Why should you use Linux?
To use some of the best applications made for any platform.
If you don’t believe me, here’s a list of great Linux apps.
Focuswriter helps by blocking everything else on the screen.
If you’re looking for aneasily customizable distraction free writing app, you found it.
This Pandora client is the best we’ve seen on any platform.
what’s coming up.
And Zim is possiblythe best personal wiki software out there.
The assumption seems to be everyone is using iTunes, so why bother?
That’s not the way the gPodder team thinks, and we’re grateful.
If you occasionally need to edit HTML files, you oughta check out Bluefish.
This editor includes quick tools for doing just about everything.
Some of these clients are graphical, others are command-driven.
The real fun: a client on one computer can control the daemon running on another computer.
If this sound interesting to you, check outthe documentation.
Guake gives you fast access to commands: just press a single key and a prompt launches.
Press the same key again and it goes away.
It handles partitioning in a way that’s easy to visualize, and offers support for all major filesystems.
Keep one aroundyou never know when it might come in handy.
Seriously: I wish I could find something this simple for Mac, but I can’t.
Happily it’s available for Linux.
Minitube: Beautiful, Fast Interface for YouTube
Search for something on YouTube, get instant results.
Then watch all of them.
Minitube is a simple thought executed well, and is great for older computers that struggle with flash.
It’sthe best way to watch YouTube videos.
And yes, it is available on Mac and Window for a pricebut the Linux version is free.
you might add additional repositories to install software from unofficial sources.
What Else?
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I could go on.
Most of the default apps that come withElementaryOS, a minimalist Linux distrocould fit in here, for example.
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