Do you often make small edits to audio files or need to make voice recordings that are easy to clip and export? The conventional free choice for that type of work is Audacity, including on Linux. But Audacity has grown into a much more complex and, some might say, bloated app. Audacity has also had its share of controversies over the years.
One potential replacement is KWave. It's an app developed by the KDE team that's meant for simple audio editing. There are features for common edits like adding a low-pass filter, editing sample rates, fading, and normalizing volume. You can insert silence and noise, or record directly from your microphone. It supports WAV, MP3, OGG, OPUS, FLAC, and ASCII coded audio.
Like I said, it isn't as fully-featured as Audacity, so it won't accomodate everyone's needs. But if you're looking for something that's simple and easy to use, I recommend trying KWave.
KWave is widely available across Linux distros, so you can likely find it by searching your distro's software manager. You can get KWave from Flathub and on Snap Store.
You can also easily install it from the command line:
sudo apt install kwave #Debian and Ubuntu
sudo dnf install kwave #Fedora
sudo pacman -S kwave #Arch
sudo zypper install kwave #openSUSE
Source: https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-apps-to-try-this-weekend-february-6/
