2023-11-01

This article introduces projects available in Flathub with installation instructions.

Flathub is the place to get and distribute apps for all of Linux. It is powered by Flatpak, allowing Flathub apps to run on almost any Linux distribution.

Please read “Getting started with Flatpak“. In order to enable flathub as your flatpak provider, use the instructions on the flatpak site.

TurboWarp

TurboWarp is a modified version of Scratch. Scratch is a coding language with a simple visual interface that allows young people to create digital stories, games, and animations.

I love Scratch, but since I discovered TurboWarp, my son has never looked back. The interface is clearer, it has night mode, it works faster than the original Scratch, and it’s memory optimized.

You can install “TurboWarp” by clicking the install button on the web site or manually using this command:

Szyszka

Szyska is file renamer with a lot of interesting features like:

Great performance

Available for Linux, Mac and Windows

GUI created with GTK 4

Multiple rules which can be freely combined:

Replace text

Trim text

Add text

Add numbers

Purge text

Change letters to upper/lowercase

Custom rules

Saved rules to be used later

Ability to edit, reorder rules and results

Handles hundreds thousands of records

You can install “Szyszka” by clicking the install button on the web site or manually using this command:

Marker

Marker is a MarkDown editor written in GTK3. It’s one of my favorites for fast writing on GTK. Some of its features are:

HTML and LaTeX conversion of markdown documents with scidown

Support for YAML headers

Document classes

Beamer/presentation mode

Abstract sections

Table of Contents

External document inclusion

Equations, figures, table and listings with reference id and caption

Internal references

TeX math rendering with KaTeX or MathJax

Syntax highlighting for code blocks with highlight.js

Flexible export options with pandoc

PDF

RTF

ODT

DOCX

You can install “Marker” by clicking the install button on the web site or manually using this command:

Marker is also available as rpm on fedora’s repositories

Librum

Librum is an application to manage your library and read your e-books. It’s a great way to manage a collection of books and documents, including support for a long list of formats. Some of its features are:

A modern e-reader

A personalized and customizable library

Book meta-data editing

A free in-app bookstore with more than 70,000 books

Book syncing across all of your devices

Highlighting Bookmarking Text search

You can install “Librum” by clicking the install button on the web site or manually using this command:

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