Ask HN: Ubuntu Desktop Default Apps

I have but one humble wish: when I want to start the calculator app I open the Dash and type "calc". However for some reason LibreOffice Calc has higher priority than the Calculator app, so I always have to select it specifically (instead of just pressing Enter) - even though I might have never used the LibreOffice Calc on this computer. Can you make the LibreOffice Calc app lower priority in the Dash please. Thank you.

If I may make a suggestion:<p>I&#x27;d rather have a quizz at first install and user account creation that would ask what users want with sane defaults hiding behind an `I don&#x27;t know` checkbox (ie: don&#x27;t configure any mail client if people just use GMail). It would definitely ease the adoption from first users instead of throwing a huge pile of shortcuts to their face when they click the apps menu for the first time.<p>I would also make it very easy to do the most common first things users do: opening an image, browsing the web, playing music. Don&#x27;t send them to players&#x2F;viewers with different UI than the rest of the workspace or ask them what pic viewer they want to use among 4 different apps. First impressions matters :).

Web Browser: Firefox<p>Email Client: Thunderbird<p>Terminal: Tilix[0], Gnome Terminal,<p>IDE: Visual Studio Code (although it&#x27;s not a fully fledged IDE)<p>File manager: Nautilus<p>Basic Text Editor: Gedit<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: Polari, HexChat<p>PDF Reader: Evince<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice<p>Calendar: Gnome Calendar<p>Video Player: Totem<p>Music Player: Lollypop[1]<p>Photo Viewer: Eye of Gnome<p>Screen recording: Peek[2]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gnunn1&#x2F;tilix" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gnunn1&#x2F;tilix</a><p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gnumdk.github.io&#x2F;lollypop-web&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gnumdk.github.io&#x2F;lollypop-web&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;phw&#x2F;peek" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;phw&#x2F;peek</a>

I&#x27;m pretty sure anything I&#x27;d suggest would already be included in other people&#x27;s lists so I&#x27;m going to request something different. Personally, I&#x27;d like a <i>well maintained</i> set of applications that <i>integrates</i> nicely into the default desktop. So things like global shortcuts (ideally having them be the same for common actions), panel and notification integrations, nicely setup default launcher icons, works well with the search bar, looks great with the default icon set, etc.<p>Example: whatever calendar app you include should work with the calendar in GNOME&#x27;s panel.<p>I&#x27;d also like to emphasize on the <i>well maintained</i> part since I personally prefer that my core set of applications to not become stale over time or even worse, just have tons of quality of life&#x2F;paper cut bugs that remain unpatched for years. Whatever is chosen as default should get continued support and help from Ubuntu itself.<p>If you can do that, I would definitely come back and give Ubuntu another chance.

For most I would say the current defaults more than suffice.<p>Web Browser: Firefox. Of the two modern web browsers that are applicable (Chromium being the other), Mozilla and Firefox are more in tune with the free software mentality many users of Ubuntu adhere. It is an excellent browser as well.<p>Email Client: Thunderbird? Are there mature alternatives that will work for most people that use a standalone mail application?<p>Terminal: Keep gnome-terminal, it&#x27;s perfectly fine for most.<p>IDE: None. Leave this to the user. An IDE need not be present by default, as it depends greatly one the language chosen. For simple scripting Gedit suffices at first, and associating code files with Gedit by default is fine too.<p>File manager: I take it Gnome Shell still ships with Nautilus?<p>Basic Text Editor: Nothing wrong with Gedit.<p>PDF Reader: Evince. Mature and fast.<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice of course.<p>Video Player: Something that supports everything you can throw at it.<p>Music Player: I&#x27;m partial to Quod Libet. :)

What I want is no change unless there is a good reason to change. The internet voting for Browsey McBrowseface etc. is not, in my opinion, a good reason to change.<p>There are things Canonical does well, I think. Those things are technical. When it comes to trying to be Microsoft&#x2F;Apple&#x2F;Google, it misses the mark. In part because it assumes that which PDF reader it ships with matters to users.<p>Good luck.

I really like Ubuntu, but there are two things that I would recommend changing&#x2F;fixing:<p>1. Replace the default PDF reader with something faster. It takes the default PDF viewer (in 17.04) 10+ seconds to open files that MuPDF can open in 2 seconds. MuPDF is very basic, so it might not be the best option for the default viewer, but hopefully there&#x27;s something faster than the current default.<p>2. Allow the software center app to request sudo privileges when installing .deb files from the GUI. When I set up my most recent Ubuntu desktop I downloaded the Chrome deb from Google and then tried to install it by double clicking the file in the GUI file browser. The software center app opened and tried to install it, but instead of asking me for sudo privileges (which I had), it failed to install. My options were A) install it from the command line with sudo or B) install gdebi and use that to install the deb from the GUI.<p>As someone who is comfortable working in Linux, it&#x27;s not a big deal for me to install a deb from the command line. The inability to install a deb by double clicking it would be a showstopper&#x2F;major issue for someone who is brand new to Linux and <i>isn&#x27;t</i> trying to &quot;learn Linux&quot;.<p>P.S. There&#x27;s an argument to be made that people should just learn to use the command line, but Ubuntu&#x27;s slogan is &quot;Linux for human beings&quot;. Besides, the worst way to introduce someone to the wonderful world of FOSS software is to give them a headache while they&#x27;re trying to <i>set up</i> their computer :-)

Web Browser: Firefox unmodified (e.g. no Ubuntu start page)<p>Email Client: None, users still using desktop clients know what they want and how to get it.<p>Terminal: No preference<p>IDE: None, this should be chosen by the user if they want one.<p>File manager: No preference<p>Basic Text Editor: No preference<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: None, same situation as email<p>PDF Reader: No preference<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice<p>Calendar: Like the calendar the clock opens (no preference) or a calendar you can add events to (does a modern desktop calendar for Linux even exist)?<p>Video Player: VLC<p>Music Player: Whatever is least bloated<p>Photo Viewer: Whatever is least bloated<p>Screen recording: None, most people don&#x27;t need or want this.

Web Browser: Firefox, but consider defaulting to 52 ESR since FF57 may cause breakage in November (one month after your Ubuntu release). Whatever browser you use, don&#x27;t be afraid to change the settings or extensions for security. HTTPS Everywhere or Privacy Badger or an adblocker built-in goes a long way in protecting your users.<p>Photo Viewer: must open quickly. If I want to manage a zillion photos I can download something else, but when I just open a file I want to see it right away.

Web Browser: Firefox (unmodified, no pre-installed Ubuntu extensions)<p>Email Client: Thunderbird<p>Terminal: Gnome Terminal or Tilix [0]<p>IDE: Gnome Builder<p>File manager: Nautilus<p>Basic Text Editor: Gedit<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: N&#x2F;A<p>PDF Reader: Okular<p>Office Suite: LiberOffice Fresh (preferably via a snap to keep updated)<p>Calendar: Gnome Calendar<p>Video Player: Gnome MPV with youtube-dl [1] or VLC<p>Music Player: VLC<p>Photo Viewer: Digikam<p>Screen recording: N&#x2F;A<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gnunn1&#x2F;tilix" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gnunn1&#x2F;tilix</a> [1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gnome-mpv&#x2F;gnome-mpv" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gnome-mpv&#x2F;gnome-mpv</a>

If you&#x27;d prefer, you can fill out the survey here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ubu.one&#x2F;apps1804" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ubu.one&#x2F;apps1804</a>

Meta-observation: There are three primary applications everyone wants fairly uniformly. Firefox, LO, and VLC.<p>It is really interesting from an integration perspective to consider all three:<p>* Firefox pulls in gtk3 and gtk2 dependencies.<p>* VLC pulls in Qt and sdl1.<p>* LO pulls in Python.<p>Of note, both Firefox and VLC use ffmpeg, which is nice.<p>But my macro point - the most popular applications for Linux right now all use pretty much entirely different infrastructure. All three pull in at least a dozen library or package dependencies each, there is little overlap, and between them you have the entirety of GTK and Qt. On top of that, they are about 130MB, 50MB, and 400MB installed respectively.<p>I&#x27;m not going to make conclusions about how this relates to the desire to write composable software, or how these various monolith projects are also the most desired. It is just interesting that just from the big three staples you are looking at more space used on installation media than a CD just from them and their immediate dependencies. Qt alone is around 400MB including webengine. Gtk is another 90MB. So you are looking at over 1GB of binaries, libraries, and art assets to run 3 programs, and at runtime they will all be pulling these respective libraries into resident memory with almost no overlap.

I&#x27;d love for Chromium to be included by default and for that Amazon app to be removed. I have no idea what the Amazon thing even is but it&#x27;s just Windows 10-esque spamware to me.<p>As for IDE, it&#x27;d be really cool to have Arduino included, but some might consider that spamware ¯\_(ツ)_&#x2F;¯

Whatever file browser is chosen, please include the damn up button, and please no buttons replacing the address bar. Also, PLEASE &#x27;open terminal here&#x27; as a default option on right click.

