by dustinkirkland on 7/21/17, 11:13 AM with 243 comments
You can check that link and see our progress. Already in beta for 17.10:
- GNOME replaced Unity
- Bluetooth improvements with a new BlueZ
- Switched to libinput
- 4K/Multimonitor/HiDPI improvements
- Upgraded to Network Manager 1.8
- New Subiquity server installer
- Minimal images (36MB, 18% smaller)
And several others have excellent work in progress, and will be complete by 17.10:
- Autoremove old kernels from /boot
- EXT4 encryption with fscrypt
- Better GPU/CUDA support
Your feedback matters! There are hundreds of engineers working for you to continue making Ubuntu amazing!
We're now reviewing the desktop applications we package and ship in Ubuntu.
We invite you to submit the apps you find most useful in Linux, in the format defined below. You can suggest multiple apps in priority order (e.g. Web Browser: Firefox, Chrome, Chromium). Please note apps that are now you use exclusively on the web (e.g. Email Client: Gmail web, Office Suite: Office360 web). If the software isn’t open source, note that (e.g. Music Player: Spotify non-free). If we missed a category, please add it in the same format. If your apps aren’t packaged yet, please let us know, as we’re creating hundreds of new snap packages for desktop apps.
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Web Browser: ???
Email Client: ???
Terminal: ???
IDE: ???
File manager: ???
Basic Text Editor: ???
IRC/Messaging Client: ???
PDF Reader: ???
Office Suite: ???
Calendar: ???
Video Player: ???
Music Player: ???
Photo Viewer: ???
Screen recording: ???
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Thanks!
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by haspok on 7/21/17, 3:57 PM
by johnchristopher on 7/21/17, 5:00 PM
I'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't know` checkbox (ie: don'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.
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't send them to players/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 :).
by Kostic on 7/21/17, 3:47 PM
Email Client: Thunderbird
Terminal: Tilix[0], Gnome Terminal,
IDE: Visual Studio Code (although it's not a fully fledged IDE)
File manager: Nautilus
Basic Text Editor: Gedit
IRC/Messaging Client: Polari, HexChat
PDF Reader: Evince
Office Suite: LibreOffice
Calendar: Gnome Calendar
Video Player: Totem
Music Player: Lollypop[1]
Photo Viewer: Eye of Gnome
Screen recording: Peek[2]
[0] https://github.com/gnunn1/tilix
by hysan on 7/21/17, 4:37 PM
Example: whatever calendar app you include should work with the calendar in GNOME's panel.
I'd also like to emphasize on the well maintained 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/paper cut bugs that remain unpatched for years. Whatever is chosen as default should get continued support and help from Ubuntu itself.
If you can do that, I would definitely come back and give Ubuntu another chance.
by Freak_NL on 7/21/17, 12:29 PM
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.
Email Client: Thunderbird? Are there mature alternatives that will work for most people that use a standalone mail application?
Terminal: Keep gnome-terminal, it's perfectly fine for most.
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.
File manager: I take it Gnome Shell still ships with Nautilus?
Basic Text Editor: Nothing wrong with Gedit.
PDF Reader: Evince. Mature and fast.
Office Suite: LibreOffice of course.
Video Player: Something that supports everything you can throw at it.
Music Player: I'm partial to Quod Libet. :)
by brudgers on 7/21/17, 1:06 PM
There are things Canonical does well, I think. Those things are technical. When it comes to trying to be Microsoft/Apple/Google, it misses the mark. In part because it assumes that which PDF reader it ships with matters to users.
Good luck.
by Keeblo on 7/21/17, 7:21 PM
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's something faster than the current default.
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.
As someone who is comfortable working in Linux, it'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/major issue for someone who is brand new to Linux and isn't trying to "learn Linux".
P.S. There's an argument to be made that people should just learn to use the command line, but Ubuntu's slogan is "Linux for human beings". Besides, the worst way to introduce someone to the wonderful world of FOSS software is to give them a headache while they're trying to set up their computer :-)
by jasonkostempski on 7/21/17, 4:27 PM
Email Client: None, users still using desktop clients know what they want and how to get it.
Terminal: No preference
IDE: None, this should be chosen by the user if they want one.
File manager: No preference
Basic Text Editor: No preference
IRC/Messaging Client: None, same situation as email
PDF Reader: No preference
Office Suite: LibreOffice
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)?
Video Player: VLC
Music Player: Whatever is least bloated
Photo Viewer: Whatever is least bloated
Screen recording: None, most people don't need or want this.
by sp332 on 7/21/17, 4:35 PM
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.
by dd9990 on 7/21/17, 6:25 PM
Email Client: Thunderbird
Terminal: Gnome Terminal or Tilix [0]
IDE: Gnome Builder
File manager: Nautilus
Basic Text Editor: Gedit
IRC/Messaging Client: N/A
PDF Reader: Okular
Office Suite: LiberOffice Fresh (preferably via a snap to keep updated)
Calendar: Gnome Calendar
Video Player: Gnome MPV with youtube-dl [1] or VLC
Music Player: VLC
Photo Viewer: Digikam
Screen recording: N/A
[0] https://github.com/gnunn1/tilix [1] https://github.com/gnome-mpv/gnome-mpv
by dustinkirkland on 7/21/17, 3:09 PM
by zanny on 7/21/17, 7:16 PM
It is really interesting from an integration perspective to consider all three:
* Firefox pulls in gtk3 and gtk2 dependencies.
* VLC pulls in Qt and sdl1.
* LO pulls in Python.
Of note, both Firefox and VLC use ffmpeg, which is nice.
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.
I'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.
by PascLeRasc on 7/21/17, 4:57 PM
As for IDE, it'd be really cool to have Arduino included, but some might consider that spamware ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
by SubiculumCode on 7/21/17, 4:54 PM
by acabal on 7/21/17, 6:12 PM
Email client: Thunderbird
Terminal: Gnome Terminal
File Manager: Nautilus
Basic Text Editor: Gedit (But can you patch the ridiculous "find next" shortcut key to ctrl + f/enter from ctrl + f/ctrl + g?)
PDF Reader: Gnome default
Office Suite: LibreOffice
Music Player: I always felt like Banshee was the superior Gnomish music player but it seems to unmaintained unfortunately. Rhythmbox is the next best basic one IMHO.
Photo viewer: Gnome default
by SingletonIface on 7/21/17, 3:53 PM
Email client: ??? Comment: I use mutt but I'm wishing for something better. mutt is too limited
Terminal: Terminology, urxvt
IDE: None; neo-vim is sufficient for programming tasks, don't need most IDE features.
File manager: What ever is the default for the selected DE.
