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ALTERNATIVES TO BLOATWARE

The list is built pointing to software that have alternatives with less dependencies, and addressing dependencies was the easy thing to do. One thing tho, some particular tools were included because they add less dependencies overall while keeping a system functional. One such example is imagemagick and ffmpeg, by which you can do a lot of work and replace many tools by just using those with scripts and replace something like a screenshot utility. TL;DR is about the unix principle and you can have a fully functional system pretty damn minimal with that.

Certainly it would be great to have a comparative on resource usage tho. Wanna help?

Command Line

  • Command Line Cheatsheet: CLI Companion -> xman -> cheat -> howdoi -> clf -> fu -> bro -> cheat.sh
  • Directory Browsing: CDargs -> Apparix -> fasd -> xd -> fzy
  • Framebuffer Environment: Fbpad -> jfbterm -> Fbterm -> hterm (regis) -> yaft (sixel)
  • Hacker Culture: ddate -> fortune -> The Hacker Test -> The Jargon File
  • Multiplexer: Twin -> GNU Screen (+sixel patch) -> Tmux -> dvtm -> Byobu
  • Progress Viewers: Advanced Copy -> progress -> vramsteg -> pv - Pipe Viewer -> dbar
  • Scripting: abduco -> GNU Parallel -> tee -> empty
  • Shells: PC-DCL -> Bash -> mksh -> Rc
  • Snippets: BOOM -> snippy
  • Terminal Colorizer: colout -> lolcat
  • Terminal Dropdown: YeahConsole -> tdrop -> alwaysontop
  • Terminal Emulator: PuTTY -> Cool Retro Term -> Terminology -> rxvt-unicode (a.k.a. urxvt) -> Termite -> UXTerm
  • Terminal Pager: less -> most
  • Terminal Screensaver: bb -> tty-clock -> CMatrix -> SL -> cowsay (or cowthink) -> rice https://github.com/janbrennen/rice -> Asciiquarium https://github.com/cmatsuoka/asciiquarium -> nyan.sh https://gist.github.com/wting/5278321 -> rickrollrc https://github.com/keroserene/rickrollrc -> terminal-screensaver https://github.com/xiongchiamiov/terminal-screensaver

Communication

  • BBS-MUD: SyncTERM -> Qodem -> TinTin++
  • Bookmark Manager: BUKU -> SemanticScuttle -> bookmarks.public -> bk_edit -> b. -> BM -> bbm
  • Browser: ungoogled-chromium -> Icecat -> Pale Moon -> vimb -> Uzbl -> surf -> NetSurf -> Arachne -> w3m -> Hacked Links (ELinks + Links2) -> Lynx -> retawq -> Stallman.js
  • Chat Client: Pidgin -> Finch (+ irssi mode) -> Centerim -> Bitlbee
  • CLI Talk: Ytalk -> wall -> write
  • Collaborative Editor: Gobby -> EtherCalc -> Etherpad -> Cryptpad
  • E-Mail Archiver: Lurker
  • E-Mail Client: Thunderbird -> Alpine -> Mutt
  • E-Mail Fetcher: Fetchmail -> mbsync/isync
  • E-Mail Indexing: Archmbox -> Chewmail -> Notmuch -> mairix
  • E-Mail Notifier: mswatch
  • IRC Client: HexChat -> Weechat -> Irssi
  • Online Radio: Nuvola Player
  • Paint chat: Drawpile -> Collab
  • RSS Feed and Podcast: Liferea -> Newsbeuter -> Newsboat
  • Search Engine Scraper: Googler -> Torrtux -> Surfraw (+ dmenu)
  • Usenet (Newsreader): Pan -> Trn -> slrn ( + slrnpull + slrnface)
  • VoIP: Pidgin -> Mumble -> Linphone -> sscall

