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).

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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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

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

EuroNutellaMan,
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Holy shit this is me(n)tal

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

+1 for asciiquarium

mvirts, (edited )

All of xscreensaver

Cool retro terminal

mvirts,

Gotta go with sl

github.com/mtoyoda/sl

lattrommi,
@lattrommi@lemmy.ml avatar

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 “” #’

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?

disheveledWallaby,

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

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!

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

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