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After the "Where are we going" thread, I arrived at the opinion that Linux may be about choice, but it really ought to be about solutions to needs, and that really new users definitely do not want a bewildering array of distributions and half-baked applications to wade through until they find the one that actually does everything. Many man hours are being wasted on duplicate programs every day.
SO.. to stop them re-inventing the wheel, so to speak, I'd just like to conduct a straw poll on what you use, whether you like it, and what your system is set up to do. I have a theory that the same programs will come up time and time again, but we will see. I'll go first
It's a general desktop system
Distro - Fedora Core 3 - Good all round, but I'm tempted by Kubuntu.
Desktop - Gnome, but will move completely to KDE soon (as most of what I use is Qt based).
Web browser - Firefox
Email - Evolution - crashes occasionally so may move to Kmail or Thunderbird
FTP - gFTP
Text editor - anything
IM - Gaim
HTML - Quanta plus
Graphics - The Gimp
Audio player - Amarok
CD ripper - Grip
Open office etc.
DTP - Scribus
PDF - KPDF
Photos - Kuickshow
Scanning - Kooka
CD burning K3B
office stuff: openoffice.org2
window manager: e17 or xfce4 on the laptop; e16 on the desktop
web browser: firefox
email: thunderbird
basic audio editing: audacity
music typsetting: lilypond
graphics: gimp
IM: gaim
cd-burning: cdrecord
cd-ripping: abcde
file management: gentoo, xffm, xnc
music player: xmms
editor: vim and nano
metronome: gtick (great little program!)
Applications I use:
wine (which I use mostly to run Super Jukebox, a really good SPC file player of which there is only a windows version)
Text editor: gedit
Terminal emulator: xterm
Music composition: Rosegarden, Audacity
Music listenining: XMMS
Desktop environment: GNOME
Web browser: Firefox
Gaming: ZSnes, Dgen, Gnometris
IM: GAIM
File management: nautilus
Video watching: mplayer
Graphics editing: Kolourpaint, GIMP
And finally, I use linpopup to send messages over my home network.
It's a general desktop system
Distro - Slackware
Window Manger-Fluxbox
Web browser - Firefox for GUI, Links for CLI
Email - Thunderbird
Text editor - Midnight Commander usually
Word Processing-OpenOffice
IM - Gaim, ayttm
Graphics - The Gimp
Audio player - xmms
CD burning K3B for GUI, cdrecord for CLI
the list is too long, i only use freebsd or debian(sometimes other distros), but mostly the most popular software :-).
I don't know how you look for software, i just use my package management system to look for something that fit my needs. I use google when i need more info or if i didn't found anything.
Most days all I need is xterm, firefox and thunderbird.
Distro - Slackware
Desktop - Blackbox
File manager - xfe
Web browser - Firefox, opera rarely
Email - Thunderbird, mutt
FTP - gFTP, firefox (readonly)
Text editor - vim
IM - Gaim
HTML - vim
Graphics - The Gimp
Audio player - xmms
General Media Player - (g)mplayer
CD ripper - ripit (perl script)
Open office etc.
DTP - n/a
PDF - acroread
PostScript - gsview
Photos - xv
Scanning - n/a
CD burning - cdrecord, growisofs
And loads more that I can't think of at the minute. With the exception of maybe my WM and File manager I tend to keep to the most popular software
Suse 9.2 pro, which i'll stick with for a while (tired of updating) Labplot - awesome plotting utility. Highly recommended (I'm a third year physics major and it was indespensible.
Kile - use for typing up my reports in latex. Latex is the indespensible part though. sometimes I use kate for typing.
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