Nobody wants to use an operating system. They just want it be able to run the software they need. Therefore, its very important for an OS to have killer apps. Here’s a list of software that make Linux worth using.

1. Apache

Needs no introduction. The legendary web server app that probably almost every website runs on. If you even try to compare this with Microsoft’s IIS, I’m just going to burst out laughing my ass off.

2. Synaptic/Adept/YUM

How do 90% of computer users (the current windows + mac market share) even use their computers without a package manager ? Before switching to Linux, I was warned that installing software was going to be very very difficult and that alone would make me want to crawl back to my hda1 partition. The guy who said that has obviously never hurd (pun intended) of package managers.

3. Konqueror

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