced queries are a pain. Now one can use some kind of SQL flavor to get the job done.”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 4.5k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
sill
Saffsanity/sill
Any window from your Mac, live on your iPhone or iPad. Touch, Apple Pencil, trackpad and keys. Free, open source, no servers.
“I set up frametop yesterday night, some bumps along the way for sure. Paired my kinesis360pro and had to set it through passthrough to get any of the frametop hotkeys to work (took me a bit to figure that out). I put a cheapo bluetooth mouse in my amazon cart so I'll be able to t…”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 4.4k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
workmux
raine/workmux
git worktrees + tmux windows for zero-friction parallel dev
“If you're using tmux with either worktrees or agents, I strongly recommend you check out workmux. It makes for such a clean setup.”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 3.0k
- Licence
- MIT
homeshick
andsens/homeshick
git dotfiles synchronizer written in bash
“I use homeshick, a - as I understand - rewrite of homesick (ruby) in bash. It needs to be sourced in.{bash,z}shrc and has features like tracking files from multiple repos (so called "castles"), auto-linking, auto-update every X days. We a…”
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- 2
- Stars
- 2.2k
- Licence
- MIT
boxxy
queer/boxxy
boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only their files.
“Boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only their files (182 points)”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 1.7k
- Licence
- MIT
nnd
al13n321/nnd
A debugger for Linux
“I find Geizhals' filtering options reasonably compact and information dense. I like the simple table view of RPiLocator. Only a few columns, but lots of rows, no unneeded clutter. Not as compa…”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 1.7k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
tyde
FyshOS/tyde
A full desktop environment for Linux/Unix using Fyne
“FyneDesk: A full desktop environment for Linux written in Go (263 points)”
- Recommended by
- 2
- Stars
- 1.5k
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spectrwm
conformal/spectrwm
A small dynamic tiling window manager for X11.
“Spectrwm(rather obscure, but I like it) has a free window mode for things like this. where free windows are in all workspaces. Define some hotkeys for the special app invocation and perhaps add a protected region to keep normal windows out. A…”
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sashiko
sashiko-dev/sashiko
Agentic review of Linux Kernel code changes
“You can easily burn through lots and lots of money on DeepSeek, if you do eg large scale code reviews. Eg I've used Sashiko locally for Linux kernel code reviews before sending out my contributions out to the world. Sashiko is a great system, but it can burn through tokens like t…”
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gentleos32
luke8086/gentleos32
Hobby operating system for vintage 32-bit PCs
“GentleOS – Classic operating system with a lovely retro GUI (332 points)”
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big-arrow-on-the-screen
franzenzenhofer/big-arrow-on-the-screen
Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your Mac screen. One CLI, click-through, gone by itself. Skill for Claude Code and Codex. MIT.
“thx, not merged but great PR”
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system76-power
pop-os/system76-power
Power profile management for Linux
“I don't know if this is what you're looking for, but I use the system76-power extension to toggle between the integrated Intel Xe unit and the dedicated Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 in my Galago Pro. While at first glance it might seem that…”
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janas
prabanta-dev/janas
37 tok/s from Qwen3-Next-80B (48 GB) on a 32 GB laptop, 24 without drafts vs 2.8 for llama.cpp; reading 62 vs 16 tok/s. Faster than llama.cpp on all 13 models compared in Q4_K_M. LLMs bigger than your RAM, pure C, CPU or GPU.
“Then check out those: <- this, focuses on Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B. <- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next. I use this (tuned) and I cannot understate how satisfied I am. <- DeepSeek 4 family + more.…”
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SCM
allenv0/SCM
Multimodal visual memory search on macOS
“Congrats on the launch, Ilias! It's great to see more people working on local-first media search. Amazing design <3 Full disclosure: I've been building something similar. SCM is a free, open-source macOS app for searching photos and video scenes locally:…”
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- 523
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Mole
tw93/Mole
🐹 Keep your Mac and PC clean, light, and running like new. Fast open-source CLI, plus native Mac and Windows apps.
“DaisyDisk is great. Mole also found and deleted a bunch of stuff on my mac from Claude, Gemini, etc.”
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rclone
rclone/rclone
"rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files
“Free open-source alternative: RcloneBrowser Speaking for myself, $9.90/year doesn't seem like good value for auto-remount on login. RcloneBrowser does everything the free RcloneView does. Meanwhile the RcloneView github is an empty rep…”
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windows
dockur/windows
Windows inside a Docker container.
