Recommended Apps

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. helpmii can instruct you how to do that fairly easily.

App Type	App Name	ArchPOWER package name	Notes
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 Requires very fast swap to be remotely usable
Audio Playback	aplay	alsa-utils	Works great, but only for WAV files or raw audio
Audio Playback	Mpg123	mpg123	Works great, but only for MP3 Files
Audio Playback	play / sox	sox	Works great for all formats I threw at it, but you'll need to install the "optional dependencies" for most formats. pacman will list these out after the package is installed.