Polaris Guiding Console
@polaris

Polaris Guiding Console is a free, GPL-3.0 desktop console for Linux, made for people who arrive from Windows or macOS and don't want to be left alone with a terminal.

• A library of real Linux commands, each explained before you press Enter, with the proper syntax filled in for you.
• A sandbox where you can try a fix from a forum, break things, and discard the result. Your system stays exactly as it was.
• Remote mode: connect to a family member's machine over SSH and sort it out from your own chair.
• Drivers, disks, users, installed programs and Windows software through Bottles, all from one window.
• Your choice of AI, including models that run on your own machine.

Polaris runs on Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint, Zorin, Pop!_OS, Arch, CachyOS, EndeavourOS and Manjaro. It is made by S.H.A.R.K. Inc. in Canada. Donations pay for development time and for testing every build on all nine distributions. Sponsors on GitHub get beta and alpha builds early; Liberapay is for everyone who would rather give without a GitHub account.