“If you don't need it to be "instant" (can wait 15-20 minutes, can be even faster if you pick a lightweight version) then Windows in Docker is a pretty decent, free and local alternative.”
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omarchy
omacom/omarchy
Beautiful, Modern & Opinionated Linux
“To be clear I'm accusing the distro to steer people in a certain direction, I'm arguing that it's something that people who already have a certain set of political beliefs will be drawn to. >That you think it's all about UNIX guru LARP I have to question how many Omarchy users yo…”
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restic
restic/restic
Fast, secure, efficient backup program
“The author is willing to add compression to restic but that was in March and no ETA.”
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- BSD-2-Clause
meetily
Zackriya-Solutions/meetily
Privacy first AI meeting note taker. Download Free and open source granola, otter ai, fireflies alternative. Parakeet / Whisper live transcription, on-device speaker diarization, built on Rust. 100% local processing. Meetily (Meetly Ai - https://meetily.ai) is the #1 Self-hosted, Open-source Ai meeting note taker & Assistant for macOS & Windows
“I actually found this one today and will be adding it to Opensource Builders soon. It seems to be an open-source Otter alternative:”
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systeminformer
winsiderss/systeminformer
A free, powerful, multi-purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware. Brought to you by Winsider Seminars & Solutions, Inc. @ https://windows-internals.com
“I recommend System Informer. Such a great tool!”
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- MIT
zeal
zealdocs/zeal
Offline documentation browser. Your personal reference library, searchable in an instant.
“Dash is great. I use the free open-source alternative Zeal, works for Linux, Windows and macOS.”
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mas
mas-cli/mas
:package: Mac App Store command-line interface
“Directory specific tools (versioned if necessary) that are managed in declarative fashion is great. I use Brewfile too. Still prefer some stuff to be managed by brew. For example the browsers, App Store apps (managed via mas)”
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pyroscope
grafana/pyroscope
Continuous Profiling Platform. Debug performance issues down to a single line of code
“Yeah I guess I'm picturing it being more for "mechanical" tasks. For example, in our case we have a tag called "new profilers" Which TLDR is they are reporting agents for each respective language that send profil…”
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krita
KDE/krita
Krita is a free and open source cross-platform application that offers an end-to-end solution for creating digital art files from scratch built on the KDE and Qt frameworks.
“Thanks for your work on this! Unrelated but if you haven't tried the open-source photoshop alternative Krita you are missing out. It's basically GIMP but unburdened by 30 years of legacy code.”
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sandbox-runtime
anthropics/sandbox-runtime
A lightweight sandboxing tool for enforcing filesystem and network restrictions on arbitrary processes at the OS level, without requiring a container.
“In this vein, Anthropic's sandbox-runtime has struck a good balance between security and convenience. Simple config, filesystem and network restrictions, and credential masking make me comfortable running Pi in YOLO mode. Though I'm often running into frustrating (albeit inte…”
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- Apache-2.0
Lunar
alin23/Lunar
Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external monitors
“Thanks for the kind words! I’d say I had a year of full time work (on and off in 3 years of time) until I had Lunar 3 which was the most stable until Apple Silicon arrived: I had accumulated about $5k in donations over those years which…”
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Mouser
TomBadash/Mouser
A lightweight, open-source, fully local alternative to Logitech Options+ for remapping Logitech HID++ mice.
“I can happily share that there is an open-source alternative,”
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samply
mstange/samply
Command-line sampling profiler for macOS, Linux, and Windows
“Every time I see people use flamegraphs it's the ancient Perl version. There's a much better version!!! Use the Go version of pprof: Run it like `pprof -http: your_profile.out` and it will open a browser with a really nice interactive flamegraph (…”
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- Apache-2.0
yattee
yattee/yattee
Privacy oriented video player for iOS, tvOS and macOS
“Get I've been watching youtube without ads on all Apple hardware for years. I use invidious as backend. Absolutely fabulous.”
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- AGPL-3.0
nixos-hardware
NixOS/nixos-hardware
A collection of NixOS modules covering hardware quirks.
“> People who complain about Linux usually either insist on customizing it (as you noted) or run it on hardware that it doesn't work well on. Even as someone who has customized the hell out of my desktop, it does kind of annoy me that people act like you "just" need to customize i…”
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sol
ospfranco/sol
MacOS launcher & command palette
“It's becoming clearer and clearer that open-source is our only hope against enshittification. Everything that is VC backed or publicly traded will become enshittified, it's just a matter of time. At least with open-source, you can fork it and remove the "features" or point your a…”
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nixos-config
mitchellh/nixos-config
My NixOS configurations.