Web browser: Firefox<p>Email client: Thunderbird<p>Terminal: Gnome Terminal<p>File Manager: Nautilus<p>Basic Text Editor: Gedit (But can you patch the ridiculous &quot;find next&quot; shortcut key <i>to</i> ctrl + f&#x2F;enter <i>from</i> ctrl + f&#x2F;ctrl + g?)<p>PDF Reader: Gnome default<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice<p>Music Player: I always felt like Banshee was the superior Gnomish music player but it seems to unmaintained unfortunately. Rhythmbox is the next best <i>basic</i> one IMHO.<p>Photo viewer: Gnome default

Web browser: Firefox, Chromium. Comment: It is important that neither Chrome nor Chromium eat too much market share in order for the web to remain healthy.<p>Email client: ??? Comment: I use mutt but I&#x27;m wishing for something better. mutt is too limited<p>Terminal: Terminology, urxvt<p>IDE: None; neo-vim is sufficient for programming tasks, don&#x27;t need most IDE features.<p>File manager: What ever is the default for the selected DE.<p>Basic Text Editor: neo-vim<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: irssi and Pidgin<p>PDF Reader: Evince<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice<p>Calendar: Don&#x27;t know<p>Video player: VLC<p>Music player: Tomahawk<p>Photo Viewer: What ever is default for the selected DE<p>Screen recording: Open Broadcast Studio

TextEditor:- I really hate gedit, it takes around 1 to 3 seconds to save a file.<p>It doesn&#x27;t notify user if some foreign process changed or removed file.<p>When ever a user types in a bracket, parentheses..., It does mean that he&#x2F;she is going to close that (most probably).<p>Indentation, only God can understand what it means for source code files.<p>Only one thing which I like in gedit is, cobalt.<p>I don&#x27;t use Ubuntu, because I need a feature-rich desktop, not the opposite.<p>I could&#x27;ve used Kubuntu, but I hate it because of apt (for being too slow)<p>What I like in Ubuntu is better power management.<p>I could&#x27;ve used Fedora, but I hate it&#x27;s package manager, for being inconsistent, and this text like Microsoft, &quot;please wait while your system is being updated&quot;, &quot;reboot to update your system&quot;.<p>Rather than feeling the pain everyday, I take pain for few hours and install Arch Linux, with KDE.<p>Having the best feature-rich DE, with latest and up-to-date packages, a package manger which just works out of the box even in worst network conditions, for having every application in one place...<p>I literally forgot what&#x27;s the name for, including those community or independent developers application, URL into main repositories, which will most probably break the system.<p>I don&#x27;t know why you guys choosed GNOME, everything is damn slow. I accept that it provides simplicity for its users.

Web Browser: Firefox<p>Email Client: I&#x27;m pretty much all web apps, and would actually like not having evolution or thunderbird installed by default. I think email clients are something to leave up to the users to specifically install<p>Terminal: Gnome Terminal<p>IDE: Visual Studio Code. I don&#x27;t care if it&#x27;s installed by default, but the ability to install out of the box without a web visit and .deb download would be great.<p>File manager: I guess I use Nautilus by default, but don&#x27;t take that as an endorsement<p>Basic Text Editor: I use vim, but Gedit suffices.<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: Like email, I think this should be left out of a base install these days.<p>PDF Reader: Evnince it fine, but ePub support in it, or what ever PDF&#x2F;document viewer is default would be wonderful(bonuse points for mobi too)<p>Office Suite: Libre Office seems to be the only real option and it&#x27;s fine<p>Calendar: Gnome Calendar<p>Video Player: I used to install VLC day, one, but actually have kept Totem lately<p>Music Player: I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s any good options, Rhythmbox is still much better than Gnome Music if you&#x27;re tempted to go all Gnome with the default DE switch<p>Photo Viewer: EOG is fine, just don&#x27;t make a big heavy gallery app the default opener even if one is installed by default.

Web Browser: Firefox<p>Email Client: Thunderbird<p>Terminal: gnome terminal is ok<p>IDE: none. I&#x27;m using emacs for all the things. Which standard IDE could handle all languages well? I think this is for developers and we pick our tools. If this is a IDE for learning, I don&#x27;t know if this is the right way to learn. Maybe vim.<p>File manager: nautilus is ok<p>Basic Text Editor: gedit should be ok. I never use it because I don&#x27;t need a basic editor.<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: no idea. I use my phone for messaging.<p>PDF Reader: evince.<p>Office Suite: Libreoffice from their PPA. The distro is usually way too behind. This is a general problem with many packages not in the core of the OS. Maybe it&#x27;s time to give up on trying to be current and let developers package their stuff in any sensible format.<p>Calendar: I use the offline calendar on my phone.<p>Video Player: VLC, Gnome Video is just too basic.<p>Music Player: YouTube :-) Seriously, I use Rhythmbox and it&#x27;s kinda ok, when it doesn&#x27;t mess with the metadata of a full directory of files. I&#x27;m chmod 400 my mp3 to make them safe.<p>Photo Viewer: eog? I used shotwell and its predecessor (fspot?) and I lost all labels migrating among versions and computers. I&#x27;m not wasting my time anymore with sw that organize picture collections. If at least they had import &#x2F; export to &#x2F; from csv.<p>Screen Recording: I liked to use Green Recorder <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;launchpad.net&#x2F;~mhsabbagh&#x2F;+archive&#x2F;ubuntu&#x2F;greenproject" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;launchpad.net&#x2F;~mhsabbagh&#x2F;+archive&#x2F;ubuntu&#x2F;greenprojec...</a> but how about adding a video editor too?

Web Browser: Firefox<p>Email Client: Evolution<p>Terminal: Gnome Terminal<p>IDE: No IDE by default. Most users aren&#x27;t developers<p>File manager: Files&#x2F;Nautilus<p>Basic Text Editor: Atom<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: Nothing, let user install their own.<p>PDF Reader: Evince<p>Office Suite: I don&#x27;t really like it, but LibreOffice is probably the best option right now. Personally, I&#x27;d almost prefer an option to just have LaTeX and TeXStudio pre-installed.<p>Calendar: No Preference<p>Video Player: VLC<p>Music Player: VLC<p>Photo Viewer: No preference<p>Screen recording: No preference

Video Player: mpv!<p>I had been using Ubuntu for years before realising that this amazing improvement over mplayer exists. And it has everything: GPU decoding, excellent UI, keyboard shortcuts, it&#x27;s fast, and never fails. Of the software I use regularly, this one is by far the closest to perfection.

=== Web Browser: Chromium, Firefox<p>Email Client: Fastmail web, Gmail web<p>Terminal: konsole, terminator<p>File manager: Nautilus<p>Basic Text Editor: Gedit, Gvim<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: Slack web, Signal web<p>PDF Reader: Chromium, Firefox<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice, GSuite web<p>Calendar: Google Calendar web<p>Music Player: Google Music web, Clementine<p>Photo Viewer: eog, shotwell, gimp<p>Screenshot tool: Shutter<p>Sound source switcher: indicator-sound-switcher<p>Clipboard Manager: glipper<p>PDF Annotation: xournal<p>Markdown Viewer: ghostwriter<p>Markdown Editor: ghostwriter ===

Web browser: Firefox<p>Email client: Thunderbird<p>File Manager: Thunar File Manager<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice<p>Video Player: mpv<p>----------<p>Completely unrelated, but having Ubuntu work well on a Mac (and retaining habits learned on a Mac) with the external Apple Magic Trackpad would be great. It&#x27;s a huge source of frustration and annoyance for me for various reasons, right after the keyboard shortcuts. Native to Ubuntu, I will also miss Unity not being developed further or not being developed with the focus that existed before.<p>Another one, though not a desktop default app. Please add a well maintained and working VNC server (or make it available). I tried a few, gave up and went with TeamViewer (which is a commercial product, but free for personal use). Not being able to screen share with a mostly headless machine has been very frustrating.

