Cool fancy programs?

Hello,

I’m looking for as many cool, even if pointless, programs as I can, be them terminal programs or gui ones. What do I mean by this? I’ll use some examples:

  • The Cube (I believe it was called Compiz): the one we all know and love.
  • cmatrix
  • the hollywood one
  • That one whose name I forget but basically spawns a cat that chases your cursor, I saw it showcased on Pop!_OS’ mastodon.
  • wobbly windows
  • Burn my window
  • tplay

if any of you know any other fancy program like this let me know please. I want to showcase them to non-linux people to show them what can be done here but not necessarily in other OSes (particularly Windows).

Molten_Moron,

No more secrets sounds like it fits the bill

recarsion,

cowsay

christos,
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Vincent,

It's a website rather than an app, but if you open it fullscreen, it's just as much fun: https://hackertyper.com

mjpc13,
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You have telnet. You can watch the complete episode 4 of Star Wars in Ascii on your terminal (and other ASCII movies)

De_Narm,

eDEX-UI - its basically a terminal, but as shown in movies. Mostly inspired by TRON I believe.

Deckweiss,

kdeconnect

Quazatron,
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  • That one whose name I forget but basically spawns a cat that chases your cursor

You mean Neko. Used to have it installed a long time ago. I don’t know if it still works in this day of compositors and Wayland.

I also remember having a bunch of penguins running around my screen like little lemmings. Xpenguins I think it was called.

You can also get Xcowsay to pop up occasionally on your desktop to offer silly advice, just pipe it from fortune and add it to crontab.

marcdw,
Zoidberg,

No love for xroach? Man, I’m old. Is it still around?

hollyberries,
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No mention of xsnow? I’m getting old hehe

krash,
possiblylinux127,

dd

LainOfTheWired,
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Lolcat, yt-dlp, hyprland. Honesty though most of what I find cool these days wouldn’t make any sense to a Windows user. Like DWM, ST, XBPS, lf, ly, neovim, etc.

snowe,
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