10 AWESOME Linux Terminal Applications and Utilities

This is a follow up to my video going over some of the most useful Linux apps that run within the Linux terminal. This list will feature multimedia manipulation tools, better commands, memes, and more!

Most of these tools can be installed with apt, pacman, yay, snap, and dnf.

00:00 - Top Linux Terminal Tools
00:27 - 1. bat
01:30 - 2. ffmpeg
03:06 - 3. magick convert
04:48 - 4. cpufetch
05:36 - 5. gdu
07:53 - 6. lsd
08:47 - 7. bpytop
09:56 - 8. ascii-image-converter
11:47 - 9. speedtest-cli
12:36 - 10. lolcat
14:05 - Honorable Mentions

Video Resources

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[alexandresoutonogueira]

Him: clicks in a button in the terminal. 9:30
Me: 😮😮😮😮

[YrmiZ]

Thanks man these are just golden! Coming back to Linux after 10 year freak is just blast! There is so much cool stuff to do just using terminal. Feeling that I that now when I am older I learn everything much better and It is very cool to find out new things every day.

[sithomson]

Dude, I've literally learnt so much watching your video's tonight, been taking notes... :-D Practical and fun stuff great combo, lolcat and ascii-image, through speedtest, neofetch, etc. Software and comparisons, tempted by Zorin from my Mint... Cheers.

[thepattonians]

Thanks very much man, I haven’t heard of a lot of these despite using the command line for 15 years. I’m going to be using all of these!

[LittleFearTV]

Low-key flexing with that 500+Mbit/s symmetric upload/download ain't we? ;)

[hotrodchevy]

I know this is older, but I found it VERY informative and educational! Thanks!

[SkyFly]

Thank you very much for this tutorial!

[markusbuchholz]

Thanks for displaying you preferences. Tmux is awesome but I do recommend terminator also. Thanks && good luck!

[andreso.]

I really enjoyed this videos, very nice!

[kevinoconnor]

First time stopping by - good job! BTW: you could start a competition to count the number of times you say "...go ahead and ..." just sayin' ...I gave up after a couple of dozen! Maybe that's a merch idea ... a mug that just says ...'go ahead' ... Your'e welcome! Still liked the vid, thanks!

[crazymonkeyVII]

gdu is awesome, I had never heard of that before, thanks!

[bigmilk_]

you should start a "go ahead" counter on all of your videos, you say it constantly XD

[jpberes]

Awesome video ... some stuff I noticed within CLI apps ... gdu and ncdu are 2 cli apps doing exactly the same thing. Instead of lsd I would personally recommend a tool written in rust, called exa (a lot more functionalities)

[barelycodingtoday]

cool video, im a new linux user and these videos are awesome.

[foreducation]

gdu is a lifesaver, thanks for this awesome video

[sccjono]

I first used Midnight Commander back in the late 90's when I first started playing with Linux because I didn't know any commands and it is still the first util I install on any new distro I setup. 😀 It's kind of a happy place.

[woodygilson]

I ditched Windows in 2014 starting with Ubuntu as my daily driver before switching to Mint. I don't recall when, but it's been some years. I've checked out many distros over those years and considered myself not unfamiliar with terminal usage, but a few weeks ago I took the dive into Arch. Now I get what it means to be an "active" user. Arch has proved to be something of an frustrating addiction than a fun hobby interest which makes the word "user" seem that much more apropos. Your videos have become one of my resources and I appreciate it. That's really all wanted to say. Dunno how it turned into a whole paragraph. I watch other people's videos and haven't said peep. Anyway... Thanks man! You "go ahead" and keep doin' what you're doin'. I'm gonna "go ahead" and watch more of your content right now. 😊

[dacritter]

Vim is more like a language than an editor. It takes a little time to really get the hang of 'communicating what you want the editor to do with the text', but once you do anything and everything text related becomes blazingly fast. Not for everyone because of not only the learning curve (learning various commands is only the beginning) but also the practice involved in mastering it to the point where you pretty much do it without much thought.. That takes some time.

[methanoid]

Great tips. I'm now using GDU to keep my remote Ubuntu server as lean on logs and generally junk to allow free space to do what i want to 🙂

[taputechnic]

Based on this video and the predecessor, I installed bat (which I'll probably use primarily from now on), ncdu (gdu wasn't in my repository), and neofetch (cpufetch was unnecessarily detailed for me). Thanks for the tips!