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- Discover the great outdoors with Great Britain's most popular leisure mapping app and explore your way with OS Maps. Walk, hike, ramble, bike or even run across stunning paths throughout the Great British countryside and find the route that's right for you. Looking to stick to local paths and walking routes? Or do you want to venture off the beaten track with new and exciting map routes?
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LibreOffice Writer
LibreOffice Writer has all the features you need from a modern, full-featured word processing and desktop publishing tool. Writer is compatible with most document formats, so you will be able to read, edit and create Microsoft Word files. Writer is simple enough for a quick memo, but powerful enough to create complete books with contents, diagrams, indexes, and more.
LibreOffice Calc
LibreOffice Calc is a powerful and extensible spreadsheet program, part of the LibreOffice productivity suite. Calc is compatible with most spreadsheet formats, so you will be able to read, edit and create Microsoft Excel files. Newcomers find it intuitive and easy to learn Calc. Professional data miners and number crunchers will appreciate the comprehensive range of advanced functions.
LibreOffice Impress
LibreOffice Impress is the fastest and easiest way to create captivating presentations. Impress is compatible with most presentation formats, so you will be able to read, edit and create Microsoft PowerPoint files. Stunning animations and sensational special effects in Impress help you convince your audience.
Calendar
Calendar is a simple and beautiful calendar app designed to perfectly fit the Zorin OS desktop. Browse by day, month or year to see your schedule at a glance. It works with your online accounts, so you can keep in sync with your Google or OwnCloud calendar.
HomeBank
HomeBank is a fast, simple and easy to use app to manage your personal accounting. It has a lot of features such as easy analysis with graphical charts (statistics, budget, overdrawn, car cost), useful reports, multi-account support, budget management, reminders, and visual status of operations to name a few.
Slack
Slack brings all your communication together in one place. It's real-time messaging, archiving and search for modern teams. Organize your team's conversations into channels, send direct messages to your co-workers or talk to them face-to-face with video or voice calls.
Planner
Planner is a project management application for planning, scheduling and tracking activities. It supports Gantt charts, resource allocation and integration with other applications.
View Your Mind
View Your Mind lets you create mind maps to better structure your thoughts. Such maps can help you to improve your creativity and effectiveness. You can use them for time management, to organize tasks, to get an overview over complex contexts and work smarter.
Super Tux Kart
Karts. Nitro. Action! SuperTuxKart is a 3D arcade racer with a variety characters, tracks, and modes to play. The game aims to be more fun than realistic, and provide an enjoyable experience for all ages.
Rise of the Tomb Raider 2
Rise of the Tomb Raider follows Lara Croft as she ventures into Siberia in search of the legendary city of Kitezh while battling the paramilitary organization Trinity, which intends to uncover the city's promise of immortality.
Neverball
Neverball has you guide a rolling ball through dangerous territory. Balance on narrow bridges, navigate mazes, ride moving platforms, and dodge pushers and shovers to get to the goal. Race against the clock to collect coins to earn extra balls.
GRID Autosport 1
It's all about the teams, the rivals and the race as you become driver for hire, specializing in your favorite disciplines or conquering them all in an intense world of professional motorsport.
Warzone 2100
In Warzone 2100, you command the forces of The Project in a battle to rebuild the world after mankind has almost been destroyed by nuclear missiles. The game offers campaign, multi-player, and single-player skirmish modes. An extensive tech tree with over 400 different technologies, combined with the unit design system, allows for a wide variety of possible units and tactics.
The Talos Principle
Tasked by your creator with solving a series of increasingly complex puzzles, you must decide whether to have faith or to ask the difficult questions: Who are you? What is your purpose? And what are you going to do about it?
Super Hexagon
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
DiRT Showdown 3
Race, crash and hoon your way through a world tour of motorized mayhem in DiRT Showdown!
Undertale
In this RPG, you control a human who falls underground into the world of monsters. Now you must find your way out... or stay trapped forever.
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MIXXX DJ Software
Mixxx is a digital DJ system, where audio files can be mixed on a computer for use in live performances. Filters, crossfader, and speed control are provided. Mixxx can sync the 2 streams automatically, using an algorithm to detect the beat.
Blender 3D Suite
Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation.
GIMP Image Editor
Whether you're a graphic designer, photographer, illustrator, or scientist, GIMP provides you with sophisticated tools to get your job done. You can further enhance your productivity with GIMP thanks to many customization options and 3rd party plugins.
Kdenlive Video Editor
Kdenlive is a non-linear video editing suite, designed for both basic video editing and professional work. Kdenlive allows you to arrange video and audio tracks, add transitions and effects, create titles and more.
