Cool fancy programs?

Hello,

I’m looking for as many cool, even if pointless, programs as I can, be them terminal programs or gui ones. What do I mean by this? I’ll use some examples:

  • The Cube (I believe it was called Compiz): the one we all know and love.
  • cmatrix
  • the hollywood one
  • That one whose name I forget but basically spawns a cat that chases your cursor, I saw it showcased on Pop!_OS’ mastodon.
  • wobbly windows
  • Burn my window
  • tplay

if any of you know any other fancy program like this let me know please. I want to showcase them to non-linux people to show them what can be done here but not necessarily in other OSes (particularly Windows).

piranhaphish,

fsv or tdfsb

These are 3D filesystem browser apps that let you navigate your filesystem as though files and folders were trees in a forest that you’re walking/flying through.

They were practically useless aside from the wow factor. I believe one may have made it into a movie scene. Jurassic Park?

tonyn,

It’s a UNIX system. I know this!

MonkderZweite,

There was something like this in 2d, what was it’s name again?

wuphysics87,
callyral, (edited )
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Wayfire - basically Wayland Compiz

Unimatrix - CMatrix-like program

cellular-automaton.nvim - neovim plugin, check out the video in the github page, i don’t know how to explain it but it’s cool

Psythik,

Not a Linux app but I’m willing to bet that you’d love windows93.net.

ani,

Ema

cs

EuroNutellaMan,
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What are these?

callyral,
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Pretty sure they meant to type “Emacs”

EuroNutellaMan,
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Oh, wouldn’t have known: I use Vim, btw

callyral,
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fyi i use neovim

Molten_Moron,

No more secrets sounds like it fits the bill

recarsion,

cowsay

christos,
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Vincent,

It's a website rather than an app, but if you open it fullscreen, it's just as much fun: https://hackertyper.com

mjpc13,

You have telnet. You can watch the complete episode 4 of Star Wars in Ascii on your terminal (and other ASCII movies)

wgs,
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This works on any OS though.

De_Narm,

eDEX-UI - its basically a terminal, but as shown in movies. Mostly inspired by TRON I believe.

ExLisper,

xscreensaver with IFS. Can’t stop looking at it. I’m writing this on another computer because I don’t want to disable screen saver on my primary one.

beeng,

What’s the IFS part? I tried a quick web search but didn’t find anything…

JackGreenEarth,

Institute of Fiscal Studies. But it’s now called LIBF - London Institute of Banking and Finance.

ExLisper,
beeng,

Thank you!

I have this already :) now I know their name!

Deckweiss,

kdeconnect

Quazatron,
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  • That one whose name I forget but basically spawns a cat that chases your cursor

You mean Neko. Used to have it installed a long time ago. I don’t know if it still works in this day of compositors and Wayland.

I also remember having a bunch of penguins running around my screen like little lemmings. Xpenguins I think it was called.

You can also get Xcowsay to pop up occasionally on your desktop to offer silly advice, just pipe it from fortune and add it to crontab.

marcdw,
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