View Full Version : Must have apps for ubuntu?
bhishan
May 3rd, 2009, 09:01 PM
Recommend some must have apps for ubuntu. I don't wanna miss anything.
SomeGuyDude
May 3rd, 2009, 09:06 PM
Name a task, I name an app.
The Firefox 3.5 beta rocks for browsing.
I adore sonata + MPD for music
GIMP
OpenOffice
Pidgin
VLC
Picard for music tagging
Deluge for torrents
Brasero to burn discs
SuperSonic4
May 3rd, 2009, 09:11 PM
Firefox
Deluge
VLC (1.0 development version)
Amarok 1.4
k3b
Pidgin
OpenOffice
X1R1
May 3rd, 2009, 09:19 PM
Pidgin or AMSN
Exile(like amarok but for GNOME desktop)
OpenOffice
Brasero
CompizFusion to have amazing desktop efects and desktop cube
Firefox
GIMP
bhishan
May 3rd, 2009, 09:22 PM
I meant the ones that are not bundled with ubuntu on default.
pbpersson
May 3rd, 2009, 09:25 PM
The only two that were mentioned that are installed by default are Firefox and OpenOffice. The rest you need to search for in Synaptic and install yourself.
SuperSonic4
May 3rd, 2009, 09:26 PM
Deluge for bitorrent
VLC for videos
k3b (or Brasero + Soundjuicer if you don't want the kde libs)
XSane for scanning
wicd to manage your network
exaile (or amarok 1.4) for audio
soundconverter for converting audio
k9copy (or dvdrip) for ripping dvds
the following are not apps but important nonetheless and can be found searching in synaptic:
ubuntu-restricted-extras (a metapackage of popular codecs)
w32codecs/w64codecs (more codecs)
lame (mp3 encoder)
faac (m4a/aac encoder)
faad (m4a/aac decoder)
ffmpeg (command line media converter)
mencoder (another media converter)
libdvdcss2 (to play encrypted dvds)
speedwell68
May 3rd, 2009, 09:29 PM
I find Songbird is best for managing an iPod.
MadCow108
May 3rd, 2009, 09:44 PM
easystroke is very useful (mouse gesture program)
riza hylviu
May 3rd, 2009, 09:49 PM
Inkscape for vector graphics- one of the best open source softwares.
aMsn instant messaging
blender for 3d animations
screenlets-- useful and eyecandy tools
kutchbhi
May 3rd, 2009, 10:19 PM
easystroke
zsh (better than bash)
BuffaloX
May 3rd, 2009, 10:38 PM
Zim for organizing notes.
xbindkeys for making keyboard shortcuts for any key or combinations.
.Maleficus.
May 3rd, 2009, 10:51 PM
Vim - best text editor ever made
abcde - one of the best Linux audio rippers
htop - system monitoring program, easier to use than top
Deluge/rtorrent - Deluge for GUI torrent downloading, rtorrent for console use
elinks - useful to have installed if you ever can't boot to your GUI and need to get on the internet
mplayer - very nice video player, can be compiled with VDPAU support if you use Nvidia
Most of the other stuff I use is pretty specialized.
chucky chuckaluck
May 3rd, 2009, 10:58 PM
i've never burnt a coaster with k3b. vlc, for me, has been the least pain in the asterisks. i like cplay, which is to mpd what checkers is to chess. streamripper is king.
nathang1392
May 3rd, 2009, 10:59 PM
songbird is nice, frostwire for p2p, and umm... that last fm radio is nice.
bhishan
May 3rd, 2009, 11:46 PM
Deluge for bitorrent
VLC for videos
k3b (or Brasero + Soundjuicer if you don't want the kde libs)
XSane for scanning
wicd to manage your network
exaile (or amarok 1.4) for audio
soundconverter for converting audio
k9copy (or dvdrip) for ripping dvds
the following are not apps but important nonetheless and can be found searching in synaptic:
ubuntu-restricted-extras (a metapackage of popular codecs)
w32codecs/w64codecs (more codecs)
lame (mp3 encoder)
faac (m4a/aac encoder)
faad (m4a/aac decoder)
ffmpeg (command line media converter)
mencoder (another media converter)
libdvdcss2 (to play encrypted dvds)
Thank you SuperSonic4.
TheIdiotThatIsMe
May 3rd, 2009, 11:48 PM
Gnome-Do (http://do.davebsd.com/), hands down. Might take a little while to get used to, but it completely changes how you use your computer. I've heard people liken it to Quicksilver for Macs, but I've never used that so I can't comment on it. But it's definitely worth checking out. It's available in the repos.
akoskm
May 4th, 2009, 12:44 AM
KDE with Amarok 2 moved backward. I really like Banshee, it's usable like Amarok 1.4 was.
OpenOffice
Pidgin
upchucky
May 4th, 2009, 12:53 AM
TomBoy notes
Gnome Commander, a dual pane file manager
wireshark for net management
Fspot photo manager
Qcad
Wine for some windows apps that one simply must have.
mamamia88
May 4th, 2009, 12:56 AM
Gnome-Do (http://do.davebsd.com/), hands down. Might take a little while to get used to, but it completely changes how you use your computer. I've heard people liken it to Quicksilver for Macs, but I've never used that so I can't comment on it. But it's definitely worth checking out. It's available in the repos.
+1 love the ability to press windows + space and type the name of the app i want to open
drawkcab
May 4th, 2009, 04:50 AM
VLC is a great little media player to have
Deluge is a fantastic bittorrent client, missing a few control features that utorrent has but extremely fast and efficient
Hydrogen drum machine is fun to play around with.
I have heard so much about gnome do, I am going to try that one out next.
inobe
May 4th, 2009, 06:01 AM
all the restricted extras
mobile media converter snatches ytube vids and encodes them to whatever.
avidemux cool for chopping and editing
handbrake "rips" w- one click
xine for watching stuff via smb
mplayer+ffmpeg+vdpau acceleration "high def video"
samba
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