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# Software

This page includes modern alternatives to less important software

# X11

  • Wayland - Wayland is a modern replacement for X featuring window sandboxing, enhanced performance and a smaller attack surface

# Alsa/Pulseaudio

  • Pipewire - Pipewire is the modern sound server for linux, focusing on security and compatability featuring support for alsa, jack and pulseaudio

# Runc

  • youki - An experimental container runtime written in Rust

# cd

  • zoxide - A smarter cd command for your terminal.

# awk

  • frawk - an efficient awk-like language

# bash/PowerShell/fish

  • ion - A modern shell developed for RedoxOS. But is still capable on *nix platforms.
  • nushell - An attractive structured shell

# bc

  • cpc - Text calculator with support for units and conversion
  • eva - a calculator REPL, similar to bc(1)

# cat

  • bat - A cat(1) clone with wings.

# cloc

  • tokei - Count your code, quickly.

# coreboot

  • oreboot - oreboot is a fork of coreboot, with C removed, written in Rust.

# cp

  • xcp - An extended cp

# cut

  • choose - A human-friendly and fast alternative to cut and (sometimes) awk
  • hck - A sharp cut(1) clone

# diff

  • delta - A viewer for git and diff output

# dig

  • dog - A command-line DNS client.

# du

  • dua - View disk space usage and delete unwanted data, fast.
  • dust - A more intuitive version of du in rust

# find

  • fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

# fzf

  • skim - Fuzzy Finder in rust!

# GNU coreutils

  • coreutils - Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

# hexdump

  • hexyl - A command-line hex viewer

# httpie

  • xh - Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests

# ls

  • exa - A replacement for 'ls'
  • lsd - An ls with a lot of pretty colors and awesome icons
  • nat - ls alternative with useful info and a splash of color 🎨

# nvm

  • fnm - 🚀 Fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in Rust
  • volta - Volta: JS Toolchains as Code. ⚡

# Midnight Commander

  • broot - A better way to navigate directories

# ps

  • procs - A modern replacement for ps written in Rust

# rbenv

  • frum - A little bit fast and modern Ruby version manager written in Rust

# rename

  • rnr - A command-line tool to batch rename files and directories

# rm

  • rip - A safe and ergonomic alternative to rm

# sed

  • sad - CLI search and replace | Space Age seD
  • sd - Intuitive find & replace CLI (sed alternative)

# strings

  • stringsext - Find multi-byte-encoded strings in binary data

# sudo

  • please - sudo like program with regex support written in rust

# sysctl

  • systeroid - A more powerful alternative to sysctl with a terminal user interface

# time

  • hyperfine - A command-line benchmarking tool

# tldr

  • navi - An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line
  • tealdeer - A very fast implementation of tldr in Rust.

# top

  • bottom - Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.
  • ytop (no longer maintained) - A TUI system monitor written in Rust

# uniq

  • huniq - Filter out duplicates on the command line.

# xargs

  • rargs - A kind of xargs + awk with pattern-matching support.

# yay

  • paru - Feature packed AUR helper

# Spaceship

  • starship - ☄️🌌 The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!

# termite

  • Alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

# tmux

  • Zellij - A terminal workspace with batteries included

# Vim

  • Amp - A complete text editor for your terminal.

# grep

  • ripgrep - ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore

# codemod

  • fastmod - A fast partial replacement for the codemod tool

# jq

  • jql - A JSON Query Language CLI tool built with Rust 🦀

# lazygit

  • gitui - Blazing fast terminal-ui for git written in Rust 🦀

# Reddit

  • Lemmy - 🐀 Building a federated alternative to reddit in rust

# teddit

  • libreddit - Private front-end for Reddit written in Rust

# make

  • just - A command runner and partial replacement for make

# ESLint

  • deno_lint - Blazing fast linter for JavaScript and TypeScript written in Rust
  • RSLint - A (WIP) Extremely fast JavaScript and TypeScript linter and Rust crate

# Prettier

  • dprint - Pluggable and configurable code formatting platform written in Rust.

# ShellCheck