<p><pre><code> Web Browser: Firefox, Opera Email Client: Geary, Thunderbird, pantheon-mail (when the new version is ready) Terminal: gnome-terminal, pantheon-terminal IDE: ??? File manager: Nautilus, Thunar, pantheon-files Basic Text Editor: gedit, scratch-text-editor (from elementaryOS) IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: Telegram PDF Reader: envince Office Suite: Libre Calendar: gnome-calendar (please please please with Caldav support for posteo) Video Player: totem, mpv (gnome-mpv) Music Player: audacious Photo Viewer: gnome-viewer Screen recording: ???</code></pre>

Web Browser: Firefox<p>Email Client: Thunderbird<p>Terminal: Tilix[0], Gnome Terminal,<p>IDE: IntelliJ, Eclipse<p>File manager: Double Commander[1]<p>Basic Text Editor: Vim<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: Pidgin<p>PDF Reader: Evince&#x2F;MuPDF<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice<p>Calendar: Gnome Calendar<p>Video Player: Vlc, Kodi<p>Music Player: Audacious<p>Photo Viewer: Eye of Gnome<p>Screen recording: Simple Screen Recorder[2]<p>[0] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gnunn1&#x2F;tilix" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;gnunn1&#x2F;tilix</a><p>[1] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doublecmd.sourceforge.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;doublecmd.sourceforge.io&#x2F;</a><p>[2] - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.maartenbaert.be&#x2F;simplescreenrecorder&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.maartenbaert.be&#x2F;simplescreenrecorder&#x2F;</a>

Also, maybe try the Ubuntu Mate approach and let users pick their own solution. I&#x27;d love to see Ubuntu implement something like the Ubuntu Mate Welcome [1] and&#x2F;or Software Boutique [2].<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ubuntu-mate&#x2F;ubuntu-mate-welcome" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ubuntu-mate&#x2F;ubuntu-mate-welcome</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ubuntu-mate.community&#x2F;t&#x2F;ubuntu-mate-welcome-screen&#x2F;1616" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ubuntu-mate.community&#x2F;t&#x2F;ubuntu-mate-welcome-screen&#x2F;1...</a>

First of all, thanks for getting in touch with your users! Hope you&#x27;ll be able to extrapolate some useful info from it :)<p>My basic suggestion would be to keep it simple, so stay with the GNOME apps where you can. Also it might make sense to make a distinction between what people feel is a good choice of software and which of those should be included in the default install.<p>IMHO stuff like and IDE, e-mail client, IRC client, messaging client, office suite and screen recording don&#x27;t have to be included in the default install as long as it&#x27;s easy enough for everyone to add them later (or customize during install).<p>Regarding specific items: - Terminal: gnome-terminal, but if possible look into make the tabs a bit less tall and fix the search dialog so it can be closed by pressing escape<p>- File manager&#x2F;photo viewer: nautilus, but look into fixing the preview (spacebar) so that it allows opening the preview window once and then allow navigating through all files in the chosen directory using the arrow keys<p>- Calendar: gnome-calender, but make sure you use gnome 3.24 or later so it support dark mode<p>- Screenshots: gnome-screenshot, but please fix it so it&#x27;s possible to take multiple screenshots in succession. Right one has to close and open it to do so.<p>- Video player: Technically mpv, maybe with the gnome-mpv GUI. Though mpv might be too difficult to use for some users?<p>- Music player: Imho none of them is really good enough :( Elementary&#x27;s noise might be at some point

Web Browser: Firefox, Chromium<p>Email Client: Thunderbird. (Note: I&#x27;m a bit worried about the future of TB, with Mozilla cutting back its support of the project. Since it&#x27;s been the default email client in Ubuntu since forever, it would be great to see Canonical pitch in to support it more.)<p>Terminal: GNOME Terminal<p>IDE: Does Ubuntu <i>need</i> to ship with an IDE?<p>File manager: Nautilus<p>Basic Text Editor: Gedit<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: Does Ubuntu <i>need</i> to ship with an IRC client?<p>PDF Reader: Evince<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice<p>Calendar: GNOME Calendar, Lightning<p>Video Player: VLC<p>Music Player: Clementine<p>Photo Viewer: No opinion<p>Screen recording: No opinion

Web Browser: Firefox<p>Chrome and Vivaldi each have their own apt repository, so why Ubuntu would bundle or package them, I&#x27;m not sure but give the option of adding an entry to sources.list. I mainly use Chrome for websites requiring flash support and letting Google manage that rather than the FOSS Chromium is simpler.<p>Basic Text Editor: Geany. Decent feature set and it has support in Windows and I prefer cross platform tools. Video Player, Music Player: VLC. Again it works on multiple operating systems and with few dramas. Office Suite: Libreoffice, again it&#x27;s cross platform. I have written a couple of things in Lyx but it&#x27;s niche. PDF Reader: NOT Okular - it&#x27;s very versatile but chokes when rendering image-heavy 40 page film festival brochures. Atril or whatever the Gnome version is called are snappier.<p>Email Client: On linux, I use webmail. Too many hoops to jump through in getting Office365 and Gmail working seamlessly without typing in a bunch of IMAP&#x2F;SMTP settings voodoo - lack in patience and too lazy in 2017 for that! Would revisit if something worked out of the box.<p>The rest? Well you&#x27;ve committed to Gnome and the default apps would suffice.

Kind of offtopic but is there a linux terminal program that when you paste a bunch of commands with carriage returns asks you if you want to continue?

Web Browser: Firefox, not Chromium, Epiphany or anything else.<p>Email Client: Evolution, Thunderbird if you really don&#x27;t want to pick Evolution. Do install one by default.<p>Terminal: GNOME Terminal.<p>IDE: none.<p>File manager: Nautilus.<p>Basic Text Editor: gedit.<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: none, Pidgin, Polari, HexChat.<p>PDF Reader: Evince.<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice; LibreOffice Base should be excluded.<p>Calendar: GNOME Calendar.<p>Video Player: Totem, not VLC.<p>Music Player: Rhythmbox, perhaps GNOME Music in a future release.<p>Photo Viewer: Eye of GNOME, maybe include Shotwell too.<p>Screen recording: GNOME Shell&#x27;s built-in recording.<p>Also include file-roller, gnome-calculator, gnome-characters (not gucharmap), gnome-clocks, gnome-disks, baobab, gnome-documents, gnome-font-viewer, gnome-system-monitor, yelp, gnome-logs, bijiben, seahorse, gnome-screenshot, gnome-software, and gnome-weather, and consider including gnome-boxes, devhelp, gnome-dictionary, gitg, gimp, gnome-maps, gnome-tweak-tool, and deja-dup.<p>This is almost exactly identical to Fedora Workstation&#x27;s default apps. In general, I have a strong preference for embracing the GNOME apps and GTK+ 3. The only exceptions are Firefox instead of Epiphany and LibreOffice instead of AbiWord and Gnumeric.

Web browser: Chromium, Firefox<p>Email client: Gmail<p>Terminal: gnome-terminal<p>IDE: Atom, Emacs, Visual Studio Code<p>Basic text editor: Atom, gedit, nano, Emacs<p>PDF Reader: Chromium, evince, Adobe Acrobat (non-free)<p>Office Suite: Google Docs, LibreOffice<p>Calendar: Google Calendar<p>Video player: Totem, mplayer<p>Music player: Totem, mplayer<p>Photo viewer: Eye of GNOME, Shotwell<p>Screen recording: RecordMyDesktop<p>And a category that&#x27;s been traditionally missing from Linux distros and really shouldn&#x27;t be:<p>Simple raster graphics editor (like Microsoft Paint): GNU Paint

Is there an option to have none of that installed? First thing I do on any distro is uninstall that stuff

Web Browser: Firefox<p>Email: Anything simple and lightweight<p>Terminal: Default GNOME Term.<p>IDE: Shouldn&#x27;t be in a default install<p>File Manager: Anything simple and lightweight + tabs (Nautilus) Basic Text Editor: vi<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging: Pidgin or Empathy<p>PDF: Default GNOME Viewer<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice<p>Calendar: Default GNOME Calendar<p>Video Player: VLC<p>Music Player: VLC<p>Photo Viewer: Default GNOME<p>Screen Recording: Something full featured?<p>Additionally:<p>Maps: Anything supporting OSM (GNOME Maps)<p>Software Center: GNOME&#x27;s Software Center

Web Browser : Google Chrome Stable Email: Thunderbird Terminal : Terminator IDE: Sublime Text3&#x2F;Vs Code. File Manager: Thunar&#x2F;Nautilus Basic Text: Gedit IRC: Irssi PDF ? (Usually just use chrome) Office Suite: Libre Calendar : (don&#x27;t use) Video Player.: vlc Music Player: A good google play music&#x2F;spotify app that can stream to chromecast would be nice... Photo Viewer: N&#x2F;a Screen Recording: Don&#x27;t know of any.<p>Caveat.. not a ubuntu user here per se... But left because of some of the bloatware&#x2F;opinonated stuff and it crashed a lot. Plus I like Antergos with i3-gnome better than anything I&#x27;ve ever used before... Much better performance, less crashes&#x2F;bugs...etc..