Basic Text Editor: neo-vim
IRC/Messaging Client: irssi and Pidgin
PDF Reader: Evince
Office Suite: LibreOffice
Calendar: Don't know
Video player: VLC
Music player: Tomahawk
Photo Viewer: What ever is default for the selected DE
Screen recording: Open Broadcast Studio
by nilsocket on 7/21/17, 6:12 PM
It doesn't notify user if some foreign process changed or removed file.
When ever a user types in a bracket, parentheses..., It does mean that he/she is going to close that (most probably).
Indentation, only God can understand what it means for source code files.
Only one thing which I like in gedit is, cobalt.
I don't use Ubuntu, because I need a feature-rich desktop, not the opposite.
I could've used Kubuntu, but I hate it because of apt (for being too slow)
What I like in Ubuntu is better power management.
I could've used Fedora, but I hate it's package manager, for being inconsistent, and this text like Microsoft, "please wait while your system is being updated", "reboot to update your system".
Rather than feeling the pain everyday, I take pain for few hours and install Arch Linux, with KDE.
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...
I literally forgot what's the name for, including those community or independent developers application, URL into main repositories, which will most probably break the system.
I don't know why you guys choosed GNOME, everything is damn slow. I accept that it provides simplicity for its users.
by bsharitt on 7/22/17, 1:02 AM
Email Client: I'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
Terminal: Gnome Terminal
IDE: Visual Studio Code. I don't care if it's installed by default, but the ability to install out of the box without a web visit and .deb download would be great.
File manager: I guess I use Nautilus by default, but don't take that as an endorsement
Basic Text Editor: I use vim, but Gedit suffices.
IRC/Messaging Client: Like email, I think this should be left out of a base install these days.
PDF Reader: Evnince it fine, but ePub support in it, or what ever PDF/document viewer is default would be wonderful(bonuse points for mobi too)
Office Suite: Libre Office seems to be the only real option and it's fine
Calendar: Gnome Calendar
Video Player: I used to install VLC day, one, but actually have kept Totem lately
Music Player: I don't think there's any good options, Rhythmbox is still much better than Gnome Music if you're tempted to go all Gnome with the default DE switch
Photo Viewer: EOG is fine, just don't make a big heavy gallery app the default opener even if one is installed by default.
by pmontra on 7/21/17, 5:45 PM
Email Client: Thunderbird
Terminal: gnome terminal is ok
IDE: none. I'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't know if this is the right way to learn. Maybe vim.
File manager: nautilus is ok
Basic Text Editor: gedit should be ok. I never use it because I don't need a basic editor.
IRC/Messaging Client: no idea. I use my phone for messaging.
PDF Reader: evince.
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's time to give up on trying to be current and let developers package their stuff in any sensible format.
Calendar: I use the offline calendar on my phone.
Video Player: VLC, Gnome Video is just too basic.
Music Player: YouTube :-) Seriously, I use Rhythmbox and it's kinda ok, when it doesn't mess with the metadata of a full directory of files. I'm chmod 400 my mp3 to make them safe.
Photo Viewer: eog? I used shotwell and its predecessor (fspot?) and I lost all labels migrating among versions and computers. I'm not wasting my time anymore with sw that organize picture collections. If at least they had import / export to / from csv.
Screen Recording: I liked to use Green Recorder https://launchpad.net/~mhsabbagh/+archive/ubuntu/greenprojec... but how about adding a video editor too?
by tombert on 7/21/17, 4:43 PM
Email Client: Evolution
Terminal: Gnome Terminal
IDE: No IDE by default. Most users aren't developers
File manager: Files/Nautilus
Basic Text Editor: Atom
IRC/Messaging Client: Nothing, let user install their own.
PDF Reader: Evince
Office Suite: I don't really like it, but LibreOffice is probably the best option right now. Personally, I'd almost prefer an option to just have LaTeX and TeXStudio pre-installed.
Calendar: No Preference
Video Player: VLC
Music Player: VLC
Photo Viewer: No preference
Screen recording: No preference
by blfr on 7/21/17, 6:11 PM
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's fast, and never fails. Of the software I use regularly, this one is by far the closest to perfection.
by markstos on 7/21/17, 4:41 PM
Email Client: Fastmail web, Gmail web
Terminal: konsole, terminator
File manager: Nautilus
Basic Text Editor: Gedit, Gvim
IRC/Messaging Client: Slack web, Signal web
PDF Reader: Chromium, Firefox
Office Suite: LibreOffice, GSuite web
Calendar: Google Calendar web
Music Player: Google Music web, Clementine
Photo Viewer: eog, shotwell, gimp
Screenshot tool: Shutter
Sound source switcher: indicator-sound-switcher
Clipboard Manager: glipper
PDF Annotation: xournal
Markdown Viewer: ghostwriter
Markdown Editor: ghostwriter ===
by newscracker on 7/21/17, 6:56 PM
Email client: Thunderbird
File Manager: Thunar File Manager
Office Suite: LibreOffice
Video Player: mpv
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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'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.
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.
by j0ar on 7/21/17, 3:06 PM
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/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: ???by shock on 7/21/17, 5:27 PM
Email Client: Thunderbird
Terminal: Tilix[0], Gnome Terminal,
IDE: IntelliJ, Eclipse
File manager: Double Commander[1]
Basic Text Editor: Vim
IRC/Messaging Client: Pidgin
PDF Reader: Evince/MuPDF
Office Suite: LibreOffice
Calendar: Gnome Calendar
Video Player: Vlc, Kodi
Music Player: Audacious
Photo Viewer: Eye of Gnome
Screen recording: Simple Screen Recorder[2]
[0] - https://github.com/gnunn1/tilix
by tradesmanhelix on 7/21/17, 6:27 PM
[1] https://github.com/ubuntu-mate/ubuntu-mate-welcome
[2] https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/ubuntu-mate-welcome-screen/1...
by simonvdv on 7/22/17, 12:25 PM
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.
IMHO stuff like and IDE, e-mail client, IRC client, messaging client, office suite and screen recording don't have to be included in the default install as long as it's easy enough for everyone to add them later (or customize during install).
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
- File manager/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
- Calendar: gnome-calender, but make sure you use gnome 3.24 or later so it support dark mode
- Screenshots: gnome-screenshot, but please fix it so it's possible to take multiple screenshots in succession. Right one has to close and open it to do so.
- Video player: Technically mpv, maybe with the gnome-mpv GUI. Though mpv might be too difficult to use for some users?
- Music player: Imho none of them is really good enough :( Elementary's noise might be at some point
by smacktoward on 7/21/17, 3:56 PM
Email Client: Thunderbird. (Note: I'm a bit worried about the future of TB, with Mozilla cutting back its support of the project. Since it's been the default email client in Ubuntu since forever, it would be great to see Canonical pitch in to support it more.)
