Cool fancy programs?
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).
It's a UNIX system. I know this!
There was something like this in 2d, what was it's name again?
Gotta go with sl
in the same vein
alias ls=sl
Plus
alias alias='echo "" #'
sl -alFc | lolcat -itas 819
rainbow snake train
Linuxwave - https://github.com/orhun/linuxwave - You can generate music from your OS.
Holy shit this is me(n)tal
This is delightful, thank you for sharing.
xjack is one of my all-time favorite programs.
Unsettling. A+
Real Jacks type it while making eye contact.
eDEX-UI - its basically a terminal, but as shown in movies. Mostly inspired by TRON I believe.
When talking about cool programs, you can't forget the classic cowsay
I'm partial to Pokemon say.
and fortune or fortune-mod. Combine it with cowsay for best effect.
You have telnet. You can watch the complete episode 4 of Star Wars in Ascii on your terminal (and other ASCII movies)
This works on any OS though.
No more secrets sounds like it fits the bill
Fly-Pie is a good one! Also the same person makes modern versions of Burn My Windows, Desktop Cube and other such things.
that guy Schneegans makes the most beautiful useless rice! i'm tempted to switch to gnome now..
Several of them are on the KDE store now too!
- asciiquarium
- xcowsay (someone else mentioned cowsay, but this one's a graphical reimagining of the same idea.)
- xeyes
+1 for asciiquarium
- 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.
kdeconnect
All of xscreensaver
Cool retro terminal
The Linux program that had a cat chase your mouse was Neko.
Is oneko the modern-ish version? As this sounds adorable.
Also AMOR (Amazing Misuse Of Resources) which has more characters and features
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.
It's a website rather than an app, but if you open it fullscreen, it's just as much fun: https://hackertyper.com
https://github.com/dustinkirkland/hollywood
https://gitlab.com/jallbrit/cbonsai
Procrastinate away 😁
cowsay
Cowsay, figlet, telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl, misfortune, cava, xscreensaver are a few that come to mind.
dd
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.
What's the IFS part? I tried a quick web search but didn't find anything...
Institute of Fiscal Studies. But it's now called LIBF - London Institute of Banking and Finance.
Live Captions.
could you link any examples?
https://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
Not a Linux app but I'm willing to bet that you'd love https://windows93.net.
Check out eaglemode
Wayfire - basically Wayland Compiz
Unimatrix - CMatrix-like program
cellular-automaton.nvim - neovim plugin, check out the video in the github page, i don't know how to explain it but it's cool
No love for xroach? Man, I'm old. Is it still around?
