GNOME Disks is free and open source software to inspect, format, partition and configure disks and block devices.
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Category: Utilities
LLCbench – low level architectural characterization benchmark suite
Low Level Architectural Characterization Benchmark Suite (LLCbench) is a suite of three different benchmark applications.
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Xplorer is a modern file explorer written in TypeScript
Xplorer is a modern take on the navigational file manager. It’s free and open source software written in TypeScript and Rust.
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KDiskMark – HDD and SSD benchmark tool
KDiskMark is an HDD and SSD benchmark tool with a very friendly graphical user interface. It’s free and open source software.
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stress-ng – stress next generation
stress-ng is designed to exercise various physical subsystems of a computer as well as the various operating system kernel interfaces.
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GtkStressTesting – stress and monitor hardware components
GtkStressTesting (GST) is a GTK system utility designed to stress and monitor various hardware components like CPU and RAM.
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Linux Candy: pscircle visualizes Linux processes in a form of radial tree
pscircle is a different take on the venerable ps command. It visualizes Linux processes in a form of radial tree.
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USBImager – cross-platform disk image writer
USBImager is a very simple GUI application that writes compressed disk images to USB drives.
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Thunar – xfce’s file manager
The main goal of the Thunar project is to create a file manager that is fast, clean, and easy to use. Free and open source software.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Shortcuts
Apple Shortcuts is a visual scripting application which It allows users to create macros for executing specific tasks on their device(s). We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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Caja Rename – batch renaming extension for Caja
Caja Rename is an extension for Caja allowing users to rename multiple files/folders in a single pass. This is free and open source software.
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CoreRenamer – simple lightweight batch file renamer application
CoreRenamer is a simple batch-renaming application and a handy tool to regularly handle a large number of files by renaming them.
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Métamorphose – wxPython based batch renamer
Métamorphose is a batch renamer, a program to rename large sets of files and folders quickly and easily. Free and open source software.
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KRename – powerful batch file renamer for the KDE desktop
KRename is a very powerful batch file renamer which can rename a list of files based on a set of expressions.
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s-tui is a terminal-based stress test and monitoring tool
Stress-Terminal UI, s-tui, is a monitoring tool for your CPU’s temperature, frequency, power and utilization
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Bulky is a simple tool to bulk rename files and directories
Bulky is GUI software that lets you rename files and directories. While it’s developed by Mint it’s not tied to any Linux distro or desktop.
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Flatsweep – Flatpak leftover cleaner
Flatsweep is a simple tool that acts as a Flatpak leftover cleaner. This is free and open source software written in Python.
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Sweeper – clean cruft from your system
Sweeper is an open source history and temporary file cleaner for KDE 5, a powerful graphical desktop environment.
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Ubuntu Cleaner – Clean up your system
Ubuntu Cleaner is an open source system tool for Ubuntu and Debian based distributions. The software makes it easy to configure your system.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: vi
This article spotlights alternative tools to vi, a screen-oriented text editor originally created for the Unix operating system.
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