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[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:

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

(list by usrbingeek)

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