Web Browser: Firefox, Chromium<p>Email Client: Thunderbird (altho would prefer a modern alternative)<p>Terminal: rxvt-unicode<p>IDE: IntelliJ family<p>File manager: ???<p>Basic Text Editor: vim<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: irssi&#x2F;pidgin<p>PDF Reader: Atril&#x2F;xpdf<p>Office Suite: Abiword&#x2F;Gnumeric<p>Calendar: Thunderbird + Lightning (altho would prefer a modern alternative)<p>Video Player: mpv<p>Music Player: deadbeef, Clementine<p>Photo Viewer: feh, eom<p>Screen recording: open broadcaster software

A genuine long term Ubuntu fan, not used Windows since Vista. Happy with everything. Let&#x27;s have a look at what I left behind:<p>Web Browser: IE6<p>Email Client: Outlook Express<p>Terminal: putty<p>IDE: MS Studio<p>File manager: Explorer<p>Basic Text Editor: Notepad<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: Skype<p>PDF Reader: Adobe Acrobat<p>Office Suite: MS Office<p>Calendar: Outlook<p>Video Player: RealPlayer<p>Music Player: Winamp<p>Photo Viewer: Cracked copy of Photoshop<p>Screen recording: Print screen key<p>I don&#x27;t use alternative programs to the above, I don&#x27;t write Word docs or need to as communication has changed. I don&#x27;t have an email client.<p>My point is that this list of defaults is stuck in the past, we use computers differently and need an updated list of default applications. There should be a default app for your phone and what happens when you plug it in. There should be built in IoT apps too, so your computer can be at the heart of gadgets you get for the home.

Web Browser: Firefox, Opera (non-free)<p>Email Client: Thunderbird<p>Terminal: Tilix, gnome-terminal<p>IDE: Atom, gnome-builder<p>File manager: Nautilus<p>Basic Text Editor: gedit<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: telegram-desktop<p>PDF Reader: Evince<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice<p>Calendar: gnome-calendar<p>Video Player: gnome-mpv, smplayer<p>Music Player: gnome-music, Spotify (non-free)<p>Photo Viewer: gnome photo viewer (don&#x27;t know the name)<p>Screen recording: don&#x27;t use<p>Photo editing: Darktable<p>Note taking: QOwnNotes<p>Research source organization: Zotero

In most cases I prefer the standard gnome stuff (browser is the big exception).<p>Web Browser: Chromium &#x2F; Firefox &#x2F; Epiphany Email Client: Evolution &#x2F; Mutt &#x2F; Thunderbird Terminal: gnome-terminal File manager: nautilus Text editor: gedit IRC: weechat &#x2F; polaris Office Suite: google docs &#x2F; libreoffice Calendar: google calendar &#x2F; gnome calendar Video Player: Totem &#x2F; mpv Photo Viewer: Shotwell (I wish gnome-photos would work but its reliance on Tracker makes it unusable for me (what is with tracker not following symlinks?? please fix that). Screen recording: I wish the gnome-builtin one did sound, since it doesn&#x27;t I use SimpleScreenRecorder)

I&#x27;m generally happy with all the Ubuntu default apps.<p>Basic text editor: gedit. Search has been a lot less usable since it moved to the top right bar. Keyboard sequences like control-f + part of a word + escape do strange things like sending you back to where you started. I&#x27;d like to be able to pilot to different parts of the code using control-f, down&#x2F;enter&#x2F;tab, up&#x2F;shift-tab, and escape.<p>Also searching a huge file hangs because it stops to highlight every instance of the first character before processing the second. It should never be faster to open a terminal, find the file, and run grep. Also the entire app hangs to do syntax highlighting on giant xml files.

Web Browser: Firefox<p>Email Client: &lt;web&gt;<p>Terminal: GNOME Terminal<p>IDE: none<p>File manager: Nautilus<p>Basic Text Editor: GEdit or Sublime Text<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: none<p>PDF Reader: Firefox<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice, but in a work environment use MS Office, and even MS Office 2007 (at work) is light-years ahead of LibreOffice in terms of how I use Office. I do like the pop-out right column for editing, but find I have to go through menu after menu for simple things like formatting a text box in Impress. Calc table functions lack MS Office in all aspects.<p>Calendar: none<p>Video Player: VLC<p>Music Player: VLC<p>Photo Viewer: Whatever the default is. Is good enough to not notice what it is.<p>Screen recording: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+r. Mainly record screen at work (Windows) where ShareX produces nice quality and file sizes.

I&#x27;d really like to ask for a &quot;nothing, thanks&quot; option.<p>The main reason I use xubuntu is because it offers a xubuntu-core package that comes with the desktop, apt and &#x2F;nothing else&#x2F;.<p>When I installed unity version of ubuntu, the install was always followed with about an hour of uninstalling shite I didn&#x27;t care about. The new unity uninstall dialogue never worked correctly, and uninstalling 5 things in a row would cause it to lose track of what was installed and start duplicating entries. When I install a fresh system, I really want it to be fresh.

Web Browser: Firefox<p>Email Client: Thunderbird<p>Terminal: Terminator<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: Pidgin, Thunderbird<p>PDF Reader: evince<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice<p>Calendar: Thunderbird<p>Video Player: VLC

Web Browser: Firefox<p>Email Client: Geary<p>Terminal: Gnome terminal<p>IDE: ???<p>File manager: Nautilus<p>Basic Text Editor: Gedit<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: Empathy&#x2F;Polari<p>PDF Reader: Evince<p>Office Suite: Libre Office<p>Calendar: Gnome calendar<p>Video Player: Totem<p>Music Player: Gnome music<p>Photo Viewer: Shotwell (definitely not Darktable or RawTherapee, far too complicated)<p>Screen recording: Built in Gnome screen recorder

I&#x27;m using the latest Ubuntu GNOME, and I can say that I&#x27;m pleased with how it is. Using GNOME&#x27;s own software where available is going to be better IMHO.

Web browser: Firefox<p>Email: None, Thunderbird<p>Terminal: xfce4-terminal<p>IDE: None, Qt creator, Visual studio code<p>File manager: Thunar, Nautilus, for terminal Midnight commander<p>Basic text editor: Mousepad, for terminal vim<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: Empathy, Pidgin, none<p>PDF Reader: Okular, Firefox (integrated)<p>Office suite: LibreOffice<p>Calendar: Gnome native<p>Video player: smplayer (or any Mplayer version with GUI), for terminal ffplay<p>Music player: Clementine, for terminal cmus<p>Photo viewer: Ristretto<p>Screen recording: xfce4-screenshooter, OBS Studio<p>Extra<p>Shell: zsh<p>Password manager: Keepass, KeepassXC<p>Task manager: htop<p>Other: Numlockx, git<p>Basic photo editor similar to picpick&#x2F;mspaint on windows: Pinta (guess is closest to that)<p>(currently xubuntu 16.04 user)

Web Browser: Firefox<p>Email Client: Thunderbird<p>Terminal: gnome-terminal<p>File manager: Nautilus<p>Basic Text Editor: Gedit<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: Pidgin<p>PDF Reader: Evince<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice<p>Calendar: Lightning (Thunderbird add-on)<p>Video Player: VLC<p>Music Player: Audacious<p>Photo Viewer: gThumb<p>P.S. Thanks for working on autoremoving old kernels from &#x2F;boot!

Autoremove old kernel from &#x2F;boot - this might look nice on &quot;paper&quot; however I have significant issues on latest LTS with any version of kernel 4.8 and 4.10 where I can&#x27;t ever get to desktop, so I have to stick with 4.4 (Broadwell Core M ultrabook). If a reliable kernel is gone, I might not be able to boot unless I prepare an emergency USB stick and carry it with me all the time...

Give more love to Ubuntu server. Remove this update notification from the MOTD (this message encourages newbs to break their box):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;6SD97" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;6SD97</a><p>further elaboration provided here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14006747" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14006747</a>

Web Browser: Firefox Email Client: Thunderbird File manager: Nemo Basic Text Editor: Geany Messaging Client: Telegram, Pidgin IRC client: Hexchat PDF Reader: Evince Calendar: Thunderbird&#x27;s built-in Video Player: VLC Music Player: Spotify non-free, VLC Screen recording: SSR (ppa:maarten-baert&#x2F;simplescreenrecorder) System monitor: htop, gnome-system-monitor Calculator: apcalc

Web Browser: Firefox, Chromium, Chrome<p>Email Client: Thunderbird<p>Terminal: gnome-terminal<p>IDE: Atom, VS Code<p>File manager: Nautilus<p>Basic Text Editor: gedit<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: None<p>PDF Reader: None<p>Office Suite: Libreoffice, Openoffice<p>Calendar: None<p>Video Player: VLC<p>Music Player: None<p>Photo Viewer: None<p>Screen recording: Recordmydesktop (Kali recorder)

Web Browser: Pale Moon Email Client: Thunderbird Terminal: [DE default] IDE: Geany File manager: [DE default] Basic Text Editor: ??? IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: Pidgin PDF Reader: qpdfview Office Suite: [none] Calendar: Thunderbird&#x2F;Lightning Video Player: SMPlayer Music Player: ??? Photo Viewer: Viewnior, [DE default] Screen recording: ???