Desktop

  • Application Launcher: GNOME Do -> ratmenu -> dmenu -> pdmenu -> slmenu
  • Boot Screen: Plymouth -> Splashy -> Fbsplash -> <BOOTLOADERS>
  • Clipboard: CopyQ -> clipmenu -> xclip -> XSel
  • Compositing Window Manager: Compiz -> Compton -> Xcompmgr
  • Cursor: xbanish -> keynav -> GPM
  • Desktop Character: Oneko -> Gnome KiSS -> Ukagaka(Kawari + Ninix-aya) -> xevilteddy -> Xteddy
  • Display Color Temperature: flux -> Redshift -> sct
  • Display Settings: DDCcontrol -> xrandr
  • Graphical Settings: Wpgtk -> LxAppearance -> GSettings -> xsettings
  • Keybinding: Xbindkeys -> sxhkd -> loadkeys (+ keymaps)
  • Keyboard Layout: XKB -> xmodmap -> loadkeys (+ keymaps)
  • Login Manager: SLiM -> Qingy
  • Macro Recorder: Easystroke -> Xnee -> Autokey -> Sikuli -> xdotool
  • Nested Display: Xephyr -> Xnest
  • Notification Daemon: dunst -> slstatus
  • Notification Server: Libcanberra + Libnotify -> xmessage
  • Panel: Avant Window Navigator -> Global Menu -> Tint2
  • Screensaver: XScreenSaver -> XLockmore -> i3lock -> sxlock -> slock
  • Status Bar Client: Dzen -> Lemonbar
  • Status Bar Server: monky -> i3status
  • Animated Wallpaper Changer: Xphoon -> xfireworks -> Xsnow -> xmountains -> Xplanet -> ImageMagick (animate)
  • Still Wallpaper Changer: FEH -> hsetroot -> xsetroot -> imagemagick (but use 10MB more RAM than the others)
  • Terminal As Wallpaper: root-tail -> xrootconsole -> xli
  • Video Wallpaper Changer: mpv -> VLC (nvlc) -> MPlayer
  • Window Manager: s3d (+ s3dfm) -> FVWM (+ FvwmTabs and 4dwm theme) -> awesome -> Amiwm -> Window Maker -> IceWM -> Blackbox -> i3 -> Vtwm -> mwm -> katriawm -> Emacs -> Ratpoison -> dwm (+ dwmstatus) -> FrankenWM -> TinyWM
  • Window Manipulation: QuickTile -> wmctrl -> wmutils
  • Worskpace Pager: 3D-Desktop -> Skippy-XD
  • X Event Display: xprop -> xwininfo -> xev

Disk Tools

  • CD-DVD Burn and Copy (Backends): cdrtools -> cdrkit -> cdrskin
  • CD-DVD Burn and Copy (Frontends): K3b -> Brasero -> cdw
  • CD-DVD Ripping: Sound Juicer -> fre ac -> cdparanoia (+ ABCDE)
  • Custom Install CD: Respin -> Remastersys -> Distroshare -> PinguyBuilder -> Customizer -> Ubuntu Customization Kit -> Mklivecd
  • Device Management: Udisks (+ udevil) -> pmount -> bashmount
  • Disk Cloning and Writing: dd -> dcfldd -> dc3dd
  • Live USB: UNetbootin -> MultiCD
  • Partitioning: u3_tool -> GNU Parted -> cfdisk -> fdisk -> sfdisk
  • System Backup: Snapper -> Systemback -> FSArchiver

Distributed Services

  • Chat: Tox -> Matrix (Matrix-Ircd, Riot) -> GNU Ring -> nircd
  • E-Commerce: FIX Agora -> OpenBazaar -> Bitnation
  • E-Mail: Bitmessage (Notbit)
  • Editing: WebDAV -> ikiwiki -> GitTorrent -> git-annex (+ git-annex assistant)
  • Distributed File Systems: Samba -> NFS -> Storj -> IPFS -> GNUnet
  • Forum: Decentraland -> GNU Social (Mastodon) -> NNTPChan
  • Gossip Network: peernet
  • Monetary Incentives: Bitcoin -> GNU Taler -> Stream Token
  • Media Sharing: MediaGoblin -> PeerTube (WebTorrent) -> Alexandria -> DTube
  • Search Engine: searx -> Seeks -> YaCy
  • Search Engine (Gopher): Jugtail
  • Streaming: Livepeer -> Butter Project -> BasicTV

