Your top 5 Linux Apps

[Nedanator]

I am new to Linux, Im using Ubuntu via VMWare Fusion on my MacBook.

But I find myself going 'Back to my Mac' as I don't have any good applications to use on the Linux side.

So, I was wondering if you wouldn't mind sharing with the world:

Your Top 5 Linux Apps!


Thanking you in advance.

Dan

[hyperair]

1. CheckGMail - gmail checker
2. Liferea - feed reader
3. Banshee 1.0 - media player
4. Deluge (previously KTorrent)
5. Pidgin - instant messenger with support for many protocols

[fain]

1.thunderbird - email client
2.pidgin
3.DeVeDe - dvd creater
4.avidemux - video editor
5.gtkpod - ipod manager

There are many more but those are the top five i use. Just pull up synaptics and search what you want to do and you should get something. Remember to enable the repositories.

Oh ya i use wine for a lot of my gaming.

[Monsoonx27]

Deluge
Pidgin
Amorak
Songbird
Open Office

[ronocdh]

I think this list will see a lot of repeats, but I'll cast my vote.

Amarok
Thunderbird
XChat
Firefox
Miro

Pretty much all of those are OSS cross-platform pieces, but hey, you didn't define very well what you meant by "Linux apps" ;).

Um, does the terminal count? :grin:

[bradwilliamson]

mc - Midnight Commander
VMWare Server
HandBrake
The Gimp
Firefox

[Octagonal]

hellanzb
mplayer
conky
amarok
fuppes
--------all these are running nearly all the time on my box

[doorknob60]

Amarok (linux only)
Mupen64plus (currently linux only)
Pidgin
Firefox
Ummm...Wine (runs better on Linux than mac :P)

[benanzo]

Vuze (Azureus 3.0 beta) -- awesome
Inkscape
dvd::rip
Elisa
Songbird

[Dirk.R.Gently]

In David Letterman order (minus 5):

5) Wesnoth - best game in Linux
4) Inkscape - images you can put on a billboard
3) Gimp - actually named GNU Image Maniputation Program in the Gentoo's Gnome Menu - Yeesh!
2) Vim - very very close to #1
1) Epiphany - <-- net junkie!

[BIGtrouble77]

I cheated a little...

5. Gedit- do all my scripting/web development in here
4. Pan- best, most stable news reader ever, 2gb of headers... no problem
3. Blender/Gimp/Inkscape- These apps suit me better than 3dsmax/Photoshop/Illustrator did
2. Compiz Fusion- tweaked to seriously improve my workflow, it's not just eye candy!
1. DosBox- cross platform dos emulator, I have a truly impressive game and win 3.1 setup.

[tigerplug]

Songbird


Hmm,


Am I the only one that seems to find Songbird Sluggish and Bloated?

[tchorix]

I think the packaging system in Debian/Ubuntu distibutions is what it really rules... Here's my list thinking in terms of what I use everyday... I didn't put my media player because for music I "still" use xmms, and for videos I don't have a clear preference among many of the excellent players on Linux (mplayer, xine, miro, etc)

1. Package manager system (Synaptic + Update Manager + apt-get)
2. Pidgin (because of support for multiple protocols)
3. Korganizer
4. Firefox
5. Thunderbid

cheers \m/

[tchorix]

Hmm,


Am I the only one that seems to find Songbird Sluggish and Bloated?

I've never tried, but I went to check some features and scrrenshots due to your comment. It looks very powerful, but its interface is way too similar to iTunes, and I never got use to it... so I won't try it.

Thanks for the tip anyway, it might be a good reference for iTunes fans that want to have a look at Linux

cheers \m/

[ruru]

As a previous poster pointed out, 'linux apps' haven't been defined ... most of the programs I run on Xubuntu and Mac are the same. I guess the most used would be:

1) Open Office
2) Firefox
3) Thunderbird
4) R
5) Inkscape

[Rinzwind]

VLC
MySQL
Firefox
Streatmtuner
DeLuge

:)

[malspa]

konqueror
amarok
synaptic
gparted
kwikdisk

[blippy]

Whilst I'm technically off-topic, a really good resource to look at is: Linux Alternatives (http://www.linuxalt.com/), which lists popular Windows software and a choice of Linux alternatives. It's good in that the list doesn't go overboard. Worth checking out.

[Dirk.R.Gently]

??2? MySQL? gparted? lol, to each their own. I always liked Enemy Territory.

[decoherence]

I'm in to content creation.

1. Blender. The ultimate content creation tool. Figure it out, it's worth it. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro
2. Inkscape. Mops the floor with that Adobe product for most illustration work.
3. Idle. Because it makes writing python even easier.
4. GIMP, because you need a bitmap editor and i don't work in cmyk.
5. any terminal emulator

for the original poster,
http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Vmware_how_to
i haven't tried it myself. if i want to run photoshop, i'll run the winders version.

sean

[Casper Hansen]

1. Epiphany
2. Amarok
3. OpenOffice
4. Compiz
5. Emerald

- Well there's a lot more, but these apps are the apps I use mostly.

[upforthedownstroke]

1. Firefox
2. Thunderbird
3. OpenOffice
4. Amarok
5. GIMP

and gedit is a given. Simple text editors are a breath of fresh air in these days of insane word processing *cough*office07*cough*.

[Dirk.R.Gently]

... Simple text editors are a breath of fresh air...

well said