Web Browser: Firefox&#x2F; Chrome<p>Email Client: No Email Client.<p>Terminal: Terminator<p>IDE: No IDE.<p>File manager: Nautilus&#x2F; Thunar. (I was looking for something with dual panel view but no good solution seems to exist right now)<p>Basic Text Editor: Gedit&#x2F; Sublime.<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: No IRC&#x2F;MEssaging client or Hexchat.<p>PDF Reader: Evince&#x2F; qPdfViewer<p>Office Suite: Libreoffice (But do we have an alternative?)<p>Calendar: Gnome Calendar seems fine.<p>Video Player: VLC<p>Music Player: Clementine<p>Photo Viewer: gThumb<p>Screen recording: OBS&#x2F; Kazam.

Web Browser: Chromium Email Client: Thunderbird Terminal: Gnome Terminal IDE: Builder File manager: Nautilus Basic Text Editor: Vim IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: Polari PDF Reader: Chromium Office Suite: LibreOffice Calendar: Gnome Calendar Video Player: VLC Music Player: Audacious Photo Viewer: Shotwell Screen recording: No preference

The switch to libinput is good. I would also strongly suggest including libinput-gestures which enables multi-touch gestures. It&#x27;s a fascinating feature which helps one&#x27;s work flow.<p>Dash to Dock is another good one as are several other nice GNOME extensions.<p>bumblebee &#x2F; gfx support would be nice :-)<p>Tiling Extensions as well.<p>The GNOME screen recorder works fine built in. :)

The default apps in Ubuntu under Unity are good as-is. I don&#x27;t feel the need for any changes.<p>But after looking at the 17.10 image, it absolutely needs dash to dock. Gnome is unusable to a lot of people without it. Ubuntu is supposed to be user friendly, remember.<p>Also, improving the look of GDM is a must. It looks fairly ugly by default.

Web Browser: Firefox, Chromium Email Client: Thunderbird Terminal: ??? IDE: ??? File manager: Nautilus Basic Text Editor: ??? IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: ??? PDF Reader: ??? Office Suite: LibreOffice Calendar: Thunderbird Video Player: VLC Music Player: VLC Photo Viewer: ??? Screen recording: ???

Native Windows user, raised on it since 3.0. Made Ubuntu 16.04 my primary OS about 14 months ago after MS tried to cram Windows 10 down my throat and insisted on packaging the Windows Store, CandyCrushSaga and Facebook apps in Server 2016 and making them essentially impossible to remove.<p>Every day I get more and more comfortable. It hasn&#x27;t been without frustration, and often I&#x27;ve wanted to give up and go back, but so far I&#x27;ve stuck to it.<p>-----<p>Web Browser: Google Chrome<p>Email client: None since I use gmail and Office 365, and not much will cooperate with O365 except OWA.<p>Terminal: default preinstalled app<p>IDE: Not a developer<p>File manager: default preinstalled app(Nautilus?)<p>Basic text editor: gedit, or the non-gui version of emacs. I know I know.....<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging: Google voice and Slack web pages, via Google Chrome<p>PDF Reader: Evince or Google Chrome. Not really because I prefer either, just the first ones I found and they were &#x27;good enough&#x27;.<p>Office Suite: Preinstalled libreoffice has been &#x27;good enough&#x27; for me. Also Google Sheets(via Chrome)<p>Calendar: Don&#x27;t use one, probably would if O365 integration worked better.<p>Video Player: Default preinstalled player because it usually works, but VLC occasionally if I have something the built-in won&#x27;t play.<p>Music Player: None -- Pandora&#x2F;Soundcloud&#x2F;Youtube&#x2F;DI.FM&#x2F;Google Play, all web, via Google Chrome.<p>Photo Viewer: default preinstalled has worked pretty well for me. I think I like it better than the Windows Photo viewer that MS took away from me with 8&#x2F;10<p>Screen recording: None. I make heavy use of the preinstalled screenshot utility, though I wish it was a bit more like the windows snipping tool. It&#x27;s fairly annoying to use it to grab multiple screenshots when you&#x27;re trying to just select an area, though I like that you can grab a quick succession using the prt-screen and save them all.<p>Other apps I use often: Steam<p>libvirt&#x2F;VMM<p>Remmina, though I wish it had more features for RDP. Seems sessions are much slower than when using a MS rdp client.<p>PlayOnLinux<p>Occasionally Gimp, though it&#x27;s pretty annoying to use in 16.04 because of the way it creates multiple separate windows.

Web Browser: chromium, firefox<p>Email Client: thunderbird<p>Terminal: alacritty<p>IDE: vscode<p>File manager: nemo<p>Basic Text Editor: gedit, sublime text 3<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: hexchat<p>Office Suite: libreoffice<p>Video Player: mpv, vlc, smplayer<p>Photo Viewer: eog<p>Screenshot taker: shutter

- Web Browser: Chromium&#x2F;GNOME Web<p>- Email Client: Gmail-web<p>- Terminal: Guake&#x2F;GNOME Terminal<p>- IDE: Visual Studio Code<p>- File manager: Nautilus&#x2F;Files<p>- Basic Text Editor: Leafpad&#x2F;Bluefish<p>- IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: Hexchat&#x2F;Polari<p>- PDF Reader: Evince<p>- Office Suite: LibreOffice<p>- Calendar: GNOME Calendar<p>- Video Player: VLC&#x2F;SMPlayer&#x2F;GNOME Videos<p>- Music Player: GNOME Music&#x2F;Audacious<p>- Photo Viewer: gThumb&#x2F;GNOME Photos<p>- Screen recording: Peek&#x2F;Kazam

Web Browser: Firefox<p>Email Client: Thunderbird<p>Terminal: Gnome Terminal<p>IDE: Emacs &#x2F; Sublime Text 3 &#x2F; Geany<p>File Manager: Thunar &#x2F; PCManFM &#x2F; Caja (Anything but Nautilus they stripped to many features after 2.32)<p>Basic Text Edtor: Gedit<p>IRC &#x2F; Messaging Client: Hexchat &#x2F; Pidgin<p>PDF Reader: Evince<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice<p>Calendar: Gnome Calendar<p>Video Player: VLC &#x2F; SMPlayer<p>Music Player: Deadbeef &#x2F; Audacious &#x2F; Rhythmbox<p>Photo Viewer: EOG<p>Screen Recording: ???

I don&#x27;t really care as long as the Software app is in good shape. It should find common software and maybe even have a link to software that it doesn&#x27;t find (search for Spotify-&gt;show link with PPA installation instructions).<p>My only wish is OpenVPN (+GUI integration).

Web Browser: Chromium<p>Email Client: Geary<p>Terminal: Gnome Terminal<p>IDE: Gnome Builder<p>File manager: Gnome Files<p>Basic Text Editor: Gedit<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: Polari<p>PDF Reader: Evince<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice<p>Calendar: Gnome Calendar<p>Video Player: Gnome MPV<p>Music Player: Lollypop<p>Photo Viewer: Gthumb<p>Screen recording: Peek

Please make sure to honor accessibility features and select applications that do. I need dark themes because my eyes become red without. It is painful to use apps that do not honor theme colors and do not provide their own means to change colors either.

Web Browser: chrome Email Client: thunderbird Terminal: IDE: codeblocks File manager: nautilus Basic Text Editor: gedit IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: ??? PDF Reader: evince Video Player: vlc Office Suite: libreoffice (last version) Music Player: clementine

PDF reader: lightweight greenfield project that just puts pdf.js in a GTK3 webview<p>My answer to all of the other questions, though, is &quot;nothing that&#x27;s suitable for noobs&quot;. To this end, please make it easy to clean out the gunk and bring in power user tools.

===<p>Web Browser: chrome (close source)<p>Email Client: web gmail&#x2F;web outlook<p>Terminal: ubuntu default (gnome terminal?) (I don&#x27;t like it)<p>IDE: QtCreator<p>File manager: ubuntu default (gnome file manger?) (I don&#x27;t like it)<p>Basic Text Editor: sublime text (close source)<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: slack (close source)<p>PDF Reader: ubuntu default<p>Office Suite: libreoffice (hate it!)<p>Calendar: ubuntu default<p>Video Player: vlc<p>Music Player: ubuntu default<p>Photo Viewer: ubuntu default<p>Screen recording: shutter<p>===

Everyone default seems to be gnome nowadays, I don&#x27;t understand why. One of the main reason for me to stick with Ubuntu was unity being a great DE.<p>===<p>Web Browser: Firefox<p>Email Client: ???<p>Terminal: Gnome terminal<p>IDE: VIM + plugins, Visual Studio Code<p>File manager: 16.0 default<p>Basic Text Editor: VIM<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: ???<p>PDF Reader: 16.04 default<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice, markdown + pandoc -&gt; pdf<p>Calendar: ???<p>Video Player: VLC<p>Music Player: ???<p>Photo Viewer: ???<p>Screen recording: Simple Screen Recorder<p>===

Web Browser: Firefox, Chromium<p>Email Client: Thunderbird<p>Terminal: Termite<p>Basic Text Editor: Leafpad, gedit<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: Pidgin<p>Office Suite: Libre Office<p>Video Player: mpv<p>Screen recording: OBS Studio

I really like the defaults that ubuntu gnome currently has. If I could make one request, it would be to include gdebi in the default install. I&#x27;ve found it much more convenient for adding .deb packages than software center.