Terminal: GNOME Terminal
IDE: Does Ubuntu need to ship with an IDE?
File manager: Nautilus
Basic Text Editor: Gedit
IRC/Messaging Client: Does Ubuntu need to ship with an IRC client?
PDF Reader: Evince
Office Suite: LibreOffice
Calendar: GNOME Calendar, Lightning
Video Player: VLC
Music Player: Clementine
Photo Viewer: No opinion
Screen recording: No opinion
by petecox on 7/22/17, 12:39 AM
Chrome and Vivaldi each have their own apt repository, so why Ubuntu would bundle or package them, I'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.
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's cross platform. I have written a couple of things in Lyx but it's niche. PDF Reader: NOT Okular - it's very versatile but chokes when rendering image-heavy 40 page film festival brochures. Atril or whatever the Gnome version is called are snappier.
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/SMTP settings voodoo - lack in patience and too lazy in 2017 for that! Would revisit if something worked out of the box.
The rest? Well you've committed to Gnome and the default apps would suffice.
by brian_herman on 7/21/17, 3:44 PM
by rvern on 7/22/17, 4:53 AM
Email Client: Evolution, Thunderbird if you really don't want to pick Evolution. Do install one by default.
Terminal: GNOME Terminal.
IDE: none.
File manager: Nautilus.
Basic Text Editor: gedit.
IRC/Messaging Client: none, Pidgin, Polari, HexChat.
PDF Reader: Evince.
Office Suite: LibreOffice; LibreOffice Base should be excluded.
Calendar: GNOME Calendar.
Video Player: Totem, not VLC.
Music Player: Rhythmbox, perhaps GNOME Music in a future release.
Photo Viewer: Eye of GNOME, maybe include Shotwell too.
Screen recording: GNOME Shell's built-in recording.
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.
This is almost exactly identical to Fedora Workstation'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.
by ameliaquining on 7/21/17, 5:29 PM
Email client: Gmail
Terminal: gnome-terminal
IDE: Atom, Emacs, Visual Studio Code
Basic text editor: Atom, gedit, nano, Emacs
PDF Reader: Chromium, evince, Adobe Acrobat (non-free)
Office Suite: Google Docs, LibreOffice
Calendar: Google Calendar
Video player: Totem, mplayer
Music player: Totem, mplayer
Photo viewer: Eye of GNOME, Shotwell
Screen recording: RecordMyDesktop
And a category that's been traditionally missing from Linux distros and really shouldn't be:
Simple raster graphics editor (like Microsoft Paint): GNU Paint
by zumu on 7/22/17, 1:29 AM
by dillon on 7/21/17, 7:25 PM
Email: Anything simple and lightweight
Terminal: Default GNOME Term.
IDE: Shouldn't be in a default install
File Manager: Anything simple and lightweight + tabs (Nautilus) Basic Text Editor: vi
IRC/Messaging: Pidgin or Empathy
PDF: Default GNOME Viewer
Office Suite: LibreOffice
Calendar: Default GNOME Calendar
Video Player: VLC
Music Player: VLC
Photo Viewer: Default GNOME
Screen Recording: Something full featured?
Additionally:
Maps: Anything supporting OSM (GNOME Maps)
Software Center: GNOME's Software Center
by gremlinsinc on 7/21/17, 3:46 PM
Caveat.. not a ubuntu user here per se... But left because of some of the bloatware/opinonated stuff and it crashed a lot. Plus I like Antergos with i3-gnome better than anything I've ever used before... Much better performance, less crashes/bugs...etc..
by RealityDisorder on 7/21/17, 5:15 PM
Email Client: Thunderbird (altho would prefer a modern alternative)
Terminal: rxvt-unicode
IDE: IntelliJ family
File manager: ???
Basic Text Editor: vim
IRC/Messaging Client: irssi/pidgin
PDF Reader: Atril/xpdf
Office Suite: Abiword/Gnumeric
Calendar: Thunderbird + Lightning (altho would prefer a modern alternative)
Video Player: mpv
Music Player: deadbeef, Clementine
Photo Viewer: feh, eom
Screen recording: open broadcaster software
by Theodores on 7/21/17, 5:09 PM
Web Browser: IE6
Email Client: Outlook Express
Terminal: putty
IDE: MS Studio
File manager: Explorer
Basic Text Editor: Notepad
IRC/Messaging Client: Skype
PDF Reader: Adobe Acrobat
Office Suite: MS Office
Calendar: Outlook
Video Player: RealPlayer
Music Player: Winamp
Photo Viewer: Cracked copy of Photoshop
Screen recording: Print screen key
I don't use alternative programs to the above, I don't write Word docs or need to as communication has changed. I don't have an email client.
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.
by jacek on 7/21/17, 2:59 PM
Email Client: Thunderbird
Terminal: Tilix, gnome-terminal
IDE: Atom, gnome-builder
File manager: Nautilus
Basic Text Editor: gedit
IRC/Messaging Client: telegram-desktop
PDF Reader: Evince
Office Suite: LibreOffice
Calendar: gnome-calendar
Video Player: gnome-mpv, smplayer
Music Player: gnome-music, Spotify (non-free)
Photo Viewer: gnome photo viewer (don't know the name)
Screen recording: don't use
Photo editing: Darktable
Note taking: QOwnNotes
Research source organization: Zotero
by xiaomai on 7/21/17, 5:44 PM
Web Browser: Chromium / Firefox / Epiphany Email Client: Evolution / Mutt / Thunderbird Terminal: gnome-terminal File manager: nautilus Text editor: gedit IRC: weechat / polaris Office Suite: google docs / libreoffice Calendar: google calendar / gnome calendar Video Player: Totem / 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't I use SimpleScreenRecorder)
by jtolmar on 7/21/17, 5:28 PM
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'd like to be able to pilot to different parts of the code using control-f, down/enter/tab, up/shift-tab, and escape.
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.
by zhte415 on 7/22/17, 7:08 AM
Email Client: <web>
Terminal: GNOME Terminal
IDE: none
File manager: Nautilus
Basic Text Editor: GEdit or Sublime Text
IRC/Messaging Client: none
PDF Reader: Firefox
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.
Calendar: none
Video Player: VLC
Music Player: VLC
Photo Viewer: Whatever the default is. Is good enough to not notice what it is.
Screen recording: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+r. Mainly record screen at work (Windows) where ShareX produces nice quality and file sizes.
by Sir_Substance on 7/21/17, 5:09 PM
The main reason I use xubuntu is because it offers a xubuntu-core package that comes with the desktop, apt and /nothing else/.
