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).
It’s a UNIX system. I know this!
There was something like this in 2d, what was it’s name again?
Gotta go with sl
alias ls=sl
Plus
alias alias=‘echo “” #’
in the same vein
sl -alFc | lolcat -itas 819
rainbow snake train
eDEX-UI - its basically a terminal, but as shown in movies. Mostly inspired by TRON I believe.
When talking about cool programs, you can’t forget the classic cowsay
I’m partial to Pokemon say.
and fortune or fortune-mod. Combine it with cowsay for best effect.
Linuxwave - https://github.com/orhun/linuxwave - You can generate music from your OS.
Holy shit this is me(n)tal
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May I interest you in lolcat?
There’s also dotacat written in Rust for people who find lolcat too slow.
Because dota is better than lol. Lol.
xjack is one of my all-time favorite programs.
Unsettling. A+
Real Jacks type it while making eye contact.
You have telnet. You can watch the complete episode 4 of Star Wars in Ascii on your terminal (and other ASCII movies)
This works on any OS though.
Fly-Pie is a good one! Also the same person makes modern versions of Burn My Windows, Desktop Cube and other such things.
No more secrets sounds like it fits the bill
- asciiquarium
- xcowsay (someone else mentioned cowsay, but this one’s a graphical reimagining of the same idea.)
- xeyes
kdeconnect
- 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.
All of xscreensaver
Cool retro terminal