“Just run Linux in a VM! It's my preferred workflow nowadays. See: Only real limitations are lack of ML because no server/desktop-grade GPU and some missing ARM-based docker containers. But the l…”
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llm-agents.nix
numtide/llm-agents.nix
Nix packages for AI coding agents and development tools. Automatically updated daily.
“This kind of stuff often breaks for applications packaged with Nix, so it's often removed from Nix packages for compatibility reasons. Both behaviors you mention are helpfully patched out of the Claude Code package I use:…”
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herdr-gpui
penso/herdr-gpui
Native client for Herdr on macOS, Linux, and Windows, built with Rust and GPUI. View terminal sessions, workspaces, Git worktrees, and agent activity through your local Herdr daemon.
“I switched to herdr this year after a decade of using tmux, and I haven't looked back since. Herdr is wonderful, not only because of the coding agent integrations, but also because it uses libghostty under the hood. So no terminal-emulator-inside-another-terminal-emulator shenani…”
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- Apache-2.0
dissent
diamondburned/dissent
Tiny native Discord app
“There are already a bunch of these. gtkcord (disset) comes to mind for an open-source native client: They seem to be most popular with the open source crowd. I think you could gain traction with the "normal" users by also including many of…”
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io-uring
tokio-rs/io-uring
The `io_uring` library for Rust
“I really wish reviewers would harp on FDP (Flexible Data Placement) and perhaps KV support. FDP supposedly somewhat ate ZNS as a spec, allegedly, but there might be gaps, reasons to keep ZNS. There's only a small little mention, if we are lucky, on the couple drives that have it…”
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- Apache-2.0
ultimate-macOS-KVM
Coopydood/ultimate-macOS-KVM
Helping noobs and pros alike build the ultimate macOS virtual machine with easy automation, powered by KVM. Now with macOS Tahoe support!
“As I like to say: "Safari is the new IE." Also, you /can/ run macOS in a VM on Linux: I use that to test our website at work in Safari, though without a GPU (there is no virto-gpu driver for macOS and my PC's GPU doesn't support vGP…”
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simple-bar
Jean-Tinland/simple-bar
A yabai and AeroSpace status bar widget for Übersicht
“That's nice! It feels polished and feature-full, but like others commented, I'm not seeing myself paying for this. On my end, I managed to first develop an open-source alternative status bar based on Übersicht 6 years ago and then a…”
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heads
linuxboot/heads
A minimal Linux that runs as a coreboot or LinuxBoot(UEFI's DXE replacement) ROM payload to provide a secure, flexible boot environment for laptops, workstations and servers.
“Wow, this is awesome! This relates to work I've been doing with the [Heads] project. Specifically I got a PR merged for the first ChromeOS Port using MrChromebox's code as an upstream dependency: I'm now work…”
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yubioath-flutter
Yubico/yubioath-flutter
Yubico Authenticator for Desktop (Windows, macOS and Linux) and Android
“Usually AI is marked as co-author, so you can't find it in the commit list. I use the contributor graph to find where the AI made the commits and then I search using the date, I found 3 commits relative to a11y stuff.…”
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Materialious
Materialious/Materialious
Materialious is a modern material design frontend for YouTube & Invidious, focused on a clean, privacy-friendly YouTube experience. It supports local video fallback when Invidious fails and is available on Web, Desktop, Android, and Android TV.
“After trying all the alternatives in the end I settled on self hosting All the YouTube alternative frontends are so privacy focused that they do not even offer video history in your account. Having video history is a must for me as I m…”
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nixbsd
nix-community/nixbsd
An unofficial NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernel [maintainer=@artemist,@rhelmot]
“One thing I'm cautiously watching is NixBSD. With nix you can trivially compile all your software from source and modify it (both of which I do on the Linux-based NixOS). So I think that would cover the main selling point of Gentoo, though naturally it adds the Nix layer that you…”
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roborazzi
takahirom/roborazzi
Make JVM Android integration test visible 🤖📸
“We use Roborazzi, which is an excellent screenshot library, but: * We target minSdk 24 * We're still using XML views * We target a large variety of form factors * We have a lot of screens, and these have a lot of configuration options. I really wish it was "point an agent at i…”
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- Apache-2.0
agent-swarm
desplega-ai/agent-swarm
Your Company Agentic Operating System
“Hi there! A few weeks ago, Boris posted how formal verification helped fix issues in their codebase and I definitely wanted to try it out in the swarm codebase. The idea was simple: 1. Go over the codebase and fine most critica…”
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promptr
ferrislucas/promptr
Promptr is a CLI tool that applies plain language instructions to the filesystem. Instructions can utilize a liquidjs based templating system. Use cases include refactoring, code generation, and experimentation.
