Firefox 4 – My preferred web browser. I used a PPA to get version 4.
Evolution – My email client, as robust and featured as Microsoft Outlook.
Rhythmbox – My music player, much better than iTunes.
Totem Movie Player – My video and audio player, it will play just about anything.
Hulu Desktop – I use this to watch movies online.
gPodder – The best podcatcher available.
Miro – I occasionally use it to watch videos online.
LibreOffice Writer – Simply the best office suite out there and is compatible to Microsoft Word.
Transmission – My BitTorrent client.
Brasero – A great disk burning utility.
Fontmatrix – Use it to manage true type fonts.
Decibel – A small music player.
Cheese – The best webcam utility for Linux.
Empathy – The instant messaging client I currently use.
Skype – The best voice over Internet program.
XChat Gnome – An easy to use chat program.
gedit – A great program I use for my show notes for the Gnostic Podcast.
Audacity – The easiest and best program for recording and editing audio.
MP3 Diags – Corrects VBR errors in mp3 files.
EasyTag – A great program for editing your ID3 tags and for adding album art.
Filezilla – The ftp client of choice.
gPHP Edit – A great program for writing and editing php.
GIMP – The best graphics program in Linux, but hard to learn. Not the most user friendly program.
Xiphos Bible Guide – The best open source Bible program.
W.I.N.E – There are two or three Windows programs I install under wine because there isn’t a satisfactory Linux equivalent. The two musts are Paint Shop Pro for graphics, and the Word for my Bible program. The third is Dreamweaver, which I use for so web development stuff.
Gweled – I am not a big gamer, in fact I don’t play games but once in a blue moon. But when I do, Gweled is the only one I currently play.
Well that concludes my list. Remember that I am using the Gnome desktop and don’t want to use KDE applications because of their dependencies. I say that because there are a number of KDE applications that rock. Amarok and K3b come to mind instantly.
