For everyone at Linux Format magazine and most of its readers, computers and Linux are a passion.
Linux is perfect: its open source nature and excellent shell make it the ultimate hobbyist’s operating system. Fortunately, there’s a huge number of top-class applications available as well: market leading packages for professional and consumer level media creation, tools for developers, systems administrators and students – as well as great games to help you procrastinate on a Friday.
Here we introduce you to the 50 best apps for Linux. We didn’t just want the 50 most popular, so we asked our readers on TuxRadar for their favourites in a bid to discover some little-known gems.