10 Free Linux Apps That Are Highly Useful!

Linux may not be as popular as Microsoft’s Windows OS or Apple’s OS X but it is still great for many. It allows you to customize the OS as per your taste. It is secure, open source and free from many malware that can affect the system. 

So here we bring some great apps that can help in a better Linux experience -

1. Clam Tk – This is free and offers good protection. It features a great graphical front end and is lightweight. It has frequently updated wide definitions list of any hidden threats to yourself or others.

2. GParted - It is used for making, deleting, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them. It is great for making space for new operating systems (works with Windows Vista / 7 System & Data partitions), reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging).

3. Kate – Kate or (KDE Advanced Text Editor) is a text editor that has syntax highlighting for over 200 file types. You can extend the syntax highlighting via XML files and can also specify code folding rules. It can be used as a modal text editor by making use of its vi input mode that emulates the vi editor.

4. LibreOffice – This is a free and open source office suite. It includes programs for word processing, spreadsheets, slideshows, diagrams, maintain databases, and compose math formulae. It is available in over 30 languages and for a range of computing platforms like Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or newer, and Linux. 

5. LuckyBackup – This is a powerful, fast and reliable free backup application providing a GUI based on the cross-platform Qt framework. It offers data differencing and copying tool, rsync, with BackupPC, and many others. It can run on any Linux or Unix based system providing Qt libraries and rsync.

6. PeaZip – This is a free and open-source file manager and file archiver for Windows, Linux. It comes with an archive browser interface that has search and history features for intuitive navigation in archive's content, and permits the application of fine-grained multiple exclusion and inclusion filter rules to the archive; a flat browsing mode is possible as alternative archive browsing method. It permits users to run extracting and archiving operations instantly via command-line generated exporting the job defined in the GUI front-end.

7. Shutter – This is a rich screenshot and editing program for Linux. It is open-source and available for free. It permits you to capture almost anything on your screen without loss of control over your screenshots, with the help of a tabbed interface. It offers a varied image-capturing functionality to capture common targets. 

8. SMPlayer - This is a cross-platform free and open source multimedia player. It supports almost every possible format. IT can memorize settings on a per-file basis.

9. Synapse - It can instantly access any recent action performed by you to enable you to return to it or perform something similar instantly 

10. Synaptic Package Manager – This is the graphical user interface front-end to the Advanced Packaging Tool manager enabling the user to install, to upgrade or to remove software packages. For installing a package, a user must search for the program they want and mark it for installation. 

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