“I made a CLI tool called Promptr that allows you to make changes to a codebase via plain English instructions: There’s a templating system (liquidjs) included which is useful if you have a library of prompts that you want to reference often.…”
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- 950
- Licence
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Rare
RareDevs/Rare
Rare is an open source alternative for Epic Games Launcher, using Legendary.
“I've been using Rare for a couple of years, never had a problem. It's much more lightweight and fast.”
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- GPL-3.0
Oleafly
Oleafly/Oleafly
LaTeX and Typst editor with live collaboration and AI agents. Open-source IDE and Overleaf alternative for Mac, Windows and Linux.
“Hey! I'm building Oleafly on very similar lines. Do you mind taking a look? It would be great if we could work together on building Oleafly (oleafly.com), rather than the two of us building the same thing twice for the community.”
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- AGPL-3.0
atbswp
RMPR/atbswp
A minimalist macro recorder
“While it's not tested yet (mainly because I don't have a Mac), atbswp should work on MacOS, feel free to fill an issue if you have any problem, additionally we also have a Telegram channel were we make our announcements an…”
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- 742
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Video-Hub-App
whyboris/Video-Hub-App
Official repository for Video Hub App
“I have a 4+ year commercial application Video Hub App built with Electron and Angular (it's also charityware - $3.50 of each purchase goes to a cost-effective charity). - MIT open source:)”
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- MIT
chapar
chapar-rest/chapar
Fast, native API client for REST, gRPC, WebSocket and GraphQL. A local-first Postman alternative written in Go: no Electron, no account, no cloud.
“I built chapar for the same reasons. It’s an open source postman alternative, currently supporting rest and grpc and scripting with python. Fully local and no hidden proxy.”
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- 727
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- BSD-3-Clause
Unwatched
fer0n/Unwatched
RSS feed based YouTube video player for iOS, macOS, tvOS
“Although not a direct equivalent, but check out Unwatched.”
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- 559
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- GPL-3.0
autolith
lambda-symbolics/autolith
Autolith is a self-modifiable general purpose Lisp AI agent
“>emacs of harnesses! Would you be interested in a self-modifying harness written in Common Lisp? If so, then please check out Autolith: In my time using it with GLM 5.2, I've observed it modify itself to disassemble binaries in search…”
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- 522
- Licence
- ISC
selfhostblocks
ibizaman/selfhostblocks
Modular server management based on NixOS modules and focused on best practices.
“I help privacy and data sovereignty enthusiasts take back control of their data without needing to change their habits. I’ve been working for the past 3 years on SelfHostBlocks, making self-hosting a viable and convenient alternative to…”
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- 515
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- AGPL-3.0
tambourine-voice
kstonekuan/tambourine-voice
Your personal voice interface for any app. Speak naturally and your words appear wherever your cursor is, with fully customizable AI voice dictation. Open source alternative to Wispr Flow.
“I have been working on a customizable AI voice dictation tool using Pipecat's framework to swap between many providers and models, including cloud or local. Started off as an open source alternative to Wispr Flow for myself as I wanted to have more control over the formatting rul…”
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- 392
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- AGPL-3.0
onkey
dsmurrell/onkey
Learn to sing the songs you love. A free, open-source singing trainer for Mac that listens to the music you play.
“I'm asking people to test some Window and Linux previews that I have here: I'd be interested to see how it does on instruments. I've not had the bandwidth to try myself.”
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- 390
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- MIT
HopTab
royalbhati/HopTab
Open-source macOS workspace manager — one keystroke rearranges your apps, windows and layout. Snapping, tiling, profiles, session restore.
“I've been building HopTab as a free alternative to the combination of Cmd+Tab replacers and window managers. It started as a simpleapp switcher — pin your apps, Option+Tab through them. But the latest release adds a lot. *What's new* Global window tiling shortcuts — Ctrl+Opt+Arro…”
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- 307
- Licence
- MIT
PhotosExport
rcarmo/PhotosExport
Export ALL your data from Apple Photos
“I did not try it, and I am nervous the day I need to - but I think there are some solutions to export photos from the Apple technology stack using open source software [1,2,3]. I remember seeing a longer blogpost re the topic of retroengineering the Apple phot sync story, but I c…”
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- 306
- Licence
- MIT
less-Windows
jftuga/less-Windows
GNU less compiled for Windows 10 & 11. Stand-alone version with no dependencies.
