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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
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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.
You have telnet. You can watch the complete episode 4 of Star Wars in Ascii on your terminal (and other ASCII movies)
Fly-Pie is a good one! Also the same person makes modern versions of Burn My Windows, Desktop Cube and other such things.
that guy Schneegans makes the most beautiful useless rice! i'm tempted to switch to gnome now..
- asciiquarium
- xcowsay (someone else mentioned cowsay, but this one's a graphical reimagining of the same idea.)
- xeyes
+1 for asciiquarium
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.
The Linux program that had a cat chase your mouse was Neko.
Also AMOR (Amazing Misuse Of Resources) which has more characters and features
All of xscreensaver
Cool retro terminal
It's a website rather than an app, but if you open it fullscreen, it's just as much fun: https://hackertyper.com
cowsay
Lolcat, yt-dlp, hyprland. Honesty though most of what I find cool these days wouldn't make any sense to a Windows user. Like DWM, ST, XBPS, lf, ly, neovim, etc.
Cowsay, figlet, telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl, misfortune, cava, xscreensaver are a few that come to mind.
https://github.com/dustinkirkland/hollywood
https://gitlab.com/jallbrit/cbonsai
Procrastinate away 😁
dd
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.
What's the IFS part? I tried a quick web search but didn't find anything...
Check out eaglemode
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