We have made a list of our favorite Linux applications for Arch Linux heavily borrowed from the Arch Wiki List of applications page. There are hundreds of applications to choose from if you see the Wiki page for every category. The list is very extensive so we suggest you check it out if you don’t like any of the applications mentioned in this list pertaining to that specific category. Some applications are not from the Wiki and have been sourced from other places such as GitHub and some are personal preferences like services such as ProtonVPN .
- VPN — ProtonVPN
- Browser — Firefox & lynx
- Torrent Clients — transmission cli
- Download Clients — Uget & wget
- Mail Clients — neomutt & Thunderbird
- Hypervisors — Virtualbox & Virt-Manager
- RSS Client — newsboat & Tiny Tiny RSS
- Image Viewer — Ristretto, Sxiv, Viewnior, Nomacs & feh
- Image Organizers — Shotwell
- Audio Players — cmus, Clementine, Elisa, VVAVE, Rhythmbox, Deadbeef, Lollypop & Museeks
- Volume Control — Volumeicon, Mate-media & alsa-utils (alsamixer)
- Video Players — VLC & mpv
- Sound Mixer — ncpamixer
- Terminal Emulators — termite & alacritty
- File Managers — ranger, Nemo & PCManFM
- Archive Managers — p7zip, xarchiver & File-roller
- File Searching — Catfish & mlocate
- Disk Cleaning — Bleachbit
- Development — base-devel
- Text Editors — Geany, Xed, Pluma, Gedit & Leafpad
- Fingerprint Access — fprintd
- Onscreen Keyboard — Onboard
- Disk Usage Display — GNOME Disk Usage Analyzer (baobab) & ncdu
- System Monitor — GNOME System Monitor, Mate System Monitor
- Task Manager — Xfce4-taskmanager
- System Information Viewers — glances, htop, bpytop, gtop & nmon
- Hardware Information Viewers — hwinfo, lshw & Hardinfo
- Network Monitoring — vnstat
- Screensaver — cmatrix, Xscreensaver & unimatrix (Curl)
- Office Suite — Libreoffice Fresh
- Note-taking Apps — Notes-Up, Kjots, Notes
- Document Manager — GNOME Documents
- Diary — Almanah, Lifeograph
- Mind-mapping — Minder, FreeMind
- Distraction-free Writing — FocusWriter
- Packet Analyzers — Wireshark
- Anti-Malware — clamav, ClamTk
- Monitor Configuration — arandr
- CLI Search Engine — surfraw
- Calculator — Galculator
- Screen Temperature — redshift
- PDF/Document Viewer — Zathura, Evince
- IRC Client — irssi, weechat
- Epub/Mobi/PDF Reader — epr
- Cursors — Breeze, Bibata Classic/Ice, Oxygen 18 White & Sweet Cursors
- Icons — Arc & Surfn
- Laptop Power Management — Xfce4-power-manager, tlp & autocpufreq
- App Launchers — Ulauncher, Dmenu, Rofi, Albert & Jgmenu
- Screenshots — Flameshot, Spectacle, Xfce4-screenshooter & scrot
- Distribution Info — neofetch, screenfetch & archey
- Podcasts — Gnome Podcasts, Vocal, castero (PIP), castget & GPodder
- Disk Encryption — Veracrypt
- S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring — smartmontools
- Lockscreens — Slock, Xscreensaver
- To-Do Manager — taskell, Zanshin, GNOME To Do, taskwarrior, taskbook
- Break Timers — Workrave, RSI Break, GNOME Break Timer
- Calendars — GNOME Calendar, TkRemind & calcurse
- Dictionaries — GNOME Dictionary, sdcv
- eBooks — GNOME Books, Bookworm, Foliate
- Stopwatch — Kronometer
- Alarm — KAlarm
- Time Trackers — timewarrior
- Games — Xonotic, Extreme tux racer, Gnome Chess & Armagetron Advanced
- System Monitoring — s-tui
- Color Scheme — pywal
- Search — fzf & mlocate
- Education — Celestia
- CD Command — zoxide
- Finance — Homebank
- Trash Management — trash-cli
- Terminal Utilities — tldr, thefuck, exa, pihello, els (Git), sl, cowsay & fortune
- Transparency — Nitrogen
- Gaming Client — Steam
- Firewall — Gufw & ufw
- Fonts — noto-fonts, otf-font-awesome, adobe-source-sans-pro-fonts, ttf-dejavu, ttf-droid, ttf-hack, ttf-liberation, ttf-ms-fonts, ttf-roboto, ttf-ubuntu-font-family, cantarell-fonts, nerd-fonts-mononoki, adobe-source-code-pro-fonts
- System Settings Manger — Xfce-settings-manager
- Customization — Lxappearance
- Power Consumption — powertop
- Power Management — Xfce4-power-manager
Notes:
Small case and bold applications are terminal/CLI based. Underlined applications are from the AUR