Ardour Audio Workstation
Ardour is a multichannel hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation. It can be used to control, record, edit and run complex audio setups, and is ready for professional users.
Audacity Sound Editor
Audacity is a multi-track audio editor which is designed for easy recording, playing and editing of digital audio. Audacity features a plethora of digital effects and spectrum analysis tools.
Inkscape Vector Graphics Editor
Inkscape is an illustration editor which has everything needed to create professional-quality computer art. You can use it to make diagrams and illustrations, technical drawings, web graphics, icons and logos, all in the infinitely scalable vector graphics format.
Kodi Media Center
Kodi is an award winning media center and entertainment hub for all your digital media. With its beautiful interface, Kodi feels natural to use from the couch and is the ideal solution for your home theater. Once installed, your computer will become a fully functional multimedia jukebox.
Spotify
Experience millions of songs at your fingertips with the Spotify app. Listen to free music from trending artists and popular albums, or discover new songs with ready-made playlists that suit your mood and free personalized recommendations.
VLC Media Player
VLC is the ultimate media player. It plays nearly every multimedia file as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
Maps
Maps lets you view maps and satellite imagery from around the world. It allows you to quickly find the place you're looking for by searching for a city or street, or locate a place to meet a friend. Get directions for when you're driving, cycling or walking from A to B and beyond.
Weather
Weather is a simple app that allows you to monitor the current weather conditions for your city, or anywhere in the world. It provides access to detailed 7 day forecasts with hourly details for the current and next day.
Learn
Stellarium Planetarium
Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time. It displays stars, constellations, planets, and nebulae. You can even visit other planets in the solar system, see what the sky looked like to the Apollo astronauts, or what the rings of Saturn looks like from Titan.
GCompris Educational Suite
GCompris is an educational software suite comprising of numerous games and activities for children aged 2 to 10. It helps children learn about many subjects such as maths, science, geography, computers, reading and many more.
Scratch Programming
Scratch is an interactive and collaborative programming environment designed for creation of interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art. Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills.
Xournal
Xournal is an application for notetaking, sketching and keeping a journal. It can also be used to write and add annotations to PDF files, such as books, lecture notes or assignments.
Tux Math
Tux Math is an educational arcade game starring Tux, the Linux mascot! Based on the classic arcade game 'Missile Command,' Tux must defend his cities. In this case, though, he must do it by solving math problems.
Marble Globe
Marble helps you to explore the world. Use Marble similar to a desktop globe; pan around and measure distances. At closer scale it becomes a world atlas, while OpenStreetMap takes you to street level. Search for places of interest, view Wikipedia articles, create routes by drag and drop and so much more.
Kalzium Periodic Table
Kalzium is a full-featured chemistry application, including a Periodic Table of Elements, chemical reference, chemical equation solver, and 3D molecule viewer.
Calibre E-book
Calibre is the complete solution for your e-book library. It lets you read your e-books, manage and organise your e-book collection, and sync with your e-reader devices with ease.
Tux Typing
TuxTyping is an educational typing tutorial game starring Tux, the Linux mascot! The game is intended for children learning to type, though it does have higher difficulty levels which even experienced typists may find challenging.
Gbrainy Brain Training
Gbrainy is a game to train memory, arithmetical and logical capabilities with many sorts of exercises of different difficulty levels. It's great for all ages and purposes: kids developing their capabilities, adults that want to keep their mind in form, or older people that might need to do some memory exercises.
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With Wine, you can install many of your Windows apps the classic way. Simply right-click on the app's executable file and press 'Install Windows Application'.
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Install your favorite Windows apps the easy way. PlayOnLinux lets you discover Windows apps, download them and guide you through the installation process. Installing Windows apps in Zorin OS has never been easier.
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- © 2014 The Codemasters Software Company Limited ('Codemasters'). All rights reserved. 'Codemasters'®, 'Ego'®, the Codemasters logo and 'GRID'® are registered trademarks owned by Codemasters. 'GRID Autosport'™, 'Codemasters Racing'™ and 'RaceNet'™ are trademarks of Codemasters. The game photo is copyright of Codemasters. All other copyrights or trademarks are the property of their respective owners and are being used under license. Developed and published by Codemasters. GRID Autosport was ported to the Linux platform by Feral Interactive.
