ALTERNATIVES TO BLOATWARE v1.2

__ALTERNATIVES TO BLOATWARE__

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Chat Client: Pidgin -> Finch (+ irssi mode) -> Centerim -> Bitlbee
E-Mail Client: Thunderbird -> Alpine -> Mutt
RSS Feed and Podcast: Liferea -> Newsbeuter
IRC Client: HexChat -> Weechat -> Irssi
VoIP: Skype -> Mumble -> Linphone -> sscall

Application Launcher: GNOME Do -> ratmenu -> dmenu -> pdmenu -> slmenu
Compositing Window Manager: Compiz -> Compton -> Xcompmgr
Display Color Temperature: flux -> Redshift -> sct
Graphical Settings: Wpgtk -> LxAppearance -> GSettings -> xsettings
Keybinding: Xbindkeys -> sxhkd -> loadkeys (+ keymaps)
Wallpaper Changer: FEH -> hsetroot -> xsetroot -> imagemagick

CD-DVD Burn and Copy: K3b -> Xfburn -> cdw
Device Management: Udisks (+ udevil) -> pmount -> bashmount

Virtual Machine: VirtualBox -> AQEMU + kvm -> Qemu + kvm

Batch Renamer: GPRename -> qmv (renameutils)
Duplicate Files Removal: dupeGuru -> Fdupes
File Archiver: PeaZip -> Xarchiver -> Atool
File Manager: SpaceFM -> Ranger -> Midnight Commander -> noice

File Scraper: JDownloader -> youtube-dl -> cclive -> Plowshare
FTP Client: FileZilla -> lftp
Torrent Client: qBittorrent -> RTorrent -> transmission-daemon (+ transmission-remote-cli, or use the web interface that comes with transmission-daemon)

System Information: zCI -> screenfetch -> inxi
Disk Usage: QDirStat -> Baobab -> Ncdu -> df
System Monitor: gnome-system-monitor -> Conky -> htop -> nmon -> top

Multiple Streams: pulseaudio -> apulse
Audio Editing: Audacity -> SoX
Audio Mixer and Equalizer: pavucontrol -> Qastools -> alsa-utils + Alsaequal
Metadata: Easytag -> Beets -> ExifTool
Screenshots: Shutter -> scrot -> maim -> ImageMagick
Screencasting: Open Broadcaster Studio -> SimpleScreenRecorder -> FFmpeg
Video Transcoding: HandBrake -> WinFF -> FFmpeg

DNS Resolution: Unbound + NDS -> BIND9
Network Manager: Wicd -> NetworkManager -> ConnMan -> SetNet

Ebook Viewer: Calibre -> Zathura
Printers: CUPS -> LPR
Word Processor: Libreoffice Writter -> Abiword -> 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: FreeCAD -> OpenSCAD
Graphing Calculator: KAlgebra -> GraphMonkey -> Maxima + PLplot

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

Cloud: Nextcloud -> vsftpd -> sftp
E-Mail Server: Postfix -> Exim + Dovecot -> cmail
VPN: OpenVPN -> WireGuard
Web Caching: Decentraleyes -> Squid
Web Filtering: Adblock -> Privoxy
Web Server: Apache -> Nginx -> lighttpd -> darkhttpd -> Bucktooth (+ Bucky)

BIOS: Coreboot -> Libreboot
Boot Loader: GRUB 2 -> GRUB Legacy -> SYSLINUX
Service Manager: SysVinit + bum -> SysVinit + OpenRC -> sinit (+ daemontools-encore)
IPC: DBus -> ipcs