“These are all CLI... - [not really mine, but I just help maintain the port] - GNU less compiled for Windows 10 & 11. Stand-alone version with no dependencies. - A cross-platform TCP port forwarder with Duo 2FA…”
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- 305
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RaySession
Houston4444/RaySession
Session manager for linux musical programs
“BespokeSynth is also built on JUCE. BespokeSynth supports VST3, AudioUnit, LV2,: One day, I found a number of open source patch bay implementations. They may be useful for building a GUI with pedalboard: -…”
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- 281
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
apple-browsers
duckduckgo/apple-browsers
DuckDuckGo iOS & macOS browsers
“> There is no open-source browser based on it that you could use as an alternative to Firefox. here you go:”
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- 270
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
hoard
rleeon/hoard
Free Automatic, versioned game save backup and sync for Windows, Linux, macOS, SteamOS, Brazzite.... Auto-detects 22,000+ games and any emulator. Use Hoard Cloud, or self-host with no Hoard One account and no telemetry. Open source (AGPL-3.0).
“Hi ppl im Raimundo(rleeon). Hoard is a small background service that watches your game save folders, keeps a version after every play session, and syncs them between devices (Desktop only, im working im mobile version), It's written in Rust, AGPL-3.0, and you can self-host the se…”
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- 198
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
fuse-backend-rs
cloud-hypervisor/fuse-backend-rs
Rust crate for implementing FUSE backends
“Nice. I just started yet another fuse project last week and went with because fuser didn't have any io-uring. Early, but this team at sdslabs does great work so I'm very hopeful!”
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- 195
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
ungoogled-chromium-portablelinux
ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-portablelinux
Portable Linux packaging for ungoogled-chromium
“Currently exploring a return to Gentoo here, for "reasons". My solution for a while (even before Gentoo) has been < > It builds Chromium in a Docker container using Debian and spits out an AppImage. The AppImage seem…”
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- 179
- Licence
- BSD-3-Clause
karui
ronynn/karui
Karui (軽い) is a offline only aesthetically pleasing, sync supported google tasks alternative to do list app, inspired by system-24 theme and windows mobile design system. It's a 145kb apk that allows you to take notes from status bar and from other apps with support for homescreen widgets! Made with ❤️ and Vue
“I am working on a FOSS google tasks alternative for android with unix-like aesthetics and my desire to take some inspiration from the windows mobile app designs. It's just 84kb apk at the with reproducible build system and also downloadable from IzzyOnDroid fdroid repo:…”
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- 152
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
gitwarren-app
klarluft/gitwarren-app
Code review for your own machines and your own agents. Reviews live where the code does — reached over SSH, WSL or your own tailnet. Desktop app or just a browser tab. No server, no account.
“I’m working on local GitHub-like app where you can comfortably review code written by your agents before the code will ever leave your computer. Once installed, your agent can send you a link to GitWarren each time it will finish a piece of work for you to make a review. The idea…”
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- 131
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- GPL-3.0
Parrot
turantekin/Parrot
Meeting recorder for your Mac with a live AI assistant. On-device transcription, answers from your own docs mid-call. Local-first and open source.
“Thank you so much. Please try and share your feedback. Do you mind to submit as a feature request on github? Happy to work on that sounds good.”
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- 122
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
gridsnap
konieczkow/gridsnap
An open source alternative to Divvy for macOS
“I recently came across Divvy, and since it's closed source and hasn't changed in years, I built a lightweight open source alternative with Claude Code. Press a shortcut, a grid appears, drag across the cells you want and the window snaps there, follo…”
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- 108
- Licence
- MIT
OpenTamer
Digital-Shane/OpenTamer
macOS app for controlling process cpu usage
“I'm glad I found it. Jettison looks like a nice tool as well. It's working great so far, just does what I need it to do. Fits in nicely with Stats, which I use for fan control and monitoring power consumption. I also found but figured Ap…”
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- 93
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
office365_flake
Tombert/office365_flake
A set of Nix Flakes and scripts to get Office 365 working on Linux without virtualization.
“Genuine question: what does Keynote do that PowerPoint or LibreOffice Impress doesn't? I'm a bit out of the loop and just use Typst for presentations now, but I'm not suggesting it as an alternative to Keynote for anyone who doesn't mind a compilation step. If PowerPoint is suffi…”
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- 87
- Licence
- LGPL-2.1
wrdp
rcarmo/wrdp
Experimental xrdp/sesman-like setup for Wayland-backed remote desktops
“Love it. I too use Platinum as a skin in my projects:”
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- 84
- Licence
- MIT
CodeBase-for-DBF
MPSystemsServices/CodeBase-for-DBF
CodeBase is a C-based library to read, write and manage DBF type tables and indexes.
