Linux Useful Tools

Useful tools can improve your development efficiency

System tools

• Boot-Repair

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair

A simple tool to repair frequent boot issues you may encounter in Ubuntu

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair && sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y boot-repair && boot-repair

• TLP

https://linrunner.de/tlp/index.html

Optimize Linux Laptop Battery Life

sudo apt install tlp tlp-rdw
sudo apt-get install smartmontools
sudo systemctl start tlp

sudo tlp-stat | less

GUI tools

• Angry IP scanner

https://angryip.org/

Fast and friendly network scanner

• Crow Translate

https://crow-translate.github.io/

A simple and lightweight translator

• Drawio Desktop

https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-desktop

A diagramming and whiteboarding desktop app based on Electron that wraps the core draw.io editor.

• Fcitx 5

https://fcitx-im.org/wiki/Install_Fcitx_5

Input method framework with extension support

sudo apt-get install -y fcitx fcitx-table-boshiamy fcitx-chewing

• Free File Sync

https://freefilesync.org/

Open Source File Synchronization & Backup Software

• Open Broadcaster Software Studio (OBS)

https://obsproject.com/

Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming

• QDirStat

https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat

Qt-based directory statistics (KDirStat without any KDE - from the original KDirStat author)

sudo apt-get install -y qdirstat

• Rclone

https://rclone.org/

A command-line program to manage files on cloud storage. It is a feature-rich alternative to cloud vendors’ web storage interfaces. Over 40 cloud storage products support rclone including S3 object stores, business & consumer file storage services, as well as standard transfer protocols.

• Remmina

https://remmina.org/

Remote access screen and file sharing to your desktop

• linux-wifi-hotspot

https://github.com/lakinduakash/linux-wifi-hotspot

Feature-rich wifi hotspot creator for Linux, which provides both GUI and command-line interface.

Terminal Tools

• aria2

https://aria2.github.io/

aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink. aria2 can be manipulated via built-in JSON-RPC and XML-RPC interfaces.

sudo apt-get install -y aria2

• bat

https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

A cat(1) clone with wings.

sudo apt install -y bat

• dua

https://github.com/Byron/dua-cli

View disk space usage and delete unwanted data, fast.

curl -LSfs https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Byron/dua-cli/master/ci/install.sh |
sh -s -- --git Byron/dua-cli --target x86_64-unknown-linux-musl --crate dua --tag v2.17.4

• exa

https://the.exa.website/

A modern replacement for ls. exa is a modern replacement for ls. It supports colours, Git integration, and other niceties.

sudo apt-get install -y exa

• fd

https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to ‘find’

sudo apt-get install -y fd-find

• fzf

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

A command-line fuzzy finder

sudo apt-get install fzf

• fzf-tab

https://github.com/Aloxaf/fzf-tab

Replace zsh’s default completion selection menu with fzf!

• locate

https://linuxhint.com/linux-locate-command/

the quickest and simplest way to search for files and directories by their names.

sudo apt install mlocate

• mosh

https://mosh.org

Mosh is a remote terminal application that supports intermittent connectivity, allows roaming, and provides speculative local echo and line editing of user keystrokes.

sudo apt-get install mosh

• process monitor

BPYTOP Linux/OSX/FreeBSD resource monitor
```
sudo apt install bpytop
```
nvitop An interactive NVIDIA-GPU process viewer, the one-stop solution for GPU process management.
```
pip3 install --upgrade nvitop
```