When I installed unity version of ubuntu, the install was always followed with about an hour of uninstalling shite I didn'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.
by dallamaneni on 7/21/17, 3:49 PM
Email Client: Thunderbird
Terminal: Terminator
IRC/Messaging Client: Pidgin, Thunderbird
PDF Reader: evince
Office Suite: LibreOffice
Calendar: Thunderbird
Video Player: VLC
by petepete on 7/21/17, 3:45 PM
Email Client: Geary
Terminal: Gnome terminal
IDE: ???
File manager: Nautilus
Basic Text Editor: Gedit
IRC/Messaging Client: Empathy/Polari
PDF Reader: Evince
Office Suite: Libre Office
Calendar: Gnome calendar
Video Player: Totem
Music Player: Gnome music
Photo Viewer: Shotwell (definitely not Darktable or RawTherapee, far too complicated)
Screen recording: Built in Gnome screen recorder
by gkya on 7/21/17, 4:05 PM
by lousken on 7/21/17, 10:44 PM
Email: None, Thunderbird
Terminal: xfce4-terminal
IDE: None, Qt creator, Visual studio code
File manager: Thunar, Nautilus, for terminal Midnight commander
Basic text editor: Mousepad, for terminal vim
IRC/Messaging Client: Empathy, Pidgin, none
PDF Reader: Okular, Firefox (integrated)
Office suite: LibreOffice
Calendar: Gnome native
Video player: smplayer (or any Mplayer version with GUI), for terminal ffplay
Music player: Clementine, for terminal cmus
Photo viewer: Ristretto
Screen recording: xfce4-screenshooter, OBS Studio
Extra
Shell: zsh
Password manager: Keepass, KeepassXC
Task manager: htop
Other: Numlockx, git
Basic photo editor similar to picpick/mspaint on windows: Pinta (guess is closest to that)
(currently xubuntu 16.04 user)
by aibara on 7/21/17, 4:26 PM
Email Client: Thunderbird
Terminal: gnome-terminal
File manager: Nautilus
Basic Text Editor: Gedit
IRC/Messaging Client: Pidgin
PDF Reader: Evince
Office Suite: LibreOffice
Calendar: Lightning (Thunderbird add-on)
Video Player: VLC
Music Player: Audacious
Photo Viewer: gThumb
P.S. Thanks for working on autoremoving old kernels from /boot!
by bitL on 7/21/17, 6:19 PM
by riffic on 7/22/17, 1:56 AM
further elaboration provided here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14006747
by tapper on 7/21/17, 7:11 PM
by devillius on 7/21/17, 3:44 PM
Email Client: Thunderbird
Terminal: gnome-terminal
IDE: Atom, VS Code
File manager: Nautilus
Basic Text Editor: gedit
IRC/Messaging Client: None
PDF Reader: None
Office Suite: Libreoffice, Openoffice
Calendar: None
Video Player: VLC
Music Player: None
Photo Viewer: None
Screen recording: Recordmydesktop (Kali recorder)
by interfixus on 7/21/17, 4:48 PM
by PleaseHelpMe on 7/22/17, 3:23 AM
Email Client: No Email Client.
Terminal: Terminator
IDE: No IDE.
File manager: Nautilus/ Thunar. (I was looking for something with dual panel view but no good solution seems to exist right now)
Basic Text Editor: Gedit/ Sublime.
IRC/Messaging Client: No IRC/MEssaging client or Hexchat.
PDF Reader: Evince/ qPdfViewer
Office Suite: Libreoffice (But do we have an alternative?)
Calendar: Gnome Calendar seems fine.
Video Player: VLC
Music Player: Clementine
Photo Viewer: gThumb
Screen recording: OBS/ Kazam.
by pdfttgz on 7/21/17, 5:01 PM
by rasengan on 7/21/17, 7:00 PM
Dash to Dock is another good one as are several other nice GNOME extensions.
bumblebee / gfx support would be nice :-)
Tiling Extensions as well.
The GNOME screen recorder works fine built in. :)
by jdlyga on 7/21/17, 6:21 PM
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.
Also, improving the look of GDM is a must. It looks fairly ugly by default.
by sigi21 on 7/24/17, 11:32 AM
by sathackr on 7/21/17, 7:31 PM
Every day I get more and more comfortable. It hasn't been without frustration, and often I've wanted to give up and go back, but so far I've stuck to it.
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Web Browser: Google Chrome
Email client: None since I use gmail and Office 365, and not much will cooperate with O365 except OWA.
Terminal: default preinstalled app
IDE: Not a developer
File manager: default preinstalled app(Nautilus?)
Basic text editor: gedit, or the non-gui version of emacs. I know I know.....
IRC/Messaging: Google voice and Slack web pages, via Google Chrome
PDF Reader: Evince or Google Chrome. Not really because I prefer either, just the first ones I found and they were 'good enough'.
Office Suite: Preinstalled libreoffice has been 'good enough' for me. Also Google Sheets(via Chrome)
Calendar: Don't use one, probably would if O365 integration worked better.
Video Player: Default preinstalled player because it usually works, but VLC occasionally if I have something the built-in won't play.
Music Player: None -- Pandora/Soundcloud/Youtube/DI.FM/Google Play, all web, via Google Chrome.
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 8/10
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's fairly annoying to use it to grab multiple screenshots when you'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.
Other apps I use often: Steam
libvirt/VMM
Remmina, though I wish it had more features for RDP. Seems sessions are much slower than when using a MS rdp client.
PlayOnLinux
Occasionally Gimp, though it's pretty annoying to use in 16.04 because of the way it creates multiple separate windows.
by Jackneill on 7/21/17, 4:55 PM
Email Client: thunderbird
Terminal: alacritty
IDE: vscode
File manager: nemo
Basic Text Editor: gedit, sublime text 3
IRC/Messaging Client: hexchat
Office Suite: libreoffice
Video Player: mpv, vlc, smplayer
Photo Viewer: eog
Screenshot taker: shutter
by saikatsg on 8/1/17, 4:11 PM
- Email Client: Gmail-web
- Terminal: Guake/GNOME Terminal
- IDE: Visual Studio Code
- File manager: Nautilus/Files
- Basic Text Editor: Leafpad/Bluefish
- IRC/Messaging Client: Hexchat/Polari
- PDF Reader: Evince
- Office Suite: LibreOffice
- Calendar: GNOME Calendar
- Video Player: VLC/SMPlayer/GNOME Videos
- Music Player: GNOME Music/Audacious
- Photo Viewer: gThumb/GNOME Photos
- Screen recording: Peek/Kazam
by koot on 7/21/17, 4:05 PM
Email Client: Thunderbird
Terminal: Gnome Terminal
IDE: Emacs / Sublime Text 3 / Geany
File Manager: Thunar / PCManFM / Caja (Anything but Nautilus they stripped to many features after 2.32)
Basic Text Edtor: Gedit
IRC / Messaging Client: Hexchat / Pidgin
PDF Reader: Evince
Office Suite: LibreOffice
Calendar: Gnome Calendar
Video Player: VLC / SMPlayer
Music Player: Deadbeef / Audacious / Rhythmbox
Photo Viewer: EOG
Screen Recording: ???