Web Browser: firefox<p>Email Client: dont include one<p>Terminal: stable one with wayland support<p>IDE: vs code<p>File manager: mate&#x27;s<p>Basic Text Editor: no gedit for sure<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: dont bother to include one<p>PDF Reader: smallest and stable one<p>Office Suite: dont include<p>Calendar: no good apps are there<p>Video Player: vlc<p>Music Player: Clementine<p>Photo Viewer: include only one, no need to photo manager<p>Screen recording: include the stable

Web Browser: Firefox<p>Email Client: Thunderbird<p>File manager: Nemo<p>Basic Text Editor: Anything <i>except</i> Gedit. For example Geany is fine.<p>Messaging Client: Telegram, Pidgin<p>IRC client: Hexchat<p>PDF Reader: Evince<p>Calendar: Thunderbird&#x27;s built-in<p>Video Player: VLC<p>Music Player: Spotify non-free, VLC<p>Screen recording: SSR (ppa:maarten-baert&#x2F;simplescreenrecorder)<p>System monitor: htop, gnome-system-monitor<p>Calculator: apcalc

Web Browser: Chrome non-free, Firefox<p>Email Client: Inbox web, Mutt<p>Terminal: GNOME Terminal<p>File manager: Nautilus, Nemo<p>Basic Text Editor: Atom, Gedit<p>PDF Reader: Evince, Chrome<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice, Google Docs web, Office 2016 with VMWare Player non-free<p>Calendar: Google Calendar web<p>Video Player: Totem Movie Player<p>Music Player: Google Play Music web<p>Photo Viewer: GNOME image viewer

Ubuntu and Google they should play as a team, Google has many tools and ubuntu many knowledge, people like both. Ubuntu should start using Google apps, and ubuntu should be easier to get in stores.

Web Browser: Brave, Firefox<p>Email Client: Gmail web<p>Terminal: Terminator<p>IDE: IntelliJ, Atom<p>File manager: Nautilus<p>Basic Text Editor: Atom, VIM<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: Gitter, Slack non-free<p>Office Suite: Google Docs web<p>Calendar: Google Calendar web<p>Video Player: VLC<p>Music Player: Spotify non-free<p>Screen recording: Google Hangout non-free, Floobits non-free<p>Games platform: Steam non-free<p>Source control GUI: GitKraken

Ubuntu y Google deberían de aliarse ambos son open source, el nuevo ubuntu debería de utilizar las aplicaciones de Google y tener ciertas funciones geniales que un dispositivo Android tiene.

I don&#x27;t know if this is the appropriate thread but can we have some better support for F2FS in Ubuntu please?<p>From what I know, we can&#x27;t even install to a F2FS partition using the default installer.

Web Browser: Firefox<p>Email Client: Thunderbird<p>Terminal: gnome-terminal<p>IDE: neovim<p>File manager: nautilus<p>Basic Text Editor: gedit (but actually neovim)<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: None<p>PDF Reader: evince<p>Office Suite: Libreoffice<p>Calendar: Lightning (thunderbird plugin)<p>Video Player: Totem<p>Music Player: Totem&#x2F;None<p>Photo Viewer: eog<p>Screen recording: I don&#x27;t use them frequently enough to remember one I like.

Web Browser: Firefox<p>Email Client: YahooMail, Gmail<p>Terminal: Tilix<p>IDE: Visual Studio Code, Atom<p>File manager: Nautilus<p>Basic Text Editor: Vim, Gedit<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: Telegram<p>PDF Reader: Evince<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice, WPS Office<p>Calendar: Gnome Calendar<p>Video Player: VLC, MediaInfo<p>Music Player: Lollypop, Spotify, EasyTAG<p>Photo Viewer: Shotwell<p>Screen recording: Simple Screen Recorder<p>Shell: zsh<p>Bitmap Image Editor: GIMP<p>2D Vetorial Image Editor: Inkscape

Web Browser: Chromium<p>Email Client: Gmail (web), Protonmail (web)<p>Terminal: gnome-terminal<p>IDE: Sublime Text 3 (non-free), Visual Studio Code<p>File manager: default<p>Basic Text Editor: nano<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: HexChat<p>PDF Reader: default<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice<p>Calendar: none<p>Video Player: mpv<p>Music Player: unsure, i would go with DeaDBeeF and Spotify (non-free)<p>Photo Viewer: ???<p>Screen recording: none<p>Extra: KeePass, git, gpg

Web browser: Chromium. Bittorrent client: Deluge.<p>I use Kodi for videos and music and sublime text to edit texts, and I don&#x27;t see any reason to force complex or proprietary software as the defaults.

Web Browser: Chromium, Firefox, Chrome<p>Email Client: Thunderbird, Web GMail<p>Terminal: Terminix<p>IDE: IntelliJ IDEA Community, Eclipse<p>File manager: Nautilus<p>Basic Text Editor: GEdit<p>PDF Reader: evince<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice, Google Drive<p>Calendar: Thunderbird Lightning, Google Calendar<p>Video Player: Totem<p>Music Player: Spotify webapp, Spotify client non-free

Web Browser: FireFox, Chromium, Chrome only as last resort for media compatibility<p>Email Client: Thunderbird, mutt<p>Terminal: Gnome Terminal, Terminator<p>IDE: Netbeans<p>Basic Text Editor: vim, gVim, gedit<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: Pigin, Hexchat<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice<p>Calendar: NextCloud web<p>Video Player: VLC<p>Music Player: VLC<p>Photo Viewer: Shotwell I guess

Web Browser: Firefox<p>Email Client: Thunderbird<p>Terminal: Gnome-Terminal<p>IDE: None<p>File manager: Nautilus<p>Basic Text Editor: Gedit<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: Whatever supports Slack and Discord I guess.<p>PDF Reader: Current choice is fine.<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice<p>Video Player: I prefer SMPlayer to VLC for simple playback<p>Music Player: Clementine<p>Photo Viewer: gThumb<p>Screen recording: Kazam

I just want to say that the web browser should be Firefox for the sole reason that most people will install chrome and having both chrome and chromium would be confusing.

One of my greatest frustrations is the default email client. It&#x27;s caused a lot of headaches with mailto links. I would prefer if Ubuntu did not ship with one.

The default &quot;simple&quot; console text editor &quot;nano&quot; should be replaced by the much more intuitive editor called &quot;ne&quot; (a less known gem).

Web Browser: Firefox<p>Email Client: Evolution<p>Terminal: gnome-terminal<p>IDE: gnome-builder?<p>File manager: Nautilus<p>Basic Text Editor: Gedit<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: Polari&#x2F;??<p>PDF Reader: Evince (gnome-documents?)<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice<p>Calendar: gnome-calendar<p>Video Player: Totem&#x2F;VLC<p>Music Player: rhythmbox (gnome-music?)<p>Photo Viewer: gnome-photos&#x2F;eog<p>Screen recording: ???

Web Browser: Chromium, Firefox, Chrome<p>Email Client: Gmail web<p>Terminal: Gnome Terminal<p>IDE: VS Code<p>File manager: nautilus<p>Basic Text Editor: gedit<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: xchat<p>PDF Reader: Evince<p>Office Suite: Office360 web, LibreOffice<p>Calendar: Gnome Calendar, Google Calendar web<p>Video Player: smplayer<p>Music Player: cmus, Spotify non-free<p>Photo Viewer: Eye of Gnome

Sublime is all I need. I&#x27;ll build everything else.

Web Browser: Chromium<p>Email Client: gmail<p>Terminal: terminator<p>IDE: Sublime &#x2F; VSCode<p>File manager: terminator<p>Basic Text Editor: Sublime<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: irssi<p>PDF Reader: Chromium plugin<p>Office Suite: Libre office (I&#x27;d prefer Microsoft one)<p>Calendar: Google calendar<p>Video Player: vlc<p>Music Player: YouTube :D<p>Photo Viewer: basic gallery<p>Screen recording: -

Web Browser: Firefox, Epiphany<p>Email Client: Thunderbird<p>Terminal: Gnome Terminal<p>File manager: Nautilus<p>Basic Text Editor: Gedit<p>PDF Reader: Evince<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice<p>Calendar: Thunderbird (Lightning)<p>Video Player: VLC, Totem<p>Music Player: Clementine<p>Photo Viewer: EyeOfGnome<p>Screen recording: &quot;Shift+Ctrl+Alt+R&quot; in Gnome

<i>Remove</i> the following:<p>* Email client<p>* IDE<p>* IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client<p>* Calendar<p>* Office Suite<p>Only absolute necessities in a default install. I still don&#x27;t understand why Linux distributions insist on shipping so much stuff by default.