- Rise of the Tomb Raider © Square Enix Ltd. 2015. Square Enix and the Square Enix logo are registered trademarks of Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. Lara Croft, Tomb Raider, Crystal Dynamics, and the Crystal Dynamics logo are trademarks of Square Enix Ltd. The game photo is copyright of Square Enix Ltd. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. All rights reserved. Rise of the Tomb Raider was ported to the Linux platform by Feral Interactive.
- © 2011 The Codemasters Software Company Limited ('Codemasters'). All rights reserved. 'Codemasters'®, 'EGO'®, the Codemasters logo and 'DiRT'® are registered trademarks owned by Codemasters. 'Showdown'™ is a trademark of Codemasters. The game photo is copyright of Codemasters. All other copyrights or trademarks are the property of their respective owners and are being used under license. Developed and published by Codemasters. DiRT Showdown was ported to the Linux platform by Virtual Programming.
Do you need to install an operating system in your Computer? Then quickly grab a CD or DVD and burn the OS in it to install. Is that sounds good? Nah, it is an old school trick. Now we just use a pen drive to create a bootable USB for installation of OS. We do not need any CD/DVD to install Windows or Linux on our laptop or PCs. Just a simple 4Gb or 8Gb USB drive, anyone can do this with little knowledge and the right tools in possession.
How to Make a Bootable USB?
- Take a pen drive.
- Mount it to your computer or laptop
- Download the ISO of the operating system you want to install.
- Install any of the below-given Pen drive bootable creators.
- Select the attached USB drive and Insert ISO file.
- And start the flashing process to burn the file of the OS from the computer to your USB drive to produce a Bootable USB.
- Then simply restart the system to start the booting for OS installation.
So, in the context of the same here are some best free or opensource software to create the bootable USB.
Rufus- Open source USB bootable creator
I just cannot ignore Rufus when we talk about the bootable software to create a bootable USB. It should be top of the list for the nature it has. The open-source availability of it makes an advantage for us to access Rufus freely and get the job done quickly. Another very useful point it brings to us is there is no need for its installation, being a portable bootable USB creator we can directly run it. The .exe file is enough to process the software. Users feel very comfortable to use the services of it and it is very easy to handle. You can use Rufus to flash Linux, FreeBSD, Windows and other OS on any USB drive or Memory Card. Download
Article: How to use Rufus to create a bootable drive.
Supported platforms to run: Windows only
Key Features
- It is an open-source program with no need to spend a penny on it.
- Rufus has the features to support verity of OS and BIOS
- While booting, the user will get a chance to customize it.
- The simplicity of it makes things easy to control.
Etcher- Free & Easy to Use
It is the new baby that created a mark in the sector of bootable USB and it made a quiet impression. It can wipe out many complicating problems while doing the task of creating the bootable USB. It just shortens the distance of the road to manage the process that needed a minimum time and effort to change it. The multi-platform acceptance is it's one of the main USP. Download
See: How to create a bootable USB flash drive using Etcher
Supported Platforms to run: Windows, Linux, macOS
Etcher Features
- Etcher is very handy to implement.
- It has the feature of multi-platform support.
- Open-source access can make the day for you.
- It is very much new in the market so you can try this if you are looking for something new.
Universal USB Installer
This is another best bootable USB creator app with which users are familiar and many people use it when it comes to creating a bootable USB. Apart from a USB bootable drive, it is also can be used for making other drives like a rescue drive or security drive and many more. The drop-down menu option is one of the main attributes in this software that we can use to choose an OS, even downloading of the same is possible from its interface, however, it makes difficulty level less for the consumers. Just like Rufus, you can also use it flash various Linux and Windows OS. Download
Supported Platforms to run: Windows only
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Ardour is a multichannel hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation. It can be used to control, record, edit and run complex audio setups, and is ready for professional users.
Audacity Sound Editor
Audacity is a multi-track audio editor which is designed for easy recording, playing and editing of digital audio. Audacity features a plethora of digital effects and spectrum analysis tools.
Inkscape Vector Graphics Editor
Inkscape is an illustration editor which has everything needed to create professional-quality computer art. You can use it to make diagrams and illustrations, technical drawings, web graphics, icons and logos, all in the infinitely scalable vector graphics format.
Kodi Media Center
Kodi is an award winning media center and entertainment hub for all your digital media. With its beautiful interface, Kodi feels natural to use from the couch and is the ideal solution for your home theater. Once installed, your computer will become a fully functional multimedia jukebox.
Spotify
Experience millions of songs at your fingertips with the Spotify app. Listen to free music from trending artists and popular albums, or discover new songs with ready-made playlists that suit your mood and free personalized recommendations.
