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An extremly fast and lightweight file manager which features tabbed browsing and user-friendly interface
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ExplorerBlurMica
Add background Blur effect or Acrylic or Mica effect to explorer
ExplorerBlurMica is an open-source tool that adds Blur, Acrylic, and Mica visual effects to Windows File Explorer in both Windows 10 and Windows 11. It enhances the Explorer background with customizable blend colors, supports adaptive light/dark mode, and maintains compatibility with StartAllBack, OldNewExplorer, and third-party themes. The project offers several effect modes, including Blur (Clear) and MicaAlt, with options to clear UI backgrounds such as scrollbars, toolbars, and the address bar. Installation is simple: download the release, extract the files, run the registration script, and restart Explorer. Users can fine-tune every visual parameter through a configuration file that adjusts colors, transparency, and UI behavior. Backed by C++, C, Python, and minhook, ExplorerBlurMica brings modern Windows design aesthetics to Explorer with a lightweight, modular approach. -
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Font Awesome
Get vector icons and social logos for your website or blog
Font Awesome was created in a successful Kickstarter and is an easy way for web developers to add icons and logos to their website. There is both a free version and a pro version for extra features and icons. You can support the developers by buying a custom FontAwesome T-Shirt! https://fontawesome.com/shirts -
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LXDE - Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment. This project aimed to provide a new desktop environment which is useful enough and keep resource usage lower at the same time. Useabiliy, speed, and memory usage are our main concern. Suitable for netbooks.
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Lively Wallpaper
Open-source software that allows users to set animated desktops
Free and open-source software that allows users to set animated desktop wallpapers and screensavers. Lively is the only animated desktop wallpaper application that you will need. Its super easy.. barely an inconvenience, just drag & drop the files or webpages to set as wallpaper. Load HTML file or web address as wallpaper. Runs webgl, javascript.. basically anything that works on chrome. Audio Reactive Wallpaper support. Run GLSL shaders in browser. Custom shader renderer (coming soon.) Shadertoy.com urls are supported as wallpaper. Lively supports Windows screensaver. Any wallpaper can be used as a screensaver. Multiple monitors supported. Lively can be controlled with command-line arguments from the terminal. Can be paired with third-party scripting software like AutoHotkey. Easy to use; Just drag'n'drop media files & webpages into lively window to set it as wallpaper. Hardware accelerated video playback, powered by mpv player. -
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GitHub Desktop
Focus on what matters instead of fighting with Git
GitHub Desktop is a free, open-source, Electron-based application that simplifies working with GitHub (and other Git-hosted repositories) via a graphical interface. It’s written in TypeScript and React, offering an intuitive alternative to command-line Git workflows. Want to test out new features and get fixes before everyone else? Install the beta channel to get access to early builds of Desktop. Linux is not officially supported; however, you can find installers created for Linux from a fork of GitHub Desktop in the Community Releases section. -
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Komorebi Linux
A beautiful and customizable wallpapers manager for Linux
Komorebi is an awesome animated wallpaper manager for all Linux platforms. It provides fully customizable image, video, and web page wallpapers that can be tweaked at any time. -
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Folder Size for Windows adds a new column to the Windows Explorer details view that displays the sizes of files and folders. A service scans your hard disk in the background and caches the results. Designed for performance!
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bazzite
Bazzite is a cloud native image built upon Fedora Atomic Desktops
Bazzite is a custom Fedora Silverblue variant that provides an immutable desktop operating system tailored for developers and power users. It integrates a curated set of tools and configurations to enhance productivity and streamline the development workflow. -
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RBTray is a small Windows program that runs in the background and allows almost any window to be minimized to the system tray by right clicking its minimize button.
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DWMBlurGlass
Add custom effect to global system title bar, support win10 and win11
DWMBlurGlass is a project/repository for Windows that aims to apply a “blur glass” aesthetic effect — i.e. translucent frosted-glass blur — to windows/desktop UI under the Desktop Window Manager (DWM). It is likely a small utility or library rather than a full game or engine, and caters to customizing the look and feel of windows for software that want a sleek transparent/blurred background aesthetic. Because its scope is narrowly defined — focusing on window rendering / UI effect — it is probably lightweight, easy to integrate in projects needing custom window decorations. This kind of project appeals to developers interested in customized UI, modded Windows applications, or aesthetic tweaks rather than full-blown applications or games. As with many small open-source utilities, using DWMBlurGlass involves incorporating its code or build into your own application so that windows render with blur/ glass-style background, giving a modern or stylized look. -
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OpenMandriva Lx
Easy, yet powerful, GNU/Linux distribution
OpenMandriva Lx is a unique and independent distribution and direct descendant of Mandriva Linux. It comes from a 100% community-driven association that believes in the values of free software & collaboration and whose founding values are development, equality, co-operation, openness, freedom, group achievement, independence, and solidarity. Source code: Software: https://github.com/OpenMandrivaSoftware Packages: https://github.com/OpenMandrivaAssociation Build system: https://abf.openmandriva.org/ Contact: * Chat - https://wiki.openmandriva.org/en/team/chat * Forum - https://forum.openmandriva.org Issue tracking and feature requests: * Issue Tracking - https://github.com/OpenMandrivaAssociation/distribution/issues Donate - https://liberapay.com/OpenMandriva -
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Mattermost Desktop