Emulation And Virtualization

  • Containers: chroot -> LXC -> Linux-VServer
  • Emulators: Windows: Wine (+ Wine Staging), Android: Ambox, OS X: Darling, Atari: Hatari, Commodore: VICE, DOS: DOSBox
  • Hypervisors: Xen -> NOVA -> KVM
  • Network Virtualization: nsnam -> GNS3
  • Software Compatibility: .NET: DotGNU -> Mono, Systemd/Linux: systemd-shim
  • Video Game Console Emulation ATARI: Stella
  • Video Game Console Emulation XBOX: XQEMU
  • Video Game Console Emulation MULTI: Higan -> Mednafen -> RetroArch -> MAME -> AdvanceMAME
  • Video Game Console Emulation NINTENDO: DeSmuME, Mupen64Plus, Dolphin
  • Video Game Console Emulation SEGA: Exodus, Yabause, Reicast
  • Video Game Console Emulation PLAYSTATION: PPSSPP, RPCS3, PCSX/PCSX2
  • Virtual Assembler: GNUSim8085 -> spim
  • Virtual Machine: VirtualBox -> AQEMU + kvm -> Qemu + kvm
  • Virtual Machine (IBM Mainframes): Hercules
  • Virtual Machine (DEC): SIMH

Enterprise

  • Business Intelligence: JasperReports
  • CRM: SugarCRM
  • Enterprise Resource Planning: IDempiere -> LedgerSMB
  • Human Resource Software: OrangeHRM
  • Invoice: Simple Invoices
  • Project Management: GanttProject -> ProjectLibre

File Utilities

  • Batch Renamer: GPRename -> qmv (renameutils)
  • Duplicate Files Removal: dupeGuru -> Fdupes
  • File Archiver: PeaZip -> Xarchiver -> Atool
  • File Manager: SpaceFM -> Ranger -> Midnight Commander -> noice
  • File Search: DocFetcher -> Puggle -> regain -> ANGRYsearch -> Xapian
  • File Synchronization: Conduit -> Bacula -> Syncthing -> Unison -> zsync -> Rsync
  • Image Organizer: Shotwell -> GTKRawGallery -> digiKam -> gThumb (+ gphoto) -> Mapivi -> BASH-Booru https://github.com/ChristianSilvermoon/BASH-Booru
  • RegEx Builder: Visual REGEXP -> txt2regex
  • Regexer: regexxer -> ack -> ag

Filesharing

  • Direct Connect: LinuxDC++ -> ncdc -> microdc2
  • Download Manager: giFT (+ giFTcurs) -> aria2 -> cURL -> Wget
  • File Scraper: megatools -> JDownloader -> Plowshare
  • FTP Client: FileZilla -> lftp
  • LAN Sharing: NitroShare -> Dukto
  • Media Center: Plex -> Kodi ("XBMC", + Sonarr) -> Emby -> Popcorn Time
  • Media Miner: FlexGet -> Sonarr
  • Offline Reader: Kiwix -> Darcy Ripper -> HTTrack -> Wget
  • Soulseek: Nicotine Plus -> Museek (mucous)
  • Stream Catcher: Streamripper -> youtube-dl -> cclive -> quvi/RTMPDump
  • Torrent Client: qBittorrent -> RTorrent -> transmission-daemon (+ transmission-remote-cli, or use the web interface that comes with transmission-daemon)
  • Torrent Search Engine: Jackett -> Torrench -> Magnetissimo -> magnetico
  • Usenet (File Grabber): LottaNZB -> SABnzbd -> NZBGet -> nzb -> nzbperl

Finance

  • Accounting: GnuCash -> GNU Pem
  • Financial Markets Monitoring: JStock -> Qtstalker/QtTrader

Forensics

  • Application Profiling: Gprof -> Valgrind (+ Callgrind)
  • Data Recovery: dvdisaster -> ddrescue -> TestDisk (PhotoRec)
  • Debugger: DDD -> CGDB -> GDB
  • Virtual Memory Debugger: scanmem & Gameconqueror -> varedit
  • Java Debugger: VisualVM
  • Browser Debugger: Firebug
  • Forensic Analysis Framework: The Sleuth Kit -> DFF -> Radare
  • Hex Editors: HT Editor -> dhex -> objdump
  • Sandbox: Cuckoo Sandbox
  • Steganalysis: Virtual Steganographic Laboratory -> Stegdetect