VLC Media Player
VLC is the ultimate media player. It plays nearly every multimedia file as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
Maps
Maps lets you view maps and satellite imagery from around the world. It allows you to quickly find the place you're looking for by searching for a city or street, or locate a place to meet a friend. Get directions for when you're driving, cycling or walking from A to B and beyond.
Weather
Weather is a simple app that allows you to monitor the current weather conditions for your city, or anywhere in the world. It provides access to detailed 7 day forecasts with hourly details for the current and next day.
Learn
Stellarium Planetarium
Stellarium renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time. It displays stars, constellations, planets, and nebulae. You can even visit other planets in the solar system, see what the sky looked like to the Apollo astronauts, or what the rings of Saturn looks like from Titan.
GCompris Educational Suite
GCompris is an educational software suite comprising of numerous games and activities for children aged 2 to 10. It helps children learn about many subjects such as maths, science, geography, computers, reading and many more.
Scratch Programming
Scratch is an interactive and collaborative programming environment designed for creation of interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art. Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills.
Xournal
Xournal is an application for notetaking, sketching and keeping a journal. It can also be used to write and add annotations to PDF files, such as books, lecture notes or assignments.
Tux Math
Tux Math is an educational arcade game starring Tux, the Linux mascot! Based on the classic arcade game 'Missile Command,' Tux must defend his cities. In this case, though, he must do it by solving math problems.
Marble Globe
Marble helps you to explore the world. Use Marble similar to a desktop globe; pan around and measure distances. At closer scale it becomes a world atlas, while OpenStreetMap takes you to street level. Search for places of interest, view Wikipedia articles, create routes by drag and drop and so much more.
Kalzium Periodic Table
Kalzium is a full-featured chemistry application, including a Periodic Table of Elements, chemical reference, chemical equation solver, and 3D molecule viewer.
Calibre E-book
Calibre is the complete solution for your e-book library. It lets you read your e-books, manage and organise your e-book collection, and sync with your e-reader devices with ease.
Tux Typing
TuxTyping is an educational typing tutorial game starring Tux, the Linux mascot! The game is intended for children learning to type, though it does have higher difficulty levels which even experienced typists may find challenging.
Gbrainy Brain Training
Gbrainy is a game to train memory, arithmetical and logical capabilities with many sorts of exercises of different difficulty levels. It's great for all ages and purposes: kids developing their capabilities, adults that want to keep their mind in form, or older people that might need to do some memory exercises.
Install with Wine
With Wine, you can install many of your Windows apps the classic way. Simply right-click on the app's executable file and press 'Install Windows Application'.
Play On Linux
Install your favorite Windows apps the easy way. PlayOnLinux lets you discover Windows apps, download them and guide you through the installation process. Installing Windows apps in Zorin OS has never been easier.
Make your computer better.
- © 2014 The Codemasters Software Company Limited ('Codemasters'). All rights reserved. 'Codemasters'®, 'Ego'®, the Codemasters logo and 'GRID'® are registered trademarks owned by Codemasters. 'GRID Autosport'™, 'Codemasters Racing'™ and 'RaceNet'™ are trademarks of Codemasters. The game photo is copyright of Codemasters. All other copyrights or trademarks are the property of their respective owners and are being used under license. Developed and published by Codemasters. GRID Autosport was ported to the Linux platform by Feral Interactive.
- Rise of the Tomb Raider © Square Enix Ltd. 2015. Square Enix and the Square Enix logo are registered trademarks of Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. Lara Croft, Tomb Raider, Crystal Dynamics, and the Crystal Dynamics logo are trademarks of Square Enix Ltd. The game photo is copyright of Square Enix Ltd. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. All rights reserved. Rise of the Tomb Raider was ported to the Linux platform by Feral Interactive.
- © 2011 The Codemasters Software Company Limited ('Codemasters'). All rights reserved. 'Codemasters'®, 'EGO'®, the Codemasters logo and 'DiRT'® are registered trademarks owned by Codemasters. 'Showdown'™ is a trademark of Codemasters. The game photo is copyright of Codemasters. All other copyrights or trademarks are the property of their respective owners and are being used under license. Developed and published by Codemasters. DiRT Showdown was ported to the Linux platform by Virtual Programming.
Do you need to install an operating system in your Computer? Then quickly grab a CD or DVD and burn the OS in it to install. Is that sounds good? Nah, it is an old school trick. Now we just use a pen drive to create a bootable USB for installation of OS. We do not need any CD/DVD to install Windows or Linux on our laptop or PCs. Just a simple 4Gb or 8Gb USB drive, anyone can do this with little knowledge and the right tools in possession.