by gurkendoktor on 7/22/17, 9:18 AM
My only wish is OpenVPN (+GUI integration).
by toxicbits on 7/21/17, 4:05 PM
Email Client: Geary
Terminal: Gnome Terminal
IDE: Gnome Builder
File manager: Gnome Files
Basic Text Editor: Gedit
IRC/Messaging Client: Polari
PDF Reader: Evince
Office Suite: LibreOffice
Calendar: Gnome Calendar
Video Player: Gnome MPV
Music Player: Lollypop
Photo Viewer: Gthumb
Screen recording: Peek
by alok-g on 7/23/17, 1:24 PM
by luis3380 on 7/22/17, 1:51 AM
by Sir_Cmpwn on 7/21/17, 4:38 PM
My answer to all of the other questions, though, is "nothing that's suitable for noobs". To this end, please make it easy to clean out the gunk and bring in power user tools.
by billconan on 7/21/17, 4:55 PM
Web Browser: chrome (close source)
Email Client: web gmail/web outlook
Terminal: ubuntu default (gnome terminal?) (I don't like it)
IDE: QtCreator
File manager: ubuntu default (gnome file manger?) (I don't like it)
Basic Text Editor: sublime text (close source)
IRC/Messaging Client: slack (close source)
PDF Reader: ubuntu default
Office Suite: libreoffice (hate it!)
Calendar: ubuntu default
Video Player: vlc
Music Player: ubuntu default
Photo Viewer: ubuntu default
Screen recording: shutter
===
by ptr_void on 7/21/17, 7:52 PM
===
Web Browser: Firefox
Email Client: ???
Terminal: Gnome terminal
IDE: VIM + plugins, Visual Studio Code
File manager: 16.0 default
Basic Text Editor: VIM
IRC/Messaging Client: ???
PDF Reader: 16.04 default
Office Suite: LibreOffice, markdown + pandoc -> pdf
Calendar: ???
Video Player: VLC
Music Player: ???
Photo Viewer: ???
Screen recording: Simple Screen Recorder
===
by c2h5oh on 7/21/17, 4:50 PM
Email Client: Thunderbird
Terminal: Termite
Basic Text Editor: Leafpad, gedit
IRC/Messaging Client: Pidgin
Office Suite: Libre Office
Video Player: mpv
Screen recording: OBS Studio
by ColanR on 7/21/17, 9:50 PM
by abbiya on 7/21/17, 7:09 PM
Email Client: dont include one
Terminal: stable one with wayland support
IDE: vs code
File manager: mate's
Basic Text Editor: no gedit for sure
IRC/Messaging Client: dont bother to include one
PDF Reader: smallest and stable one
Office Suite: dont include
Calendar: no good apps are there
Video Player: vlc
Music Player: Clementine
Photo Viewer: include only one, no need to photo manager
Screen recording: include the stable
by lucb1e on 7/21/17, 6:48 PM
Email Client: Thunderbird
File manager: Nemo
Basic Text Editor: Anything except Gedit. For example Geany is fine.
Messaging Client: Telegram, Pidgin
IRC client: Hexchat
PDF Reader: Evince
Calendar: Thunderbird's built-in
Video Player: VLC
Music Player: Spotify non-free, VLC
Screen recording: SSR (ppa:maarten-baert/simplescreenrecorder)
System monitor: htop, gnome-system-monitor
Calculator: apcalc
by HuangYuSan on 7/26/17, 6:31 PM
Email Client: Inbox web, Mutt
Terminal: GNOME Terminal
File manager: Nautilus, Nemo
Basic Text Editor: Atom, Gedit
PDF Reader: Evince, Chrome
Office Suite: LibreOffice, Google Docs web, Office 2016 with VMWare Player non-free
Calendar: Google Calendar web
Video Player: Totem Movie Player
Music Player: Google Play Music web
Photo Viewer: GNOME image viewer
by chavlu on 7/23/17, 5:43 AM
by flurdy on 7/23/17, 3:33 PM
Email Client: Gmail web
Terminal: Terminator
IDE: IntelliJ, Atom
File manager: Nautilus
Basic Text Editor: Atom, VIM
IRC/Messaging Client: Gitter, Slack non-free
Office Suite: Google Docs web
Calendar: Google Calendar web
Video Player: VLC
Music Player: Spotify non-free
Screen recording: Google Hangout non-free, Floobits non-free
Games platform: Steam non-free
Source control GUI: GitKraken
by chavlu on 7/23/17, 5:41 AM
by hd4 on 7/21/17, 8:35 PM
From what I know, we can't even install to a F2FS partition using the default installer.
by kevincox on 7/21/17, 3:52 PM
Email Client: Thunderbird
Terminal: gnome-terminal
IDE: neovim
File manager: nautilus
Basic Text Editor: gedit (but actually neovim)
IRC/Messaging Client: None
PDF Reader: evince
Office Suite: Libreoffice
Calendar: Lightning (thunderbird plugin)
Video Player: Totem
Music Player: Totem/None
Photo Viewer: eog
Screen recording: I don't use them frequently enough to remember one I like.
by fsantucci on 7/23/17, 3:59 PM
Email Client: YahooMail, Gmail
Terminal: Tilix
IDE: Visual Studio Code, Atom
File manager: Nautilus
Basic Text Editor: Vim, Gedit
IRC/Messaging Client: Telegram
PDF Reader: Evince
Office Suite: LibreOffice, WPS Office
Calendar: Gnome Calendar
Video Player: VLC, MediaInfo
Music Player: Lollypop, Spotify, EasyTAG
Photo Viewer: Shotwell
Screen recording: Simple Screen Recorder
Shell: zsh
Bitmap Image Editor: GIMP
2D Vetorial Image Editor: Inkscape
by Nala_Alan on 7/24/17, 11:54 AM
Email Client: Gmail (web), Protonmail (web)
Terminal: gnome-terminal
IDE: Sublime Text 3 (non-free), Visual Studio Code
File manager: default
Basic Text Editor: nano
IRC/Messaging Client: HexChat
PDF Reader: default
Office Suite: LibreOffice
Calendar: none
Video Player: mpv
Music Player: unsure, i would go with DeaDBeeF and Spotify (non-free)
Photo Viewer: ???
