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).

DrBob,
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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

Vincent,

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

recarsion,

cowsay

krash,
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.

christos,
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possiblylinux127,

dd

disheveledWallaby,

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

Psythik, (edited )

Not a Linux app but I’m willing to bet that you’d love windows93.net.

ExLisper,

xscreensaver with IFS. Can’t stop looking at it. I’m writing this on another computer because I don’t want to disable screen saver on my primary one.

beeng, (edited )

What’s the IFS part? I tried a quick web search but didn’t find anything…

JackGreenEarth,

Institute of Fiscal Studies. But it’s now called LIBF - London Institute of Banking and Finance.

ExLisper,
beeng,

Thank you!

I have this already :) now I know their name!

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

snowe,
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rotopenguin,
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Live Captions.

EuroNutellaMan,
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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

jodanlime,
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Check out eaglemode

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