“Microsoft should open-source FoxPro, at least some version of it, because as of 2026, it has no commercial viability (no ability for it to make the company money) compared to say SQL Server, Access and/or Visual Basic with the appropriate back-end database drivers. If Visual FoxP…”
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- 70
- Licence
- LGPL-3.0
Aetheris
yuechen-li-dev/Aetheris
Next Gen STEP AP242 Native-ish BREP Geometric Modeling Kernel
“Aetheris generates STEP AP242 BREP directly, the tessellated mesh generated is only used for display (although currently, I've switched to a WebGPU based SDF representation so the surfaces can be smooth). One of the key differences in the architecture Aetheris doesn't export rati…”
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- 69
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
paks
stakpak/paks
A Package Manager for the AgentSkills standard. Discover, Use, and Create AgentSkills with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode and more
“Np. Still learning about how to reference agentskills from my coding LLM here. Haven't yet worked with MCP or A2A much. I should port instruction prompts from each project's AGENTS.md to reusable skills in.claude/skills/skillname/SKILL.md; so that I can reference "/skillname" i…”
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- 64
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- Apache-2.0
hyperenable
midrare/hyperenable
Rebind ctrl+shift+alt+win (also known as Office or hyper key)
“Some other ones to add on from my fresh install: Start menu search will search the Microsoft Store for apps they want you to install, some key combinations will launch copilot and if it's not setup it will take you to a webpage that will help you set it up, every office applicati…”
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- 54
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- MIT
Archtoys
Mujtaba1i/Archtoys
A PowerToys-inspired color picker for Linux with pixel magnification, color search, conversion, and Wayland/X11 support.
“Hello everyone, I've been missing powertoys color picker when i switched to Linux, i have taken a look at the popular color pickers, some didn't work on Wayland, other lacked features powertoys had, so i made one and I'm here to share it You can pick any pixel with a 10× magnifie…”
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- 50
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- MIT
templates
BastilleBSD/templates
Consolidated repository of BastilleBSD automation templates
“Currently testing out FreeBSD jails, but with OCI images and Podman:) BastilleBSD is another great way to run FreeBSD+jails using their templates”
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- 49
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- BSD-3-Clause
fq
pimarawan/fq
Command-line file search utility for Windows
“Windows search is slow and painful for developers. Even tools like Everything or PowerShell Get-ChildItem can crawl on huge directories. I wanted a CLI tool that feels instant—so I built rq, an open-source file search utility in modern C17 that leverages parallel directory traver…”
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- 40
- Licence
- MIT
bandcamp-player
eremef/bandcamp-player
The Unofficial multi-platform Bandcamp desktop player with mobile remote control/companion & standalone app
“Hey! Just wanted to showcase my AI-generated app. I made this unofficial player for Bandcamp mainly because I couldn't find any alternative with a mobile remote control. The idea was to make it as multi-platform as possible. It's fully open source. I used Google Antigravity - all…”
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- MIT
a-bar
Jean-Tinland/a-bar
A macOS status bar working on top of yabai and AeroSpace written in Swift
“That's nice! It feels polished and feature-full, but like others commented, I'm not seeing myself paying for this. On my end, I managed to first develop an open-source alternative status bar based on Übersicht 6 years ago and then a…”
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- 33
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- GPL-3.0
nixos-vex
datosh/nixos-vex
OpenVEX feed and NixOS module to manage NixOS CVEs, evaluated against your system's configuration.
“I would be interested to hear from other folks as well! I tested a few combinations and sbomnix+grype gave me the best results. sbomnix writes purl (package URL) and cpe fields in the sbom, see the baseline SBOM in nixos-vex:…”
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- MIT
vibeconf-app
wanderingstan/vibeconf-app
AI agents as active participants in your video calls. They can join Google Meet, Zoom, Slack, Teams, Telegram, and WhatsApp calls. They hear, speak, show an avatar, and share screens, and more. An open-source desktop client (Electron + MCP) with full API to calling platforms..
“I begin each day with a video call with my agents as we talk through their overnight work and discuss open issues. This feels like the future. I’ve been dogfooding my own app, which gives a voice, body, and etiquette instructions to any model. (Mostly claude) Would love any feedb…”
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- MIT
