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Nov 18 2011 Anchor

What are your favorite, most used "Apps" (I personally don't like the word too much) under Linux?
Mine are:

Clementine (basically as good as Amarok, and even better if you have limited hardware resources)
Audex
KMail (at least before the migration to akonadi, hopefully get's stable again)
Pidgin
K3B (and Brasero doesn't even come close to it)

(ok, I use a lot of Qt/KDE based stuff under Gnome, but as long as it works nicely;))

Dec 6 2011 Anchor

Rhythmbox, Cheese, Gedit, Brasero, LibreOffice, Firefox, Skype, Gimp, VLC, Fluendo DVD Player.

Edited by: linux-gamer-91

Dec 7 2011 Anchor

I switched over to Clementine recently. I love it so far.

Dec 9 2011 Anchor

I try to stick with GTK (uncer Xfce) when possible (KDE/Qt is a bit of a hog), but I'm not too picky if the "app" works well. So here is my list of daily programs
gtkpod/xmms, gnome-mplayer, K3B, audacity, kino, kdenlive
Pidgin, mumble/murmur, Firefox,Thunderbird
Libreoffice, calibre
VirtualBox
Stellarium, Celestia
Not including the whole pile of CLI programs.... I try to stick with Linux native, but for games I am not too picky as long as I can fire up WINE.

Dec 14 2011 Anchor

My list would be: KDE, Opera, KMail, Kopete, Choqok, Bazaar Explorer, Qt Creator, yakuake, VirtualBox, xVideoServiceThief, SpeedCrunch, Amarok, KTorrent, FileLight, K3B - yes I do like Qt and KDE very much and don't think it takes too much resources, KDE takes only about 1,5 GB of RAM which isn't too much on modern hardware (I got 4 gigs of ram in my machine).
A couple of free games I like: Palapeli, Naev, Xonotic, KMahjongg, KPatience, lbreakout 2

Feb 2 2012 Anchor

Mplayer, mpd, ncmpcpp, ranger, htop, rtorrent, tyrs, irssi, nano, lynx.

I like my ncurses apps :) I use LXTerminal as it supports true transparency with xcompmgr and doesn't have any uneeded bells and whistles.

Feb 3 2012 Anchor

Chroimium, Transmission, GIMP, Wunderlist, Pitivi, VirtualBox, GParted, VLC, Shotwell, EasyTAG, Eclipse and of course Desura! :D

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