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Cool fancy programs? (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Hello,

I'm looking for as many cool, even if pointless, programs as I can, be them terminal programs or gui ones. What do I mean by this? I'll use some examples:

  • The Cube (I believe it was called Compiz): the one we all know and love.
  • cmatrix
  • the hollywood one
  • That one whose name I forget but basically spawns a cat that chases your cursor, I saw it showcased on Pop!_OS' mastodon.
  • wobbly windows
  • Burn my window
  • tplay

if any of you know any other fancy program like this let me know please. I want to showcase them to non-linux people to show them what can be done here but not necessarily in other OSes (particularly Windows).

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[–] ExLisper@linux.community 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

What's the IFS part? I tried a quick web search but didn't find anything...

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

Institute of Fiscal Studies. But it's now called LIBF - London Institute of Banking and Finance.