Recommended Apps

2026-02-22T22:01:56Z

Randlin: Add links as app

Here's a list of apps for [[Wii-Linux]], curated by Techflash and some others, to help you get the most out of your Linux experience.
Most of these will need additional on-disk swap space. <code>helpmii</code> can instruct you how to do that fairly easily.

{| class="wikitable"
! App Type !! App Name !! [[ArchPOWER]] package name !! Notes
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| Xorg Window Manager || i3wm || i3 || Faster, but not very friendly to new users
|-
| Xorg Window Manager || JWM || jwm || Fast, Needs additional configuration to look good
|-
| Xorg Window Manager || IceWM || icewm || Still relatively fast, but friendlier to new users
|-
| Xorg Terminal Emulator || XTerm || xterm || Blazingly fast, but may want to do some configuration to make it look nicer
|-
| Xorg Terminal Emulator || Suckless Terminal || st || About the same as XTerm, a little bit slower
|-
| Shell || tcsh || tcsh || Starts faster than bash. Note that the tcsh syntax is different from bash/zsh/sh for advanced features and scripting.
|-
| Text Web Browser || Lynx || lynx || Probably the best performance you're going to get out of a Wii-Linux browser. Does not even attempt CSS or JavaScript.
|-
| Web Browser || NetSurf || netsurf || Not all too fast, medium compatibility, no functional JavaScript
|-
| Web Browser || ArcticFox || arcticfox || Very slow, decent compatibility, good JavaScript
|-
| Web Browser || Phantom Satellite || phantomsatellite-gtk2 || Slightly faster than ArcticFox, medium compatibility, good JavaScript
|-
|Web Browser
|Links / xlinks
|links
|Similar to Lynx, but also has a fast, quite responsive GUI mode under X with picture support
|-

| Discord Client || Abaddon || abaddon || Dreadfully slow, takes '''minutes''' to load<br>Requires very fast swap to be remotely usable
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| Audio Playback || aplay || alsa-utils || Works great, but only for WAV files or raw audio
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| Audio Playback || Mpg123 || mpg123 || Works great, but only for MP3 Files
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| Audio Playback || play / sox || sox || Works great for all formats I threw at it, but you'll<br> need to install the "optional dependencies" for most formats.<br>pacman will list these out after the package is installed.
|}

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