Mattermost Desktop application for Windows, Mac and Linux
Mattermost Desktop is a native desktop application for Mattermost, a workplace messaging alternative to Slack. Mattermost Desktop is developed using Electron and runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. -
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Ultimate Edition
An Ubuntu remix for both new and experienced Linux sophisticates
Ultimate Edition Linux, previously "Ubuntu Ultimate Edition". We cater to a large base of *nix users including, but certainly not limited to gamers & low resource computers. We have a Ultimate Edition for virtually any user. -
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uGet, the Best Download Manager for Linux. uGet is a lightweight yet powerful Open Source download manager for GNU/Linux developed with GTK+, which also comes packaged as a portable Windows app. - Quick Links - Features: https://ugetdm.com/features Screenshots: https://ugetdm.com/screenshots Blog: https://ugetdm.com/blog Support: https://ugetdm.com/qa Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs): https://ugetdm.com/qa/faq RSS Feed: https://ugetdm.com/rss GitHub: https://github.com/ugetdm
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WenQuanYi (Spring of Letters)
Crowd-sourcing CJK font project
This project aims to develop the most complete, standard compliant, high-quality Chinese (and CJKV) fonts and resources, including bitmap and outline fonts of various styles. We also develop web-based tools to facilitate online font-dev collaborations. -
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Xming X Server for Windows
X Window System Server for Windows
Xming is the leading X Window System Server for Microsoft Windows 8/7/Vista/XP (+ server 2012/2008/2003). It is fully featured, small and fast, simple to install and because it is standalone native Microsoft Windows, easily made portable (not needing a machine-specific installation). -
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Winhance
Application designed to optimize and enhance your Windows experience
Winhance is a Windows enhancement utility designed to debloat, optimize, and customize Windows 10 and 11 systems. Built as a C# application, it provides a user-friendly interface that allows users to manage apps, adjust system settings, and apply performance improvements without requiring a fresh OS installation. Winhance includes tools for removing unwanted Windows apps, installing third-party software via WinGet, and configuring privacy, update, and power settings. It also offers customization options for themes, taskbar layout, Start menu behavior, and File Explorer preferences. Advanced tools allow users to create custom Windows ISOs and generate autounattend.xml files based on their chosen configurations. Designed for individuals and IT professionals alike, Winhance delivers a comprehensive, all-in-one solution for enhancing and personalizing the Windows experience. -
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WinLaunch
macOS Launchpad for Windows
WinLaunch provides a beautiful way to organize and access all of your important applications and documents. The overall style has been heavily influenced by Apples macOS Launchpad. WinLaunch is being actively developed and improved, my goal is to provide the best app launching experience available on Windows. You can now support the development of WinLaunch on Patreon for access to custom themes and priority feature requests https://www.patreon.com/WinLaunch -
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FreeRDP
FreeRDP is a free remote desktop protocol library and clients
FreeRDP is a free implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), released under the Apache license. Enjoy the freedom of using your software wherever you want, the way you want it, in a world where interoperability can finally liberate your computing experience. The nightly builds are installed into /opt/freerdp-nightly and can be installed in parallel with the distributions regular freerdp package. Network tracing of RDP can be quite a challenge due to a number of factors such as encryption, compression, and the fact that these protocol features cannot always be disabled or worked around. One of the easiest way of decrypting RDP traffic is to configure the server with a self-signed certificate for which the private key is known, and then use this certificate with a network tracing tool to automatically decrypt the packets. -
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ModernFlyouts
Modern UI replacement for Windows flyouts with customizable features
ModernFlyouts is an open source application designed to replace the default Metro-style flyouts in Windows with a more modern, Fluent Design–based user interface. Instead of the old built-in popups for system feedback like volume, brightness, and airplane mode, ModernFlyouts temporarily intercepts those events and displays customizable flyouts that blend more seamlessly with recent Windows UI aesthetics. It extends beyond audio flyouts to cover media controls, brightness changes, airplane mode toggles, and even lock key indicators such as Caps Lock and Num Lock, offering a unified experience for all these system notifications. Users can adjust not just the look but the behavior of these flyouts (including layout, position, opacity, and animation) letting it feel more natural to individual preferences. The project’s roots trace back to AudioFlyout by ADeltaX, with further enhancements added by the community to support more flyout types and improved interaction. -
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Cntlm is an NTLM / NTLMv2 authenticating HTTP/1.1 proxy. It caches auth'd connections for reuse, offers TCP/IP tunneling (port forwarding) thru parent proxy and much much more. It's in C, very fast and resource-efficient. Go to http://cntlm.sf.net/
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SuperPuTTY
The SuperPuTTY Window Manager for putty sessions
SuperPuTTY is a Windows-based session manager and terminal emulator designed to enhance the usability of PuTTY, one of the most widely used SSH and telnet clients. Rather than replacing PuTTY, SuperPuTTY provides a multi-tabbed, dockable interface that allows users to open, organize, and manage multiple PuTTY sessions simultaneously from a single window. It supports various connection types including SSH, Telnet, Rlogin, Raw, and RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol), enabling both console and graphical remote access in one environment. SuperPuTTY adds convenience features such as session grouping, tab persistence, quick reconnect, and credential reuse across sessions. It also integrates a simple scripting language, allowing automation of repetitive tasks like login sequences or remote command execution. The interface is built using .NET and C#, offering an extensible architecture that supports plugins and customizable hotkeys.