Monitoring

Benchmarking

  • Drive Profiling: hdparm -> Smartmontools
  • Filesystem Benchmark: IOzone -> Bonnie -> MBW
  • General Benchmarking: Phoronix Test Suite ->ProcBench -> Sysbench -> HPC Challenge Benchmark (hpcc)
  • Network Profiling: iperf
  • Power Management: apcupsd -> tpfancontrol -> thinkfan -> TLP -> PowerTOP
  • Server Benchmark: Siege
  • System Tracing: OProfile -> Sysdig -> dtrace -> perf -> strace -> ftrace (+ trace-cmd)
  • Undevolting and Power Saving: cpufrequtils -> cpupower -> Linux-PHC (+ phc2sys)

System Information

  • General Information: zCI -> inxi
  • Screenshot Information: Linux_Logo -> Neofetch -> screenFetch -> envee
  • Hardware Information: blkid -> lsblk -> lspci -> lshw -> dmesg -> dmidecode
  • Software Information: file -> ldd -> vrms -> lsb_release -> uname

System Monitoring

  • Database Monitoring: Mytop
  • Disk Usage: QDirStat -> Baobab -> xdiskusage -> Ncdu -> df
  • Geolocation: Prey
  • Hardware Monitoring: acpiclient -> Hddtemp -> lm-sensors (psensor for a GUI)
  • Log Monitoring: lnav -> multiTail -> Logcheck
  • Log Visualizer: glTail -> Logstalgia
  • Network Flow: Argos -> HFlow -> nfdump (nfsen)
  • Network Latency: SmokePing -> bmon
  • Network Monitoring: IPTraf -> NetHogs -> iftop -> vnStat -> tcptrack -> NCMatrix
  • Port Monitoring: psad
  • Process Monitoring: lsof
  • Serial Monitoring: ttylog -> slsnif
  • System Latency: LatencyTOP
  • System Monitor: gnome-system-monitor -> psDooM -> Conky -> htop -> nmon -> Sysstat (sar, mpstat, pidstat, iostat, sadf) -> procps (ps, free, vmstat, top, pmap, nice)
  • User Monitoring: wuzzah -> Whowatch -> acct
  • Web Log Analytics: AWStats -> W3Perl -> Analog -> pmacct
  • Web State Monitor: Nagios (+ NagVis) -> sysmon -> Sysmond

Multimedia

ASCii Art

  • ANSI Drawing: cadubi -> SHPaint -> MysticDraw
  • ANSi Viewer: ANSiMat
  • ASCii Animation: blessed -> Durdraw -> drawille
  • ASCii Banner: shellpic -> TOIlet -> FIGlet -> sysvbanner
  • ASCii Drawing: JavE -> textdraw -> Aewan
  • ASCii Presentations: wopr -> blessed-contrib
  • Image to ASCii: jp2a
  • Video to ASCii: libcaca -> AAlib

Audio

  • Audio Editing: Audacity -> SoX
  • Audio Effect Plugins: zam-plugins (LADSPA/LV2/VST/JACK), LV2 (x42-plugins), LADSPA (tap-plugins), DSSI (dssi-utils, dssi-vst)
  • Audio Encoding: LAME, FLAC
  • Background Sound: GNU GTick -> Ambient Noise
  • Digital Audio Workstation: Rosegarden -> Ardour -> LMMS
  • DJing: Mixxx
  • Ear Training: LenMus -> GNU Solfege
  • Multiple Audio Streams: pulseaudio -> apulse
  • Music Player: Audacious (+ Winamp Classic skin + GJay) -> cmus -> MPD (vimus/ncmpcpp) -> MOC (+ moc-ffmpeg-plugin, dmenu_mocp)
  • Music Visualization: Spectrum3d -> Le Biniou -> projectM -> cli-visualizer
  • Scorewriter: MuseScore -> LilyPond
  • Software Sampler: LinuxSampler -> orDrumbox -> Hydrogen
  • Synthesizer: AlsaModularSynth -> ZynAddSubFX
  • System Sound Utilities: pavucontrol (pulseaudio) -> JAMin (for Jack) -> Qastools -> alsa-utils + Alsaequal
  • System Sound Extensions: WineASIO, alsa-oss/oss-compat, ESound (esound-common), awesfx
  • Tonal Feature Analysis: CLAM Chordata
  • Tracker Editors: Schism -> MilkyTracker
  • Trackers: SID-Wizard -> GoatTracker
  • Tray Icon: Volume Icon -> Volti