How to Make a Bootable USB?
- Take a pen drive.
- Mount it to your computer or laptop
- Download the ISO of the operating system you want to install.
- Install any of the below-given Pen drive bootable creators.
- Select the attached USB drive and Insert ISO file.
- And start the flashing process to burn the file of the OS from the computer to your USB drive to produce a Bootable USB.
- Then simply restart the system to start the booting for OS installation.
So, in the context of the same here are some best free or opensource software to create the bootable USB.
Rufus- Open source USB bootable creator
I just cannot ignore Rufus when we talk about the bootable software to create a bootable USB. It should be top of the list for the nature it has. The open-source availability of it makes an advantage for us to access Rufus freely and get the job done quickly. Another very useful point it brings to us is there is no need for its installation, being a portable bootable USB creator we can directly run it. The .exe file is enough to process the software. Users feel very comfortable to use the services of it and it is very easy to handle. You can use Rufus to flash Linux, FreeBSD, Windows and other OS on any USB drive or Memory Card. Download
Article: How to use Rufus to create a bootable drive.
Supported platforms to run: Windows only
Key Features
- It is an open-source program with no need to spend a penny on it.
- Rufus has the features to support verity of OS and BIOS
- While booting, the user will get a chance to customize it.
- The simplicity of it makes things easy to control.
Etcher- Free & Easy to Use
It is the new baby that created a mark in the sector of bootable USB and it made a quiet impression. It can wipe out many complicating problems while doing the task of creating the bootable USB. It just shortens the distance of the road to manage the process that needed a minimum time and effort to change it. The multi-platform acceptance is it's one of the main USP. Download
See: How to create a bootable USB flash drive using Etcher
Supported Platforms to run: Windows, Linux, macOS
Etcher Features
- Etcher is very handy to implement.
- It has the feature of multi-platform support.
- Open-source access can make the day for you.
- It is very much new in the market so you can try this if you are looking for something new.
Universal USB Installer
This is another best bootable USB creator app with which users are familiar and many people use it when it comes to creating a bootable USB. Apart from a USB bootable drive, it is also can be used for making other drives like a rescue drive or security drive and many more. The drop-down menu option is one of the main attributes in this software that we can use to choose an OS, even downloading of the same is possible from its interface, however, it makes difficulty level less for the consumers. Just like Rufus, you can also use it flash various Linux and Windows OS. Download
Supported Platforms to run: Windows only
Key features
• It is most suitable for the users of Linux.
• It will support any OS.
• For Linux users, it will give the option to persistent storage that can be handled to view settings or backups.
• It can check bad blocks
• The customization option is available there.
Windows DVD/USB Tool
Windows DVD/USB Tool, the name is speaking clearly what it does and where it does. If you want to install OS for windows then the official tool of Microsoft is here to create a bootable USB. The functionality and operation are very friendly and you do not have to use your brain too much while working with this app. The burning process is next to nothing in terms of effort. It is just a one-click job done way after mounting the pen drive with your system. Apart from USB, it can also be used to create bootable CD/DVD drive od Windows 10/8/7/Vista. The thing to be noted, it can't be used for Linux or other operating systems. Download.
See: How to create Bootable USB from ISO on Windows 10?
Supported Platform: Windows only
Key elements
- The first thing you should remember that it is windows only. Thus, only works on windows.
- The customization option is limited in the app.
- It does not check for any bad block in the USB drive.
RMPrepUSB
RMPrepUSB is one of the most customizable software for creating a USB bootloader. And because of the vast customizable feature, it is not easy to use for everyone apart from the people or professionals who have a good knowledge of it and know how to use it. So I strongly recommend avoiding it would be the best option for the people who do not have proper knowledge in that particular case. You can use it to convert the USB into a multiple USB bootable platform. The high customization option is very tricky and hard to learn but it also gives it some uniqueness to customize many of the things while using it. RMPrepUSB can be used to create both Linux and Windows bootable USB drives. Download
Best Mac Os Apps
Supported Platforms to run: Windows only
Key features
- It can be used from the .exe that we can download for free.
- The software supports different OS channels
- The highly customizable option is available while creating the bootloader.
- Users have the advantage to use the QEMU Emulator to boot it quickly.
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Choose wisely
I would find many more apps to create a USB bootable device. I listed the best 5 option to select consisting 4 popular apps and 1 (Etcher) horse in the market that is quite good in my knowledge. Nearly every person who uses a computer or laptop would need software like them to install an OS. We are just helping them to sort things out to save some time and energy.
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