Your List of Must-Have Apps?

[devondashla]

I'm sure everyone here doesn't use JUST the default applications in Ubuntu. Feel free to post here the apps you replace/add to any Fresh Ubuntu Installation.

Here's my list:

VisualBoy Advance
ZSNES
GIMP
Replace F-Spot with Shotwell
Install Chromium, but keep Firefox as backup
Replace OpenOffice with Abiword and Gnumeric
Replace Rhythmbox with Banshee
Install Wine
Install CCSM

I was just curious of everyone else's apps, so please post a list like the one above.

[Zzl1xndd]

For the most part I like the defaults, but I normally install:

Skype
Teamviewer
Virtualbox
Handbrake
Chrome
Picasa
And a plethora of Commercial Linux games

[Rinzwind]

My post install list includes...

Chrome.
CCSM.
Guayadeque, Easy Tag, Soundconverter for my music.
SM Player for my movies and series.
MySQL.

and MTP tools for my cowon s9.
:)

[Spice Weasel]

If by Must-Have you mean essential to using the computer, I could go on forever listing kernel modules n' such.

Since I'm guessing you mean applications to run in a CLI/GUI, here's my list:

htop - Pretty system monitor.

Awesome WM - I love it! Very lightweight and tiling is useful.

CenterIM - Command line IM client. I like it a lot.

VLC - Media player.

Nitrogen - Useful for changing the desktop background dynamically when you're using a lightweight window manager.

AbiWord - Because OO.org is way too bulky for me.

mrxvt - Heavily customizable and very fast terminal emulator.

[kelvinho]

Skype, Banshee, Quod Libet and Ex Falso, Gtkpod, Gconjugue, Qdacco, Verbiste, Docky, Calibre, Firefox with Google Toolbar, Bluefish, Screem, g Tweak, Sunbird, Thunderbird, IBM Symphony, ... a few Windows programs are still useful with Wine ... Photoshop, Winrar, Dreamweaver hehe

Come on guys; I was hoping to learn of a few new ones!

[MooPi]

cdparanoia
easytag
mplayer
mencoder
htop
ffmpeg
lame
cplay
scrot
pcmanfm
k3b
oggenc
feh
That should do it for me.

[mamamia88]

miro
easytag
vlc
k9copy
audacity
skype
virtualbox
checkgmail
wine
ubuntu tweak

that is all the sofware i install that isn't default in ubuntu

[gnomeuser]

Banshee (best media player on any platform and so much fun to be part of)

Chromium (Elegant, stable, fast - aside a memory leak which I can't pin down it is the best browser I have ever used)

Tomboy (Organizing my thoughts is so much easier with this)

Tasque (Remembering things is easy, really easy - remembering to install Tasque however is hard)

Abiword (though I tend to use Tomboy more and more for all my wordprocessing tasks and just style it in Abiword)

[Cam!]

Chrome
Pidgin
Wine
VisualBoyAdvance
VLC
Docky
UbuntuTweak
AbiWord

[LinuxFox]

When I did a fresh install, I added...

GIMP (was default in 8.04, but got removed in 10.04)
Banshee (though I keep Rhythmbox)
Stelarium
SuperTux (a game I know, but Linux needs a Tux game ;))

[mamamia88]

can someone tell me the difference between chrome and chromium? i have them both installed and the only difference is that chromium seems faster for me

[Bachstelze]

Hmm, vim, zsh, gcc and friends, GHC, Python 3, VirtualBox, GIMP, WINE, TrueCrypt, Wireshark, Thunderbird and TeXLive, that's about it I guess.

[MooPi]

can someone tell me the difference between chrome and chromium? i have them both installed and the only difference is that chromium seems faster for me

Chromium is Ubuntu branded and tweaked version while Chrome is straight from Google.

[mamamia88]

ah cool i subscribed to the daily ppa hopefully it's not too unstable. seems slightly slower than the one in official repos though

[andymorton]

Chrome
Wine
Spotify
Virtualbox
Pidgin

[Tibuda]

Chromium is Ubuntu branded and tweaked version while Chrome is straight from Google.
Chromium is not branded at all.

[JBAlaska]

On my Gnome Boxes:
Krusader
Filezilla
DeVeDe
Konsole
k3b
Banshee
XBMC
GkrellM

[Frogs Hair]

Gimp
Firefox
Ubuntu Tweak
Gedit

[devondashla]

can someone tell me the difference between chrome and chromium? i have them both installed and the only difference is that chromium seems faster for me

chromium=open source chrome

[Spice Weasel]

Chromium is Ubuntu branded and tweaked version while Chrome is straight from Google.

This is not true. Ubuntu has nothing to do with Chromium.


can someone tell me the difference between chrome and chromium? i have them both installed and the only difference is that chromium seems faster for me

Chromium is the code base for Chrome, and is open source. Chrome is basically a branded version of Chromium.

