Wine is a free open source compatibility layer to run Windows applications on Linux, macOS, & BSD. Using this you can easily run your favorite windows softwares in linux system. It is not a Windows Emulator/simulator. It translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly to run and integrate Windows softwares into your Linux, macOS, & BSD OS.
FeatherPad is a free open source text editor for Linux, BSD, Haiku and MacOS. It is released under the GNU General Public License v3.0. It is a light weight Qt based text editor developed by Pedram Pourang. FeatherPad comes with syntax highlighting, session management, side-pane mode, auto-saving, spell checking, drag and drop support, instant highlighting and automatic detection of text encoding. It has been the default text editor in Lubuntu, since Lubuntu 18.10.
Leafpad is a free and open source lightweight Notepad text editor for linux and BSD systems. It is easy to use notepad or text editor with some basic features and very small in size. Some of the important features are codeset option, auto codeset detection, unlimited Undo and Redo option, auto indent, multi line indent, display line numbers, Drag and Drop support and Printing options. It is the default text editor for LXDE Desktop environment, including Lubuntu up to version 18.04 LTS.
The Dark Mod is a free stealth type standalone video game for Linux, Mac and Windows. It is similar to the popular Thief game but in the Doom 3 engine. In this game you need to control an agile thief to avoid various threats. This game comes with build in level editor using it you can build your own mission levels.
Minimum system requirements: 2GB RAM, 30GB disk space, least a DX9 capable GPU and 512MB VRAM.
Xonotic is a free open source and first-person arena shooter game for Linux, Windows and Mac OS. It is released under the copyleft-style GPLv3+ license. It comes with 9 core weapons and 16 full weapons in its armory, different variety of game modes like Deathmatch, Capture The Flag, and Clan Arena, 25 official maps with in build map editor, ntegrated player statistics, and some good graphics.
AstroMenace is a free open source 3D space scroll-shooter for Windows, macOS and Linux. It is arcade style shooter comes with some good quality graphics and game play which really tests games’s hand-eye coordination. In this game you can upgrade your Weapon and space ship.In this game totally 22 unique space ships are available with its unique attributes.
Persepolis is a free and open source Download Manager for Linux, Mac OS, BSD and Windows. It is actually a graphical user interface of popular aria2 multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility. Persepolis supports multi segment, scheduling and queuing downloads. You can download videos from Youtube, Vimeo and DailyMotion websites. It is also comes with firefox, chrome, opera and vivaldi browser extensions.
Vokoscreen is simple to use screen recorder for Linux. Using this you can record your desktop screen for with audio for your videos. You can save videos in mkv, mp4 and gif formats and adjust video frame rates. The main features are record video in fullscreen, windows and selected area. It supports webcam, countdown timer, magnification, showkey and showclick and a option to include and exclude your mouse cursor. Vokoscreen NG is the next version improved and updated screen recording software.
SimpleScreenRecorder is a free open-source screen rocorder program for Linux operating system. Using SimpleScreenRecorder, you can record your computer screen easily and share it on online. It is released under GNU General Public License. It comes with a Qt based graphical user interface. You can also record OpenGL applications directly using it. It synchronizes screen audio and video properly. Some other important features are you can reduces the video frame rate, multithreaded support, Pause and resume recording at any time, and preview during recording.
Microsoft Onenote is free notetaking software for Windows, Windows Phone, Mac, iPad, iPhone, Android and Web. And officially it is not available for your favorite linux platform. But linux users can access Onenote officially via the Web version of the Onenote in their browsers. For Ubuntu users, you can install onenote via unofficial P3X OneNote and OneNote Desktop apps. They are basically electron apps. In this tutorial we will see how to install P3X OneNote and OneNote Desktop onenote clients on Ubuntu.
