The best free tools for GNU / Linux in 2020

Linux has a very large and wide repertoire of free applications and tools that we can find, but today we come to see some of these and that they come to cover various needs that we have when using our Linux system. In this we will not focus on applications or tools this year if not on their quality and quality of these.

Free tools or applications

▸1Passwor

As we have already said in another article, this one has great fame thanks to its excellent design and functionalities, and for being totally cross-platform: you can use it on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS and in browsers. Thanks to this, you can always have your passwords with you wherever you are, and it offers all the essential functions for $ 2.99, such as sharing keys, synchronization with mobile, or synchronization with Dropbox.

▸Audacity

One of the best known and most widely used free software applications in the world, and no list of best applications is complete without it. It is a tool for recording and editing audio tracks on any operating system, and there are few that can be compared to it for editing, recording, effect creation or audio conversion work. Audacity can be used for free in GNU / Linux, as well as in Windows and macOS, and it is open to other developers with its support for plugins with which to improve it

▸Blender

Another of the great applications that has been one of the best for years, in this case in the creation of three-dimensional graphics, modeling, VFX, animation, drawing, and more. It is completely free and open source, and since it is also cross-platform, you have it available for Windows, GNU / Linux and macOS. It has rendering, modeling and animation options, plus its own video editing tools.

▸Caption

Caption is one of those tools focused on a specific thing that not everyone needs, but when you want to use it it is a real wonder. It is an application used to automatically find the subtitles for all your videos

▸Discord

Year after year, Discord is gaining strength and becoming a more important application to unite communities. It is a free application in which you can create chat servers with different channels.

▸Fragments

This application is like the download managers of browsers, only applied to torrents. Every time you click on a .magnet link and this is the default client, it will automatically add and start downloading the link file. The downloads will be shown as tasks, and you can manage them later in the application.

▸Krita

Krita is an excellent digital painting program designed especially for artists who work with illustration, comics, concept art, painting, and more. It is a free software application, and therefore it is completely free. It’s cross-platform too, with versions for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

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