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If you've just installed Fedora and you're looking for a quick way of installing some popular third-party software that's not in the Fedora standard repositories, try Fedy.

gallery-dl is a command line program that downloads image galleries and collections from a wide range of image hosting websites, which works on Windows, macOS and Linux. The tool can mass download images from popular websites like Behance, DeviantArt, Flickr, Gyfcat, Imgur, Instagram, Photobucket, Pinterest, Reddit, Thumblr, Twitter or Weibo.

If you've gone too far with the customization of your Gnome desktop, something broke, etc., and you want to reset the Gnome desktop settings, here is how to do this.

If you want to try the most popular Gnome themes easily, or if you tend to change your Gtk theme frequently, then "Install GNOME Themes" is for you.

This is a script that installs more than 40 popular Gnome themes (and that's not counting light/dark or compact variants), by downloading their latest code from Git. The themes are automatically built from source when needed, and are installed in the user's ~/.themes folder.

LibreOffice Writer can be used to create fillable PDF forms, being a great free, open source alternative to Adobe's Acrobat for this use case. LibreOffice is cross-platform too, so you can use it not only on Windows and macOS, but also on Linux.

Vorta is a fairly new GUI for BorgBackup (or Borg for short), a command line backup tool with encryption, deduplication, compression and validation. Both Vorta and BorgBackup are free and open source software, and they run on Linux and macOS.

z.lua is a new tool that helps navigate your filesystem faster from the command line, tracking your most used directories based on "frecency" (how recently and how frequently a directory was accessed).

While there are other similar tool out there, the developer claims z.lua is a lot faster. For example, z.lua is supposed to be 10 times faster than fasd and autojump, and 3 times faster than z.sh.

"install-java.sh" is a Bash script for installing and setting up any Oracle Java Development Kit (JDK) version that works on Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora. Using it, you can install Oracle Java 11, any Oracle Java 8 version, as well as its demos and JCE policy, and Oracle Java versions that are now only available to Oracle Customers through My Oracle Support (requires support login).

OnionShare 2 has been released after nearly a year of work, adding support for anonymous dropboxes, next generation V3 onion services, and more.

Using jumpapp you can create a single keyboard shortcut that will launch an application if it's not already running, or focus the application window if it's already running. If there is more than one application window open, pressing the keyboard shortcut repeatedly cycles through all the application windows.

Organizer is a new, work in progress GTK application to organize your files on Linux. The directory organizer application moves files to a new directory based on their type. Select a folder and Organizer will move all existing jpg and png files to a new Images folder, zip, rar and tar.gz files to an Archives folder, pdf, odt and docx files to a Documents folder, and so on.

Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS was released on Friday for Desktop, Server and Cloud. This point release includes application updates, bug fixes, and a new hardware enablement stack. This article explains how to install the LTS hardware enablement stack in Ubuntu 18.04.

This article explains how to downgrade a package to a specific version using apt, in Debian, Ubuntu or Linux Mint (from the command line).

Nautilus Columns is a Nautilus file manager Python extension that adds metadata tags in the Nautilus list view, for audio (mp3, flac and wav), image and PDF files.

If you own a Chromecast device and you're using Gnome Shell, you should give Cast to TV a try. This Gnome Shell extension adds a new entry in the system menu which allows casting local files to Chromecast or other devices over the local network.

Flatpak doesn't automatically remove a runtime after the last application that depended on it was uninstalled. This may be an issue for some users because these runtimes can take a lot of disk space.

Safe Eyes is a free and open source Linux application that regularly reminds you to take short breaks for your eyes, preventing eye strain, useful for those spending a long time in front of the computer.

After being in development for more than 2 years, MyPaint 2.0.0 alpha is available for download. MyPaint is a free, open source drawing and painting program available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. The application features infinite canvas, configurable brushes, graphics tablet support, and a distraction-free fullscreen mode, on top of a simple GTK+ 3 interface.

LosslessCut is a easy to use, ultra fast tool for lossless video (and audio) cutting, available for Windows, macOS and Linux.

A regular Ubuntu release upgrade (to a newer Ubuntu version) disables any PPA or third party repository that may be enabled. Some recent changes to ubuntu-release-upgrader allow keeping PPA and third party repositories enabled when upgrading to a newer Ubuntu release, while also providing better support for cases in which the users have their own mirror of the archive.