Best Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Mar 13, 2025

• 7 Best Free and Open Source Linux Discord Clients - LinuxLinks

  There is a Linux client for Discord but it’s proprietary software.

  For open source enthusiasts there are viable alternatives which we explore.

  Here’s our verdict captured in a legendary LinuxLinks-style ratings chart. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion here.

• wtype - xdotool type for Wayland - LinuxLinks

  wtype is a Wayland tool that allows you to simulate keyboard input like xdotool type for X11.

  This is accomplished via the virtual-keyboard Wayland protocol.

  This is free and open source software.

• KDE Migrant - migrate existing KDE/Plasma/apps configuration to a new computer - LinuxLinks

  KDE Migrant allows you to migrate your existing KDE configuration to a new computer. Good when changing computers or cloning one user configuration for other users.

  A single file browser and command-line script that allows you to backup your full or partial KDE configuration including apps, dotfiles and any customizations. It works for KDE Plasma widgets as well.

  It creates a ZIP file that you can transfer to a different computer to unzip it.

  This is free and open source software.

• Netboard - share your clipboard between different devices - LinuxLinks

  Netboard is a client/server application that allows to share your clipboard between different devices. It works by deploying a server, then running client on your devices to sync the clipboard.

  The server uses websockets or chunked http encoding to push data to client, and while it is easier to handle the client part with the netboard client, it’s perfectly possible to integrate it with anything else, like good old curl.

  This is free and open source software.

• Machine Learning in Linux: RMBG-2-Studio - LinuxLinks

  We evaluated RMBG-2-Studio using the Ubuntu 24.10 distro.

  In our previous reviews in this series, this section often involves a fairly complex installation process. However, this app is installed with Pinokio, a useful AI utility which makes installation a trivial affair.

• Tuesday JS - visual novel engine - LinuxLinks

  The engine uses standard HTML5 document elements such as div and img. This allows the use of any media format supported by browsers including vector graphics svg, gif animations and css styles. There is a version of the editor available as a standalone application for Android devices and desktops. All versions are fully compatible with each other and have the same interface.

  This is free and open source software.

• Skanpage - simple scanning tool - LinuxLinks

  Skanpage is a simple scanning application optimized for multi-page document scanning. It can also scan and save single-page documents and images.

  It uses tesseract as an OCR engine. Through KSaneCore, Skanpage is relying on the SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) backends for interfacing with the scanner hardware.

  This is free and open source software.