[Ubuntu] Must Have Apps for Ubuntu Users

May 26th, 2009

These are apps every Ubuntu user should look into. They make life on Linux so much more pleasant and easy. As a new Ubuntu user, I don’t know how I would go on without them:

AllTray – Allows you to minimize apps to the alltray system tray.
amaroK – Music player
Automatix2 – Makes it easy to install common applications
Beagle – A search tool
Beryl – an OpenGL accelerated desktop with a combined window manager and composite manager.
CheckGmail – Gmail notifier clone
Cinlerra – Capture, composite, and edit audio and video.
Deluge – Bittorrent client
Flash – Can’t surf the web without it.
GIMP – Repeat after me. Photoshop is over priced and bloated.
Gnomebaker – burn CDs and DVDs
Gnome Deskbar Applet – An app launcher that is a cross between Mac’s Spotlight and Quicksilver
KMyMoney – Quicken without the suckiness
MythTV – TiVo for Ubuntu.
Opera 9 – I love Firefox but sometimes a site won’t work in it but works in Opera.
Scribes – Note taking application
Thunderbird – You’ll never miss Outlook!
Vim – Text editor
VLC – media player that can play nearly everything.
Wine – Allows you to run (some) Windows programs