Linux software

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Google > Chrome >
Software > Web browsers, SVG viewers >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/

A web browser by Google, designed to be fast and perfectly willing to sacrifice features.

  • Properly titled Google Chrome



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Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
was symphonygame.com

A top-down shooter game which uses music to generate levels.

Absolutely fantastic! HOWEVER progress is not auto-saved! Who the fuck makes a game where you can abandon everything you’ve played just by pressing a button too many times?!

  • Abandoned; the website is gone.



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Pale Moon extensions > Greasemonkey >

was github.com/gantt/downloadyoutube

A cross-browser script that adds a button to download YouTube videos as MP4 and FLV files. This script downloads the videos directly from YouTube and it integrates with YouTube’s interface.

It creates a button under the video, to the left of “Add to”.

Indispensable!

Abandoned, check out yt-dlp

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Online learning >

https://github.com/learningequality/ka-lite/

An offline version of Khan Academy.

A free lightweight solution providing high-quality education where you need it most.

Though this software is unofficial, it is known of and approved by the official website.

disliked – because it has no concept of building a larger topic of things to work on, and showing an easy path to progress through them. Needing to pick through a large number of topics, sub-topics and quizzes and then manually and repeatedly going back into that list is inexcusably frustrating.

  • Once installed it’s seen at 127.0.0.1:8008



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Booting multiple distributions from a USB stick >

was multibootusb.org

A tool for booting multiple distributions from a USB stick. Duh.

Very easy to use. Works under Windows. Does not work under Linux.



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