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).

digger,
@digger@lemmy.ca avatar

May I interest you in lolcat?

CrabAndBroom,

There’s also dotacat written in Rust for people who find lolcat too slow.

vort3,
@vort3@lemmy.ml avatar

Because dota is better than lol. Lol.

misophist,

xjack is one of my all-time favorite programs.

vim_b,

Unsettling. A+

tsonfeir,
@tsonfeir@lemm.ee avatar

Real Jacks type it while making eye contact.

yetAnotherUser,

When talking about cool programs, you can’t forget the classic cowsay

ProgrammingSocks,

ponysay :)

pezhore,
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I’m partial to Pokemon say.

MonkderZweite,

and fortune or fortune-mod. Combine it with cowsay for best effect.

DrBob,

The Linux program that had a cat chase your mouse was Neko.

turbowafflz,

Also AMOR (Amazing Misuse Of Resources) which has more characters and features

CrabAndBroom,

Fly-Pie is a good one! Also the same person makes modern versions of Burn My Windows, Desktop Cube and other such things.

ruplicant,
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that guy Schneegans makes the most beautiful useless rice! i’m tempted to switch to gnome now…

CrabAndBroom,

Several of them are on the KDE store now too!

disheveledWallaby,

Cowsay, figlet, telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl, misfortune, cava, xscreensaver are a few that come to mind.

piranhaphish,

fsv or tdfsb

These are 3D filesystem browser apps that let you navigate your filesystem as though files and folders were trees in a forest that you’re walking/flying through.

They were practically useless aside from the wow factor. I believe one may have made it into a movie scene. Jurassic Park?

tonyn,

It’s a UNIX system. I know this!

MonkderZweite,

There was something like this in 2d, what was it’s name again?

mvirts,

Gotta go with sl

github.com/mtoyoda/sl

lattrommi,

sl -alFc | lolcat -itas 819

rainbow snake train

vvv,

github.com/rwos/gti

in the same vein

sebsch,

alias ls=sl

mvirts,

Plus

alias alias=‘echo “” #’

mvirts, (edited )

All of xscreensaver

Cool retro terminal

TootSweet,
  • asciiquarium
  • xcowsay (someone else mentioned cowsay, but this one’s a graphical reimagining of the same idea.)
  • xeyes
CaptDust,

+1 for asciiquarium

BarrierWithAshes,
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Linuxwave - https://github.com/orhun/linuxwave - You can generate music from your OS.

EuroNutellaMan,
@EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world avatar

Holy shit this is me(n)tal

jodanlime,
@jodanlime@midwest.social avatar

Check out eaglemode

rotopenguin,
@rotopenguin@infosec.pub avatar

Live Captions.

EuroNutellaMan,
@EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world avatar

could you link any examples?

miningforrocks,

flathub.org/apps/net.sapples.LiveCaptions

As a German speaker myself it is very much useless but if you speak French, English or polish it is very useful

Unfortunately I didn’t found a way to train a model on German

snowe,
@snowe@programming.dev avatar

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18953697

LainOfTheWired,
@LainOfTheWired@lemy.lol avatar

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.

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