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Microsoft Calculator is a simple yet powerful calculator that includes standard, scientific, programmer, and graphing calculator functionality, as well as a set of converters between various units of measurement and currencies.

Distrobox is software which creates and manages container-based development environments without root privileges. It lets you run a wide range of Linux distributions on a single host system.

Apple Font Book is a font manager which lets you organise fonts into collections and libraries to quickly access those fonts you use all the time.

Bavarder is a GTK4/libadwaita based app that offers an easy way to experiment with ChatGPT. Given that a flatpak is available for Bavarder, it’s an obvious candidate for us to investigate.

Quod Libet is a mature music player with music management functionality. It offers a variety of ways to access your media library and combines streaming audio and podcast feeds. There’s metadata editing and searching functionality on offer.

cbonsai is a bonsai tree generator, written in C using ncurses. It intelligently creates, colors, and positions a bonsai tree in your terminal.

System Monitoring Center is a multi-featured system monitor. It's free and open source software written in the Python programming language. Essential System Utilities is a series of articles highlighting essential system tools. These are small utilities, useful for system administrators as well as regular users of Linux based systems.

This article looks at Tera, an interactive music radio player sporting a terminal user interface. Play your radio stations, CRUD your favorite lists, and explore stations from your terminal.

Windows Terminal is billed as “a modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and productive terminal application for users of command-line tools and shells like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and WSL”.

GPT4All Chat is a locally-running AI chat application powered by the GPT4All-J Apache 2 Licensed chatbot. The software lets you communicate with a large language model (LLM) to get helpful answers, insights, and suggestions.

Upscaler is GUI GTK4 software that uses sophisticated AI models to enhance your images by guessing what the details could be. It’s free and open source software.

Automator is a utility which lets you create custom workflows to perform both simple and complex tasks, such as renaming files in a folder.

DeOldify is a modern way to colorize black and white images using deep learning technology. The software provides pre-trained weights which allows you to colorize images and video without needing to train your own models.

Junction is an application/browser chooser. It’s designed to improve your workflow by making it easier to switch applications.

Our Machine Learning in Linux series focuses on apps that make it easy to experiment with machine learning. chatGPT-shell-cli appears an interesting project to feature as it’s a simple script to use OpenAI’s chatGPT and DALL-E from the terminal without needing to install either Python or Node.js.

Lama Cleaner is a fully self-hostable inpainting tool powered by state-of-the-art AI models. This software lets you remove unwanted objects, defects, people from your pictures or erase and replace anything from your pictures. There’s also support for erase and replace courtesy of Stable Diffusion and Paint by Example.

With the bamboozling quantity of open source software available to download, it’s really difficult to keep up with the cream of the cream. That’s where this compilation aims to help.

h-m-m is different from mind map software we’ve previously explored, as this tool is terminal-based. It’s billed as a simple, fast, keyboard-centric tool for working with mind maps.

This article selects 100 TUI apps that largely reflects software our volunteers use as their daily drivers. We try to select as wide a mix as possible. Therefore you won’t find lots of repetition which helps to avoid perennial arguments such as Emacs vs Vim.

bottom is billed as a customizable cross-platform graphical process/system monitor for the terminal. The utility draws inspiration from gtop, gotop and htop, tools which will be familiar to seasoned LinuxLinks readers.