Linux
Linux is an open-source Unix-like operating system, an alternative to Microsoft Windows and MacOS.
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Popular Distributions 3D Rendering Antivirus Audio Editor Backup Tool BitTorrent Client Browser Code and Text Editor Database Tool Development Diagramming Tool Email Client File Archiver FTP Image Editors Image Organizer Media Converter Media Players Messaging Office & Productivity PDF Editing Tool Remote Work Security & Privacy Video Editor Virtualization AppThe purpose of Linux Mint is to produce a modern, elegant and comfortable operating system which is both powerful and easy to use. It works out of the box, with full multimedia support and is extremely easy to use.
Enjoy the simplicity of Ubuntu’s intuitive interface. Fast, secure and with thousands of apps to choose from — for everything you want to do, Ubuntu has what you need.
Manjaro is based on the independently developed Arch operating system. Within the Linux community, Arch itself is renowned for being an exceptionally fast, powerful, and lightweight distribution that provides access to the very latest cutting edge – and bleeding edge – software. Manjaro is available for 64 Bit architectures. XFCE, KDE and Gnome editions are officially supported.
Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, video editing and 2D animation pipeline.
ClamAV is an open source antivirus engine for detecting trojans, viruses, malware & other malicious threats.
LMMS is part of a family of softwares known as digital audio workstations, or DAWs. It is a sound generation system, synthesizer, beat/bassline editor and MIDI control system that can power an entire home music studio.
Timeshift for Linux is an application that provides functionality similar to the System Restore feature in Windows and the Time Machine tool in Mac OS. Timeshift protects your system by taking incremental snapshots of the file system at regular intervals. These snapshots can be restored at a later date to undo all changes to the system.
The qBittorrent project aims to provide an open-source software alternative to µTorrent.
Deluge is a fully-featured cross-platform BitTorrent client. It is Free Software, licensed under the GNU GPLv3+ and adheres to free desktop standards enabling it to work across many desktop environments.
Transmission is an open source, volunteer-based project. Transmission doesn't bundle toolbars, pop-up ads, flash ads, twitter tools, or anything else.
Firefox is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages.
Microsoft Edge is a cross-platform web browser created and developed by Microsoft. It is Chromium-based.
Visual Studio Code is a streamlined code editor with support for development operations like debugging, task running, and version control. It aims to provide just the tools a developer needs for a quick code-build-debug cycle.
Light Table is an integrated development environment for programming. It features real-time feedback allowing instant execution, debugging and access to documentation.
Atom is a free and open-source text and source code editor with support for plug-ins written in JavaScript, and embedded Git Control, developed by GitHub.
PyCharm is an IDE used for programming in the Python language. The community edition is free.
Free multi-platform database tool for developers, database administrators, analysts and all people who need to work with databases
MySQL Workbench is a unified visual tool for database architects, developers, and DBAs.
DbSchema is a universal database designer, for out-of-the-box schema management, sharing the schema in the team, and deploying on different databases. Visual tools for data and query can help developers, database administrators, and decision-makers to manage and document databases.
Is a cross-platform database tool for data professionals who use on-premises and cloud data platforms on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
The Qt framework contains a comprehensive set of highly intuitive and modularized C++ library classes and is loaded with APIs to simplify your application development.
Sponsored by Microsoft, Mono is an open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Runtime.
An open-source GUI prototyping tool that's available for ALL platforms. Pencil is built for the purpose of providing a free and open-source GUI prototyping tool that people can easily install and use to create mockups in popular desktop platforms.
Dia is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows program 'Visio,' though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams.
diagrams.net/draw.io is an open source technology stack for building diagramming applications, and the world’s most widely used browser-based end-user diagramming software.
Thunderbird is a free and open source email, newsfeed, chat, and calendaring client, that’s easy to set up and customize.
Evolution is a personal information management application that provides integrated mail, calendaring and address book functionality.
Geary is an email application built around conversations, for the GNOME 3 desktop. It allows you to read, find and send email with a straight-forward, modern interface.
Evolution is a personal information management application that provides integrated mail, calendaring and address book functionality.
Cross-platform, full-featured but user-friendly alternative to WinRar, WinZip and similar general purpose archive manager applications, open and extract 200+ archive formats.
The FileZilla Client not only supports FTP, but also FTP over TLS (FTPS) and SFTP.
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
Inkscape is a Free and open source vector graphics editor for GNU/Linux, Windows and MacOS X. It offers a rich set of features and is widely used for both artistic and technical illustrations.
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
Use ImageMagick to create, edit, compose, or convert digital images. It can read and write images in a variety of formats (over 200) and can resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bezier curves.
darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.
digiKam is an advanced open-source digital photo management application that runs on Linux, Windows, and MacOS. The application provides a comprehensive set of tools for importing, managing, editing, and sharing photos and raw files.
XnView MP is a versatile and powerful photo viewer , image management, image resizer. XnView is one of the most stable, easy-to-use, and comprehensive photo editors. All common picture and graphics formats are supported.
HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.
VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
SMPlayer is a free media player for Windows and Linux with built-in codecs that can play virtually all video and audio formats. It doesn't need any external codecs. Just install SMPlayer and you'll be able to play all formats without the hassle to find and install codec packs.
MPlayer can play a wide variety of media formats and can also save all streamed content to a file locally.
mpv is a free (as in freedom) media player for the command line. It supports a wide variety of media file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types
Telegram is a messaging app with a focus on speed and security, it’s super-fast, simple and free. You can use Telegram on all your devices at the same time and your messages sync seamlessly across any number of your phones, tablets or computers.
Pidgin is an instant messaging client that supports many instant messaging protocols.
State-of-the-art end-to-end encryption (powered by the open source Signal Protocol) keeps your conversations secure.
LibreOffice is a free and open-source office productivity software suite, a project of The Document Foundation.
Joplin is an open source note-taking app. Capture your thoughts and securely access them from any device.
Trilium Notes is a hierarchical note taking application with focus on building large personal knowledge bases.
LibreOffice Draw is a free and open source vector graphics editor. It is one of the applications included in the LibreOffice office suite, developed by The Document Foundation.
TeamViewer lets you remote in to computers or mobile devices located anywhere in the world and use them as though you were there.
Connect to a computer remotely, be it from the other end of the office or halfway around the world. AnyDesk ensures secure and reliable remote desktop connections for IT professionals and on-the-go individuals alike.
TigerVNC is a high-performance, platform-neutral implementation of VNC (Virtual Network Computing), a client/server application that allows users to launch and interact with graphical applications on remote machines.
A free home subscription is the ideal solution for personal or hobbyist use.
Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer. It lets you capture and interactively browse the traffic running on a computer network. It has a rich and powerful feature set and is world’s most popular tool of its kind.
Mullvad is a VPN provider based in Sweden. An account number is the only thing you need to connect to Mullvad VPN. They do not keep activity logs of any kind.
Lightworks is a non-linear editing system (NLE) for editing and mastering digital video. There is a free plan in addition to paid ones.
OpenShot Video Editor is a free, open-source video editor for Linux, Mac, and Windows. It's designed to be easy to use, quick to learn, and surprisingly powerful video editor. Easily cut, slice, and edit any video or film.
Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor. It has support for the latest audio and video formats thanks to FFmpeg
VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use.