Image

  • Bitmaps to Vector Conversion: AutoTrace -> Potrace
  • Diagram Editor: Pencil Project -> Dia -> Graphviz
  • Bitmap Graphics Digital Drawing: Krita -> MyPaint -> XPaint
  • Coloring Digital Drawing: STYLE2PAINTS
  • Fonts Digital Drawing: FontForge
  • Vector Digital Drawing: Inkscape -> Xfig
  • Image Editing: RawTherapee -> darktable -> Gimp + G'MIC -> ImageMagick (display, import)
  • Image Viewer: Feh -> sxiv -> display (ImageMagick) -> fim/fbi
  • Plotting: Gnuplot -> PLplot
  • Screenshots: Shutter -> scrot -> maim -> import (ImageMagick) -> fbcat (FBGrab)
  • Image Optimizing: pngcrush -> pngquant -> OptiPNG

Metadata

  • Metadata: Easytag -> Beets -> ExifTool

Video

  • Compositing: CinePaint -> Natron
  • Datamoshing: Autodatamosh
  • 2D Digital Animation: Synfig -> OpenToonz
  • 3D Digital Animation: Blender
  • Screencasting: Open Broadcaster Studio -> SimpleScreenRecorder -> FFmpeg -> ttyrec (+ seq2gif)
  • Video Editing: Kdenlive -> Cinelerra-cv -> OpenShot -> FFmpeg
  • Video Player: MPV -> VLC (nvlc) -> MPlayer
  • Video to gif: Video2Gif -> ImageMagick (convert) -> FFmpeg
  • Video Transcoding: HandBrake -> WinFF -> FFmpeg

Network Setup

  • DNS Resolution: Unbound + NDS -> BIND9

  • Network Manager: Wicd -> NetworkManager -> ConnMan -> SetNet

  • Ebook Viewer: Calibre -> Zathura

  • Printers: CUPS -> LPR

  • Word Processor: Libreoffice Writter -> Abiword -> MinEd -> WordGrinder + pandoc

  • Spreadsheets: Libreoffice Calc -> Gnumeric -> SC-IM + pandoc

  • Text Editor (and IDE): Emacs (nox) -> Vim -> Nano -> Vile -> xwpe -> GNU Zile

  • Disk Cleaner: BleachBit -> bleachbit_cli -> shred

  • Storage Encryption: VeraCrypt -> tcplay (TrueCrypt implementation) -> Keyringer -> Tomb

  • Password Manager: KeePassX -> kpcli / pass (+ pass-tomb)

  • Version Control: Git (+ tig) -> Fossil -> RCS

  • Configuration Management: Puppet -> CFEngine -> cdist

  • CAD: AutoCAD -> FreeCAD -> OpenSCAD

  • Graphing Calculator: KAlgebra -> GraphMonkey -> Maxima + PLplot

  • Firewall: gufw -> ufw -> iptables -> nftables

  • Cloud: Google Drive -> Nextcloud -> vsftpd -> sftp

  • E-Mail Filtering (LDA): Dovecot -> procmail

  • E-Mail Server (MTA): Postfix -> Exim -> cmail

  • E-Mail Spam Filter: DSPAM -> SpamAssassin

  • VPN: OpenVPN -> WireGuard

  • Web Caching: Decentraleyes on a web browser -> Squid

  • Web Filtering: Ad blocker on a web browser -> Pi-hole -> Privoxy

  • Web Server: Apache -> Nginx -> lighttpd -> darkhttpd -> Bucktooth (+ Bucky)

  • BIOS: Coreboot -> Libreboot

  • Boot Loader: GRUB 2 -> GRUB Legacy -> SYSLINUX -> LILO (or ELILO for UEFI)

  • Service Manager: SysVinit + bum -> SysVinit + OpenRC -> sinit (+ daemontools-encore or perp)

  • IPC: DBus -> ipcs

ANDROID APPS

  • Launcher: Silverfish
  • Facebook: Tinfoil for Facebook
  • Twitter*: Tinfoil for Twitter
  • YouTube: NewPipe
  • E-Books: Document Viewer
  • Notes: miniNoteViewer

All apps are from F-Droid, may not be much but is a start.