Web Browser: Chrome, Chromium<p>Email Client: unity-mail<p>Terminal: Gnome Terminal<p>IDE: VIM<p>File manager: Nautilus<p>Basic Text Editor: Gedit<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: None<p>PDF Reader: Evince<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice, Google Drive<p>Calendar: Gnome Calendar, Google Calendar<p>Video Player: VLC, YouTube<p>Music Player: Audacious<p>Photo Viewer: Gnome Image Viewer<p>Screen recording: None

Web Browser: Chrome<p>Email Client: Geary<p>Terminal: Gnome Terminal<p>IDE: Eclipse<p>File manager: Nautilus<p>Basic Text Editor: Gedit<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: Messenger for desktop<p>PDF Reader: Default on old version<p>Office Suite: WPS office<p>Calendar: Gnome Calendar<p>Video Player: TOTEM<p>Music Player: Evince<p>Photo Viewer: ???<p>Music Player: Rhythmbox<p>Photo Viewer: shotwell<p>Screen recording: default on old version

Web Browser: Firefox ESR, Waterfox<p>Email Client: Thunderbird<p>Terminal: Konsole<p>IDE: vim, emacs, Atom<p>File manager: Dolphin<p>Basic Text Editor: kwrite, gedit<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: irssi<p>PDF Reader: Okular<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice<p>Calendar: Lightning Thunderbird Plugin<p>Video Player: VLC<p>Music Player: Clementine, cmus<p>Photo Viewer: Gwenview<p>Screen recording: Peek

Web Browser: Opera non-free (you can also make a commercial agreement with Opera, this would raise their market share)<p>Email Client:<p>Terminal: terminator<p>IDE: Atom<p>File manager: Nautilus<p>Basic Text Editor: Gedit<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice<p>Video Player: VLC<p>Music Player: Amarok

Web Browser: Chrome<p>Email Client: Thunderbird<p>Terminal: Gnome Terminal, Terminator<p>IDE: Webstorm (several)<p>File manager: Nautilus<p>Basic Text Editor: Gedit<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: pidgin&#x2F;hexchat<p>PDF Reader: evince<p>Office Suite: Libre Office<p>Calendar: Gnome Calendar<p>Video Player: VLC<p>Music Player: Rythmbox<p>Photo Viewer: Shotwell<p>Screen recording: Peek<p>Bonus: htop, KeePass2

Web Browser: Firefox<p>Email Client: Thunderbird<p>Terminal: URXVT<p>IDE: Qt Creator, Eclipse, Geany<p>File manager: Thunar<p>Basic Text Editor: Mousepad<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: Riot, Gajim<p>PDF Reader: Evince, Zathura<p>Office Suite: Libre Office<p>Video Player: VLC Media Player, mplayer, mpv<p>Music Player: DeaDBeeF<p>Photo Viewer: ???<p>Screen Recording: ???

Another humble wish: a subl&#x2F;vscode like ctrl+shift+p multifunctional menu, where you can write commands, launch things, etc.

Web Browser: Firefox<p>Email Client: Thunderbird<p>Terminal: Terminator<p>IDE: Vim ;)<p>File manager: pcmanfm<p>Basic Text Editor: vim&#x2F;gedit<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: pidgin<p>PDF Reader: mupdf<p>Office Suite: libreoffice<p>Calendar: Thunderbird<p>Video Player: vlc<p>Music Player: vlc<p>Photo Viewer: nomacs<p>Screen recording: don&#x27;t know<p>At the most important: Init System =&gt; OpenRC

Web Browser: Firefox<p>Email Client: Thunderbird<p>Terminal: gnome-terminal<p>IDE: vscode<p>File manager: nautilus<p>Basic Text Editor: gedit<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: ???<p>PDF Reader: evince<p>Office Suite: libreoffice<p>Calendar: Thunderbird<p>Video Player: vlc<p>Music Player: vlc<p>Photo Viewer: evince<p>Screen recording: never use one so I dont really have an opinion

Web Browser: palemoon<p>Email Client: mutt<p>Terminal: terminator<p>IDE: jetbrains stuff, vim<p>File manager: ranger, nautilus<p>Basic Text Editor: vim<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: hexchat<p>PDF Reader: evince<p>Office Suite: libreoffice<p>Calendar: cal, webshit<p>Video Player: mplayer,vlc,totem<p>Music Player: clementine<p>Photo Viewer: feh<p>Screen recording: shutter

Web Browser: Chrome<p>Email Client: None<p>File manager: fman (non-free)<p>Basic Text Editor: Sublime<p>Video Player: vlc

Most of them are preferring VS Code as their IDE, Firefox as their web browser and VLC for playing media

Office Suite: libreoffice Video Player: VLC E-Mail Client: Thunderbird Webbrowser: Firefox and Chromium

Web Browser: Firefox&#x2F;Chromium<p>Email Client: Thunderbird<p>Terminal: Whatever<p>IDE: No!<p>File manager: Nautilus<p>Basic Text Editor: Gnote<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: No!<p>PDF Reader: Whatever<p>Office Suite: No!&#x2F;Libreoffice<p>Calendar: Whatever&#x2F;No!<p>Video Player: VLC<p>Music Player: VLC<p>Photo Viewer: Whatever<p>Screen recording: No!

Web Browser: Chromium<p>Email Client: Evolution<p>Terminal: Gnome Teminal<p>IDE: Atom<p>File manager: Nautilus<p>Basic Text Editor: Gedit<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: ???<p>PDF Reader: Document Viewer<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice<p>Calendar: Gnome Calendar<p>Video Player: Totem<p>Music Player: Audacious<p>Photo Viewer: Image Viewer<p>Screen recording: ???

Web Browser: Firefox, Chromium, Chrome<p>Email Client: none<p>Terminal: gnome-terminal, terminator<p>IDE: none<p>File manager: DE default<p>Basic Text Editor: Gedit<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: none<p>PDF Reader: Evince<p>Office Suite: Libre office<p>Calendar: ???<p>Video Player: VLC<p>Music Player: ???<p>Photo Viewer: DE default<p>Screen recording: ???

===<p>Web Browser: Chromium<p>Email Client: Gmail web<p>Terminal: xfce4 terminal<p>IDE: neovim<p>File manager: Thunar<p>Basic Text Editor: neovim<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: google hangouts web<p>PDF Reader: evince<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice<p>Calendar: google calendar<p>Video Player: vlc<p>Music Player: vlc<p>Photo Viewer: ristretto<p>Screen recording: xfce4 Screenshooter<p>===

Web Browser: Firefox with µblock Origin and https everywhere installed system-wide

Web Browser: Chromium<p>Email Client: None<p>Terminal: Gnome Terminal<p>IDE: None<p>File manager: Gnome default<p>Basic Text Editor: gedit<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: None<p>PDF Reader: Gnome Default<p>Office Suite: None<p>Calendar: None<p>Video Player: VLC<p>Music Player: VLC<p>Photo Viewer: Gnome default<p>Screen recording: Gnome Default

Web Browser: Firefox<p>Email Client: Thunderbird<p>Terminal: Terminator<p>IDE: none<p>File Manager: nemo<p>Basic Text Editor: Gedit<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging: Hex-Chat, Empathy<p>PDF Reader: Okular<p>Office Suite: Libreoffice<p>Calendar: Thunderbird<p>Video Player: VLC<p>Music Player: Audacious<p>Photo Viewer: ristretto<p>Screen recording: obs

Browser: Firefox<p>Email client: Thunderbird<p>Basic text editor: Geany<p>Office suite: LO<p>but allow users to select defaults at install or at any other time

Web Browser: Chromium<p>Email Client: Thunderbird<p>Terminal: Gnome-Terminal<p>IDE: Geany<p>File manager: Nemo<p>Basic Text Editor: Pluma<p>PDF Reader: Atril<p>Office Suite: Libreoffice<p>Calendar: Orage<p>Video Player: VLC<p>Music Player: VLC<p>Photo Viewer: Eye of Gnome<p>Screen recording: Simple-Screen-Recorder

Web Browser: GNOME Web<p>Email Client: -<p>Terminal: Gnome Terminal<p>IDE: -<p>File manager: GNOME Files<p>Basic Text Editor: Gedit<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: -<p>PDF Reader: Evince<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice<p>Calendar: GNOME Calendar<p>Video Player: VLC<p>Music Player: GNOME Music<p>Photo Viewer: gThumb<p>Screen recording: -

Web Browser: conkeror<p>Email Client: emacs<p>Terminal: urxvt<p>IDE: emacs<p>File manager: emacs<p>Basic Text Editor: emacs<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: emacs<p>PDF Reader: emacs + epdftools<p>Office Suite: n&#x2F;a<p>Calendar: emacs<p>Video Player: n&#x2F;a<p>Music Player: emacs<p>Photo Viewer: feh<p>Screen recording: n&#x2F;a

Browser: Firefox LTE (pre-web extensions)<p>Terminal: guake<p>IDE: Emacs<p>File manager: anything but default gnome manager<p>Music player: audacious

Web Browser: Chromium<p>Email Client: None<p>Terminal: Tilix?<p>IDE: vs-code<p>File manager: Nautilus<p>Basic Text Editor: vs code<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: None<p>PDF Reader: Evince<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice<p>Calendar: Gnome Calenar<p>Video Player: mpv<p>Music Player: Audacious<p>Photo Viewer: ???<p>Screen recording: ???

ubuntu-mate has a nice software boutique, which I think is a great idea for people new to the world of FOSS. It&#x27;s a nice curated list of great FOSS software sorted by category.