[ratcheer]

The GIMP
MySQL
Ubuntu One
KeePass X
vlc
Google Earth

Tim

[andras artois]

If I could have Rhythmbox on windows I would be on it in a heart beat even if I had to pay for it. On Ubuntu I use the music player taskbar thing so when it's open it has the skip, back pause/play button on the taskbar.
VLC is a must have on Ubuntu and W7.
Quite liking Firefox 4 but Chrome 7 is also churning out some interesting features but how their extensions work is a bit poop. The simplicity isn't there like in Firefox So at the moment I install and use both.
CCleaner on W7 is a must as well.
Mahjong on Ubuntu is the best Mahjong I've played.
Never really used the docks available is Ubuntu but the ones I used in W7 were terrible. A W7 taskbar in Ubuntu would be amazing.
Gparted is really useful in Ubuntu as well.
Wine is a must have in Ubuntu as well.

[MooPi]

Chromium is not branded at all.

From Spice Weasel

This is not true. Ubuntu has nothing to do with Chromium.

Glad to see you guys noticed, just throwing a blurb out there to see if any noticed.

That's my story and I'm definitely sticking to that. Really :-)

[MattBD]

I'm slowly moving towards command-line apps more and more. My current list of faves is as follows:
Google Chrome
Vim
Mutt (seriously, it makes an awesome IMAP client for GMail)
Newsbeuter (the most recent version from Launchpad, as it works with Google Reader, which the default version on Lucid doesn't)
Irssi
byobu

[eriktheblu]

Non-default programs:

Gparted
Wine
Mangler
Banshee (can't use music store with RhythmboxBug 550048 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/rhythmbox-ubuntuone-music-store/+bug/550048))
Restricted extras
CoolKey
Virtualbox
Chrome
CCSM

[Naiki Muliaina]

Kirstins Second Life Viewer
GIMP
PiTiVi
Opera web browser

Should say I install Ubuntu-Studio packages into my Ubuntu install most of the time. I use most video and graphical apps. Rarely touch the audio apps except a bit of chopping of music.

[NMFTM]

I could list more, but these are my bare minimum must have apps.

Firefox (w/ NoScript
Pidgin (w/ Skype4Pidgin addon)
Skype
Bash
VLC
Virtualbox
Nano

[Ralob]

For Media:
Banshee- My default player. And yes, yes, I know how a lot of you hate Mono but I love this little program.
XBMC- The best media center, period. Been using it for 5 years and don't see myself stopping anytime soon.
SMPlayer- My favorite gui of MPlayer. I just like it more than VLC.
K3B- My burning program of choice. Just works great.
Java-Based:
RSSOwl- For my offline reading of RSS feeds. I like it a lot more than Liferea, which was underwhelming.
JDownloader- My favorite download manager. When DTA isn't an option, JD is my go-to app.
Connections:
Skype- 'Nuff said.
OpenSSH w/ Gnome Connection Manager- multi-tabbed ssh consoles make remote connections easy to manage.
Teamviewer- Great tool for VNC. File sharing is a plus.
Filezilla- FTP tool of choice. Well, besides Fireftp.
Misc:
Calibre- Not many eBook programs are available. Luckily calibre is, and it is good. I use it for all my eBook needs.
Terminator- the best terminal replacement, IMO.
Parcellite- light-weight clipboard replacement.
Wally- Wallpaper changer. Downloads from various sources and applies them whenever you want.
Ubuntu-Tweak- Makes trivial things easy. Big time saver.
AWN- Replaced my panels with AWN. Never looked back.
WINE- For my mIRC fix. And for those other various programs you might want from Windows.
Firefox, Chrome, and Thunderbird- I think Thunderbird is the best email client and for browsers, I use Chrome for the nice app shortcuts and Firefox for the extensions.
Truecrypt- Encryption that is simple.

And I have tons more, but I won't make a long post even longer. Suffice to say I adore a lot of apps OSS churns out.

[Spice Weasel]

People should really try out 'mrxvt'. It's practically the fastest, most lightweight and customizable terminal emulator ever. Give it a go, it's in the repos. :)

[slakkie]

abcde
guessnet
ifplugd
wpasupplicant
vpnc
postfix
apache
phpsysinfo
smbfs
sshfs
openntpd
build-essential (and many others)
resolvconf
update-manager-core
zsh
traceroute
mtr
alpine
acroread
xpdf
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
ubuntu-restricted-extras
vlc
mplayer
mozilla-plugin-vlc
mozilla-mplayer
libdvdcss2
non-free-codecs
pbuilder
debootstrap
vim-full
fvwm
xterm
simutrans

and many many others.

[t.rei]

firefox (last time I checked chromium I found it lacking in the way it removes add-space from pages)
evolution (it has it's grips on my calenders, haven't found a proper server-backend for it, yet)
pidgin (as empathy/telepathy is short on staff that OTR support is still lacking)
gajim (for the gpg encrytion/authentication)
skype (for calling/videoconferencing)
ubuntu-desktop ;)
compiz+ccsm (keybindings for launching apps and everything, also pretty)
wine (games are my weak spot)
... and lots more

[realzippy]

easystroke (http://sourceforge.net/projects/easystroke/)


...nothing makes desktop life easier.

[jmore9]

Full screen pinball and red alert 1