I did some searching and many users recommend Rofi but looking at man rofi-script it seems to just be a list picker. You pick something from the a list and only one thing runs. On Alfred and Raycast you can have interactive extensions which are essentially keyboard navigable UIs.
- One example looking at the Alfred workflow gallery is Reddit Browser, where you select a subreddit from a list and then it shows of lists of posts, you can press
cmd enterto go back & select another subreddit. - Another one lets you ask questions for chatgpt and shows answers right in the launcher (I’m not necessarily looking for AI extensions).
- This Raycast extension lets you search and create Notion pages.
Annoyingly Raycast is what’s keeps me from moving to Linux fully. As a developer and productivity enthusiast, Raycast really became the center of everything I do.
Would be very interesting to write some kind of port that can also use these extensions, since they’re all open source and based on web technology (React).
Have u considered writing them?
Anyway, ULauncher looks very good to me as a Raycast alternative.