Web Browser: Chrome<p>Email Client: Geary<p>Terminal: Terminator<p>IDE: -<p>File manager: Nautilus<p>Basic Text Editor: Gedit<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: Pidgin<p>PDF Reader: Evince<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice<p>Calendar: -<p>Video Player: SMPlayer<p>Music Player: Lollypop<p>Photo Viewer: -<p>Screen recording: -

Gdebi<p>Meld<p>KeepassXC<p>mpv player and SMPlayer<p>Audacious<p>Geeqie image viewer<p>Caffeine (to turn the screensaver off)<p>Devhelp<p>IDE: GNOME builder<p>would be great to add those to the repos for Ubuntu server &#x2F; command line:<p>micro editor<p>terminal_velocity

===<p>Web Browser: Chrome, Firefox<p>Email Client: none<p>Terminal: default<p>IDE: Atom<p>File manager: nautilus<p>Basic Text Editor: nano<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: none<p>PDF Reader: default<p>Office Suite: google apps<p>Calendar: none<p>Video Player: VLC<p>Music Player: Spotify, non-free<p>Photo Viewer: default<p>Screen recording: Kazam<p>===

Web Browser: Firefox<p>Email Client: Thunderbird<p>File manager: Nautilus<p>Basic Text Editor: GEdit<p>PDF Reader: Okular<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice<p>Video Player: VLC<p>Music Player: VLC

i switched to lubuntu last year (ubuntu had some serious unity problems), i really like unity, give gnome more unity ish design

Crowdsourcing at its worst.<p>Get with a modern Product Management philosophy, and quit begging the community for ideas.<p>Crossposting to Reddit, Slashdot and HN on the same day smacks of utter desperation.

Totally agree with Freak_NL.<p>For video player, definitely VLC.

Web Browser: Vivaldi, Firefox<p>IDE: eclipse<p>Basic Text Editor: gedit<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice<p>Video Player: Vlc<p>Screen recording: Obs

Web Browser: Firefox<p>Email Client: Thunderbird<p>IDE: Atom<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice<p>Calendar: Google Calendar web

Init: Alternative to systemd please. :)

Web Browser: Chromium<p>Terminal: Gnome-terminal<p>IDE: Sublime text<p>File manager: Nautilus<p>Basic Text Editor: nano<p>Video Player: VLC<p>Music Player: VLC

Web Browser: Chrome, Firefox<p>Email Client: Various web clients<p>Terminal: Gnome Terminal<p>IDE: VS Code<p>File manager: Nautilus<p>Basic Text Editor: vim<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: Slack, Discord<p>PDF Reader: Chrome, Evince<p>Office Suite: Google drive web<p>Calendar: Google calendar web<p>Video Player: VLC<p>Music Player: Spotify non-free<p>Photo Viewer: The default one<p>Screen recording: None

Synaptic, geany, vlc thanks.

Web Browser: Chromium<p>Basic Text Editor: gEdit<p>Video Player: VLC

Music Player: Clementine

Terminal: Terminix

Terminal: Tilix<p>Video Player: vlc

web browser: firefox<p>photo viewer: shotwell

I actually use GNOME on Fedora as my daily driver but will probably switch to ubuntu if they can create a better gnome experience. Please try to ship GNOME that way it&#x27;s meant to be shipped as far as software versioning goes. Please make quarter tiling and the ability to hide windows decoration a thing.<p>Web Browser: Firefox<p>Email Client: don&#x27;t care, I coded my own<p>Terminal: tilix (integrates better with GTK3 than GNOME-terminal)<p>IDE: Builder is good (I use vim)<p>File manager: Nautilus&#x2F;ranger<p>Basic Text Editor: Gedit&#x2F;nano&#x2F;vim<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: I use irssi<p>PDF Reader: Evince<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice<p>Calendar: GNOME calendar, but update it<p>Video Player: mpv<p>Music Player: mpv<p>Photo Viewer: mpv<p>Screen recording: the one thats built into gnome, but make it better (adjust FPS&#x2F;quality&#x2F;convert size&#x2F;etc).

Consider giving Ubuntu MATE even more love. It&#x27;s the Ubuntu as it should be with a proper shell, not this Gnome3 UI-mess but with great Gnome2 alike UI. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ubuntu_MATE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Ubuntu_MATE</a>

I&#x27;ve removed the ones I don&#x27;t use.<p>Web Browser: Chrome<p>Email Client: Evolution<p>Terminal: gnome-terminal<p>IDE: VSCode<p>File manager: Nautilus<p>Basic Text Editor: Gedit<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: HexChat<p>PDF Reader: Evince<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice<p>Video Player: mpv<p>Music Player: GTK3 frontend of Audacious<p>Photo Viewer: eog

Web Browser: Firefox<p>IDE: Visual Studio Code<p>PDF Reader: Firefox<p>Video Player: VLC<p>Music Player: Clementine

&gt; We asked the HackerNews community, &quot;What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?&quot;<p>Yeah, and the experiment went horrible wrong :(<p>The last thing the community wanted was a plain Gnome 3 shell for 17.10.<p>The older Unity was great, the latest Unity and Gnome3 are crap! (ugly as hell (macOS UI clone for the cheap), and worse usability than older Unity and macOS) So you single handled destroyed the default Ubuntu with some weird decisions. And this systemd trainwreck is still on board.<p>For applications:<p>* Web Browser: Chromium (with sane privacy default settings)<p>* Email client: Gnome Evolution<p>* File manager: Unity 7 file manager<p>* Basic Text Editor: GEdit (older version with menu bar, from Ubuntu 14)<p>* Office Suite: LibreOffice or Callibri<p>* Calendar: Evolution

Web Browser: Chrome non-free, Emacs<p>Email Client: Gmail web, Emacs<p>Terminal: xterm, fish shell, Emacs<p>IDE: Emacs<p>File manager: default, Emacs<p>Basic Text Editor: Emacs<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: Emacs<p>PDF Reader: whatever that default one is, Emacs<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice<p>Calendar: Emacs<p>Video Player: VLC<p>Music Player: Spotify non-free<p>Photo Viewer: whatever the default is<p>Screen recording: OBS<p>I&#x27;m not joking with that Emacs thing. Please, oh please, ensure Ubuntu has always a <i>recent</i> Emacs version.

Web Browser: Safari.app<p>Email Client: Mail.app<p>Terminal: Terminal.app<p>IDE: NeoVIM<p>File manager: Finder.app<p>Basic Text Editor: NeoVIM<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: Messages.app<p>PDF Reader: Preview.app<p>Office Suite: Pages.app&#x2F;Numbers.app&#x2F;Keynote.app<p>Calendar: Fantastical 2.app<p>Video Player: mpv<p>Music Player: VOX.app<p>Photo Viewer: Preview.app<p>Of course, this is for a real world usable operating system, not ubuntu utopia.. If Linux, Gentoo is nice ;)

I&#x27;m really looking forward to seeing how native GNOME will look with official Ubuntu support and not as a community flavor.<p>Anyways, here&#x27;s my request list:<p>---------------------------------<p>Web Browser: Firefox, Vivaldi (people keep claiming it&#x27;s open source, so look into it)<p>Email Client: Thunderbird<p>Terminal: GNOME default<p>IDE: LOL<p>(Serious answer is VSCode since it seems to be a nice in-between for a full IDE and a simple text editor)<p>File manager: Nautilus<p>Basic Text Editor: No preference<p>IRC&#x2F;Messaging Client: HexChat<p>PDF Reader: No preference<p>Office Suite: LibreOffice<p>Calendar: Thunderbird, No preference<p>Video Player: VLC<p>Music Player: RhythmBox, Spotify (maybe just a downloader program - don&#x27;t include the full install out of the box)<p>Photo Viewer: No preference<p>Screen recording: No preference<p>Games: Include Steam out of the box?<p>-------------------<p>This list also comes with the usual stuff like dump Systemd, continue working on MESA drivers&#x2F;networking drivers&#x2F;drivers in general, etc.<p>Hope to see some great stuff in 17.10!