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16 Best Free and Open Source Media Players

A media player is software that lets you watch video and listen to music on your computer. We cover the best free and open source options.

This article focuses on stacking Wayland compositors. Only free and open source software is included in this article.

croissant is a stacking Wayland compositor that’s written in the C programming language.

Jay is a Wayland compositor which offers an i3 look and feel.

Miriway is a starting point for creating a Wayland based desktop environment using Mir.

stagen is a simple experimental wlroots-based wayland compositor.

Mahogany is a tiling window manager for Wayland modeled after StumpWM.

Here’s our verdict on the best GUI weather tools. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion.

Hopalong is a simple Wayland compositor with a feature set that’s comparable to XFWM.

wlmaker is a Wayland compositor inspired by Window Maker, an X11 window manager originally designed to integrate with GNUstep.

Niri is heavily inspired by PaperWM which implements scrollable tiling on top of GNOME Shell.

Woodland is a minimal Wayland compositor based on wlroots and inspired by Wayfire and TinyWl.

We recommend the best free and open source PDF manipulation tools offering some genuinely useful software.

NsCDE is a modern and functional CDE desktop based on the FVWM window manager.

Magpie is a soft-fork of GNOME’s Mutter.