Must-Add apps for Linux?

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Dark_Knight

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Hi,

I've started using Ubuntu 7.10 for regular usage. Can everybody chip in with their "must-have" s/w that needs to be added for better experience?
 
  1. Amarok or Exaile
  2. GtweakUi
  3. Xchat
  4. Unrar
  5. Emerald.
  6. Avant Windows Navigator
  7. Xine -Ui for Video Files ;)
  8. Anjuta
  9. WIne, Cedega is crap :p
  10. Screenlets
 
1.Exaile Music player ( Amarok replacement for gnome)
2.Gnome-Do (quicksliver(Mac) Command line launcher for Linux)
3.VLC
4.Avant Window navigator
5. Wine
6. Pidgin
7. Deluge bit torrent client
8. Screenlets
9.Compiz-fusion + emerald.:hap2:
 
WTF! :S Nobody mentioned MPlayer? mozilla-mplayer?

Mate make sure u have them downloaded.

Another one would ie4linux in case u have to have IE available for u.

KTorrent rockts on linux, have been using for so many months.

GKRELLM for all the kind of monitors.
:eek:hyeah: :eek:hyeah: My 2 cents.
 
Thank you everyone for your inputs.. :) I do have quite a few of the softwares installed (Thank you Dark Star for the customization guide ;))

If I don't care about the loading time of KDE libraries in Amarok, should I think about replacing it with Exaile?

How is xine-Ui compared to VLC? I have VLC installed.
 
1. Amarok For songs (Exaile is good...but still ways behind it...)

2. Xine-ui & Mplayer for playing video files (each has its own good; Mplayer keyboard shortcuts just rock....xine-ui never ditches u...plays everything...). And install Gstreamer codecs to see video thumbnails hen you browse files.

About VLC, i could never understand why do people like it. I mean its good, but it doesn't play real media and quick time files, and it also has no good keyboard shortcuts. But then, Linux is all about choices.....

3. Real Player for real media.

4. Exfalso & Picard For mp3 tag editing

5. Abiword For quick word processor

6. Deluge For Torrent Client (ultimate performance, light-weight, speed)

7. Kopete For instant messange ( Piding doesn't has features like Nowplaying track in status, and notification)

8. Brasero For Disk Burning (It does same job as K3B while still being simple)

9. ISO Master for editing ISO files.

10. Picasa & GNU Paint for Images

11. Pytube for downloading Youtube videos

12. dvd::rip for ripping dvds

13. DeVeDe for creating DVD's

14. Gtkpod and Gnomad2 for Media players synchronisation.

15. Pitivi for video editing

16. Wine for running Flashget as Download Manager (believe me, there is no good download manager in Linux as of now).

17. glchess for playing chess

18. Geany for programming
 
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