Screen recording: none
Extra: KeePass, git, gpg
by Shorel on 7/21/17, 10:48 PM
I use Kodi for videos and music and sublime text to edit texts, and I don't see any reason to force complex or proprietary software as the defaults.
by Giako on 7/21/17, 2:50 PM
Email Client: Thunderbird, Web GMail
Terminal: Terminix
IDE: IntelliJ IDEA Community, Eclipse
File manager: Nautilus
Basic Text Editor: GEdit
PDF Reader: evince
Office Suite: LibreOffice, Google Drive
Calendar: Thunderbird Lightning, Google Calendar
Video Player: Totem
Music Player: Spotify webapp, Spotify client non-free
by mi100hael on 7/21/17, 7:51 PM
Email Client: Thunderbird, mutt
Terminal: Gnome Terminal, Terminator
IDE: Netbeans
Basic Text Editor: vim, gVim, gedit
IRC/Messaging Client: Pigin, Hexchat
Office Suite: LibreOffice
Calendar: NextCloud web
Video Player: VLC
Music Player: VLC
Photo Viewer: Shotwell I guess
by FranOntanaya on 7/21/17, 2:39 PM
Email Client: Thunderbird
Terminal: Gnome-Terminal
IDE: None
File manager: Nautilus
Basic Text Editor: Gedit
IRC/Messaging Client: Whatever supports Slack and Discord I guess.
PDF Reader: Current choice is fine.
Office Suite: LibreOffice
Video Player: I prefer SMPlayer to VLC for simple playback
Music Player: Clementine
Photo Viewer: gThumb
Screen recording: Kazam
by nahtnam on 7/22/17, 3:43 PM
by wasd on 7/21/17, 6:44 PM
by thibran on 7/21/17, 5:43 PM
by pksadiq on 7/21/17, 4:24 PM
Email Client: Evolution
Terminal: gnome-terminal
IDE: gnome-builder?
File manager: Nautilus
Basic Text Editor: Gedit
IRC/Messaging Client: Polari/??
PDF Reader: Evince (gnome-documents?)
Office Suite: LibreOffice
Calendar: gnome-calendar
Video Player: Totem/VLC
Music Player: rhythmbox (gnome-music?)
Photo Viewer: gnome-photos/eog
Screen recording: ???
by a_humean on 7/21/17, 4:00 PM
Email Client: Gmail web
Terminal: Gnome Terminal
IDE: VS Code
File manager: nautilus
Basic Text Editor: gedit
IRC/Messaging Client: xchat
PDF Reader: Evince
Office Suite: Office360 web, LibreOffice
Calendar: Gnome Calendar, Google Calendar web
Video Player: smplayer
Music Player: cmus, Spotify non-free
Photo Viewer: Eye of Gnome
by Entangled on 7/21/17, 5:18 PM
by erazor42 on 7/21/17, 3:58 PM
Email Client: gmail
Terminal: terminator
IDE: Sublime / VSCode
File manager: terminator
Basic Text Editor: Sublime
IRC/Messaging Client: irssi
PDF Reader: Chromium plugin
Office Suite: Libre office (I'd prefer Microsoft one)
Calendar: Google calendar
Video Player: vlc
Music Player: YouTube :D
Photo Viewer: basic gallery
Screen recording: -
by arbeluga on 7/26/17, 8:23 PM
Email Client: Thunderbird
Terminal: Gnome Terminal
File manager: Nautilus
Basic Text Editor: Gedit
PDF Reader: Evince
Office Suite: LibreOffice
Calendar: Thunderbird (Lightning)
Video Player: VLC, Totem
Music Player: Clementine
Photo Viewer: EyeOfGnome
Screen recording: "Shift+Ctrl+Alt+R" in Gnome
by tapoxi on 7/21/17, 7:19 PM
* Email client
* IDE
* IRC/Messaging Client
* Calendar
* Office Suite
Only absolute necessities in a default install. I still don't understand why Linux distributions insist on shipping so much stuff by default.
by _R_ on 7/21/17, 3:10 PM
Email Client: unity-mail
Terminal: Gnome Terminal
IDE: VIM
File manager: Nautilus
Basic Text Editor: Gedit
IRC/Messaging Client: None
PDF Reader: Evince
Office Suite: LibreOffice, Google Drive
Calendar: Gnome Calendar, Google Calendar
Video Player: VLC, YouTube
Music Player: Audacious
Photo Viewer: Gnome Image Viewer
Screen recording: None
by rosco18 on 7/22/17, 9:23 PM
Email Client: Geary
Terminal: Gnome Terminal
IDE: Eclipse
File manager: Nautilus
Basic Text Editor: Gedit
IRC/Messaging Client: Messenger for desktop
PDF Reader: Default on old version
Office Suite: WPS office
Calendar: Gnome Calendar
Video Player: TOTEM
Music Player: Evince
Photo Viewer: ???
Music Player: Rhythmbox
Photo Viewer: shotwell
Screen recording: default on old version
by tradesmanhelix on 7/21/17, 4:15 PM
Email Client: Thunderbird
Terminal: Konsole
IDE: vim, emacs, Atom
File manager: Dolphin
Basic Text Editor: kwrite, gedit
IRC/Messaging Client: irssi
PDF Reader: Okular
Office Suite: LibreOffice
Calendar: Lightning Thunderbird Plugin
Video Player: VLC
Music Player: Clementine, cmus
Photo Viewer: Gwenview
Screen recording: Peek
by supersexman on 7/21/17, 9:47 PM
Email Client:
Terminal: terminator
IDE: Atom
File manager: Nautilus
Basic Text Editor: Gedit
Office Suite: LibreOffice
Video Player: VLC
Music Player: Amarok
by vkandy on 7/21/17, 9:43 PM
Email Client: Thunderbird
Terminal: Gnome Terminal, Terminator
IDE: Webstorm (several)
File manager: Nautilus
Basic Text Editor: Gedit
IRC/Messaging Client: pidgin/hexchat
PDF Reader: evince
Office Suite: Libre Office
Calendar: Gnome Calendar
Video Player: VLC
Music Player: Rythmbox
Photo Viewer: Shotwell
Screen recording: Peek
Bonus: htop, KeePass2
by jakobdabo on 7/21/17, 5:29 PM
Email Client: Thunderbird
Terminal: URXVT
IDE: Qt Creator, Eclipse, Geany
File manager: Thunar
Basic Text Editor: Mousepad
IRC/Messaging Client: Riot, Gajim
PDF Reader: Evince, Zathura
Office Suite: Libre Office
Video Player: VLC Media Player, mplayer, mpv
Music Player: DeaDBeeF
Photo Viewer: ???
