Commercial operating systems try to reserve their best software as exclusives. This isn’t the case with Linux. Many of the most well-known and capable applications have ports for Windows. GIMP is a wildly popular alternative to Photoshop on any platform, and it began on Linux. The nature of open source software encourages people to port programs to whichever operating systems they like. So, are there any Linux exclusives out there? Of course! Don’t expect this list to include cross-platform heavyweights such as Mozilla Firefox, LibreOffice, and VLC. We have a separate one for that. Here I’m going to highlight some of the...

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