Screen Recording: ???
by Jackneill on 7/21/17, 5:03 PM
by blubberblase23 on 7/21/17, 4:26 PM
Email Client: Thunderbird
Terminal: Terminator
IDE: Vim ;)
File manager: pcmanfm
Basic Text Editor: vim/gedit
IRC/Messaging Client: pidgin
PDF Reader: mupdf
Office Suite: libreoffice
Calendar: Thunderbird
Video Player: vlc
Music Player: vlc
Photo Viewer: nomacs
Screen recording: don't know
At the most important: Init System => OpenRC
by brian_herman on 7/21/17, 3:46 PM
Email Client: Thunderbird
Terminal: gnome-terminal
IDE: vscode
File manager: nautilus
Basic Text Editor: gedit
IRC/Messaging Client: ???
PDF Reader: evince
Office Suite: libreoffice
Calendar: Thunderbird
Video Player: vlc
Music Player: vlc
Photo Viewer: evince
Screen recording: never use one so I dont really have an opinion
by acidburn1995 on 7/21/17, 3:44 PM
Email Client: mutt
Terminal: terminator
IDE: jetbrains stuff, vim
File manager: ranger, nautilus
Basic Text Editor: vim
IRC/Messaging Client: hexchat
PDF Reader: evince
Office Suite: libreoffice
Calendar: cal, webshit
Video Player: mplayer,vlc,totem
Music Player: clementine
Photo Viewer: feh
Screen recording: shutter
by mherrmann on 7/21/17, 4:21 PM
Email Client: None
File manager: fman (non-free)
Basic Text Editor: Sublime
Video Player: vlc
by ajitid on 7/22/17, 3:01 AM
by ubu4 on 7/24/17, 1:26 PM
by someone666a on 7/24/17, 1:28 PM
Email Client: Thunderbird
Terminal: Whatever
IDE: No!
File manager: Nautilus
Basic Text Editor: Gnote
IRC/Messaging Client: No!
PDF Reader: Whatever
Office Suite: No!/Libreoffice
Calendar: Whatever/No!
Video Player: VLC
Music Player: VLC
Photo Viewer: Whatever
Screen recording: No!
by nandop on 7/22/17, 12:15 PM
Email Client: Evolution
Terminal: Gnome Teminal
IDE: Atom
File manager: Nautilus
Basic Text Editor: Gedit
IRC/Messaging Client: ???
PDF Reader: Document Viewer
Office Suite: LibreOffice
Calendar: Gnome Calendar
Video Player: Totem
Music Player: Audacious
Photo Viewer: Image Viewer
Screen recording: ???
by williamdclt on 7/21/17, 4:08 PM
Email Client: none
Terminal: gnome-terminal, terminator
IDE: none
File manager: DE default
Basic Text Editor: Gedit
IRC/Messaging Client: none
PDF Reader: Evince
Office Suite: Libre office
Calendar: ???
Video Player: VLC
Music Player: ???
Photo Viewer: DE default
Screen recording: ???
by antouank on 7/21/17, 5:12 PM
Web Browser: Chromium
Email Client: Gmail web
Terminal: xfce4 terminal
IDE: neovim
File manager: Thunar
Basic Text Editor: neovim
IRC/Messaging Client: google hangouts web
PDF Reader: evince
Office Suite: LibreOffice
Calendar: google calendar
Video Player: vlc
Music Player: vlc
Photo Viewer: ristretto
Screen recording: xfce4 Screenshooter
===
by akerro on 7/24/17, 9:23 AM
by mazr on 7/21/17, 5:14 PM
Email Client: None
Terminal: Gnome Terminal
IDE: None
File manager: Gnome default
Basic Text Editor: gedit
IRC/Messaging Client: None
PDF Reader: Gnome Default
Office Suite: None
Calendar: None
Video Player: VLC
Music Player: VLC
Photo Viewer: Gnome default
Screen recording: Gnome Default
by w4rh4wk5 on 7/21/17, 6:28 PM
Email Client: Thunderbird
Terminal: Terminator
IDE: none
File Manager: nemo
Basic Text Editor: Gedit
IRC/Messaging: Hex-Chat, Empathy
PDF Reader: Okular
Office Suite: Libreoffice
Calendar: Thunderbird
Video Player: VLC
Music Player: Audacious
Photo Viewer: ristretto
Screen recording: obs
by Kliment on 7/21/17, 7:34 PM
Email client: Thunderbird
Basic text editor: Geany
Office suite: LO
but allow users to select defaults at install or at any other time
by holgerrlp on 7/25/17, 12:15 AM
Email Client: Thunderbird
Terminal: Gnome-Terminal
IDE: Geany
File manager: Nemo
Basic Text Editor: Pluma
PDF Reader: Atril
Office Suite: Libreoffice
Calendar: Orage
Video Player: VLC
Music Player: VLC
Photo Viewer: Eye of Gnome
Screen recording: Simple-Screen-Recorder
by NuDinNou on 7/21/17, 5:03 PM
Email Client: -
Terminal: Gnome Terminal
IDE: -
File manager: GNOME Files
Basic Text Editor: Gedit
IRC/Messaging Client: -
PDF Reader: Evince
Office Suite: LibreOffice
Calendar: GNOME Calendar
Video Player: VLC
Music Player: GNOME Music
Photo Viewer: gThumb
Screen recording: -
by larkery on 7/22/17, 11:40 AM
Email Client: emacs
Terminal: urxvt
IDE: emacs
File manager: emacs
Basic Text Editor: emacs
IRC/Messaging Client: emacs
PDF Reader: emacs + epdftools
Office Suite: n/a
Calendar: emacs
Video Player: n/a
Music Player: emacs
Photo Viewer: feh
Screen recording: n/a
by Grue3 on 7/21/17, 5:39 PM
Terminal: guake
IDE: Emacs
File manager: anything but default gnome manager
Music player: audacious
by antihero on 7/21/17, 3:56 PM
Email Client: None
Terminal: Tilix?
IDE: vs-code
File manager: Nautilus
Basic Text Editor: vs code
IRC/Messaging Client: None
PDF Reader: Evince
Office Suite: LibreOffice
Calendar: Gnome Calenar
Video Player: mpv
Music Player: Audacious
Photo Viewer: ???
Screen recording: ???
by dm319 on 7/21/17, 8:02 PM
by nitins on 7/21/17, 4:23 PM
Email Client: Geary
Terminal: Terminator
IDE: -
File manager: Nautilus
Basic Text Editor: Gedit
IRC/Messaging Client: Pidgin
PDF Reader: Evince
Office Suite: LibreOffice
Calendar: -
Video Player: SMPlayer
Music Player: Lollypop
Photo Viewer: -
Screen recording: -
by type0 on 7/22/17, 10:00 AM
Meld
KeepassXC
mpv player and SMPlayer
Audacious
Geeqie image viewer
Caffeine (to turn the screensaver off)
Devhelp
IDE: GNOME builder
would be great to add those to the repos for Ubuntu server / command line:
micro editor
terminal_velocity
by edelans on 7/21/17, 5:10 PM
Web Browser: Chrome, Firefox
Email Client: none
Terminal: default
IDE: Atom
File manager: nautilus
Basic Text Editor: nano
IRC/Messaging Client: none
PDF Reader: default
Office Suite: google apps
Calendar: none
Video Player: VLC
Music Player: Spotify, non-free
Photo Viewer: default
Screen recording: Kazam
===
by rodolphoarruda on 7/21/17, 4:31 PM
Email Client: Thunderbird
File manager: Nautilus
Basic Text Editor: GEdit
PDF Reader: Okular
Office Suite: LibreOffice
Video Player: VLC
Music Player: VLC
by fatzombi_ on 7/21/17, 5:25 PM
by itomato on 7/21/17, 4:36 PM
Get with a modern Product Management philosophy, and quit begging the community for ideas.
Crossposting to Reddit, Slashdot and HN on the same day smacks of utter desperation.
by ovh on 7/21/17, 2:07 PM
For video player, definitely VLC.
by dcintes on 7/21/17, 7:14 PM
IDE: eclipse
Basic Text Editor: gedit
Office Suite: LibreOffice
Video Player: Vlc
Screen recording: Obs
by aruggirello on 7/21/17, 5:22 PM
Email Client: Thunderbird
IDE: Atom
Office Suite: LibreOffice
Calendar: Google Calendar web
by sunseb on 7/24/17, 2:46 AM
by pratikborsadiya on 7/22/17, 7:43 AM
Terminal: Gnome-terminal
IDE: Sublime text
File manager: Nautilus
Basic Text Editor: nano
Video Player: VLC
Music Player: VLC
by cromulen on 7/21/17, 5:56 PM
Email Client: Various web clients
Terminal: Gnome Terminal
IDE: VS Code
File manager: Nautilus
Basic Text Editor: vim
IRC/Messaging Client: Slack, Discord
PDF Reader: Chrome, Evince
Office Suite: Google drive web
Calendar: Google calendar web
Video Player: VLC
Music Player: Spotify non-free
Photo Viewer: The default one
Screen recording: None
by sunstone on 7/21/17, 6:11 PM
by chauhankiran on 7/21/17, 5:33 PM
Basic Text Editor: gEdit
Video Player: VLC
by neves on 7/21/17, 6:47 PM
by stuaxo on 7/21/17, 8:20 PM
by c8g on 7/22/17, 6:37 AM
Video Player: vlc
by khc on 7/21/17, 6:05 PM
photo viewer: shotwell
by 43224gg252 on 7/21/17, 4:50 PM
Web Browser: Firefox
Email Client: don't care, I coded my own
Terminal: tilix (integrates better with GTK3 than GNOME-terminal)
IDE: Builder is good (I use vim)
File manager: Nautilus/ranger
Basic Text Editor: Gedit/nano/vim
IRC/Messaging Client: I use irssi
PDF Reader: Evince
Office Suite: LibreOffice
Calendar: GNOME calendar, but update it
Video Player: mpv
Music Player: mpv
Photo Viewer: mpv
Screen recording: the one thats built into gnome, but make it better (adjust FPS/quality/convert size/etc).
by frik on 7/23/17, 9:27 AM
by mrkrabo on 7/21/17, 3:55 PM
Web Browser: Chrome
Email Client: Evolution
Terminal: gnome-terminal
IDE: VSCode
File manager: Nautilus
Basic Text Editor: Gedit
IRC/Messaging Client: HexChat
PDF Reader: Evince
Office Suite: LibreOffice
Video Player: mpv
Music Player: GTK3 frontend of Audacious
Photo Viewer: eog
by yAnonymous on 7/24/17, 9:05 PM
IDE: Visual Studio Code
PDF Reader: Firefox
Video Player: VLC
Music Player: Clementine
by frik on 7/21/17, 5:27 PM
Yeah, and the experiment went horrible wrong :(
The last thing the community wanted was a plain Gnome 3 shell for 17.10.
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.
For applications:
* Web Browser: Chromium (with sane privacy default settings)
* Email client: Gnome Evolution
* File manager: Unity 7 file manager
* Basic Text Editor: GEdit (older version with menu bar, from Ubuntu 14)
* Office Suite: LibreOffice or Callibri
* Calendar: Evolution
by TeMPOraL on 7/21/17, 6:41 PM
Email Client: Gmail web, Emacs
Terminal: xterm, fish shell, Emacs
IDE: Emacs
File manager: default, Emacs
Basic Text Editor: Emacs
IRC/Messaging Client: Emacs
PDF Reader: whatever that default one is, Emacs
Office Suite: LibreOffice
Calendar: Emacs
Video Player: VLC
Music Player: Spotify non-free
Photo Viewer: whatever the default is
Screen recording: OBS
I'm not joking with that Emacs thing. Please, oh please, ensure Ubuntu has always a recent Emacs version.
by linopolus on 7/21/17, 4:55 PM
Email Client: Mail.app
Terminal: Terminal.app
IDE: NeoVIM
File manager: Finder.app
Basic Text Editor: NeoVIM
IRC/Messaging Client: Messages.app
PDF Reader: Preview.app
Office Suite: Pages.app/Numbers.app/Keynote.app
Calendar: Fantastical 2.app
Video Player: mpv
Music Player: VOX.app
Photo Viewer: Preview.app
Of course, this is for a real world usable operating system, not ubuntu utopia.. If Linux, Gentoo is nice ;)
by dabockster on 7/21/17, 5:06 PM
Anyways, here's my request list:
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Web Browser: Firefox, Vivaldi (people keep claiming it's open source, so look into it)
Email Client: Thunderbird
Terminal: GNOME default
IDE: LOL
(Serious answer is VSCode since it seems to be a nice in-between for a full IDE and a simple text editor)
File manager: Nautilus
Basic Text Editor: No preference
IRC/Messaging Client: HexChat
PDF Reader: No preference
Office Suite: LibreOffice
Calendar: Thunderbird, No preference
Video Player: VLC
Music Player: RhythmBox, Spotify (maybe just a downloader program - don't include the full install out of the box)
Photo Viewer: No preference
Screen recording: No preference
Games: Include Steam out of the box?
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This list also comes with the usual stuff like dump Systemd, continue working on MESA drivers/networking drivers/drivers in general, etc.
Hope to see some great stuff in 17.10!